A flight attendant waiting to take off on the fateful day of 9/11/2001 <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11879601/Air-steward-believes-plane-intended-FIFTH-9-11-terrorist-jet.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believes</a> her aircraft was intended to be used as the fifth plane in the infamous terrorist attack which murdered nearly 3,000 Americans — and the captain of the plane thinks she may be correct.
The captain and flight attendant recalled their memories of the terrible day in the TMZ documentary “TMZ Investigates 9/11: the Fifth Plane.”
Flight attendant Sandy Thorngren, who was aboard United 23 waiting on JFK airport’s tarmac on the morning of 9/11, said she saw six suspicious people on the plane, which was supposed to take off at 9:00 a.m. but returned to the gate after the second tower of the World Trade Center was struck at 9:03 a.m.
“I definitely think Flight 23 was the fifth plane,” Thorngren stated.
“The day after, we were all called by the FBI telling us that they needed to interview us regarding the incident of what had happened on the airplane,” Thorngren continued. “They came to our hotel rooms and individually talked to us. I did tell them that I felt there were some suspicious people on the airplane. And I pointed out exactly the four people in first class and two gentlemen in business. And the one that had the t-shirt on that had uncontrollable perspiration.”
“They wanted to take us to show us a line-up of people at the Port Authority,” she recalled. ­“They got us all in a van, a windowless van. I felt like we were getting snuck into this van. And driven over to the Port Authority offices where everyone — I mean, gates were locked and guarded with armored military that had machine guns, or whatever rifles they were using. We were escorted to this one room with those double windows where you could see in but not out. And they asked us if we could identify any of the people that were behind that window.”
The captain of United 23, Tom Mannello, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp7QSh64Bz4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contended</a> there was a “good chance” someone was attempting to use his plane as part of the 9/11 attack. “The chief pilot reported to me that they had found two box cutters in the seat pockets in first class in the plane next to it, which had a tail number one digit off,” he stated.
“If somebody was on the ground cooperating with them, they just simply made a mistake and put the box cutters on the wrong airplane,” he continued. “You have people that clean the airplane, people that load food on the airplane, that have access to the airplane.”
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“If somebody was in cooperation with the group they could have been put there,” he surmised. “It wouldn&#8217;t be the hardest thing in the world to get on an airplane like that. It&#8217;s the one thing that makes me think that there&#8217;s a good chance that somebody was plotting to try to use our airplane as a weapon of mass destruction.”
Four planes that were hijacked by Islamic terrorists attacked the United States on 9/11. American Airlines Flight 11 struck its target first after taking off from Boston toward Los Angeles. Five hijackers commandeered the plane to launch it toward the World Trade Center&#8217;s North Tower, which it hit at 8:46 a.m.
The second plane to strike its target was United Airlines Flight 175, which also took off from Boston with five hijackers aboard and was originally headed to Los Angeles; it crashed into the WTC&#8217;s South Tower at 9:03 a.m.
American Airlines Flight 77 took off from Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C., toward Los Angeles with five hijackers aboard; it struck the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m.
The fourth plane, United Flight 93 took off from Newark, New Jersey, headed for San Francisco, with four hijackers onboard, allegedly headed for the White House or the Capitol, but heroic passengers fought the hijackers and the plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in an empty field.

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Flight Attendant From 9/11: Our Plane Was Supposed To Be 5th Plane In Attack

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The Biden administration on Thursday <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-guantanamo-detainee-majid-khan-transferred-belize-rcna68166" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resettled a terrorist</a> from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who served as a direct subordinate to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Al Qaeda terrorist who was the principal architect of the  September 11, 2001, attacks.
Majid Khan was sent to Belize; he is the first detainee resettled by the Biden administration. He joined Al Qaeda after the 9/11 attacks and was later arrested in Karachi in March 2003. After he was captured, he <a href="https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/terrorism/majid-khan-the-terrorist-who-gave-the-cia-information-that-broke-up-the-west-coast-plot-is-charged-at-guantanamo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed information</a> about an Al Qaeda plot to hijack an airplane and fly it into the Library Tower in Los Angeles, the tallest building on the West Coast at the time. In 2012, Khan was charged with conspiracy, murder, and attempted murder in violation of the law of war, providing material support for terrorism, and spying. He pled guilty in February 2012 to conspiracy, murder in violation of the law of war, attempted murder in violation of the law of war, providing material support for terrorism, and spying and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
In June 2022, Khan’s lawyers filed a petition to force the Biden administration to release him as his sentence had ended in March 2022, claiming any place but his native Pakistan would be acceptable, <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/Majid-Khan-post-sentence-habeas/60d6b3ad864a0f48/full.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing</a> that because he had cooperated with the American government the “risk of harm is so great that Petitioner can never return to Pakistan where he would face persecution.”
“Petitioner has repeatedly, publicly expressed regret for his actions, apologized to the victims of his offenses and their families, and explained his decision to cooperate with U.S. authorities against Al Qaeda for more than a decade as an effort to atone for his offenses,” the petition stated.
“In October 2021, after a sentencing hearing at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a panel of military officers sitting as a military commission sentenced Mr. Khan to 26 years of confinement,” the U.S. Defense Department <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2964357/convening-authority-takes-action-on-sentence-in-us-v-majid-khan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>. “The panel also recommended Mr. Khan receive clemency.”
A senior State Department official commented on the willingness of Belize to accept Khan, saying, “This is a political ask. Belize was a great choice because, ultimately, we have a lot of things to do with them. &#8230; They asked all the right questions when this process started,” and did a “terrific job of trying to evaluate” whether they were making the correct decision.
“We are very satisfied the things we asked of them they can do and will do,” the official concluded.

