25 Years After 9/11: Where the al-Qaeda Plotters Stand Now
Twenty-five years after the 9/11 attacks carried out by 19 al-Qaeda hijackers, the piece traces the orchestrators—Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed—along with leaders like Ayman al-Zawahiri, and chronicles their fates (bin Laden killed in 2011, Zawahiri in 2022) and the ongoing cases of other masterminds and operatives who remain in custody or face trial, while recounting the nearly 3,000 lives lost and the attackers’ nationalities and roles.