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it was the day that shook the world
September 11 2001 the date that will
911 now we have several situations go
going on here it's escalating big a big
time on that day 19 men armed only with
box cutters hijacked four fully fueled
passenger Jets and attacked America in
its very Heartland the World changed in
a couple of hours in a very profound way
Center building by the time that
terrible morning was
future Terror I am watching thousands of
people dying right now 20 years on we
identify the lessons learned that day
and how we failed to heed them didn't
really resolve a lot of the problems in
the Middle East the war on terror
removed figurehead Osama Bin Laden but
the ultimate goal to destroy terrorism
is further away than ever and with a
resurgent Taliban now ruling Afghanistan
the world may be at greater risk than
when we started they want to make us
afraid of one another tonight we'll
investigate what went wrong and reveal
what experts fear is Yet to Come the
Americans know that if terrorists ever
get their hands on a nuclear device they
will be the target as we return to the
very moment the world
changed good evening I'm Liz Hayes and
joining me James Dorney who was then a
25-year-old Management Consultant
working on the 92nd floor of the South
Tower and who miraculously survived to
tell us his extraordinary tale former
Australian prime minister John Howard
who was in America and sheltered with
his family in a Washington bunker as the
Pentagon came under
attack Professor Simon Jackman CEO of
the United States studies Center at
Sydney University who was working in
America when the attacks
occurred in Brisbane Yolanda Jetton
professor of psychology at Queensland
University and an expert in
trauma and from camra Dr Anne Ali a
counterterrorism expert and Australia's
first female Muslim member of federal
Parliament thank you very much for
joining me
for those of us alive at the time we all
remember where we were on
911 it was late night in Australia those
of us with the television on would have
seen the news break around 1 p.m.
welcome to the special edition extended
edition of National 9 news as we try to
come to terms with the almost unbelievable
events an aircraft had just struck the
World Trade Center its 110
Twin Towers highly visible symbols of
American Financial dominance surely an
accident we [Applause]
[Applause]
thought they just think there's going to
be another but no it was the first
direct Act of war against the United
States in over 50 years [ __ ] we going
in there bro get out America was under
attack but by whom [Applause]
[Applause]
hey you
okay the terrorist group Al-Qaeda and
its leader Osama Bin Laden were
generally unknown to the public and
fatally underestimated by intelligence
services in the
west that is until 8:46 a.m. when
American Airlines flight 11 a Boing 767
with 92 passengers and crew on board
struck the World Trade Center's
[ __ ] James Dorney had been working in
New York for nearly 3 years and was at
his desk on the 92nd floor of the South
Tower and James you were in the thick of
it that's right Li is my office was
looking North and I remember I got off
the phone and I was looking straight at
the building in front of me when it
essentially exploded so it happened
right in front of my eyes basically
10 floors exploding straight in front of
me and you had no idea at that point
what that was I never actually saw an
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Flames slips of paper floating on the
breeze I assumed that a pipe had
exploded that's all I could come up with
with but at that particular time uh it
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mayem to quell the Panic an announcement
instructed James and his colleagues
who'd seen what had happened next door
to stay at their desks I was I think in
a State of Shock and wandering around on
the 92nd floor when that particular
announcement M was made that the South
Tower was Secure and that you could stay
put for some reason it had the exact
opposite impact on me and I thought you
can tell me that when my feet are on the
ground I'm out of here and I got into a
fire escape in the Northwestern fire
escape in the South Tower which turned
out to be the furthest stairwell from
where the plane was about to crash into
the building at 9:03 a.m. scarcely 20
minutes after the North Tower was hit
United Airlines flight
175 another Boeing 767 carrying 65 men
women and children crashed into the
South Tower between the 77th and 85th [Applause]
floors I wasn't too many floors down I
soon to recall I was at around the 70th
floor when the next plane came crashing
building so I was stack in a very narrow
stairwell when that occurred probably
just a little bit below the point of
impact but did you know that that was a
plane no no idea I I didn't know for a
long long time what had happened it
looks like a movie I saw a r plane like
a V B immediately headed directly into
the World Trade
Center you have a Boe 767 crashing into
a building it's very difficult to put
into words the force that I felt I had
to catch myself I thought I was dead
then it turned out that I wasn't and the
building stopped shaking and I said I
better keep going down here something
else just hit a very large plane at that
point people started to fill into these
stairways I really remember the piles of
shoes being left at at every turn people
kicking off their shoes and I remember
