Twenty-five years ago today, the world's strongest military state found itself powerless to prevent attacks on its homeland by al Qaeda, a small transnational terrorist group.

Imperial defeat abroad, surveillance at home and complicity in Israel's genocide have left a fading superpower none the wiser a quarter century on

Twenty-five years ago today, the world's strongest military state found itself powerless to prevent attacks on its homeland by al Qaeda, a small transnational terrorist group.