very dramatic development. i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, a very critical time. time to sit down and talk i as far as it doesn't seem like 20 years ago, it was just never ending funeral in new york for a while to decades owns in the worst terror attack in modern history. the world remembers 3003 died in 911. when she found of history, we talk to witnesses with that full service. we continue our index investigation and the impact the american war on terrorism followed and speak to former guantanamo detainees on the horrors they had a woman in the next room that lived with me, with my wife being tortured. they wait with the picture of my children in front of me and asking where do you think they are now what you think happened when

lightning took your way? and what does the future hold for us? gun is done with the taliban back in power. 20 years of conflict can give us on the us invasion. they bombed our cities, they killed civilians, innocent children, many people were killed. nothing good came out to the american invasion. the americans came to again a stand because they wanted to exploit our resources for people like us became their slaves. and when they left, they took everything with them. i like morning has gone 9 o'clock here. moscow. you watching archie international. now today marks the 20th anniversary of the worst terror attacks in modern history . they claim the lives of almost 3000 people. when us planes were hijacked and flown into the twin towers of the world center in new york,

another aircraft was flown into the pentagon, while one more crashed into a field in pennsylvania. while the memorial service in shanks feel is just one of many being held across the us today, relatives and friends of those on the united airlines flight $93.00, which crashed after 4. i'll call you to terrorists were overpowered, attended to ceremony there, where they placed candles under the names, the 40 crew and civilians. the 911 memorial former president george bush will lead a service there late today, while president joe biden will join formerly to bill clinton and barack obama for ceremony in new york, and witnesses to that herrera this attack. recollect that day with a shiver on one r t employee ran on to the streets of new york with his video camera after the 1st plane have. although for all these years, he hasn't been able to find the strength to watch his own footage until the day of our interview. the

i knew something was terribly wrong and i immediately wanted to get out there. and for some reason i, i wanted to grab my camera, put on my skates, and i, by the time i got my skates on, the one of the towers had fallen already, and i was just so unbelievable. and so i, i ran outside and there were already crowds of people outside gathering. i just felt i needed to, i wanted to document that i wanted to to be able to, to see it, you know, and, and it's funny that because i did shoot some video and i couldn't look at it later . i, i never looked at it. i put in a box and i just put it away. i mean, the 1st thing i remember was the a commercial airliner had flown overhead and everybody

just screamed and thought it was coming down also. and everybody sort of ran for cover. and then you could see people with ash on them and they were just walking with just the last 4 eyes and i was just very unbelievable. and then you saw the plume of smoke that was one of the towers and you looked at that and you just couldn't believe that that that skyline was gone. and i think everybody was just and this belief at that time, i remember the smell that came over the, the city. it was this horrible smell that smell like, i mean i don't, i can only describe it as metal and flesh and it was so strong that you could taste it in your mouth. and we were all wondering if we were going to get sick from

this. the you know, doesn't seem like 20 years ago. all of a sudden and yeah, just you think you lose these emotions and, and they just seem to always sit there somewhere and they and they come up. you know, i think about it, i think about my friends who've off their family, their friends, i know a lot of people that have lost loved ones and it was just a constant. funeral basically was name after name after name of people who died. and we saw their life stories on tv, and it was just never ending funeral in new york for a while. i the media was constantly bombarding us days later with

a message that we should live our lives. like normal to show that we beat this. but i was angry wait power, excuse me. i was angry because of people saying the were in big white houses for lot of security. and they were saying to go with our lives and we had to walk around and we were afraid to go in public places like times square. we just never knew what was going to happen at that point. and i remember, you know, thinking i'm going to bring my son into the world, you know, what kind of world is going to be. and,

and that scared me. while the 911 tragedy led to the american war on terror and the invasion of afghanistan with us troops, no act of the country, though hearty will scrutinize the heroic impact that campaign had on the lives of civilians and soldiers alike, in a special project called on heard voices, we tell the stories of those directly affected by the long running battle. the will use all tools at our disposal and killed our children to united states was bringing people to watch a site. it was a pointless exercise. well, 53 year old modem back lives in britain, works for a prisoner rights organization and doesn't look like somebody who's live the experience of america's worst prison practices. be nice about them all to. well, i had to stop telling myself that i'm a father that i am a son. i'm

