September 11 - Five years on
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Five years after the September 11 attacks the US finds itself bogged down in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sympathy for the US - evident in the aftermath of 9/11 - is evaporating. However, on the five year anniversary, world leaders paused to pay their respects to the nearly 3,000 victims of the attacks.
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US in ‘struggle for civilisation’
After a day of ceremonial silences in New York, the Pentagon and Shanksville five years after the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush returned to the Oval Office to warn that the US was engaged in “a struggle for civilisation”.
Bush lets silence fill Ground Zero
President George W. Bush has spoken 22,000 words in the past week in a series of speeches on the “war on terror” but he let a carefully posed silence remind Americans of September 11 2001 as he laid a wreath at Ground Zero.
Cheney reasserts Iraq/al-Qaeda links
US Vice-President Dick Cheney repeated assertions on links between the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda despite a recent Senate intelligence committee report that concluded otherwise.
Five fraught and futile years
The US finds itself bogged down in conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and engaged in a desperate struggle with an adversary that appears to be growing.
Al-Qaeda yields to the elusive cells of the chatroom
Osama bin Laden has lost much of his capability to conduct attacks but authorities face an increasing number of young supporters ready to die in the name of Islam.
Wall St disaster defences
Concerns about Wall Street’s ability to withstand a terrorist attack, natural disaster or flu pandemic have prompted Hank Paulson, the new US Treasury secretary, to review the financial market’s disaster-planning.
Anxiety remains on Wall St disaster planning
The four-day closure of the exchange also underlined the serious disruption caused by the attacks on the World Trade Center, due partly to flaws in Wall Street’s disaster planning.
Hero Giuliani eyes biggest prize
In the weeks after the twin towers were struck, Rudy Giuliani became known as “America’s Mayor”, admired in New York and beyond for his calm but commanding leadership.
New York Muslims beset by suspicion
New York survived the aftermath of the attacks without any major outbreaks of violence against Muslims or Arabs. But on Atlantic Avenue, and in Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst and Sunnyside, things are not as they were.
Boutique bank back from the dead
Sandler O’Neill, like other banks hit hard by the attacks, got help from all over Wall Street as one-time competitors shared clients and office space.
