9/11 A World Changed

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2010, file photo a private security contractor watches a NATO supply truck drive past in the province of Ghazni, south-west of Kabul, Afghanistan. Military contractors got up to half of the $14 trillion spent by the Pentagon since 9/11, a study by Brown University’s Costs of War project and the Center for International Policy said Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad, File)

Study: Pentagon reliance on contractors hurt US in 9/11 wars

A new study says up to half of the $14 trillion spent by the Pentagon since 9/11 went to for-profit defense contractors.
 
An American flag is unfurled at the Pentagon in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, at sunrise on the morning of the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. The American flag is draped over the site of impact at the Pentagon. In the foreground, the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial, opened in 2008 adjacent to the site, commemorates the lives lost at the Pentagon and onboard American Airlines Flight 77. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

FBI releases newly declassified record on Sept. 11 attacks

 
FILE - In this April 7, 2003, file photo, U.S. Army soldiers from A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, search one of Saddam Hussein's palaces damaged after a bombing, in Baghdad. The U.S. launched its invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003, unleashing a war that led to an insurgency, sectarian violence and tens of thousands of deaths. (AP Photo/John Moore, File)

Death and suffering in Iraq a painful legacy of 9/11 attacks

 
Former President George W. Bush, right center, bumps fists with Flight 93 National Memorial superintendent Stephen M. Clark, left, after participating in a Service of Remembrance at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, as the nation marks the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Bush warns of domestic extremism, appeals to ‘nation I know’

 
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden participate in a wreath ceremony on the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks at the Pentagon in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, standing at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial site, which commemorates the lives lost at the Pentagon and onboard American Airlines Flight 77. With the President, not shown, are Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and his wife Hollyanne Milley. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden embraces message of unity on 9/11 anniversary

 

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A firefighter places his hand on the name engravings on the south pool during ceremonies to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

‘Don’t focus on hate': World marks 20th anniversary of 9/11

 
FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2001 file photo, Associated Press correspondent Amir Shah, left, talks with a Taliban fighter in Torkham, Afghanistan. Shah was AP's eyes and ears in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, when all foreigners were ordered to leave. His assignment was dangerous, delicate and often terrifying. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis, File)

EXCERPT: An Afghan reporter recalls 9/11’s aftermath there

 
In this July 20, 2021 photo, Saudi police women, who were recently deployed to the service, from right to left, Samar, Alaa, and Bashair, stand alert in front of the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the annual hajj pilgrimage in the Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca. The cloud of social restrictions that loomed over generations of Saudis is quickly dissipating and the country is undergoing visible change. Still, for countless numbers of people in the United States and beyond, Saudi Arabia will forever be associated with 9/11. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Saudi Arabia, 20 years after 9/11: ‘A country in the making’

 
James Maroon, left, cleans the bottom of the south pool of the 9/11 Memorial with a vacuum, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021, in New York. On Sept. 11, 2001 he was going to work at the New York Mercantile Exchange, just west of the twin towers. "I was getting ready to cross the Westside Highway when the first plane hit and people were running up behind me," he said. "I thought a truck or something hit the walkway. I got out, looked up and the first plane was in the building. I thought it was just a small commuter plane because you didn't see a plane, just a hole. I ended going into work and then the second plane hit. I couldn't figure out where to go. Pretty much everything was closed off. I hooked up with a guy I worked with and we started walking up the Westside Highway and I looked back and the tower collapsed. Unbelievable." (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Ground zero: A selfie stop for some, a cemetery for others

 
FILE - In this May 24, 2017 file photo women cry after placing flowers in a square in central Manchester, Britain, after the suicide attack at an Ariana Grande concert that left more than 20 people dead and many more injured, as it ended on Monday night at the Manchester Arena. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Post-9/11, Europe’s weak spots make it a jihadist target

 
FILE — In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, people covered in dust from the collapsed World Trade Center buildings, walk through the area, in New York. Two decades after the twin towers' collapse, people are still coming forward to report illnesses that might be related to the attacks. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File)

20 years later, fallout from toxic WTC dust cloud grows

 
FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001 file photo, the Statue of Liberty stands in front of a smoldering lower Manhattan at dawn, seen from Jersey City, N.J. The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States nearly 20 years ago precipitated profound changes in America and the world. (AP Photo/Dan Loh, File)

From 9/11’s ashes, a new world took shape. It did not last.

