Twenty-five years after nineteen men turned commercial aircraft into weapons and killed nearly three thousand people, the organization that sent them — al-Qaeda — endures in diminished but not extinguished form. Its founders are dead, its hierarchy scattered, its grand ambitions narrowed to regional insurgencies and ideological franchises. Yet the deeper question the anniversary surfaces is not whether al-Qaeda has been defeated, but whether the world's attention has simply moved on before the work was finished.
25 Years After 9/11: Where Al-Qaeda's Key Operatives Stand Today
The 9/11 attacks killed nearly 3,000 people; this retrospective examines the ongoing human security implications of al-Qaeda's continued operations.