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Podcast: This Matters
Episode: Two journalists from opposite hemispheres discuss a post-9/11 world
Description: Guest: Michelle Shephard, a journalist, author and filmmaker who was the Star’s national security reporter for nearly 20 years Everyone who is old enough has some kind of memory of where they were and what they were doing on September 11, 2001, when the two towers of the World Trade Centre in New York were brought down by commercial planes hijacked by members of the terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda. Almost 3,000 people lost their lives. 9/11 led to two decades of wars, including the U.S. in Afghanistan and Iraq, hundreds of thousands of dead, a complete shift in border an...