a husband that i'm a human being. i started to whole myself. what i had been told when i was, and that was my number 558. that was my number and gone to the in the room in may 2002. i was interrogated by the c i and the f b i and they threatened if i did not corporate to send me either to egypt, syria to be further tortured. you're with us. are you with the enemy? there's no in between and that doctor still stand ah, in. i think it's quite clear to meet the united states response to the terrible acts of 911 was vengeance. the war on terror is not a police operation. it's

a military operation, why they picked from me. it wasn't just me. they picked on everyone. who knows. if anybody's prepared to hand you over to conflict, talk to you. you know, i live in pakistan is and to be overwrite and i'm my terrorist and i'm a dual national. they handed me over to the masters without any legal process before i was held for a year in 2002, 2003. and i saw 2 individuals beaten to death by american soldiers. these terrorists played by a whole set of different rules. it's going to force us in your words to get me 30 and nasty in order to take them. i will use our tools at our disposal. the

boys a few bad apples. isolated incident one by one. the terrorists are learning the meaning of american justice. to me displace a pit, am i what the united states was doing in afghanistan, they were bringing people to this torture site, afghans ordering africa and abusing them outside of the rule of law and then allowing some of them to go back home and they would go home and tell people what the americans did. by the time i dr. guantanamo, i was begging to go to one tunnel because what i've seen and witnessed in belgrade was so destructive to this day. i haven't, i can't sleep. oh, i. ready several of

us were sent to one tunnel into several taliban members, who now heads of various departments from the act and government were tortured. we were stripped, we were beaten with speck upon. we were humiliated photographs. this was taken during this period of time. they had a, they found a woman in the next room that led me to believe was my wife being tortured. they waved with pictures of my children in front of me and asked me where do you think they are now, what do you think happened to them the night and took your way? and of course, what they wanted me to do was cosign a confession that i was a member of al qaeda, which i was not. and this was, i'd say, send it, i got it. i think i got it better than a lot of the other prisoners i me. ah,

so this is the hon made calendar that i made when i was in tunnel. i thought that perhaps if i counted the days that it would be easier. but when the days tended to weeks and months, and then 2 years, i realized that it was just futile. when i received such letters from my children who are very young at the time, it's actually made it worse to look at the calendar and start the count down the days my children growing up without me and every day, without them with a stabbing heart. and they would come sporadically, they had to be vetted uncensored by the us censorship. my daughter who was 6 at the time, wrote a poem 12345, once i caught official life. and they redacted that because they said that has numbers in a numbers could mean some sort of a code. so it was that kind of nonsensical reduction disconnecting from the idea of being a father. ironically and sadly,

but also my own personal faith in my belief in god my reading, the koran and again and expectedly becoming friends with several of the american soldiers who would bring me little snippets of inclination sometime next week and chocolate. sometime next week and a dvd player and show me a film did lots of humanity that i have never forgotten to this but. and i think i left guantanamo not hating america because of those soldiers, me messages directly from some american soldiers who say that this has be a, a war that has destroyed us as individuals. so not spoken to told me that they cannot sleep at night. so i am in no doubt about the, the effects of this war,

not just on the individuals, but on the nation as a whole of whom the soldiers are representative. me has gone to the shop and unity types were destroyed. the united states produced a senate to report on torture, but not a single person was ever bought for charges for these kind. recently, i gave evidence the international criminal court for their investigations of abuses by americans in africa sent they will investigate to the united states. the national army and the caliber, the only ones who responded by threatening the international criminal court was the united states of america. they said that we will sanction all members of the international court. we will arrest any members of the icpc who come to the usa or elsewhere that want to investigate us. i think the united states of america needs

