9.11 The History Behind the Terror

Author: Xu Weidong
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: The largest-circulation magazine in Germany, Der Spiegel, is renowned worldwide for its independent thinking and commitment to objectivity, as well as its concise and natural writing style. After the "9.11" incident, the magazine dispatched dozens of journalists to track and report on events around the world, spending months investigating individuals and incidents that spanned nearly a decade in time and thousands of miles in space. Ultimately, the work was completed through the collaborative efforts of eighteen contributors, including the editor-in-chief, titled The History Behind the 9/11 Terror. This report, with its rich and detailed materials and precise, nuanced narrative, provides a relatively comprehensive overview of the basic trajectory of the "9.11" event. What is particularly valuable is that the authors delve into the families of terrorists and the victims of "9.11," exploring the life paths of those involved in the event and revealing many little-known behind-the-scenes secrets, thus giving the book both informational depth and readability. Terrorists did not appear out of thin air, and the ordinary people within the World Trade Center also had their own fortunes and misfortunes. Unidimensionally setting absolute standards of good and evil, much like expressing anger at evil and sympathy for the innocent, might be the simplest and easiest thing to do, but beyond fueling blind hostility and escalating conflict, it achieves nothing else.