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9/11: Could its disastrous legacy have been avoided?

Twenty five years ago al-Qaeda militants hijacked four commercial planes in the US and flew two into the World Trade Center in New York and one into the Pentagon, while the fourth crash-landed in a Pennsylvania field.

Almost 3,000 people were killed on that day and the world was changed forever.

How the US responded to that attack on home soil reverberates still - through everything from airport security to geopolitics – and above all, America’s place in the world. The attack also prompted a rise in Islamophobia.

Denis Staunton, Irish Times correspondent and author of the daily Global…

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