the moon the part that will seem like 20 years ago, it was just never ending funeral in new york for a while. to decades own from the worst terror attack in modern history, the world remembers the thousands who died in 911. on the 20th anniversary, we talked to witnesses who was also this. we continue or in depth investigation and the impact the american war on terror that followed and speak to former guantanamo detainees on the horrors face. they had a woman in the, in the next room that led me to believe was my wife being tortured a wave with picture of my children in front of me and asked me where do you think they are now, what do you think happened?

who took your way and what does the future hold for afghan to stand with the taliban back in power off the 22 conflicts. africans give us their verdict on the us invasion. they bomb the cities. they killed civilians, innocent children, many people were killed. nothing good came out to the american invasion. the americans came to have ganesh dad because they wanted to exploit our resources for people like us became their slaves. and when they left, they took everything with them. i good afternoon, you watching off in to national where she's gone 1 o'clock in moscow. now today does mark the 20th anniversary of the worst terror attacks in modern history that claimed the lives of almost 3000 people. when us planes were hijacked and flown into the twin towers of the world trade center in new york,

another aircraft was flown into the pentagon. and while one more crashed into a field in pennsylvania, will the memorial service in shanks village, just one of many being held across the u. s. today, relatives and friends of those on united airlines. $93.00 which crashed off the full al qaeda terrorist rover powered, attended the ceremony there, and place candles under the names of the 40 caribbean passengers at the $911.00 memorial. former president george bush will lead a service there later today. while president joe biden will join, formerly this bill clinton and morocco, bama for ceremony in new york. now eye witnesses to that render attack? recollect that day with a shiver. one employee ran item to the streets of new york with his video camera. after the 1st plane hit with a for all the she hasn't been able to find the strength to watch with each until a 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, that's one of the towers had fallen already, and i was just so unbelievable. and so i, i ran outside and they 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 read the 1st thing i remember was a commercial airline. i 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 or just walk in with just the last for her eyes. and i was just very unbelievable. and then you saw the plume of smoke. that was what once was 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 side, you know, doesn't seem like 20 years ago. all of a sudden and yeah, it's just you think you lose these emotions and, and they just seem to always sit there somewhere and they, when they come up, you know, i think about it, i think about my friends who have off their family, their friends. i know a lot of people that have lost loved ones and it was just a constant funeral. basically. what's the 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. 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 howard, excuse me. i was angry because the people saying 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. well, the 911 tragedy led to the american war on terror and the invasion of afghanistan with us troops now active the country, our t will scrutinize the heroic impact that campaign has had on the lives of civilians and soldiers alike, in a special project called on heard voices, we will tell us 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 the site. it was a pointless exercise. well 53 year old mos i'm beg here does live in britain, works for a prison, the rights organization and doesn't look like somebody he was late, the experience of america's worst prison practices, but he knows about them all too 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 that i was and that was my number 558. that was my number and going to the in you were in may 2000. 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 serious to be tortured with us. are you with the enemy? there is no in between and that doctor still stand ah, in. i think it's quite clear to me that united states respond 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. you know, who knows? if anybody prepared to hand you over to contact you, you know, i live the pakistanis and to be overwrite, and i'm my parents and i'm a deal national. they handed me over to the message without any legal process. i was held for a year in 2002 to 2003, and i saw 2 individuals beaten to death by american soldiers. these terrorists play by a whole set of different rules. it's going to force us in your words to get me dirty and nasty in order to take them. i will use all tools at our disposal to do so. the

boys a few bad apples and isolated incidents one by one. the terrorists are learning the meaning of american justice. for me, this place, i pity my what me and i did, states was doing in afghanistan. they were bringing people to this torture sight 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 got to guantanamo, i was begging to go to one tunnel because what i've seen and witnessed in background was so destructive to this day i haven't, i can't sleep. oh, i. ready several of

us was sent to pantano, including several taliban members who now heads of various departments from the act and government were tortured. we were stripped, we were beaten with spat upon. we were humiliated photographs. this was taken. during this period of time, they had a found a woman in the next room that led me to believe was my wife's being tortured. they waited with picture 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 try and confession that i was a member of al qaeda, which i was not. and this was, i'd say stand that i got it. i think i got it better than a lot of the other prisoners. ah, ah, i me, ah,

