Tag Archives: 9/11

But let’s talk about bin Laden. The first notion we can discard is that the US pulled this feat off alone–that our intelligence and military capabilities allowed a convoy of Blackhawk helicopters carrying teams of Navy Seals, along with gunships (loaded with 100+ Army Rangers or Marines) flying defense above the Blackhawks, to penetrate, probably from Afghanistan, 100 miles or more into Pakistan’s airspace to one of the country’s most heavily guarded locations (Pakistan’s ‘West Point’) without detection by Pakistan’s intelligence/ military forces or without encountering Pakistani fighter jets.

Bin Ladin is dead. Again. In the last ten years he has been reported “killed” at least four times. The only difference this time was that the President of the United States announced the death of the number one terrorist in the world. Above all, this time he was killed not in Tora Bora, not […]

Like many people I still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing as those tragic events unfolded that day in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania. On this the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks it seems clear that our national media have chosen to filter this anniversary through the […]

A satirical take on the ‘War on Terror,’ Tere Bin Laden earns its radical chops simply for being a completely Indian production on a story entirely based in Pakistan.

Christopher Dickey is an award-winning author and Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Regional Editor for Newsweek Magazine. His most recent book, Securing the City, was published in February 2009. Mr. Dickey’s Shadowland column, about counter-terrorism, espionage and the Middle East, appears weekly on Newsweek Online. His newest book is a rare inside look at […]