The financial impacts of 9/11, and where the money went

I wrote after 9/11 that one of the most disturbing things about the attack by the 19 terrorists was that we didn’t know who our enemy was.

We couldn’t identify any other country as being the instigator and still haven’t for that matter, other than determining that training camps were being run in Afghanistan by an American hating terrorist group called A-Qaida led by an Arab named Osama bin Laden.

He was a citizen of Saudi Arabia, of Yemeni ancestry and had a Syrian mother. His father ran a large multi-national building company and was killed in an aircraft crash when Osama was 10, leaving his...