A Quarter-Century Later: Did the World Really Learn Anything From 9/11?

It feels wild to think about, but we are now looking back a full 25 years since the world shifted on its axis on September 11, 2001. Today is September 11, 2026, and a quarter of a century later, we’re still very much living in the heavy shadow of that day.

When the towers fell, the United States didn’t just launch a counterterrorism operation. It kicked off a sprawling, imperial-style crusade that tore through nations that had precisely zero to do with the hijackers. Looking back now, the entire premise feels not just tragic, but profoundly misdirected.

Fast forward to today, and the global landscape isn’t noticeably safer from religiously inspired terrorism. If anything, the endless iterations of the American-led "global war on terror" proved to be a masterclass in futility.

A Blast At A Mosque In Afghanistan's Kunduz Province Has Killed At Least 60 people

A blast during Friday prayers at a mosque in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Kunduz has killed at least 60 people and injured dozens.

A bomb blast near a mosque has killed at least 60 people and is the worst since US troops withdrew, AFP reported.

A bomb blast at a mosque in northern Afghanistan killed and injured 100 people, Taliban police officials said, according to the Associated Press.

Kunduz Deputy Police Chief Dost Mohammad Obaida said most of the people inside the mosque were killed in the blast.

Al Qaeda crucified on a soccer goal an accused spy

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) executed one of its members, accusing him of spying for the United States, an ally of Yemen in the fight against extremist network, a security source reported. The defendant was executed to death and his body hung from the goal of a football stadium near Chehr, city Hadramut (southeast), added the same source. Beside the body was a black banner with the inscription "U.S. Spy in the Arabian Peninsula"and a banner of Al Qaeda. In a statement found in the place, Al Qaeda threatens to execute "any intruder who, for a few dirhams, place chips on cars " to be target drones shot by drones, the source added. United States is the only country that has drones in the region. These devices have been used intensively in the past year to support the struggle of the Yemeni authorities against AQAP , and killed dozens of people suspected of belonging to the extremist network. AQAP took advantage of the weakening of the government of Yemen in 2011 after the popular uprising against President Ali Abdullah Saleh to bolster its presence, especially in the south and east.

Alert for new 'Bin Laden' in USA

Ibrahim Al Asiri is a terrorist who designed pumps that are implanted in the body or clothes Kamikaze , which makes them almost undetectable, so it can cause major damage, according to the French daily Atlantic. This young man is the main explosions expert on Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula(AQAP) and one of the most dangerous leaders of the terrorist group. Born in 1982 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on an average military family. After high school, he enrolled at the University of Riyadh, in the Department of Chemistry: his plan was to become a specialist and work in the local petrochemical industry. But in 2003, after the intervention of the United States in Iraq, decided to quit school to fight with Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.  Soon after, he was arrested on the border with Saudi Arabia and sentenced to three years in prison. He appeared again on the wanted list by Saudi security forces in 2007, on suspicion ofpreparing large-scale terrorist attack against several local oil facilities. And in 2009 he was proclaimed one of thefounders of AQAP , the new branch of Al Qaeda, and appointed head of explosives, a position that was authorized by the sameOsama Bin Laden, according to an article in Russia Today. A way to test their loyalty and knowledge,decided to use his younger brother, Abdullah, as kamikaze against the head of counterterrorism in Saudi Arabia, Prince and Deputy Interior Minister Mohammed bin Nayef, who only wounded in the attack. The attacker managed to go unnoticed because the explosive was hidden in his underwear. It was a new type of explosives without a metal component. Four months later, Al Asiri had the opportunity to experiment with the same type of explosive at the international level. The young Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up a commercial airliner with 300 people on board who was traveling to Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. The trigger failed and the young man was sentenced to life imprisonment. A year later, in October 2010, Al Asiri tried two aircraft violating post sending exactly the same explosive. All this created a panic in the air. After receiving the green light, Al Asiri proposed to the leadership of Al Qaeda organize a series of coordinated terrorist attacks on the eve of the 12th anniversary of the attacks of 11-S to avenge the death of Bin Laden. The U.S. intelligence gained access to a conversation in which Al-Zawahiri and the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, agreed to do "something big" on 4 August. West is now in a state of high alert, and that despite the security measures, no one knows where and when to strike Al Qaeda using his new weapon.

