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• 21 Sep 2011

  

  Iran frees US hikers on bail

  Two American men convicted of spying in Iran have arrived in Oman after they were freed from jail. Their release came as President Ahmadinejad arrived in New York for United Nations talks.

• 20 Sep 2011

  

  US military ends ban on openly gay personnel

  As the US military lifts its ban on openly homosexual people, Channel 4 News speaks to an officer who was discharged for being gay and a serving Air Force captain forced to hide his sexuality.

• 13 Sep 2011

  Lasting legacies and passing tragedies?

  It has become quite fashionable to say 911 didn’t really change the world. A rash of commentary has recently argued that the decade of Al Qaeda while bloody and terrible will not have the future consequences we may once have feared. The argument runs : the world changed, the centre of economic gravity changed, the role and power of America in the world changed but much of it happened regardless of the “war on terror” and the clash of civilisations will never quite happen – especially now Bin Laden is dead. This makes for clever columns but seems ultimately rather unhelpful. The need to understand what has changed seems greater than ever before anyone claims victory and moves on, just because the troops are coming home from Afghanistan.

• 12 Sep 2011

  Jon Snow

  Ten years from now

  9/12, and they are already pumping oil again in Libya. 9/12, and we are still at war in Afghanistan. 9/12, and can anyone claim that Iraq is at peace? It is hard to imagine that in 2021 when we consider the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, the terrible loss in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania will remain isolated from the terrible death, maiming and displacement of civilians and military alike that have flowed from the West’s response to the Al Qaida attacks.

• 11 Sep 2011

  

  Obama: Ten years after 9/11, America is stronger

  The US president warns that terror groups will target the US again and urges vigilance as America marks the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

• 11 Sep 2011

  

  9/11: changed perspectives since 2006

  In 2006 we commemorated the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. How have political and military developments since then changed our view of what happened in 2001?

• 11 Sep 2011

  

  Q and A: Is al-Qaeda still a threat?

  A leading expert on the terror group tells Channel 4 News why al-Qaeda is in decline – and where the next 9/11-style plot could come from.

• 8 Sep 2011

  Matt Frei

  How 9/11 hit the ‘Little Apple’

  Matt Frei writes on how the town of Manhatten – in Kansas, has fared in the decade since the Twin Towers were destroyed.

• 8 Sep 2011

  

  Baha Mousa inquiry damning on many levels

  Channel 4 News’s Jonathan Rugman finds the report into Baha Mousa’s death critical of the soldiers who abused him, of the British Army, the MoD, and even the regimental padre.

• 8 Sep 2011

  

  Army’s ‘appalling’ abuse of Baha Mousa

  As an inquiry concludes the Iraqi hotel worker suffered “appalling” abuse at the hands of British soldiers, Channel 4 News’s Jonathan Rugman predicts court martials and civil prosecutions will follow.

• 8 Sep 2011

  

  ‘Survival and identity’ emerge in debris of 9/11

  What survives in a catastrophic terror strike? Scraps of paper, twisted girders, a flag? Channel 4 News examines a collection of artefacts from Ground Zero brought together by artist Francesc Torres.

• 8 Sep 2011

  

  Baha Mousa ‘suffered appalling violence’

  Iraqi hotel worker Baha Mousa died in British Army custody after suffering an “appalling episode of serious gratuitous violence” at the hands of soldiers, a public inquiry has concluded.

• 7 Sep 2011

  Jon Snow

  My 9/11

  The searing memory of 9/11 itself for me is enshrined in a rare visit right into the very heart of Ground Zero a few weeks after the attack, writes Jon Snow.

• 6 Sep 2011

  

  PJ Harvey wins second Mercury Prize for war album

  As PJ Harvey is named the winner of the 2011 Mercury Prize for her album Let England Shake, music critic Lucy O’Brien tells Channel 4 News the singer “thinks in themes and grand sweeps”.

• 6 Sep 2011

  

  9/11 ten years on: British families remember

  In a Channel 4 News exclusive, UK families affected by 9/11 and the war on terror tell their stories. As filmmaker Tim Lawton writes, they are united by loss and how they have lived with that loss.