standing still in the
50s because there were then that many
people in the stairs and you couldn't
move and I remember thinking to myself I
just can't get out those stairs were the
worst absolute worst it really uh brings
back some some some pretty horrific
memories when I think about it it was
the worst because every everybody was
trying to do what you were doing well
you couldn't really help yourself and
it's probably very lucky that I didn't
know what had happened to be honest
because that really would have set
people off I think there were people
sitting down on the stairs waiting to be
rescued and I I just had to get out uh I
had to get out of
there oh [Music]
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my even while James Dorney and thousands
of others trapped in the Twin Towers
were still fighting for their lives the
terrible truth of the attack was sinking
in in Florida President George Bush was
visiting a class of second graders when
his chief of staff interrupted Bush was
told of the attacks as TV cameras rolled
I walked up to him and leaned over and
said a second plane hit the second tower
America is under attack and I I think
that's the day he really recognized the
great burden of being president Freedom
itself was attacked this morning by a faceless
faceless
coward and freedom will be
defended 9/11 was New Territory for
everyone nothing like it had ever
happened in military history and the
world had to quickly come to terms with
a horrifying new
reality Yolanda from your perspective
this is the beginning of the trauma from
the moment we saw what was happening the
trauma began I guess what it actually
did is that the world changed in in in a
couple of hours in a very profound way
and I guess it really left us with the
sense of what's next or who are we going
to become at that stage I don't think
any of us knew really what the magnitude
of it was or what it really would mean
for the future and Ally you were in
Australia and like many Australians I
was watching television and this came on
the screens we were were all witnesses
to this tragic event unfolding live
before our eyes we were all placed in
the position of witness Simon where were
you it was early morning in California
our NEX door neighbor came pounding on
our front door saying they've blown up
New York I've been in those buildings
myself you know how many thousands of
people work there and you're just
thinking to yourself I am watching the
thousands of people are dying right now live
live [Music]
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TV it was only 9:30 in the morning but
already hundreds of innocent people were
dead and the financial district of New
York had become the first field of
battle in a terrifying new war [Applause]
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unfolded Mike and IA can you hear me
first of all let me first describe the
scene this is the west side of the p
Pentagon of the Hort side off a Washington
Washington
Boulevard at 9:37 a.m. Washington time
the shock and scale of the al-Qaeda attack
attack
intensified American Airlines flight 77
plummeted into the Pentagon piercing the
heart of the US
military it was aama Bin Laden's
ultimate humiliation of this
superpower all 64 people on board and
125 inside the building died folks we
got to leave chaos gripped the capital
walk the White House was evacuated then
the capital
building and in the midst of this
escalating National crisis was our prime
minister John Howard I just say how
horrified I am at what I've just heard
regarding um what's happened in New York
it appears to be a most horrific awful
event that will obviously entail a very
big loss of life John Howard joins us
now from lockdown in his Sydney home you
would remember that quite vividly I
would think Mr Howard was during that
news conference that third plane slammed
into the Pentagon I went back to my room
and within minutes George Edwards who is
the head of my security American
Security detail said you're getting out
of here and I said what do you mean he
said I haven't lost anybody yet and I
today this rarely seen footage captures
the tense moments in which Mr how was
rushed to safety at the Australian
Embassy while authorities desperately
tried to track down his wife and
son I wanted to know about my wife and
Elder son
Tim he and and his mother were heading
in fact towards Pentagon because they're
going on a bit of a sseeing visit when
they heard about what had happened that
changed very rapidly and they were
directed to the to the bunker underneath
the stent Embassy in Pennsylvania
Avenue as the Howard sheltered in the
bunker outside the US military was in
disarray its leaders in hiding the
Pentagon in
Flames well it's not just the symbol
it's far more than a symbol it's the
central nervous system of the American
Military where the Secretary of Defense
works the very top of the military
leadership The Joint Chiefs the idea
that that could be hit in the way it was
and taken offline um uh for a time at
least just a remarkable thing for people
with box cutters um to be able to pull
off Mr Howard uh this wasn't just any
old building was it they struck the two
great American symbols between Towers
were a symbol of economic Supremacy and
the Pentagon was a symbol of military
Supremacy it had all the symbolism it
had all the audacity it's always
difficult to say this without being
misunderstood but as a calculation
