Muslims Killing Muslims: How West Benefited From Bloodshed

The western world, with typical shortsightedness, has picked the date of September 11, 2001 as the point in time when the world changed. The terrorist attacks executed on that day, which have been packaged as a watershed event, a modern-day Pearl Harbor to be embedded in the 21st century western consciousness, propelled terrorism to the forefront of the American political agenda, and provided the perfect pretext for Washington to launch a bellicose response, the War on Terror, whose repercussions are still being felt throughout the Greater Middle East.