Terrorism | America Is a Serious Terrorist Threat

David Barsamian: The media have been noticeably lacking in providing a context and a background for the [September 11, 2001] attacks on New York and Washington. What might be some useful information that you could provide?

Noam Chomsky: There are two categories of information that are particularly useful because there are two distinct, though related, sources for the attack. Let’s assume that the attack was rooted somehow in the bin Laden network.1 That sounds plausible, at least, so let’s say it’s right. If that’s right, there are two categories of information and...

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