Tag: Osama bin Laden

The twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind the Empire State Building in New York.

TikTok didn’t destroy 9/11 history. Our classrooms did

Eric Wargotz · October 6, 2026 10:00 am

A TV grab from Al Jazeera channel shows Saudi born Osama bin Laden driving a bulldozer in Afghanistan in 1998.

Bin Laden’s father built my compound. Bin Laden’s terrorists blew it up

Tom Williams · October 5, 2026 9:00 am

In this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 photo, neighborhood resident Mohamed Alassane walks past a room where he and other residents say al Qaida held European hostages.

Yes, the jihadis really do hate us for our freedoms

Guy Benson · September 17, 2026 2:09 pm

Visitors to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., participate in a memorial service, Thursday, Sept.10, 2026, as the nation prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Let’s stop calling it 9/11 — Trump should rename it Todd Beamer Day

Jeffrey Lax · September 12, 2026 6:00 am

Making the decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq is a decision former President George W. Bush will stick by forever, he said on NPR Wednesday morning. (AP Photo)

How Democrats and their media allies hid Saddam Hussein’s involvement in 9/11

John D. O’Connor · September 11, 2026 10:00 am

In this Sept. 11, 2001, photo, smoke rises from the burning Twin Towers of the World Trade Center after hijacked planes crashed into the towers, in New York City.

I taught Saudi royalty in 1979. I saw the seeds of 9/11 decades before the planes hit

Ken Strange · September 11, 2026 6:00 am

Osama bin Laden, left, and Ayman al Zawahiri are seen in October 2001.

What al Qaeda wants and the road to 9/11

Sean Durns · September 10, 2026 2:00 pm

A kiosk filled with information reads National Cryptologic Museum on a white touch screen.

National Cryptologic Museum unveils historic Osama bin Laden exhibit

Britta Miller · September 10, 2026 1:20 pm

The CIA has released the bulk of the Osama bin Laden documents, which show just how deep Iran-al Qaeda links are.

Beltway Confidential

The man who made Osama bin Laden

Sean Durns · September 10, 2026 12:36 pm

The museum uses books and artwork to help children process learning about Sept. 11.

25 years later, how do you teach 9/11 to a generation with no memory of it?

Amy DeLaura · September 9, 2026 8:46 am

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001 file photo, from left, Secretary of State Colin Powell, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Henry Shelton attend a meeting with the National Security Council in the Cabinet Room of the White House. While the Secret Service played “hide the president” with Bush on Sept. 11 — he was shuttled to military bases in Louisiana and Nebraska, for fear of terrorist attacks — his vice president hunkered down in a “secure, undisclosed location,” a bunker inside the White House where he helped direct the government’s actions.

National Security

Who were the key figures in the Bush administration on 9/11, and where are they now

Brady Knox, Joseph Nepomuceno · September 9, 2026 7:00 am

FILE - This undated file photo shows al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden's spokesman and son-in-law has been captured by U.S. intelligence officials, officials said Thursday, in what a senior congressman called a "very significant victory" in the ongoing fight against al-Qaida. A Jordanian security official confirmed that al-Ghaith was handed over last week to U.S. law enforcement officials under both nations' extradition treaty. He declined to disclose other details and spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. (AP Photo)

Osama bin Laden is winning from the grave

Zina Rakhamilova · September 8, 2026 8:00 am