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8 Compass Niall Ferguson What if 9/11 never happened?

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18 Did Osama Win?

Bin Laden wanted war between Islam and the West. We took the bait.

By Andrew Sullivan 22 How We Enabled Al Qaeda Now is the moment to right our strategie and geographical wrongs.

By Bruce Riedel 26 America's Mayor Wallis a Job Rudy Giuliani had unlimited political capital after 9/11. Has he spent it wisely?

By Zev Chafets 30 Where They Are Now Famous images-and what

happened next.

Portraits by Alessandra Petlin 40 What Now, Little Country?

ln the devastating massacre's wake, Norway reexamines its values and fears.

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The poet of 9/11;Antioch's sacred history; Turkey's

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