designed to humiliate it couldn't have
been better as far as the terrorists
were concerned and quite extraordinary
really you have this idea that America
is absolutely Invincible no country is invincible
invincible
meanwhile James Dorney was out of the
South Tower but he was not out of
trouble I vividly remember coming to the
bottom of the world trade tower there
looking out through the glass the sky
was black there was debris
falling I thought to myself what is
here running up the other way were all
the fies they were knocking themselves
out to get up into that building and
rescue people and fight that fire all I
could think of was going the other way
these amazing people were going into the
building I can't imagine uh what you
thought was happening to
you I didn't know we came out a block
away when we finally emerged on the
street level and I remember that our
fully grown men screaming and
wailing it was a complete War war scene
there was screaming there was
sirens there was horrific scenes all
over the street of body
parts I looked up people jumping out of the
the [Music]
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towers it was like a seen Out of Hell basically
basically
and I remember getting about a block
away up on the Broadway and finally
looking up over my shoulder and seeing
essentially two burning towers and I
thought to myself I need to put that
much distance between me and them and I
took off up town and it's just as well I
did because I hadn't been out very long
when the South Tower fell
down on a morning that was already far
beyond the bounds of comprehension came
unimaginable at 9:59 a.m. less than an
hour after it had been attacked the
Center the South Tower collapsed the
immense structure disintegrating in less
than 10
seconds at 10:28 less than 30 minutes
after the South Tower Falls the North
Tower our collapses as [Music]
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God in that moment the Twin Towers cease to
exist coming down and James Dorney that
is obviously a moment that you can't
forget no I look I'll never be able to
forget that yeah
M we were traumatized watching it when
you hear what James went through it's
unimaginable yeah look I I think what
James experience is indeed a very deep
personal trauma and it is clearly
lifechanging and at the same time I also
think that there's it's clear that this
is a trauma it's a collective trauma it
resonates doesn't it in all of us there
is a little of that traumatic day in all
of us that's right it represented
American identity you could say and when
that is possible when you actually see
on your screen that it's possible to
destroy that in such a way that goes
quite deep not just at a very personal
level but also at a very Collective
level it affects societies and and
Mr how did you think at that moment that
the world has just changed now I me look
I don't pretend to foreseen how it was
going to change but I knew that this was
a lifechanging event it was an even more
brutal assault audacious assault on
American sovereignty than Paul haror I
immediately thought well you know this
has clear government and political
consequences obviously the initial
response had to be from the United
States but overall um I you you do start
to think fairly quickly of of how you should
respond there is not anything
recognizable of what were the two Trade
Towers nothing the aircraft crashed
right through to the central Courtyard
killing all 64 on board yeah we're
looking at it with this pictures here
which are just horrific this looks like
downtown Beirut a few years ago
with the destruction of the World Trade
Center nearly 3,000 people are
killed only 16 survivors will ever be
rescued from the
rubble in the days that followed
Americans lived in constant fear of further
further
attacks Australia's intelligence Chief
at the time AO boss Dennis Richardson
says this attack was a failure of the US
and its allies to imagine the scale
Effectiveness and Ingenuity of their
enemy if you had have asked me to write
down the 50 most likely terrorist
challenges that we might have in 2001 I
wouldn't have written that down we were
so focused offshore we were so focused
on where our vulnerabilities might be
globally that we forgot our own
vulnerabilities domestically the bottom
line was that it was a failure of
imagination the intelligence World
quickly focused on the little known
terrorist group Al-Qaeda and its shadowy
Mastermind Osama Bin Laden who operated
from a stronghold in
Afghanistan this was an entirely new
breed of enemy one with no rules of
engagement and whose weapon of choice
Was Fear the images that were broadcast
on our televisions kept it in the
collective memory part of terrorism is
that surprise element it's that media
coverage it's capturing the
international imagination yes it was
very calculated it was a very calculated
mood it is also the unimaginable of
using something that is part of our
everyday an airplane to conduct such a
heinous terrorist attack if I could
bring in yolando here seeing those
Towers crumble the pentagon's being hit
the psyche of the world has shifted
hasn't it the symbolic humiliation that
this attack represented should not be
underestimated in the sense that it sort
of it is an attack in a heart of a
country that thought it was invincible
that this would never happen on American
soil and so in that sense it is indeed
something that is a very deep wound
collectively you could say James you