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Biden Administration Resettles Al Qaeda Terrorist Who Was Direct Subordinate To 9/11 Mastermind

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Immigration records contradict Rep. George Santos&#8217; (R-NY) claim that his mother was in the World Trade Center during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/9-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9/11 terrorist attacks</a>.
The revelation is the latest blow to the freshman congressman&#8217;s credibility after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-rep-elect-who-made-false-statements-about-career-personal-life-admits-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted to lying</a> about his career and personal life.
Documents show Santos&#8217; mother, Fatima Devolder, stated in a visa application to enter the United States from Brazil in 2003 that she had not been in the United States since 1999, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/18/santos-mother-sept-11/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The Washington Post</a>. The Forward <a href="https://forward.com/news/532350/george-santos-congressman-lie-about-9-11-newly-released-documents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted that the records</a>, first obtained by researcher Alex Calzareth via the Freedom of Information Act, indicate Devolder being in the Rio de Janeiro suburb of Niterói on September 11, 2001.
The congressman&#8217;s campaign website claims his mother was in the World Trade Center on the day when hijackers flew airplanes into the twin towers in Manhattan, killing 2,753 people.
&#8220;George’s mother was in her office in the South Tower on September 11, 2001, when the horrific events of that day unfolded,&#8221; <a href="https://georgeforny.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the website says</a>. &#8220;She survived the tragic events on September 11th, but she passed away a few years later when she lost her battle to cancer.&#8221;
Reports published last month showed how Santos tweeted contradictory statements about how his mother died. Devolder&#8217;s online obituary says she died on December 23, 2016, and Santos tweeted on that day in 2021 marking five years since losing her, <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/29/george-santos-claimed-9-11-led-to-death-of-his-mom-in-2016/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the New York Post</a>. But Santos sent a tweet just months earlier, on July 12, 2021, saying, &#8220;9/11 claimed my mothers [sic] life.&#8221;
Santos is facing all sorts of inquiries into aspects of his life, as well as calls to resign. Despite admitting to fabricating details about himself, Santos <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-rep-elect-who-made-false-statements-about-career-personal-life-admits-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said last month</a> he is &#8220;not a criminal&#8221; and insisted the controversy &#8220;will not deter me from having good legislative success.&#8221;
The House Republican Steering Committee on Tuesday <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/embattled-rep-santos-awarded-seats-science-small-business-committees-rcna66151" target="_blank" rel="noopener">picked Santos to have assignments</a> on the Committee on Small Business and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

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Records Contradict George Santos Claim His Mother Was In World Trade Center On 9/11: Report