U.S. issues global alert threat from Al Qaeda

The global travel alert to all its citizens remain until August 31 due to unspecified threat of the terrorist network Al-Qaeda, according to the State Department. In the alert, the State Department warned Americans of "the continued possibility of terrorist attacks", particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. "Current information suggests that Al-Qaeda and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks , "and that the" efforts "to carry out could focus" in the period between now and the end of August." "It reminds U.S. citizens the possibility of terrorists attacking the public transportation systems and other tourist infrastructure , "the alert, remembering that there have been attacks on" rail systems "and" aviation services." The State Department also stressed that the U.S. is "working closely with other nations to the threat of international terrorism, including al-Qaeda." On Thursday, the State Department instructed that 18 of its embassies and consulates remain closed on Sunday , weekday in Muslim countries. Among the countries affected by this closure are: Algeria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. A terrorist threat linked to al-Qaeda was ordered that close, explained Rep. Ed Royce, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, told broadcaster CNN. The warning comes a day after the State Department to instruct several of its embassies, some of them in the Middle East, to remain closed for a terrorist threat. The State Department spokeswoman, Marie Harf, did not say how long the facility will be closed and indicated that the measure was taken "by excessive caution and care of employees and individuals who may be visiting." "We gave instructions to U.S. embassies and consulates that are normally open on Sunday to halt operations, especially on August 4th, "said a State Department official. "They may be closed for several days," he added. Sunday is a working day in many Arab countries and the Middle East, where the meaning of the closure of the embassies have greater impact.  In particular, Sunday doors will not open their embassies and consulates in Egypt, Iraq, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Dhaka (Bangladesh), Amman (Jordan), Moscate (Oman), Riadin (Saudi Arabia), Algiers (Algeria ), Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Sanaa (Yemen) and Tripoli (Libya). The State Department also announced that hundreds of Marines are ready to join custody and increase the security of U.S. embassies in Rome, Madrid, among other countries in Europe and also in North Africa.

One of the rebel groups fighting in Syria declares its allegiance to Al Qaeda

The Islamist Al Nusra Front fighting in Syria against President Bashar Assad , declared his membership of the terrorist network Al Qaeda and expressed their loyalty to the network leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in an audio message released today. "We in word and deed the provisions of Aiman ​​al-Zawahiri", said the leader of the front, Abu Mohammed al Yaulani. At Yaulani is the nom de guerre of a Syrian Islamist between 2003 and 20011 was part of a brigade jihadist who fought in Iraq. Frente Al Nusra several Syrian provinces fight against government troops and achieved control of the province of Al Rakka. Meanwhile, the militia loyal to the regime killed near Aleppo , in the north of the country, six men. The bodies were found in a field in the town of Al Safira, southeast of the second largest city, reported opponents in the media center of Aleppo. The information on atrocities in the Arab country not stop succession . The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights showed photos of some victims of torture who escaped Monday from his ordeal. Apparently a brigade calling itself part of the Free Syrian Army kidnapped and tortured tens of Kurdish neighborhood expelled from Shaykh Maksud, in Aleppo. Kurds in Aleppo take weeks denouncing the atrocities of this brigade. On the diplomatic level, the foreign minister of the United Kingdom,William Hague, met with former Syrian opposition leaders in London before meeting with G8 counterparts in the British capital late today. Among others, Hague spoke with the mayor appointed Ghassan Hitto transition. It is not known the contents of the conversation, but the foreign ministers that make up the Group of Seven leading industrialized countries plus Russia (G8) discussed the issue during a dinner at Lancaster House in London. The international community remains divided over civil war in Syria . United Kingdom and France have been in favor of sending arms to the opposition forces. "Whatever we do, we must do more" , said Hague this morning.

