stan was it achieved? yes and no. okay. it essentially no longer exists good for us, but there are certainly other terrorist groups that are worse than i thought. smell, that smell like i mean i don't. i can only describe it as metal and flesh. i was angry poet, excuse me, 2 decades on the worst terror attack in modern history, the world commemorates those that died to non 11 and assess is the collateral damage inflicted by the american war on terror, through torture. drone attacks and death on the 20th anniversary, we talk to those who suffered from the event itself to

also this, we continue our in depth investigation into the impacts of the american war on terror that followed and speak to a former one. detainees about the horrors they face. one was begging to go to one tunnel because what i've seen and with this background was so destructive to this day. i haven't gone to sleep. what does the future hold now for afghanistan with the taliban back in power again. after 20 years of conflict, afghans give us the verdict on the us invasion. they bombed our cities. they killed civilians, innocent children, and 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 the news . oh,

good afternoon from oscar. this saturday september the 11th 2021. you watching our team to national would be kevin. so today marks the 20th anniversary of the worst terror attacks in modern history. when us planes were hijacked and flown into the twin towers of the world trade center, new york, claiming the lives of almost 3000 people, an r t. i witness to those horrendous attacks that they remembers it with a shiver ran on the streets of york city with video camera after the 1st plane hit . although for all these years, he hasn't been able to find the strength to watch that footage that he took until the day of our interview with him. 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 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 it in a box and i just put it away. and the 1st thing i remember was 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 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 in disbelief 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 can taste it in your mouth. and we were all wondering if we were going to get sick from this. the, it's hard, it 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 with 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 bardeen 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 the people saying were in big white houses a 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 this going to be? and, and that scared me. the 911 tragedy led to the american war on terror. and then the invasion of afghanistan with us troops, no out of the country course, while he continues to scrutinize the risk impact that campaigns out of the lives of civilians and soldiers alike. in a special series of reports called and heard,

voices, we tell the stories of those directly affected by the long running battle. the will use all tools at our disposal. killed our children to united states, please bring people to your site. it was a pointless exercise. 53 year old was a bag lives in britain. he works as a prison, right organizer at the moment and doesn't look like some of the on the face of it is lived through the experience of america's worst prison practices. but he knows all about that too. well, i stop telling myself that i'm the 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

in 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 or serious to be further. tortured with us. are you with the enemy? there is no in between and that doctors still stay on the line. 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 for me. it wasn't just me. they picked on everyone who knows. if anybody prepared to hand you over to conflict the talk to you. you know,

i love the pakistanis and the bill of rights and i'm my parents and i'm a deal national. they handed me over to the americans without any legal principle. ah, i was held there for a year in 2002, 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 30 and nasty in order to take them. i will use our tools at our disposal to do so. the boys a few bad apples. isolated incidents one by one. the terrorists are learning the meaning of american justice.

to me, this place, i pity my what the united 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 guantanamo because what i've seen and witness and background was so destructive to this day i haven't, i can't sleep. oh, i. several of us was sent to one cannibal, including several taliban members. who now heads of various departments in the government were tortured. we were stripped, we were beaten and was spat 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 try and 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 prison. 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 the count. on the days my children were 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 was like what the 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, an expected li, becoming friends with several of the american soldiers who would bring me little

snippets of information. sometimes taking a chocolate. sometime maybe we can a dvd player and show me a film. did lots of humanity that i have never forgotten to despair. 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 been a, a war that has destroyed us as individuals. soldiers, i've 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 representative me,

has gone to the shop and unity types were destroyed. the united states produced a senate 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, and i'm going to send they will investigate to the united states, the 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 to it's

china, to it's the wrong to it's pakistan with indonesia would be life states and britain in particular. i think that feeling very upset because this is a defeat. it'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 african people. it's no good. that's not with britain or america. you've really got to find a way for them. thank you. i'm sure that they will be hearing more from those his lives, live forever. changed by america's longest war in our special coverage on heard voices. and 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 a taliban seizing buck control and the u. s. withdraw being blamed for the havoc

that followed. next to the senior correspondence takes us through the whole mission from the very day it started in 2001 it began with with largest and pump invade of dust on to fight for freedom to fight terrorism. and make the world a better place. 19 years, 10 months and $25.00 days on, which 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 over the taliban to taliban flat . 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 me. a weeks, the pentagon spent a decade preparing to leave of gather thought, and even though they weren't ready for these 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 end america, longest war and it's 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 in afghanistan. the longest war in american history. we completed one of the biggest err left in history with more than 120000 people evacuated to safety. no nation, no nation has ever done anything like it in all the 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 defined to the same conclusion. and the g 222 planes that had delivered to f gamma stand 6 years earlier. were unset ramona honestly 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 terrorist majority, 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. 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, have sports, 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 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 guess the of r t couple of got his thought was the taliban in almost full control of the country these days we've spoken to pay from the capital cobble and discovered the past 20 years of american occupation of taken their toll when i was at school, i said my targets in life, but unfortunately now it looks like all 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. in 34 provinces of afghanistan, there was peace. 20 years ago, it was a war by the u. s. economic gain. we have won our freedom by sacrificing the blood of many people, the country's back contract. now. 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. so as has been so well documented, a great human cost to the war on terror, but there's also been a gigantic financial price to pay to look at that in some detail. ah, [000:00:00;00]

i tell it now has more black hawk helicopters than 85 percent of the countries in the world. me and i still exist in our growing and afghan stand and eventually they acquire these went ah, the majority of every member behind me is a veteran. never in my lifetime, what i ever believed america would have it administration knowingly make

a decision to leave american bind. 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 moat more weaponry than they've ever had in the past. and a border that is the the humanitarian catastrophe, plumes 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. ah,

the cost of the war on terror wasn't limited to foreign countries is sweeping overholser, government surveillance targeted us citizens to and paved the way for discrimination against muslims in america and worldwide his color open. that's more on that. it's been 20 years and the war on terror began the the

the the now it's hard to measure whether or not terror has been defeated. what human rights civil liberties, they've certainly taken half the blow. remember the patriot act, that law, they said was absolutely necessary in order to keep us safe, that 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. that's 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 reporter has the blueprint documents of how our country's national secrete security agency operate documents lead by n. s a contractor. and would snowden reveal details of a secret intelligence sharing agreement that shows the 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 another 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 thing and entrapment. all done supposedly to keep us safe from another 911. the better attacked was the stepping stone for it became open season on american muslims. there are no rules. the government just said,

let's go off to muslims. war on terror created the perfect atmosphere for racism, discrimination clamp downs on civil liberties and the government, spying its been 20 years. that war continues with all its fear and manipulation. with no end in sight, with mop and new york, you will live coverage here for moscow. and these pictures coming in all the news was now from new york city. lo, manheim, not one of the memorials, of course, studying the very spot where one of those twin towers stood 20 years ago, even at this time. but of course, 15 minutes from now is where everything unravelled. history was changed. we're going to continue our coverage here and i'll see international in the coming hours on the 20th anniversary of $911.00.