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Disgraced former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi">FBI</a> agent and a central figure in propagating the Trump-Russia “collusion” probe ​​Peter Strzok touted to legacy media pundits Monday that September 11 is “nothing compared” to January 6.
During an interview with MSNBC’s Nichole Wallace during Deadline White House, Wallace condemned FBI director Christoper Wray for failing to spout “one utterance” of connecting the dots between 9/11 and 1/6, adding that day in American history was the “deadliest attack on the U.S. Capitol.&#8221;
“If you look at the scale in terms of threat to democracy — I mean 9/11 was a tragedy, we lost thousands of lives in a horrific way — we still mourn to this day,” Strzok said. “But when you look at something that is an attack on democracy . . . that could actually bring about a fundamental change to American governance, as we understand it — 9/11 is nothing compared to January 6.”
Strzok then echoed MSNBC’s sentiments slamming federal authorities for failing to get on the “same sort of war footing” that the U.S. paved following the events at the World Trade Center twenty years ago.
“Shame on everyone,” he added.
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While framing it against 9/11, Nicolle Wallace claims January 6 was &quot;the deadliest attack on the U.S. capital in history.&quot; Disgraced and corrupt former FBI agent Peter Strzok agrees, saying: &quot;9/11 is nothing compared to January 6&quot; and demands leaders &quot;be on the same war footing.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/lI1KTYnE2f">pic.twitter.com/lI1KTYnE2f</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1582108540332019712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Strzok joined a list of political voices — primarily on the left — who believe that a mob of former President Donald Trump supporters storming the United States Capitol has somehow become a more terrorizing event than two planes crashing into the World Trade Center, taking nearly 3,000 innocent lives.
To this day, New Yorkers can still remember the stench that permeated the air for months from the thousands of dead bodies killed on that dreadful day.
Politifact <a href="https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/feb/22/far-left-group-bombed-capitol-1983-heres-how-s-dif/">reports</a> January 6 involved approximately 2,000 people. Some of them overturned barricades, clashed with police, and stormed the Capitol in an attempt to stop Congressional members from certifying the 2020 presidential election results. Officials estimate about 800 people out of the massive crowd breached the Capitol grounds and building, leaving just over 200 people pleading guilty to one or more charges.
A bipartisan Senate <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/us/politics/jan-6-capitol-deaths.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> reviewed by The New York Times earlier this year found nine people died on or after January 6. However, the only one who died by gunshot was 36-year-old military veteran Ashli Babbit.
However, reports from supporters and independent journalists tell a different story. Witnesses allegedly say a small number of agent provocateurs climbing press risers long before any Trump supporter made it past the Capitol Reflecting Pool, which sits in front of the main lawn just before the main physical building.
Witnesses say following the alleged agitators riling up the crowd, only a fraction of the group joined in on the mob mentality.
Sources witnessed Capitol police officers allegedly opening barricades to access the grounds, riot police forming barriers until disbanding, which allowed the crowd to advance, and other authorities holding the door open for protestors to enter the building.
Once on the ground and in the building, witnesses said “protestors” could allegedly be seen changing their black bloc attire into Trump merchandise before creating more chaos. Others have also said they witnessed rioters inside the building relaying cudgel-like weapons through windows to the people on the other side of the window frame. All the while, the majority of Trump supporters on the ground screamed at the violent rioters to protest peacefully.
And mainstream media has repeatedly shared those images of the elderly women “storming the Capitol” while staying within the stanchions, taking pictures of the interior of the building.
Yet, Stzrok, who has been accused of causing long-term damage to the FBI’s reputation after the bureau fired him four years ago, and others have pledged to create the narrative that January 6 was the worst attack on American soil and a so-called deadly insurrection.

Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok Says January 6 Was Worse Than 9/11

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On the twenty-first anniversary of September 11, President Joe Biden repeated the same tired nostrums we have heard for the past several years on the anniversary of the worst terror attack in American history: “We will never forget, we will never give up. Our commitment to preventing another attack on the United States is without end.”
That, of course, was rather ironic coming from the president who surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban, the very people in charge of the country when Al Qaeda launched its attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. It was President Biden who declared his own heroism as her ushered in the revitalization of Al Qaeda itself in Afghanistan; as The Washington Post noted in August, “After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the US goal was to deny al-Qaeda a haven in Afghanistan. Now, it is back – and seemingly safe.”
But none of this should be unexpected. Whatever lessons Americans learned on 9/11 have largely been forgotten one generation later. 
On 9/11, we learned that the world is smaller than we think – that retreating from the world is not an option, and that if we do so, our enemies take advantage. One generation later, both parties encourage quasi-isolationist foreign policy reminiscent of the Clinton era, in which terrorism was treated as a law enforcement problem and the United States attempted to cut its presence abroad.
On 9/11, we learned that perceived weakness in any form – economic, military, or ideological – invites aggression from our enemies. One generation later, we are deliberately destroying our own energy policy, focusing on expanded and fiscally irresponsible welfare statism, cutting our military capacity, and pursuing radical ideological dissolution.
On 9/11, we learned that we have more in common than we do that separates us. One generation later, the president of the United States speaks about his fellow citizens as threats to democracy and declares that those who don’t deal with him are existential problems for the republic.
In the aftermath of 9/11, we learned that cultural and political change in foreign countries takes time, investment, and blood. One generation later, we continue to pretend that democratic values will inevitably spread around the globe – that there is a “right side of history” that will simply manifest itself – and that exporting cultural Leftism is a necessary component of our foreign policy.
Overall, we learned on 9/11 that the world is a chaotic and terrible place in which the right may not always triumph and the wrong may do the decent terrible damage. One generation later, we seem to have forgotten that simple lesson, instead regressing to a sort of puerile innocence in which we are constantly shocked by brutal realities. This is not a recipe for safety, prosperity, or success.
German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck once remarked, “There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children, and the United States of America.” If America repeats the idiocies of its past, it will have to rely on that Providence once more to protect us – for surely our leaders will not.

