In August 2001, I was fresh out of college, living with four roommates in a converted TriBeCa loft that offered a panoramic view of lower Manhattan and the World Trade Center, standing proudly just eight blocks away.
I found the apartment on Church and Chambers Streets through dumb luck. A friend of my brother’s was moving out and needed someone to take her place to live with four very cool and attractive women who would be moving out just weeks after she did.
OTTAWA – In the escalating controversy over CBC News guidance directing journalists not to describe the al-Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001, as terrorism, FBI personnel assigned to American diplomatic posts in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver were instructed to leave their workplaces and go home, according to a U.S. law-enforcement source with knowledge of interagency communications surrounding the incident.
The director general of Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5 has warned while Al-Qaeda’s power to attack the West has been all but erased in the years since 9/11, the overall threat picture is now worse than in 2001 between new and innovative terror networks, lone wolf attackers, and state-sponsored terrorism.
Hmmm
Gallup Poll: Proud to be an American?
2001:
Republicans: 90%
Democrats : 85%2026:
Republicans: 93%
Democrats: 27%The Democrat Party has increasingly become un-American. pic.twitter.com/mTU9oyLwAt
— America (@america) September 8, 2026
On September 11, 2001, four al Qaeda terrorists hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 shortly after it departed Newark International Airport in New Jersey for San Francisco. The hijackers stormed the cockpit, overpowered the captain and first officer, and turned the Boeing 757 toward Washington, D.C.
As news of the attacks in New York spread among passengers, those aboard Flight 93 realized their plane was likely part of the terrorist operation. Shortly before 10 a.m., a group of passengers and crew members launched a counterattack and attempted to retake the cockpit as ground controllers listened in.
Standing on the 55th floor of One World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan, Assistant Secretary of Transportation Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. gazed upon an audience of government and private-sector security professionals. His subject: the US government’s approach to the relatively recent phenomenon of terrorist hijacking. As the architect of the federal sky marshal program, Davis offered no easy assurances about the escalating threat. Fighting terror, he admitted, presented no quick solutions. Rather, it demanded constant vigilance, because, as Davis noted, “a great deal can be done before a tragedy demands the action that should have previously been taken.” Addressing the solemn room in the North Tower on September 11, 1974, Davis gave voice to the single greatest fear haunting the aviation industry: an airborne mass-casualty event.
h/t patthedog
OTTAWA – Canada has supported the United States as its closest ally on numerous occasions over the decades. Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the relationship has also faced its fair share of challenges, but time and again, Canadians showed up in support of their American neighbours.
Here’s a look back at a few of the pivotal moments over the last 25 years, how the cross-border friendship has evolved, and whether prominent players from these inflection points think this country would respond differently if a 9/11-type event were to happen again.
No because helping the US would be Islamophobic PM Carney told me so.
The leader of one group of 9/11 victims’ families says it has “taken way too long” to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for its alleged support of the terrorists who carried out the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, whose 25th anniversary is being observed across the US on Friday.
As that grim milestone approached, Terry Strada – the national chair of 9/11 Families United – said she felt as if it had “been several lifetimes” for there to be progress in the effort “to achieve a modicum of justice through our court system” in connection with the deadliest act of terror against the US.
But, even as the Saudis deny they had any role in 9/11, she added that she was as hopeful as ever that “the day of reckoning will come”.
New York has honoured the victims of 9/11 by recreating the Twin Towers with 2,977 illuminated drones.
The show over New York Harbor on Wednesday night formed the outline of the towers, with one drone for each person who died in the attacks.
A drone light show featuring one drone for every life lost on 9/11 lit up the New York City sky in a powerful tribute to the victims. 🇺🇸
What a beautiful tribute. 🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/JUEeAIsgVC
— Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) September 10, 2026
On the eve of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks committed by Islamists on the United States that murdered 2,977 innocent people, former federal special representative on “Islamophobia” Amira Elghawaby says the 25 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks have been a difficult period for Muslims. She feels now is a time to try and portray Islamists as victims and plead for sympathy.
Her timing is vile, as is the ideology she is running cover for, and I couldn’t care less if Islamists got blowback for committing one of the most horrific terrorist atrocities of modern times.
For those of us who were in New York City that horrific day, the 9/11 terrorist attacks are never very far away.
This abomination occurred 25 years ago Friday.
A kid’s ball game, a smiling cop or a fire truck racing past. It’s the little things that bring back the monstrosity of that dark day.
On 9/11, the small town of Gander, Newfoundland, welcomed thousands of stranded Americans whose flights were redirected after the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.
Twenty-five years later, residents of that very same Atlantic coast community are less enthusiastic about hosting the US ambassador to Canada for commemoration ceremonies on Friday.
Some are even demanding that his invite be rescinded.
TORONTO — Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center spurred widespread surveillance and hostility against Muslims around the world, the work of countering Islamophobia in Canada still rests largely on those it targets, a major Islamic organization said in the lead-up to the anniversary.
As Muslims suddenly found their faith wrongly linked with extremist acts in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, many Islamic institutions in Canada responded to the growing fear and suspicion by trying to build bridges with their communities, opening their doors to neighbours and joining vigils for the nearly 3,000 people killed.
CTV are Carney’s typists so it’s safe to assume this is the party line.
Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks, I remember 9/11 as if it were yesterday. Although I can’t remember dates to save my life, I can name things I did just before or just after that day because 9/11 is an anchor that is seared into my mind.
Twenty-five years after 9/11, the Islamist war against the liberal, democratic West still shapes our daily lives. Most Americans recognize that certain people and groups around the world want to destroy us—sometimes for reasons we can comprehend, sometimes not. Remembering 9/11 stands, in part, for the proposition that we will not allow the terrorists to win. Our laws, at least as written, have codified that remembrance. They reflect our national conclusion that foreign terrorist organizations are among the most depraved criminal enterprises imaginable. It was once commonplace to hear President George W. Bush declare that you were either part of the free world or aligned with the terrorists. Yet 25 years later, that ultimatum seems far less self-evident.
wenty-five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the families of the victims are still fighting to learn whether Saudi government agents helped the men who murdered nearly 3,000 Americans.
On Oct. 7, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan is scheduled to hear Saudi Arabia’s appeal of a ruling that allowed the families’ lawsuit against the kingdom to proceed. According to the New York Post, attorneys representing nearly 10,000 victims and relatives believe two videos involving Saudi national Omar al-Bayoumi provide critical evidence of a Saudi role in the attacks.
