On a clear, cloudless Tuesday morning in September 2001, the
United States experienced the deadliest act of terrorism ever carried out on
its soil. In the space of 102 minutes, nineteen men armed with box cutters and
a plan rehearsed for years turned four passenger aircraft into weapons, killed
nearly 3,000 people, brought down the tallest buildings in New York City, tore
a gash into the Pentagon, and left a smoking crater in a Pennsylvania field.
The events of that day, now known simply a...