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Fox News host <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/jesse-watters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jesse Watters</a> accused President <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> of turning the &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; into all-out war against Republicans — and adopting the same language that had previously been reserved for terrorists in the process.
Watters unloaded on the president during his Monday evening monologue, arguing that Biden&#8217;s language when attacking the opposing political party bore a striking resemblance to the language used by former President <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/george-w-bush/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George W. Bush</a> in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks on American soil.
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&quot;If I believe Hunter’s laptop is real, am I going to Gitmo?&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/JesseBWatters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JesseBWatters</a> says Biden has transformed the &quot;War on Terror&quot; to &quot;War on Republicans.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/TVHvM4WYBA">pic.twitter.com/TVHvM4WYBA</a>
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Watters shared several clips — including one of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — recognizing the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and making an immediate pivot to invoke the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill.
&#8220;When 9/11 occurred in those — in those years, we were very focused on the foreign terrorist. Now we are seeing an emerging threat, of course over the last several years of the domestic violent extremist, an ideology of hate,&#8221; Mayorkas said in the clip. &#8220;Antigovernment sentiment. False narratives propagated on online platforms. Even personal grievances.&#8221;
&#8220;That was a sitting U.S. Senator the former Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Homeland Security just casually pivoting from 9/11 to January 6th. Did you guys notice how casual that was?&#8221; Watters observed. &#8220;They just said Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is Stephen Miller with a beard.&#8221;
&#8220;I remember during the Bush years when Democrats would howl at Republicans for &#8216;politicizing 9/11&#8217; because they wore a little flag pin,&#8221; Watters continued. &#8220;Now Democrats declared a war on terror against Republicans on the anniversary of 9/11. What makes you a terrorist again? Because you have personal grievances? Well, I have a personal grievance, is that going to put me on a no-fly list? You are a terrorist for believing in false narratives? If I believe Hunter’s laptop is real am I going to Gitmo? And the big guy sounds like W., except the enemy is a red hat instead of a box cutter.&#8221;
Watters went on to share a series of clips side by side — of former President George W. Bush referring to terrorists and of President Joe Biden referring to &#8220;MAGA Republicans&#8221; — to show just how similar their words have been.
George W. Bush: &#8220;I will not wait on events while dangers gather. I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer.&#8221;
Joe Biden: &#8220;I will not stand by and watch. I will not stand by and watch elections in this country stolen by people who simply refuse to accept that they lost.&#8221;
George W. Bush: &#8220;They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice.&#8221;
Joe Biden: &#8220;MAGA Republicans have made their choice, they embrace anger, they thrive on chaos, they live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies.&#8221;
&#8220;This is Biden’s war on terror,&#8221; Watters concluded. &#8220;He&#8217;s straight up saying, &#8216;You&#8217;re either with us or you&#8217;re against us.'&#8221;

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Visits “Jesse Watters Primetime”

Jesse Watters Accuses Biden Of Turning ‘War On Terror’ Into War On Republicans: ‘Am I Going To Gitmo?’

Jesse Watters Accuses Biden Of Turning 'War On Terror' Into All-Out War On Republicans

