Twenty-one Years Past

 

The twenty-first anniversary of the attack on the U.S. by al Qaeda radicals will be observed in New York City, Washington, D.C., Shippensburg, PA, and all over the country. In the years that followed, al Qaeda expanded and contracted in countries beyond Afghanistan. Yet, the original leaders and 9-11 plotters of the attack have been tracked down and brought to final justice, too: Osama bin Laden in 2011, and this past July, Ayman al-Zawahiri. The world's a better place for that.

(photo: Ground Zero memorial, New York City/ Associated Press)