live this you breathe this you survive
this just did you get angry or did you
just think thank God I got
out I never really felt any anger about
it Liz my overwhelming sense throughout
all of this was one of sadness and I
just remember this Eerie feeling in New
York of shock on people's
faces was like the oxygen had been
sucked out of New York and that was not
probably unique to New York I think all
around the world people were either
waking up or going to bed thinking
what's happened here and what's it going
to mean the American Homeland had been
attacked as never before the shock and
the casualties far greater than the
Japanese surprise bombing of Pearl
Harbor which propelled the us into World
War II Americans wanted revenge and
their President George W bush had been
elected by the bearest of margins less
than a year before suddenly became a
you I can hear you the rest of the world
people and the people who knock these
[Applause]
I knew that the Americans would
respond and
instinctively thought to myself will'll
have to be alongside them I did go to
Congress that day on the wedes day and
it was probably one of the most
emotional moments I've had uh I had as
prime minister the chair wishes to
acknowledge the presence of the Prime
Minister and then that afternoon I said
that we would stand beside the Americans
in any
response I hadn't discussed that with my
cabinet or um but but I knew
instinctively that was what the feelings
of the great majority not everybody the
great majority of the Australian people would
would
be you can be assured of Australia's
Resolute solidarity with the American
people true to his word when America
invaded Afghanistan on the hunt for
Usama Bin Laden a month after 911 John
Howard ensured we were there and you
have no regrets about that Mr Howard no
no i' had no regrets about that at all
there was an almost United view in
Australia that we should join in the
initial intervention to deny Al-Qaeda
the Safe Harbor of Afghanistan to mount
a future attack because one of the
immediate reactions of people was this
could be the beginning of a series of
attacks around the world was there any
other option other than war that was no
way the United States could stand for
this there's a sense from the American
Security establishment we couldn't
protect our people they had to fend for
themselves on that day so damn right
they were going to go after someone we
know where they are
now how are we going to go get them well
given he was so pivotal to this whole
group and Ali would it have been better
just to go for Osama Bin Laden military
strategists rightly pointed out that the
mistake was utilizing conventional
Warfare against an unconventional enemy
you may have uh Used military might to
uh destroy terrorist training camps but
terrorism but 911 gave President Bush
virtual C blanch to strike anywhere at
will under the banner of the war on
terror it will not end until every
terrorist group of global reach has been
defeated but there was one country and
one dictator in the Bush Administration
sight almost from the the first moments
Hussein the invasion of Iraq was
justified by intelligence reports that
Saddam was stockpiling nuclear weapons
and that he could pass them to the
terrorists only after Australia joined
the invading forces did we discover
Iraq's so-called weapons of mass
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exist and Australia under your
leadership Mr Howard was Central to the
Coalition of the Willing do you accept
that oh yes obviously the decision to
join the Americans and the British um in
the Iraqi campaign was very contr veral
I remain unrepentant so to speak about
our decision to join it I know you
defend it and I understand why you
defend it but are you proud of it given
all that you do now know my answer is
that when I look back the accumulated
view of the
entire um American intelligence
establishment late in 2002 that Iraq did
have re of mass destruction I understand
that but it but ended up being wrong and
that's the hard bit isn't it
intelligence can often be wrong the
problem is is that if you wait if you
wait for PL perfect proof that
something's going to happen you can have
another pear Harbor I think Australians
just really didn't understand the
reasons why we were partaking in the
Iraq War was it weapons of mass
destruction was it to depose Saddam
Hussein was it because
of terrorism perhaps the question is did
we go to war with Iraq because of 911
well deep down I didn't think Iraq was
responsible I thought though that if
Iraq did have weapons of mass
destruction there was a real risk that
those weapons would be handed to a terrorist
terrorist
organization and I think that was a
the lessons of 9/11 were proving hard and
and
costly even when Iraq stock piles of
wmds proved to be non-existent the war
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now in two protracted conflicts without
real result America's anger turned [Music]
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inwards numerous conspiracy theories
emerged accusing the government of the
ultimate inside
job two events on 9/11 became Central to
the conspiracy
claims the first was United Airlines
Flight 93 the last of the four planes
hijacked supposedly hitting for the
White House aircraft is moving away
moving away from the White House yeah we
we believe just we just know it's a VFR
aircraft we're not sure who it is the
captain I would like to C we have board
