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September 11. "The world today is not at all safer. Radical Islamism is still there"

CNN Portugal11 September 2026 at 11:10

On the 25th anniversary of September 11, Jorge Silva Carvalho, information and defense affairs specialist, spoke about the current state of the world and the threat of terrorism. The article highlights that, 25 years after the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, the world is not safer.

Jorge Silva Carvalho recalled several attacks that occurred before those in New York, emphasizing that the perception of insecurity is not a recent phenomenon. The specialist stated that "the world today is not at all safer" and that "radical Islamism is still there".

The article comes in the context of commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, which were carried out by the Al-Qaeda organization and resulted in the death of nearly three thousand people at the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and a hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.

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