Al Qaeda l Kill Obama and Hollande

"Kill Barack Obama and Francois Hollande or Bill Clinton or Nicolas Sarkozy targets that are more 'easy': and 'the threat dall'Aqap launched, the Saudi-Yemeni branch of al Qaeda published in magazine 'Inspire' of the network. Writes Intelwire. In the last issue, out yesterday, there is also a list of 11 'enemies of Islam' wanted dead or alive'''', among them Salman Rushdie, the U.S. pastor Terry Jones, the Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

One year after the death of bin Laden, where is Al Qaeda

In May 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan. If the organization he founded survived his death, it no longer has much to do with what it was several years ago. May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed in a commando raid of a U.S. Special Forces against his house. The world discovered, stunned, as the leader most wanted terrorist in the world was not hiding in a cave for several years but lived in the middle of urban areas, in the garrison town of Abbottabad , near the Pakistan Military Academy . A year later, Thursday, April 26, 2012, the three widows of the leader of al-Qaeda-two Saudi and one Yemeni, and his children were expelled from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia. What remains of the organization he founded in 1988 by bin Laden ? In Arabic, al-Qaeda means " the base ". Westerners have discovered after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Al Qaeda is perceived as a powerful hidden organization, capable of sending groups carry out attacks around the world. Since then, things have changed , but the power to harm those who profess allegiance to al-Qaeda has not gone away. Since the death of bin Laden, power passed into the hands of Ayman al-Zawahiri . TheEgyptian 60 years has committed to continue the jihad " against apostates who attack the Islamic lands, and headed cross America and his sidekick Israel ". Al-Zawahiri was already the ideologue of al-Qaeda or the eminence grise of bin Laden for several years, but it is far less charismatic than his predecessor. When it broadcasts a video message, it causes much less media coverage. Al-Zawahiri alsoless authority over the structure -very decentralized-that bin Laden had. More broadly, recent years have witnessed the emergence of "affiliates" of al-Qaeda operating in a given geographical area, as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula(AQAP) and al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) .The shebabs Islamist insurgents in Somalia and the Boko Haram sect in Nigeria also cultivate links with al-Qaeda. " The shebabs, Boko Haram and AQIM exchangeprobably weapons , but there is no unified command, single strategy , "said Francois-Bernard Huyghe. The "franchise" of al-Qaeda are " hybrid organizations "mixing" a bit of classical terrorism (when Boko Haram poses a bomb in a church, for example), some traffic and crime, some guerrilla " , he adds. Through them, the local issues resume weight within al-Qaeda, while the organization was originally a project of global Islamist revolution. Although they often include a few hundred people , these groups have a great power to harm, through bombings and kidnappings. In recent years, the Sahel has become a crucial area for al-Qaeda, while his influence declined in other regions. In Afghanistan , the Taliban are Pashtun rather than "Arab" al-Qaeda could take advantage of the withdrawal of NATO troops. In the countries of the " Arab revolution ", the revolts against the powers that were conducted without any reference is made ​​to al-Qaeda. By removing dictators, revolutions have pulled the rug from under the feet of the organization denounced corrupt authoritarian regimes, supported by the West. Thus, the global strategy of the terrorist organization has the lead in the wing, but al-Qaeda may boast of having succeeded in recent years to create a genuine arc of instability in Africa , from Nigeria to Somalia.

Iran decoding technology of US drone

The drone , supposedly one of the most advanced air vehicles, crashed in December in Iranian territory and that country's experts were able to extract information, the General Amir Ali Hajiyadeh that the U.S. drone is now in the hands of the Iranian revolutionary guards and experts were able to extract information from it. Hajizadeh says Iran could taste success the operation revealed some details of intelligence , such that the plane was in California in October 2010 before being taken to Kandahar a month later. He was then taken back to the United States technical problems and, after repair, was used in the operation to breathe the hideout of Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden. The drone captured, supposedly one of the most advanced unmanned aerial vehicles,crashed in December in Iranian territory , 225 kilometers from the Afghan border. Iran said the U.S. had defeated in battle technology. However, NATO officials acknowledged the loss of the aircraft , but said they flew over western Afghanistan on a mission when the operator lost control. U.S. President Barack Obama called on Iran in December to return the drone, but Tehran refused on the grounds that its airspace had been violated and Washington must first apologize for it. Since then studies the technology of the aircraft type RQ-170.