 
FILE - In this May 24, 2016 file photo, fourth grade students from Baldwin-Whitehall school district near Pittsburgh, touch the "wall of names" at the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, Pa.,during their classroom experience. (Todd Berkey/The Tribune-Democrat via AP, File)

Time, misinfo complicate teaching 9/11 to kids born after it

 
FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2021, file photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, a flag flies at half-staff in honor of the U.S. service members and other victims killed in the terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, as seen from Camp Justice in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Camp Justice is where the military commission proceedings are held for detainees charged with war crimes. The White House says it intends to shutter the prison on the U.S. base in Cuba, which opened in January 2002 and where most of the 39 men still held have never been charged with a crime. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Guantanamo prison lingers, an unresolved legacy of 9/11

 
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Sherburne County Sheriff Office shows Zacarias Moussaoui. A prosecutor, defense attorney and the presiding judge on the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a U.S. court of a role in the Sept. 11 attacks, revisit the case during an online panel. (Sherburne County, Minn., Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

Moussaoui trial revisited on the eve of Sept. 11 anniversary

 
FILE - Smoke rises from the burning twin towers of the World Trade Center after hijacked planes crashed into the towers on September 11, 2001 in New York City. Associated Press photographer Richard Drew talks about AP’s coverage of 9/11 and the events that followed. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

EXCERPT: 20 years on, ‘The Falling Man’ is still you and me

 
A woman walks by the colorful murals that surround the foundation for 2 World Trade Center, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021 in New York. Planned as the second tallest skyscraper at the site, 2 World Trade Center, might someday reach 80 stories. Developer Larry Silverstein has said he wants to sign an anchor tenant for the tower before starting construction. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Ground zero rebuilding still unfinished, 20 years later

 
Chloe Taub and Anthony Brobenzano, of Hollywood, Fla., look at the 9/11 memorial at Logan International Airport, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Boston. The two were the only visitors during a three-hour span that afternoon. Tucked in a grove of ginkgo trees, the glass cube at Logan Airport pays tribute to those lost aboard the two jetliners that took off from Boston and were hijacked by terrorists who flew them into the World Trade Center towers. But it's mostly silent homage. The memorial etched with the names of those who perished aboard American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 draws few visitors. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Subdued 9/11 remembrances reflect Boston’s invisible scars

 
The internet and social media have allowed the kind of skepticism and suspicion that fueled 9/11 conspiracy theories to spread farther and faster than ever before. (AP Illustration)

From election to COVID, 9/11 conspiracies cast a long shadow

 
Associated Press investigative reporter James LaPorta and his son Joel, 5, sit at their home, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021, in Boca Raton, Fla. LaPorta recalls a boy he encountered in Afghanistan back in 2013 while serving as a Marine. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

A U.S. Marine, a curious Afghan boy, an unfathomable moment

 
Franklin Anchahua-Herrera sits for a portrait in a room that he shares with his father, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021, in the Queens borough of New York. Anchahua-Herrera has several health conditions certified by the World Trade Center Health Program that are approved for treatment benefits for individuals who worked at the site in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Immigrant Sept. 11 cleanup crews seek residency as a reward

 
FILE - People run from the collapse of World Trade Center Tower Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 in New York. On that day, Howie Rumberg, working the overnight in AP Sports, came up out of a subway and found himself in the middle of chaos. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

EXCERPT: On morning of 9/11, ‘What’s happening to my city?’

 
Workers install marble on the exterior of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine, which is the only house of worship on ground zero, on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, in New York. Through an innovative process, interior lights are being designed to illuminate thin panels of marble mined from the same Pentelic vein in Greece that sourced the Parthenon, the ancient temple in Athens. The shrine will have a ceremonial lighting on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, while the interior is slated for completion next year. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Shrine to replace church destroyed on 9/11 nears completion

 
FILE - In this 1998 file photo, Ayman al-Zawahri, center left, and Osama bin Laden, center, hold a news conference in Afghanistan. Born out of the 1980s war against the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan, the terror group al-Qaida under bin Laden grew into a generational threat to America that culminated in its Sept. 11, 2001, attack that brought down the World Trade Center in New York. (AP Photo/File)

EXPLAINER: What was, and is, al-Qaida?