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Fox News anchor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/grab-the-privilege-and-ride-it-home-cowboy-harris-faulkner-blows-up-after-2nd-gentleman-blocks-handicapped-parking/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harris Faulkner</a> unloaded on President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration in the wake of a Sunday report saying that military prosecutors could be considering plea deals for the terrorists who planned the 9/11 attack on United States soil.
Faulkner joined her cohosts on Monday&#8217;s broadcast of the network&#8217;s midday panel show, &#8220;Outnumbered&#8221; — and they discussed reports that 9/11 architect <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/appalling-james-woods-unloads-over-report-that-prosecutors-could-let-9-11-planner-could-cop-a-plea/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Khalid Sheikh Mohammed</a> and several of his co-conspirators might have reached an agreement that would allow them to avoid the death penalty.
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&quot;If we don’t know what justice looks like when Americans are killed … are we then a sovereign nation? Do we really, REALLY love the citizens of this great nation? We have a president who hates at least half of them. How do we know? Because he keeps telling us.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/HARRISFAULKNER?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HARRISFAULKNER</a> <a href="https://t.co/BswPrchqZ2">pic.twitter.com/BswPrchqZ2</a>
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Guest cohost Todd Piro noted that the move could be part of a broader effort to rid the United States of the death penalty altogether.
&#8220;This could be the push to eliminate the death penalty. Hear me out on this, if a defense attorney looks and says, &#8216;Hey, you didn’t give the death penalty to the guy who killed 3,000 Americans, why are you going to give it to my client?'&#8221; he said.
Faulkner weighed in next, arguing that allowing terrorists to make deals sent a horrible message to the family members of those they had killed.
&#8220;I know I can’t speak for every military family out there, but I will speak for mine,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I’m truly sorry to all of them that we as a sovereign nation can’t continue to act like one. That’s the second time this hour that I have said that.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s about the border, it’s about this issue. If we don’t know what justice looks like when Americans are killed, are we then — he put it so beautifully — then are we really a sovereign nation?&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Do we really love the citizens of this great nation? We have a president who hates at least half of them. How do we know? Because he keeps telling us.&#8221;
&#8220;So what about those military families? Whose children went to war because of what happened, who willingly went and gave their lives &#8211; blood and treasure from America &#8211; after we were hit?&#8221; Faulkner went on to ask. &#8220;They will never be the same. Those families who lost their children, and those men and women who are forever damaged from serving that war. What do we say to them when we say we will make a deal for these guys who took more than 3,000 lives of Americans in this country? On American soil? What do we say to those military families? &#8216;We gave up?&#8217; &#8216;We got tired?&#8217; &#8216;We like liberalism in our justice system better than we love you?&#8217; I’m dying to know.&#8221;

U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy Visits “The Faulkner Focus”

Harris Faulkner Torches Biden Over Plea Deal For 9/11 Planner: ‘A President Who Hates At Least Half’ Of Americans’

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Americans learned painful lessons on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-marks-21-years-since-9-11-terrorist-attacks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9/11</a>, but every time Democrats compare the terrorists who took down the Twin Towers to the January 6 rioters, they show they&#8217;ve forgotten what happened 21 years ago, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> said Monday.
Speaking on his daily radio show and podcast as horrific footage of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 played, the Daily Wire editor emeritus lamented the lessons lost over the years. The attack, in which 19 Muslim fanatics flew hijacked planes into the towers and the Pentagon, and took another one down in Pennsylvania, shattered a calm that had set in after the Cold War ended, he said.
“There was a feeling &#8230; that the world was safe, that international diplomacy was going to rule the roost from here on in, that violence against Americans was absolutely unthinkable,&#8221; Shapiro said. “And then 911 happened and it really taught us a bunch of lessons that we were supposed to remember.&#8221;
“First, the world is smaller than you think,&#8221; Shapiro said. &#8220;Things that happened far away in lands that we do not know, those things impact the United States economically in terms of military power, in terms of safety of Americans, these things really affect us.”
The second lesson Shapiro identified is that real or perceived weakness, whether economic, military, or ideological, invites aggression.
“If you read the manifesto of Osama bin Laden after 9/11, [it] was all about how the United States was basically a paper tiger, had made a bunch of promises, had not fulfilled those promises, the United States had run from conflict,” Shapiro noted, citing the United States&#8217; disastrous withdrawal from Somalia, its inaction in the face of Al Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the USS Cole, all in the years immediately preceding 9/11.
The third lesson learned from the terror attack, Shapiro said, was that nurturing lasting culture and institutions requires extraordinary investment of time. Whether imposed by a dictator or fought for by a freedom-seeking people, the shared values that can stabilize a populace aren&#8217;t easily come by.
“Those sorts of institutions don&#8217;t just magically take root,” Shapiro said. “You actually have to sit there for, in the case of Japan, generations, you have to sit there in the case of South Korea, for generations, and you have to be willing to actually expend the money and keep the soldiers over there.”
Many of the countries of the Middle East had been created in the 20th century, so tribal differences were hard to replace, he noted.
Shapiro&#8217;s fourth lesson from 9/11 is one that seems especially forgotten in today&#8217;s age of hyper-partisanship: “You have a lot in common with your fellow Americans, more than you think you do and a lot more than you do with your enemies.”
“We tend to talk a lot in the United States about the gap between Florida and New York, between Texas and California,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And those gaps absolutely exist. These are serious ideological gaps. And those gaps seem to be getting wider in the United States.
“[But] whatever those gaps are, they are not nearly as wide as the gap between, say, Texas and Afghanistan or California and Afghanistan,” he continued. “And 9/11 was a reminder that the enemies of the American people do not think like Americans, that whatever disagreements we have with each other in the West, and they are very serious and they have real consequences, the gaps between the disagreements in the West and disagreements between people in the West and places like Afghanistan or Iraq or Iran. These are disagreements in kind.”
The final lesson: “Our enemies do not think like we do. We think that when we are spreading liberal democracy or economic progress, that our enemies are going to be happy that when we bring additional material benefit to people around the world, that this is something they are going to appreciate. And what we learned on 911 is that that&#8217;s not actually the case. Our enemies don&#8217;t think like we do.”
Fast-forward 21 years, and Democrats are likening the deadliest attack on American soil and the monsters behind it to the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Shapiro played clips of Hillary Clinton somberly claiming the grim anniversary was a reminder to stop &#8220;extremism&#8221; that &#8220;uses violence to try to achieve political and ideological goals.&#8221; Another clip showed Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner comparing &#8220;insurgents attacking the Capitol on January 6” to the 9/11 terrorists. Finally, Shapiro played video of Vice President Kamala Harris saying conservative Americans &#8220;talk about their fellow Americans the same way that Bush talked about Al Qaeda after 9/11.”
The January 6 riots, Shapiro said, were closer to the racially charged riots of the summer of 2020 than to the nation&#8217;s darkest day. But comparing the Capitol riot to 9/11 is a cynical political ploy, he said.
“That is a clear and overt attempt to compare 9/11 to 1/6 and those are not the same thing,&#8221; Shapiro said. &#8220;The Democratic idea here is to broaden out January 6 to include all Republicans.
&#8220;The lesson we learned after 9/11, which is that Americans are not your enemies Americans are your friends against the real enemies out there, that’s gone.&#8221;

