25 years after 9/11: 'Al-Qaida's trap was the long wars that helped bring Trump to power on the promise to end them'
Le Monde · 11 Sep 2026

25 years after 9/11: 'Al-Qaida's trap was the long wars that helped bring Trump to power on the promise to end them'

In an interview, Yves Trotignon, a former French intelligence official, describes how the 2001 attack plunged the West into an era of permanent terrorist threat. He explains that protracted conflicts led to abandoning 'certain forms of the rule of law.'


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