This article summarizes the events related to the September 11 attacks in 2001. All times, except where otherwise noted, in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). This is four hours (instead of five) behind UTC because of daylight saving time.
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“On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilisation.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)