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Actor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/of-course-youre-scared-james-woods-mocks-new-york-times-for-calling-new-gop-rep-flores-far-right-latina/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Woods</a> took to Twitter on Sunday to air his grievances about a report that 9/11 planner <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/him-too-911-mastermind-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-says-emily-zanotti/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Khalid Sheikh Mohammed</a> — along with four of his co-conspirators — could be on the verge of a plea deal with U.S. military prosecutors.
Woods took issue with the idea that the terrorists behind such devastating homeland attacks could possibly work out any deals at all — but he also noted the added insult of the information being reported on the twenty-first anniversary of the attacks.
&#8220;To see this headline on September 11 is appalling,&#8221; Woods said in a tweet that has since been deleted. &#8220;Why is justice such an elusive concept in America today? Will the heinous among us never be held accountable? This is an outrage, and to read about it on this sacred day is an insult to the fallen.&#8221;
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According to the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-prosecutors-may-negotiate-plea-deal-architect-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-conspirators-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>, the five defendants — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, Walid bin Attash, and Ammar al-Baluchi — have been negotiating a deal to get the death penalty off the table. They have reportedly agreed to enter guilty pleas in exchange for that concession as well as for treatment for the abuse they claim to have endured at the hands of American CIA officers.
All five of the defendants in question were held and interrogated by the CIA prior to their arrival at the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — and critics, as well as the defendants and their attorneys, have asserted that their treatment at the hands of the CIA amounted to &#8220;illegal torture.&#8221;
In conjunction with their alleged efforts to plan and coordinate the devastating attacks that were executed on September 11, 2001, the five men were charged with crimes including terrorism, hijacking and 2,976 counts of murder.
Woods was hardly the only person to take issue with the report and its timing.
&#8220;This had better be an erroneous report. The only deal these scum* should get is a promise of a quick death, instead of slow and painful,&#8221; @irishspy <a href="https://twitter.com/irishspy/status/1569088361360674816" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>. &#8220;*(And I apologize to scum everywhere for the comparison.)&#8221;
&#8220;The Biden Admin doesn’t always negotiate with terrorists who murdered thousands of innocents, but when they do — they do it on the Anniversary of #September11,&#8221; A.C. Spollen <a href="https://twitter.com/ACSpollen/status/1569060806662168576" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
&#8220;This had better be &#8216;we’ll give you lethal injection instead of dropping a building on you,'&#8221; Mark Passwaters <a href="https://twitter.com/mbpRivals/status/1569021954195087365" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a>.

