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Season 1 • Episode 6: The 9/11 Decade (3): The Clash of Civilizations? • Watch with subtitles
Episode 6: The 9/11 Decade (3): The Clash of Civilizations?
August 30, 2011 • 48 min
In 1998, Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri declared war on the US, outlining a philosophy of the clash of civilizations which legitimised attacks on the West - both soldiers and civilians. In the US, a group of politicians who became known as the Neocons believed they too had a moral duty to change the world. Both groups found their opportunity in the attacks of 9/11 and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
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