to step back if it wants to help any of any assistance to the people who understand it's got in a position to negotiate those conditions. it has, it has been an aggressor. the taliban already made gestures towards russia towards china to it's the wrong to it's pakistan to within an easier would be like states and britain in particular. i think the feeling very upset because this is a defeat that's a military defeat. however, you want to look at it and that imperial hubris, as it were, will not allow them to say that we need to move forward and continue within negotiations that we began in doha, that they cannot be any more saber rattling. it's no good for the people, it's no good. got especially with the britain or america you've really got to find a way forward and throughout the day. but we'll be hearing more from those whose lives were forever changed by america's longest war. that's in our special coverage on heard voices. america's war on terror,

as we heard began in afghanistan, the goal of changing the world for the better. but it ended in chaos with the taliban season control. and the u. s. and rule being blamed for the havoc that followed. our senior correspondent takes us through the whole mission. from the day it started in 2001 i began with with watches and pump, invade of the start, to fight for freedom to fight terrorism and make the world a better place. 19 years, 10 months and $25.00 days on. this is america's legacy. they're stronger than sabotaged equipment. a country brought to ruin and still in control of the talbot. that is the ultimate tragedy of the afghan war at was entirely and violently pointless. years and years of an obliging little questioning media. fooled billions

into believing that there was progress that america could win to her victory or the taliban to taliban fled to the end of the taliban. taliban leadership on the run. and now the question is, how do you handle that success? the it wasn't supposed to be this way. the taliban wasn't supposed to sweep the country in me. a weeks, the pentagon spent a decade preparing to leave of got to start and even they weren't ready for be together with our allies. we will complete our mission. there by the end of this year, announced a timeline for drawing down our forces. we are working to finally end america as longest war, and it's time to end forever more the

america's proudest movement of the afghan war wasn't supposed to be a humiliating evacuation. and the guns of the taliban. but it was there is absolutely nothing else to celebrate. the united states ended 20 years of war and can stand the longest war in american history. we completed one of the biggest air left in history with more than 120000 people evacuated to safety. no nation, no nation has ever done anything like it in all history. the only the united states had the capacity in the will and believe you to do it. and we did it today. where was the afghan army? where was the western back government?

where did all the money go? the united states sank more than a $100000000000.00 into rebuilding of gather stock for reference adjusted for inflation. that is more that the united states sped on the marshall plan to rebuild europe after world war 2. and the tragedy of it is that for a civilian the side from all the american weapons and the taliban pads, berries almost no evidence that any of that money ever passed through here, from broken roads that lead to nowhere to abandon hospitals from twisted contractors and corrupt leaders again, this dawn can arguably be called the largest money laundering operation in human history. the united states is also committed to playing a leading role in the reconstruction of afghanistan. a 2021 special inspector general for afghan. a stand reconstruction report found that the united states has

spent nearly $7800000000.00 on capital assets in afghanistan, including buildings, transmission lines, and substations roads and bridges, motor vehicles, and aircraft. of that total, nearly 31 percent 2400000000 dollars was spent on assets that were not being used as intended, remained unused, or had been abandoned or destroyed in 2008, the u. s. department of defense spent $549000000.00 to provide the african air force with g to $22.00 military transport planes. a variation of an aircraft that the u. s. air force itself had retired almost 30 years earlier. because replacement parts were hard to find to the same conclusion. and the g. $222.00 planes that had delivered to afghanistan 6 years earlier, were unceremoniously sold for only $40257.00 as scrap metal. the taliban now controlled more of the country than it did before. the us

invaded its new government the field with what dynamo, bay, inmates, and terror list, which i deem who even have american bounties on their heads. what washington achieved was the absolute opposite of what it intended. our war on terror begins without canada. but it does not in there. it will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated. every fraud the mission of god, this dawn failed. the taliban is back in power icon in africa in asia and in the mid least now more powerful than it ever was before. things even worse for

said i, since relentless, ruthless and remorseless, we must rid the world of terrors, or children and grandchildren can grow up in freedom. we are not nation building again. we are killing terrorists. the key bombing at capital airport during the evacuation epitomized the afghan war, a senseless act, devoid of reason which needlessly cut short so many lives. we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you