 
Jan Ramirez, chief curator at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, sits for an interview inside a warehouse where thousands of artifacts from the 9/11 attacks are archived, July 16, 2021, in Jersey City, N.J. Over the years, the museum has collected some 22,000 personal artifacts to help tell the stories of those who died and those lucky to survive. Many of those personal effects were plucked from the ruins of what was once the Twin Towers. Other items were donated by survivors or by the families of those who perished. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)

9/11 artifacts share ‘pieces of truth’ in victims’ stories

 
Pedestrians in lower Manhattan watch smoke billow from New York's World Trade Center on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

AP PHOTOS: 20 images that documented the enormity of 9/11

 
FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001 file photo, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, center, leads New York Gov. George Pataki, left, and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., on a tour of the site of the World Trade Center disaster. While stumping for Donald Trump in Ocala, Fla., on Oct. 12, 2016, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani accused Hillary Clinton of falsely claiming to have been in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. It isn't clear what Giuliani was talking about. On many occasions, Clinton has described being in Washington, where Congress was in session, on Sept. 11 when hijacked jets began striking the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Flights were still grounded on Sept. 12, 2001, but Clinton traveled to New York City the next day aboard a federal plane. There, she circled the smoldering World Trade Center in a helicopter, then toured ground zero with Giuliani and Pataki. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

They were some of 9/11’s biggest names. Where are they now?

 
Dan Rather poses in a CBS studio in New York on Feb. 20, 2001, left, Peter Jennings poses on the set of ABC's "World News Tonight" in New York on Feb. 5, 2001, center, and "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw delivers his closing remarks during his final broadcast, in New York on Dec. 1, 2004. Most Americans were guided through the events of the day by one of three men: Tom Brokaw of NBC News, Peter Jennings of ABC and Dan Rather of CBS. Each had extensive reporting experience before that, Brokaw and Rather were at the White House during Watergate, and Jennings has been a foreign correspondent. (AP Photo)

On TV, 9/11 was last huge story for ‘Big 3’ network anchors

 
Shahana Hanif, a community organizer strongly favored to win a seat on the New York City Council in the upcoming municipal election, stands in front of her home in the Kensington neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. In 2001, mere weeks after the twin towers at the World Trade Center fell, car passed, the driver’s window rolled down and the man spat an epithet at two little girls wearing their hijabs: “Terrorist!” as a 10-year-old Shahana and her younger sister were walking to the local mosque from their Brooklyn home. Unsure, afraid, the girls ran. (AP Photo/Emily Leshner)

Two decades after 9/11, Muslim Americans still fighting bias

 
Travelers wear face coverings in the line for the south north security checkpoint in the main terminal of Denver International Airport Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021, in Denver. Two months after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, President George W. Bush signed legislation creating the Transportation Security Administration, a force of federal airport screeners that replaced the private companies that airlines were hiring to handle security. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

How 9/11 changed air travel: more security, less privacy

 
ADVANCE FOR PUBLICATION ON SUNDAY, SEPT. 5, AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 file photo, Kellen Savoy, center, helps present the colors as students raise the flag at William Lloyd Meador Elementary School in Willis, Texas. Students and teachers gathered before school to raise the flag to half staff to mark the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. (Jason Fochtman/Conroe Courier via AP)

9/11: As the decades pass, the act of remembering evolves

 
Retired NYPD Officer Ken Winkler, holds a broken piece of glass that he kept from the fallen World Trade Center skyscrapers, which he keeps in his office on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, in New York. "Somebody once asked me, 'How often do you think about it?' I told him it's easier to count the days when you don't think about it," says Winkler, who now manages Manhattan's cruise ship terminal. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Surviving 9/11 was ‘just the first piece of the journey’

 
Jack Grandcolas, who lost his pregnant wife on United Flight 93, sits and looks out at the ocean near his home in Pebble Beach, Calif., Aug. 18, 2021. Twenty years later, Grandcolas still remembers waking up at 7:03 that morning. He looked at the clock, then out the window where an image in the sky caught his eye — a fleeting vision that looked like an angel ascending. He didn't know it yet, but that was the moment his life changed. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)

20 years after 9/11: ‘We will live with the scars’ forever

 
FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2009 file photo, a child watches military vehicles of 5th Striker Brigades drive past his village on the outskirts of Spin Boldak, about 100 kilometers (63 miles) southeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Afghanistan’s arc from 9/11 to today: Once hopeful, now sad