BBC World News11 Sept 2026, 05:53

Spies, strategies and missed opportunities: How the lessons of 9/11 are still being learnt

Twenty-five years on, the attacks have come to define a generation of foreign, security and intelligence policy, the BBC's security correspondent writes.

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Spies, strategies and missed opportunities: How the lessons of 9/11 are still being learnt

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Spies, strategies and missed opportunities: How the lessons of 9/11 are still being learnt

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