Are there any justifications for the terrorist actions of September 11, 2001? The answer to this question is very easy, simple, definite, and without appeal and it is NO. There can never be a justification for the indiscriminate killing of about 3,000 innocent civilians who died for no reason whatsoever. Many more people have been killed in wars since the world exists but, here there was no war, it was a purely useless killing, and the world was right to see it as such.

It is normal that the terrorists should be punished for what they did. What happened in New York City, Washington DC, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, was horrible. Hijacking four planes, crashing two of them into the two high-rise buildings of the World Trade Centre and another one into the Pentagon was complete no-sense. Fortunately the terrorists in the fourth plane were overrun by, or had problems with the passengers, and it crashed in rural Pennsylvania, avoiding another bigger disaster, probably in Washington DC.

Unfortunately, as usual when their own people are involved, the Americans really believe that what happened to them is unique, and that no other country suffered such a disaster. Moreover, their President, his administration, and followers, tried to get the maximum political advantage out of it for their own image and interest.