so this is the handmade calendar that i made when i was in guantanamo. i thought that perhaps if i counted the days that it will be easier. but when the days turn 2 weeks and months, and then 2 years, i realize 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 to count down the days my children growing up without me. and every day, without them, with a stab in the 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 the 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, my belief in god my reading, the koran and again inexpensively becoming friends with several of the american soldiers who would bring me little snippets of inclination sometime next week in a chocolate sometime makes me can a dvd player and show me a film, lexus, humanity that i have never forgotten to this. and i think i left go on time to move, not hating america because of those soldiers, me messages directly from some american soldiers who say that this has been a, a war that has destroyed us as individuals. soldiers, i've spoken, 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 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 times. recently, i gave evidence the international criminal court for their investigations of abuses by americans. enough. they were investigating the united states, the african national army, and the taliban. 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 national committee 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 passed on to within an easier would be like states and britain in particular. i think that feeling very upset because this is a defeat that's a military defeat. however, you want to look at it and not 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 asking people, it's no good. got a sense of what the britain or america you've really got to find a way forward as well throughout the day. but we'll be hearing more from those whose lives were forever changed by america's longest,

for that's in our special coverage. unheard voices. now, as we've said, america's war on terror began in afghanistan with the goal of changing the world for the better. but it ended in chaos with the taliban. seizing control, the us control being blamed, the havoc that followed. our senior correspondent takes us through the whole mission. from the day it started in 2001 i began with with largest and pub invade. i've gotta 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. i country bought a ruined 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 victory over 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 the, it wasn't supposed to be this way. the taliban wasn't supposed to sweep the country in mere weeks. the pentagon spent a decade preparing to leave of got to start, and even they weren't ready for this. together with our allies, we will complete our mission. there, by the end of this year, i announced a timeline for drawing down our forces. we are working to finally and america's longest war. it is time to end for evermore.

the america's proudest movement of the afghan war wasn't supposed to be a humiliating evacuation under 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 lists 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 west and 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 hands 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 stay and 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 afghan 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 defined to the same conclusion. and the g $222.00 planes that had delivered to afghan a stand 6 years earlier, were unceremoniously sold for only $40257.00 as scrap

metal. the taliban now controls more of the country than it did before. the us invaded its new government the field with what dynamo, bay, inmates, and terrorist medina, dean 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. on every front, 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. and things even

worse for that said isis, relentless, ruthless, and remorseless. we must rid the world of terrorists or children and grandchildren can grow up in freedom. we are not nation building again. we are killing terrorists. the the key bombing at capital airport during the evacuation epitomized the afghan war, a senseless acts 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 gazda of r t. couple of get this done with the taliban in almost full control of the country . we have spoken to people in the capital couple and discovered how the past 20 years old american occupation have taken metal. 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 when 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 countries back contract. now. i'm going to stop was progressing 20 years ago and it will advance again. now the will happen because the americans invaded our land to serve their own interests. they will not have to reconstruct or develop a kind of stone look how they destroyed or across. they have ruined airports 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 with them. 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 further than this. been a great human cost to the war on terror, but there's also been a joy can take financial price to pay to his look at that in more detail. ah, [000:00:00;00]

i the taliban now has more black hawk helicopters than 85 percent of the countries in the world. me. and i just k still exist in our growing and afghan stand and eventually they acquire these weapons me. ah, a majority of every member behind me is a veteran. never in my lifetime. would i ever believe america would have it 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 afghan. it's been the taliban in charge with mo, more weaponry than they've ever had in the past. and a border that is the the humanitarian catastrophe looms enough canister. 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, african children, women and men need the support and solidarity of the international community. you're watching, our teens nation on the 20th anniversary of the $911.00 terror attacks will be back

with more analysis and also the coverage of today's events. the top of the the it's an open secret that private military companies have been playing a role in om complex worldwide. u. s. government doesn't track the number of contractors that uses in places iraq or afghanistan united states army and the military in general is so reliance on a private sector. i would call the dependency, but we don't know who's the on the ground presence of these companies overseas. we just don't know the western private military companies can in their turn, use so called sub contractors from countries with trouble past the piano. quite good. that had also been soldiers. i think i was i was as i drove professional

drug rep, when the full moon was flung, lynn and malone and they were trying to be merciless killing machine. and now they fight and die in other people's was people carol, lot one or a dead soldier or dead marine shows up in this country and we started asking ourselves, why did they die? why do what were they fighting for? nobody bothers down to about the contractors in the, in the

news nation returns here we're going underground for $911.00 special coming up in the show on the 20th anniversary of atrocities in new york in washington d. c, which catalyzed mass aerial bombing of afghanistan. we talked of the taliban about victory against the nato occupation. and what about the $911.00? the so called land and the free arguably forgot. pink floyd frontman, roger waters tells us why the usa isn't morning. on the 48 anniversary of the chilean coup it back which created penetrates, brutal, chicago style saturated, he could make experiment. it would be forced on nations all around the world. will this more coming up in today's going underground 1st? it's been 20 years in new york and washington came under attack in nature nations last fatal terror atrocity. and of course, led to 20 years of violent