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Superstar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chris-pratt">Chris Pratt</a> sent a message Sunday to all those people who died in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 — who &#8220;risked their lives for us and our country.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chris-pratt">43-year-old</a> actor marked the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-fans-sing-national-anthem-along-with-nypd-officer-at-jets-ravens-game">21st anniversary of 9/11</a> with a photo on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CiX3Gm_J2de/">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PrattPrattPratt">Facebook</a> showing rows and rows of American flags on a hill as he honored all those who got up that morning answered duty&#8217;s call, and never returned home.
&#8220;Today we remember those who woke up, kissed their families goodbye, and went to work without realizing they wouldn&#8217;t return,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-pratt-sends-message-to-fans-and-amazon-after-the-terminal-list-soars-to-number-1">Pratt</a> captioned his post.
&#8220;Today we remember those who risked their lives for us and our country,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Forever in our hearts and in memory.[American Flag emoji] #911.&#8221;
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Reading through the comments underneath the &#8220;Guardians of The Galaxy&#8221; star&#8217;s post, there are messages from former Navy SEAL and author of &#8220;The Terminal List&#8221; Jack Carr, film maker John Cohen and many more.
Carr&#8217;s comment included a praying hands emoji and an American Flag, while Cohen&#8217;s included several heart emojis. There was also a comment from the official account for the Annual fundraiser of the late U.S. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy, who was killed in the War on Terrorism in Afghanistan in 2005. The comment from the Murph challenge account included six American flag emojis.
&#8220;The Tomorrow War&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pretty-surreal-chris-pratt-drops-video-from-2-years-ago-after-pitching-the-terminal-list-to-amazon-prime">star</a> often shares messages on his social media account honoring those members of our military who gave the ultimate sacrifice, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-pratt-continues-tradition-of-honoring-the-fallen-in-memorial-day-posts">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
&#8220;Today we pay tribute and remember all of the brave men and women who have laid down their lives in service of our nation,&#8221; Pratt captioned <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CeMSIWNpjO3/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=35bce21b-c5c9-4fd8-989e-4841cf09f3b4">his Memorial Day post</a>. &#8220;I urge you all take a moment today to remember those who fought for us. #MemorialDay.&#8221;
During the star-studded red carpet premiere recently held in Los Angeles, Pratt posed for pictures with WWII veterans as he thanked the men in uniform, who he praised as members of the &#8220;greatest generation,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/honor-them-for-their-great-sacrifice-chris-pratt-shakes-hands-and-thanks-wwii-veterans-at-premiere-for-the-terminal-list">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
The superstar actor told reporters he has an &#8220;absolute affinity for our Navy SEAL community, for our men and women in uniform and especially for our special operators and all they go through and all they sacrifice.&#8221;
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‘Those Who Risked Their Lives For Us And Our Country’: Chris Pratt Remembers Those Who Died On 9/11

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A former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-mickey-mantle-baseball-card-with-mysterious-history-shatters-records-at-auction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Major League Baseball</a> pitcher who retired to become a police officer in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> died in a car crash Sunday morning on his way to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-marks-21-years-since-9-11-terrorist-attacks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9/11 memorial ceremony</a> in Lower Manhattan.
Anthony Varvaro, who spent six years as a reliever with the Seattle Mariners, Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox before retiring in 2016 and becoming a police officer with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was 37. The car crash occurred in New Jersey as he made his way to Ground Zero, where terrorists took down the Twin Towers 21 years ago.
&#8220;We are deeply saddened on the passing of former Braves pitcher Anthony Varvaro,&#8221; the Braves said in a statement. &#8220;Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and colleagues.&#8221;
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RIP to former Braves, Mariners &amp; Red Sox pitcher Anthony Varvaro, who was a New York Port Authority police officer. He was killed today in a car accident while on the way to a September 11 memorial event. He was 37 years old. <a href="https://t.co/i7pdlpI8w6">https://t.co/i7pdlpI8w6</a>
&mdash; RIP Baseball (@rip_mlb) <a href="https://twitter.com/rip_mlb/status/1569042913270669313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The married father of four was killed in a head-on crash where the New Jersey Turnpike goes through Jersey City. The driver who struck him <a href="https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/hudson/police-fire/port-authority-officer-who-pitched-in-mlb-killed-by-wrong-way-driver-on-nj-turnpike/843256/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">was driving the wrong way </a>at the time, authorities told the Daily Voice of New Jersey.
Mike Hampton, the baseball coach at St. John&#8217;s University, where Varvaro player college baseball, <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34573298/former-mlb-pitcher-anthony-varvaro-dies-car-crash-way-9-11-memorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Associated Press</a> that Varvaro&#8217;s death was devastating.
&#8220;Not only was he everything you could want out of a ballplayer, he was everything you could want in a person,&#8221; said Hampton, who was an assistant coach at St. John&#8217;s during all three of Varvaro&#8217;s seasons there. &#8220;My heart goes out to his family, friends, teammates and fellow officers.&#8221;
In a statement, the Port Authority brass said Varvaro &#8220;represented the very best of this agency, and will be remembered for his courage and commitment to service.&#8221;
&#8220;On this solemn occasion as the Port Authority mourns the loss of 84 employees in the attacks on the World Trade Center &#8212; including 37 members of the Port Authority Police Department &#8212; our grief only deepens today with the passing of Officer Varvaro,&#8221; said the statement from Port Authority chairman Kevin O&#8217;Toole and executive director Rick Cotton.
Varvaro, who grew up on the New York City borough of Staten Island, was a 12th-round draft choice for Seattle in 2005. He made it to the big leagues in 2010, and then caught on with Atlanta, where he played from 2011 to 2014.
The Braves traded Varvaro to the Red Sox near the end of the 2014 season, and he was with Boston early the next season when the Chicago Cubs tried to claim him off the waiver wire. But an elbow injury scuttled the signing and required season-ending surgery. In 2016, he returned from the injury to pitch for Boston’s Triple A affiliate, but retired in June and went to the Port Authority Police Academy.
For his career, Varvaro logged 183⅔ innings in 166 games, compiling a 3.23 ERA, 150 strikeouts and one save.
Varvaro, who had studied criminal justice at St. John’s, spent five years on patrol before becoming an instructor at the academy.
&#8220;I figured that I had a pretty successful career in baseball, I had played a number of seasons, and I was fine moving on to the next step of my life,&#8221; he told the St. John’s student newspaper, The Torch, in December, 2016 as he was joining the force.

