Two sided story for 9/11

I find it appropriate to read the story of Muhammad Atta, this week. With the ten year anniversary of September 11, just among us this last Sunday, this story gives us a chance to see the opposing side of what happened on September 11, 2001. Many have to read, to what may have caused such events. At the beginning of the story Muhammad may have seemed like a normal man going along with his business on a normal day, but sure enough this was not a normal day for millions. The man that was in charge of the hijacking of Flight 11, the first plane to hit the World Trade Center.

"Purify your heart and cleanse it of stains. Forget and be oblivious to the thing which is call World. Muhammad Atta was not religious; he was not even especially political. He had allied himself with the militants because jihad was, by man magnitudes, the most charismatic idea of his generation. To unite ferocity and rectitude in a single word: nothing could compete with that. [...] If you took away all the rubbish about faith, then fundamentalism suited his character, and with an almost sinister precision." (Amis, 3)

The world may never know this man's specific intentions and reasoning. This just goes to show that even a highly educated man can be influenced to fabricate evil.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=757

Yes, we as Americans are very patriotic to our country, but we can not be subjected and caught in the single story. There is always two sides to any story; some informative and some emotional. In conclusion, I do have to say Sept. 11th will be a date that Americas continue to remember for centuries.