25 years 9/11: "Violations of international law were a defining component of the war on terror"
The attacks of September 11, 2001, were a turning point, says political scientist and author Ronald Ofteringer. This is because the wars that followed undermined the international order.
On September 11, 2001, two planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York, another into the Pentagon near Washington, and a fourth down in a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly 3000 people. The USA was attacked on its own soil for the first time since the Pearl Harbour attack in December 1941. The islamist network al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the attacks.
The event marked a geopolitical turning point, prompting then-US President George W. Bush to launch the "war on terror", which led to numerous armed conflicts.
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