Twenty-five years after nearly 3,000 people perished in the September 11 attacks, the man who confessed to orchestrating them has yet to face a criminal trial. Two women who lost their fathers that morning — one a child, one barely an adult — have made the pursuit of accountability the defining work of their lives, even as the legal machinery at Guantanamo Bay continues to grind slowly against itself. Their story asks a question that outlasts any single verdict: what does justice mean when the truth is known but the law cannot yet hold it?
9/11 Victims' Daughters Pursue Justice as Accused Mastermind's Trial Remains Stalled
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks; two victims' daughters have spent decades seeking justice and closure for themselves and other bereaved families.