NEW YORK: A latest survey has revealed that half of the US citizens feel that their country has been insecure since 9/11 attacks. A similar survey conducted last year said 28 % of Americans declared the country unprotected. The US forces withdrawal would be started this year however most of the Americans thought that US should continue the war because its end could endanger national security of the country. After two journalists beheading by IS in Iraq around the 13th anniversary of 9/11 the Americans reservations have heightened up.
September 17, 2014 at 10:21 am | News Desk
Paul Craig Roberts The tragedy of September 11, 2001, goes far beyond the deaths of those who died in the towers and the deaths of firefighters and first responders who succumbed to illnesses caused by inhalation of toxic dust. For thirteen years a new generation of Americans has been born into the 9/11 myth that has been used to create the American warfare/police state. The Bush and Obama regimes used 9/11 to kill, maim, dispossess and displace millions of Muslims in seven countries, none of whom had anything whatsoever to do with 9/11. A generation of Americans has been born into disdain and distrust of Muslims. A generation of Americans has been born into a police state in which privacy and constitutional protections no...
September 16, 2014 at 5:12 pm | News Desk
By Shiraz Nizami There is hardly a day when Pakistanis do not live and mourn 9/11, an incident that dragged Pakistan to tow the US led war on terror as an ally. In its role as non NATO ally, the country has become vulnerable to terrorism and faced not dozens but hundreds of devastating incidents of terror, and many were worse than that of 9/11. According to official data of the government of Pakistan, this bond so far, has cost the country lives of more than 35,000 citizens, 3500 security personnel. The unending war has caused destruction of infrastructure, displacement of millions of people, erosions of investment climate, nose diving production, unemployment and a direct loss of $100 billion to national economy. It brought econom...
October 13, 2013 at 11:42 am | News Desk