down to make you pay. we've heard the same promise before 20 years ago when america was united and when it thought that it could change the world. but it thought it was invincible. and when the people believed a president's promise more, i'd gas give r t couple of cada's dot. now with the taliban in almost full control, we have spoken to people in the capital, lack a bull to and discovered how the past 20 years of american occupation have taken their toll. when i was at school, i said my targets in life, but unfortunately now it looks like, oh my dreams have vanished. i can achieve those goals and we're worried about our studies and the prospect of finding work. many of my classmates have left of dentist and mr. malott, i still hope to regain some kind of normal life,

but looks difficult. i was almost optimistic before. now with the new system, i'm confused. we're facing many difficulties. the body can amik situation, unemployment. we've lost our future. it's in the hands of gods whether this new government will deliver in 34 provinces of afghanistan, there was peace. 20 years ago. it was a war by the us economic gain. we have won our freedom by sacrificing the blood of many people, the country's back contract. now. i'm going to stop was progressing 20 years ago and it will advance again now. the war happened because the americans invaded our land to serve their own interests. they were not here to reconstruct or develop a kind of stone look how they destroyed or across the ruined airport. and this shows that they were not here to help us. when the americans were here, they bombed our cities, they killed civilians, innocent children, many people were killed. nothing good came out to the american invasion. the americans came to ganeth stand because they wanted to exploit our resources. they

brought their allies with them. poor people like us became their slaves and when they left, they took everything. wisdom. look what they did to our airport. in the last 20 years, a lot of money has flowed into afghanistan, but not to all people. members of the lead class built up their properties and businesses. ordinary people got nothing, has been heard and has been a great human cost to the war on terror. but there's also been a gigantic financial price to pay to his look at that in more detail. oh, in in

taliban now has more black hawk helicopters than 85 percent of the countries in the world. china and isis k still exist in our growing and afghan stand and eventually they acquire these women who majority of every member behind me is a veteran. never in my lifetime, what i ever believe in america would have an administration knowingly make a decision to leave americans behind. whereas just 2 weeks ago, the president promised this nation that he would not leave until every single american without. we now have americans stuck in afghanistan,

the taliban in charge, with most more weaponry than they've ever had in the past. and a border that is open. mm. mm. mm. the humanitarian catastrophe looms and scanners, almost half of the population need humanitarian assistance. one and 3 don't know where the next meal will come from. now, more than ever got children, women and men need the support and solidarity of the international community. while the cost of the war on terror was limited to foreign countries and sweeping over homes that governments surveillance targeted us citizens thing and also paved away

for discrimination against muslims in america parties. keller, boffin has not been 20 years, and the war on terror began the me the color or the yeah what the now it's hard to measure whether or not terror

has been defeated. what human rights civil liberties they've certainly taken. i have the blow. remember the patriot act, that law, they said was absolutely necessary in order to keep us safe. mat lifted restrictions on government spying, allowing for wiretapping and creating harsher penalties for those considered to be potential terrorists. only one us sen opposed it back. then i recognize fully that this is a different world with different technologies, different issues, and different threats. yet we must examine every item that is proposed in response to these events. to be sure that we are not rewarding these terrorists and weakening ourselves by giving up the cherished freedoms that they seek to destroy. later came the revelations of edward snowden, showing the 911 had opened the door to violations of our privacy. breaking news this evening is the identity of a man who sent the obama administration into defend and explain mode this week. his name is edward snowden. edward snowden reportedly has the blueprint documents of

how our country's national secrete security agency operate documents lead by an essay contractor. edward snowden reveal details of a secret intelligence sharing agreement that shows a u. s. government handed over, intercepted communications containing phone calls and emails of us citizens that didn't lead to the law being overturned. top officials still insist that it's necessary for government success in preventing and other catastrophic attack on the american homeland would have been much more difficult if not impossible, without the u. s. a patriot act. amid all the government, spying, it was necessary to find an enemy. the muslim community was soon in the cross hairs targeted by law enforcement was things and entrapment. all done supposedly to keep us safe from another 911. the federal tech was the stepping stone for became open season on american muslims. there are no rules. the government just said let's go off to muslim.