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Five Years of Consequence: an attempt, admittedly selective and incomplete, to survey the first five years of our post-9/11 world ? a world that is certainly new, though not always brave.
The Journal of 9/11 Studies is a peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic-only journal covering the whole of research related to 9/11/2001.
The Disbelievers: 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists Are Building Their Case Against the Government From Ground Zero
A recent Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 Americans found that 36 percent suspect the U.S. government promoted the attacks or intentionally sat on its hands. Sixteen percent believe explosives brought down the towers. Twelve percent believe a cruise missile hit the Pentagon.
Distrust percolates more strongly near Ground Zero. A Zogby International poll of New York City residents two years ago found 49.3 percent believed the government "consciously failed to act."
You could dismiss this as a louder than usual howl from the CIA-controls-my-thoughts-through-the-filling-in-my-molar crowd. Establishment assessments of the believers tend toward the psychotherapeutic. Many academics, politicians and thinkers left, right and center say the conspiracy theories are a case of one plus one equals five. It's a piling up of improbabilities. [...]
Chip Berlet, senior analyst at Political Research Associates, a Boston-based left-leaning think tank, is no fan of the 9/11 Commission. He believes a serious investigation should have led to indictments and the firing of incompetent generals and civilian officials.
But he has no patience with the conspiracy theorists.
"They don't do their homework; it's a kind of charlatanism," Berlet says over the phone. "They say there's no debris on the lawn in front of the Pentagon, but they base their analysis on a photo on the Internet . That's like analyzing an impressionist painting by looking at a postcard."
Bin Laden Trail 'Stone Cold': The clandestine U.S. commandos whose job is to capture or kill Osama bin Laden have not received a credible lead in more than two years. Nothing from the vast U.S. intelligence world -- no tips from informants, no snippets from electronic intercepts, no points on any satellite image -- has led them anywhere near the al-Qaeda leader, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials.
The Victory of September 11, 1565: La Valette's final address to his men has come down to us:
A formidable army composed of audacious barbarians is descending on this island. These persons, my brothers, are the enemies of Jesus Christ. Today it is a question of the defense of our faith -- as to whether the Gospels are to be superseded by the Koran. God on this occasion demands of us our lives, already vowed to his service. Happy will be those who first consummate this sacrifice.
The date of this victory has for us a certain resonance: it was September 11, 1565.
From that day we may date the decline of Turkish power on the Mediterranean. [...]
On this day, when we remember the act of treachery and malevolence that finally made manifest to us this war, it is foolish to abstract it from its historical context. It is foolish to remember New York, September 11, 2001, and never once think about Vienna, September 11, 1683, or Malta, September 11, 1565; or even Constantinople, May 29, 1453 or Tours, October 7, 732. We might as well talk obsessively about Normandy and say nothing of Pearl Harbor or the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. We might as well fix our attention on Gettysburg and cultivate perfect innocence of Ft. Sumter or First Manassas. No, we must show more imagination than that. We must bring ourselves around to see that there are older and more implacable things on this earth than what our predilections tell us, and that the Jihad is one of the oldest and most implacable.
More Muslims Arrive in U.S., After 9/11 Dip: The events of Sept. 11 transformed life for Muslims in the United States, and the flow of immigrants from countries like Egypt, Pakistan and Morocco thinned sharply.
But five years later, as the United States wrestles with questions of terrorism, civil liberties and immigration control, Muslims appear to be moving here again in surprising numbers, according to statistics collected by the Department of Homeland Security and the Census Bureau.
Immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia are planting new roots in states from Virginia to Texas to California.
In 2005, more people from Muslim countries became legal permanent United States residents ? nearly 96,000 ? than in any year in the previous two decades.
More than 40,000 of them were admitted last year, the highest annual number since the terrorist attacks, according to data on 22 countries provided by the Department of Homeland Security.
The shame and the glory: From cave painters to the avant garde, artists have felt compelled to depict battle. But where are the images of 21st-century conflict?
Has Art Helped You Make Sense of 9/11? What work of art or literature has helped you make sense of the attacks and the world after them?
The Whole Ball of Wax: Can Art Change the World? A Holistic Theory
Five Years Later: Pop Culture of Denial: Our fascination with glitz is unabated, and artists remain cautious. We haven't come to grips with 9/11.
Drawing light from concrete and smoke: Our appetite for works about Sept. 11 depends upon how much pain we have to feel
[A]udiences still aren't ready to embrace films that explicitly depict the tragedy. [...]
For the past five years, we have lived in a state of tension and hyper-alertness. The messages we've received from our political leaders have been "be vigilant." Those messages have not been, "Relax. Everything will be OK."
What words of reassurance we have had have come from... artists and entertainers.
They Captured 9/11 on Film: What is the proper response to this glut of photographic information?
The books and network specials rolled out on each anniversary serve to buttress the claim that the attacks on the U.S. are the most documented event in history.
Post-9/11 antiterror technology: a list of 10 technologies, five that should be adopted more speedily to help in homeland security efforts--and five that raise at least some privacy and security concerns.
In need of support
1. Going wireless
2. Better search technology
3. Inspecting cargo containers
4. Smarter translation software
5. Faster chemical detection
Raising privacy concerns
1. Omnipresent cameras
2. Registered traveler
3. Backscatter X-ray
4. "Brain fingerprinting"
5. DNA dragnets
Fraying of Academic Freedom: The start of the academic year ? in part because it coincides with the fifth anniversary of 9/11 ? is being marked by numerous debates over academic freedom.
Illness Persisting in 9/11 Workers: The largest health study yet of the thousands of workers who labored at ground zero shows that the impact of the rescue and recovery effort on their health has been more widespread and persistent than previously thought, and is likely to linger far into the future. [...]
Roughly 70 percent of nearly 10,000 workers tested at Mount Sinai from 2002 to 2004 reported that they had new or substantially worsened respiratory problems while or after working at ground zero.
Em Setembro de 2001 (dia 11): As minhas memórias. As primeiras.
2001-2006 World Trade Center Gold and Silver Clad Commemorative
