Further Reading For 9/11
Most Dangerous Book in the World: 9/11 as Mass Ritual by by S. K. Bain
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On the morning of September 11th, 2001, two American Airlines passenger planes were hijacked by Saudi terrorists representing the Islamic terror group, Al Qaede. They rerouted their destinations to New York City and slammed both planes in the buildings of the World Trade Center. Two additional planes, an other American Airlines plane and a United Plane were also hijacked and rerouted for Washington, DC. One of these planes managed to crash into the Pentagon, while a passenger uprising on United flight 93 caused the hijackers to abort their plan and crash the plane into a field in Pennsylvania. When the smoke had finally cleared, nearly 3,000 people lay dead as a result of the attack with an additional 6,000 injured.
The staggering body count eclipsed the previous record, held by Timothy McVeigh of the Oklahoma City Bombing. The attacks resulted in a rapid shift in American foreign and domestic policy, kicking off a worldwide manhunt for the leader of Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden. The attacks were used to justify two wars running concurrently in the Middle East, a broad destabilization of power in the region, an entire generation of young people who have never known a time when the United States was not at war, and a cowardly mortal fear of Islam.
Unsurprisingly, conspiracy theorists flocked to the tragedy and made tremendous amounts of money, cultivating reputations, on the backs of people in the attacks in the resulting wars.
Episodes: 189-191
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