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Foreign insects and disease terrorize US post-9/11

America’s newest terrorist: the fruit fly. With officials preoccupied with keeping America free of terrorists, authorities neglected to notice an influx of insects and diseases that were brought into the States, reports The Associated Press. As agents became distracted by deterring terrorist attacks, a shift in job roles within the US government caused for a […]

Third of post-9/11 U.S. vets think wars not ‘worth it’: Poll

  AFP October 5, 2011 WASHINGTON — A third of Americans who served in the military following the September 11 attacks do not believe the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were worth fighting, a poll found Wednesday. The Pew Research Poll found that 33 per cent of post-9/11 U.S. veterans said the two wars were […]

US thanks Aust for post-9/11 support

Mr Bleich shared the story of his former university roommate who was working in the World Trade Centre’s Tower 2 when the first tower was hit by a plane. ”Seeing the destruction downstairs next door he started downstairs but no one followed,” Mr Bleich said. ”[He was] about halfway down the tower when the second […]

Post-9/11 police state

Russia Today Saturday, September 10, 2011 The Patriot Act was created in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. The legislation was created to keep Americans safer at home and aboard, though the war on terror continued to claim the lives of hundreds of thousands worldwide. The US has been seen worldwide as the global […]

Post-9/11: Is US hiding too much public info?

  Justin PritchardAssociated Press August 23, 2011 […] As a staggered nation scrambled after Sept. 11, 2001, to anticipate possible next targets, there was a widespread sanitizing of publicly available information suddenly viewed as tip sheets and road maps for terrorists. But what also resulted, as shown by an Associated Press review for the 10th […]

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