Osama bin Laden and al-Baghdadi are dead, but jihadist networks now reach from Kabul to Lagos. One question remains: Is the world safer 25 years after 9/11 and the War on Terror across Afghanistan, Iraq and West Africa?
The attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001, killed nearly 3,000 people and triggered the War on Terror. The campaign, led by the US with allies across Europe and beyond, aimed to destroy al-Qaeda and stop Afghanistan from being a terrorist safe haven.
A quarter-century later, Osama bin Laden is dead, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, and the War on Terror cost countless lives and trillions of dollars.
Did it defeat Jihadist terror? DW digs into the data, examines maps and talks with experts from around the world to find out.
We investigate what’s left of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group: Are they still plotting attacks on the West, or have they changed their strategy? And what about African groups like JNIM and Boko Haram — are they advancing? Do jihadists still want a Caliphate? And what lessons are they learning from the Taliban being in charge of Afghanistan again and a former al-Qaeda-linked militia leader leading Syria as president?
Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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