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On the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) invoked the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6">January 6th</a> Capitol riot.
Appearing on CBS News&#8217;s &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; Sunday, Warner compared the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, in which nearly 3,000 Americans died, to the Capitol riot on January 6th, 2021. He said the nation needs to recapture the &#8220;unity of spirit&#8221; felt on 9/11 to counter &#8220;election deniers&#8221; and January 6.
&#8220;I remember as most Americans do where they were on 9/11,&#8221; said Warner. &#8220;I was in it is middle of a political campaign and suddenly the differences with my opponent seemed very small in comparison. And our country came together&#8230; The stunning thing to me is, here we are 20 years later and the attack on the symbol of our democracy was not coming from terrorists but it came from literally insurgents attacking the Capitol on January 6th. So, I believe we are stronger&#8230; But I do worry about some of the activity in this country where the election deniers, the insurgency that took place on January 6th. That is something I hope we can see that same kind of unity of spirit.&#8221;
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“I think the threat of terror has diminished,” Sen. Mark Warner says, reflecting on where the country is now 21 years after the attacks of 9/11.
“I do worry about some of the activity in this country where the election deniers, the insurgency that took place on January 6th.” <a href="https://t.co/2v9OVEhbko">pic.twitter.com/2v9OVEhbko</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1568984873062338560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
Warner was among the most high-profile Democrats to compare January 6th and September 11th, but he was not alone.
&#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; host Chuck Todd opened the program on Sunday by placing the two events together. &#8220;Today is September 11th,&#8221; Todd said. &#8220;It was 21 years ago we were attacked by foreign terrorists. Not quite 20 years after 9/11, the Capitol came under attack from domestic terrorists.&#8221;
Warner&#8217;s comments also followed several left-wing Twitter users also made such comparisons.
&#8220;21 years since terror attacks of 9/11. Then the terror attack of 1/6,&#8221; PoliticsUSA editor-in-chief <a href="https://twitter.com/PoliticusSarah/status/1568954588547481601" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Reese Jones</a> wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Defending this country from attacks foreign and domestic should never be divisive.&#8221;
&#8220;September 11 was a terrorist attack. January 6 was a terrorist attack,&#8221; Lawyer and commentator for CNN and MSNBC, <a href="https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1568934292281065474">Tristan Snell</a>, added.
&#8220;I will always remember how angry and sad I felt the day our country was attacked,&#8221; Georgia state Representative Erick Allen (D) <a href="https://twitter.com/erickallen/status/1568951192344231936?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet">tweeted</a>. &#8220;The lives lost and the families impacted demand we continue to hold those who attack our democracy accountable. This is true for 9/11/2001 just as it is for 1/6/2021. <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NeverForget?src=hashtag_click">#NeverForget</a>&#8220;

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Dem Senator Uses 9/11 Anniversary To Bring Up January 6th

Mark Warner Uses 9/11 Anniversary To Bring Up January 6th

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