and we are going to back to the airport
and we have our
demand United 93 understand have a bomb
on board go ahead exec 956 did you
understand that
transmission affirmative he said there
was a bomb on board Air Traffic Control
recordings and calls from those on board
told of an horrific but doomed attempt
by passengers to seize back control of
the aircraft before crashing into a
Pennsylvania did you hear fo screaming
did but despite all the evidence
conspiracy theories began to circulate
that the jet had been shot down by us
forces then a second event occurred
amidst the devastation of the Twin
Towers in New York when another building
that formed part of the World Trade
Center complex known as Tower 7 suddenly
and without warning collapsed hours
after the attack we're going to roll
that tape for you this is World Trade
number seven collapsing just it's 47
floors disintegrated almost in free fall
conspiracy theorists claimed Tower 7 was
brought down deliberately by a
controlled demolition an allegation
backed by a group of 3,400 building
professionals called Architects and
Engineers for 911 truth the leader of
the group is Richard Gage the truth
about 9/11 is a wakeup call for all of
us the explosive evidence and eyewitness
testimon ony reveals to us not only
control demolition but a massive false
flag operation a massive series of lies
from our
government well I spoke to Jonathan
Barnett CEO of basic expert and one of
the world's leading fire Structural
Engineers Barnett was an expert witness
in the US government's Central
investigation into the collapse of the
twin towers and gave evidence to the US
Congress in all the investigations and
you said you looked deliberately any
evidence for a controlled demolition
what would you have needed to have found
we would have looked for um steel that
had been pre-cut we would have looked
for steel that had been damaged in an
explosion which is different than steel
that's been damaged from the forces
induced by a falling building we found
nothing and if you'd seen a conspiracy
you would have called it out of course
we would have and and and it's it's
something that all of us were strongly
truth barnet's team also established the
complex preparation that would be needed
for a controlled demolition in a
building like Tower
7 that kind of work doesn't happen in an
hour or two it takes many days and in
some buildings weeks to do well none of
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Yanda can I bring you in in here
conspiracy theories just abound after
9/11 what happens what's going on that
people with high intellect you know
expertise decide Something Something
Fishy is going on basically what a
conspiracy theory is is is an attempt to
regain some sense of of control and
whenever something big happens right
like 9/11 but even Co so we want to have
an explanation about us because our
worldview is seriously sort of
challenged at that moment so we saw that
with the Princess Diana was it MI5 who
killed her and there are so many
conspiracy theories about why JFK how he
was murdered and the same is actually
the case with 9/11 we cannot accept
psychologically almost that something as
big as this was just caused by a handful
of terrorists and by actually embracing
The Conspiracy Theory we feel that we're
back in control we understand why the
world is and why all of why all of this
happened the way that it did you must
find this ging James to think that
people do think this wasn't an attack by
an enemy yeah and look it's I've I've
obviously heard all the conspiracy
theories about that that building
falling down to be completely honest
this I'm actually flabbergasted more
buildings weren't knocked down um I'm
surprised that anything was left
standing within 10 blocks of the joint I
mean for 20 years now I've had people
that didn't happen it was an inside job
well I'm sorry but I'm here to tell you
that it did happen while conspiracy
theorists muddied the waters world
leaders were struggling to contain a far
more divisive backlash against the
Muslim Community as our prime minister
Mr Howard spoke to Parliament about the
attacks immediately after returning to
Australia and said this and I say to my
fellow Australians of Islamic faith or
of Middle Eastern descent I extend to
you the hand of friendship you are part
of our Great Society you are part of the
fabric of the great decent Freedom
loving fair-minded Australian
nation and they are as entitled to share
my outrage and my sorrow and my anger
and my
sadness as s within our community Mr
Speaker because wouldn't it be a
terrible tragic obscene irony if in
responding however we do it as
individuals or as nations in
responding to these um terrible terrorist
terrorist
attacks we forsook the very things that
we believed had been assaulted that last
Tuesday in New York I can sense that
it's one of those things that you deeply
regret that's come from this that
Muslims have suffered terribly
unnecessarily as a result in no way did
I want the Muslims of Australia to be
made scapegoats for this and Ali the
backlash that affected you
personally very much so I'm I'm not
visibly Muslim you know I don't wear the
hijab but I'd been going to this coffee
shop and then one morning after 911 I
had a necklace on um and um someone
behind the Cy said oh you Muslim and the
Barista who I was on first name terms
with heard that and looked at me and
said what do you think about you know
