Global Sunday examines the road to 9/11

TORONTO – A 90 minute special airing on Global Television this Sunday will look at the rise of anti-Western sentiment leading up to the 9/11 attacks. “On October 7, 2001, with the world still reeling from the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Osama bin Laden recorded a video message celebrating the acts of mass destruction. Praising his followers as "the vanguards of Islam," he twice made reference to the historical roots of his rage, citing the "humiliation and disgrace" that the Middle East has suffered for "more than eighty years." In the West, most observers...