9/11 and and innocent people getting
killed I said well I I abhor violence
against innocent people
everywhere and he said good and then as
I was walking out of the coffee shop he
yelled out look out everybody she's a
Muslim she's going to bomb us all and
the whole coffee shop just went silent
it was it was just shocking and I went
up sat in the toilet and cried into my
coffee cup that was my response well and
and was was precisely the intent they
want to make us afraid of one another
but that was precisely one of the goals
of the attacks was to enrage it was to
bring on this apocalyptic sort of
contest and the the challenge for the West
West
was to resist that yeah uh the challenge
for the West Was to reach for the higher
ground James did you have a feeling
about who had done this did you develop
a feeling about Muslims for example no
not at all I grew up in Australia proud
Multicultural Society it's very easy to
get angry and and go looking for
something to scapegoat and my my view
has always been to try and rise above
that and uh and I think if that's a very
important place to be or else it just it
consumes you
you can't let that [Music]
happen within minutes of the attack on
that Dreadful morning of September 11th
2001 America as we knew it and our
belief in its invincibility crumbled
with the Twin [Music]
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Towers Wars followed in Afghanistan and
Iraq but in the US there remained a
sense of Unfinished Business the leader
of al-Qaeda ass Bin Laden had not been dealt
dealt
with the United States has conducted an
operation that killed Osama Bin Laden
the leader of [Music]
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al-Qaeda 10 years ago on May the 2nd
2011 AMA Bin Laden was finally hunted
down and killed in Pakistan
by sealed tame SS a terrorist who's
responsible for the murder of thousands
children on nights like this one we can
say to those families who have lost
loved ones to al-qaeda's Terror justice
has been [Applause]
done tragically any benefits the
Coalition forces battled to bring to
Afghanistan are being obliterated as we
speak within days of the withdrawal of
US troops a reinvigorated Taliban had
seized control of the Capitol Kabul and
the world could only watch and wonder
what was achieved as the people of
Afghanistan found themselves back where
began if you lived through one one thing
you won't do is fail to imagine the
possibility of another and indeed it's
it's important to think Beyond another [Music]
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911 among the lessons the Stark warning
that for everything that has happened in
the 20 years since 9/11 something like
that terrible day according to the
experts will happen again the Americans
know that if if terrorists ever get
their hands on a nuclear device they
will be the Target and it's important
for us to understand that terrorists
will use whatever Weaponry they can to
cause Maximum Destruction and death
they're chilling words Mr Howard what do
you think are the lessons we can take
from 911 I mean we are as a nation
United uh in behind certain values and
that's the most important thing about
our country our common values and it's
the thing that binds us to the United
States more than anything else we have
the same values and values are are more
important than trade they're more
important than economic systems they're
more important than anything else and we
got to hold on to them very tightly I
find it unfortunate that it led to lots
of actions and regardless of whether
they were effective or not in in uh sort
of the fight against terrorism it led to
a lot of hardship it didn't really
resolve a lot of the problems really in
the Middle East and Ali terrorists are
opportunists uh much like many criminals
they will exploit weaknesses and
vulnerabilities individuals can be
inspired to carry out a terrorist attack
with extremely low Tech weapons a car a
knife and then we also have the very
real Prospect of cyber terrorism so I
think that terrorist ISM has changed and
the way in which we respond to terrorism
also needs to change I would point out
that after 911 there hasn't been a 911
uh and why is that um because the US
using its intelligence tools primarily
made it a very dangerous thing to be to
be a leader of a of global terrorist organization
organization [Music]
there were thousands of victims of 9/11
and many more who have suffered in the
20 years since that terrible morning the
world will never be as it was but From
the Ashes of Ground Zero New York has
rebuilt and so have the many survivors
there in one sense Li 20 years seems a
long long time ago to me but on the
other hand it just feels like yesterday
and for me personally it probably
doesn't um fill me with a great deal of
Joy going back and going through the
events of that day and but I think at
this time it's really important that the
story is told because I don't want this
to be shots on a television screen
there's a human side to this of which
I'm a very small part and I think um one
of the themes that's washed through
today is that that everybody has a a
role to play to ensure that these type
of things don't happen again in the
future and that is my uh very firm hope
well said well thank you all very much
for joining us to remember a day that we
need to learn from and one the world
must never forget hello I'm Liz Hayes
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