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19 years after 9/11, Americans continue to fear foreign extremists and underplay the dangers of domestic terrorism

  • Written by Jeff Gruenewald, Associate Professor and Director of the Terrorism Research Center, University of Arkansas
imageA visitor looks at the faces of some of the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing at the Oklahoma National Memorial museum in Oklahoma City.Joe Raedle/Getty Images

On a Tuesday morning in September 2001, the American experience with terrorism was fundamentally altered. Two thousand, nine hundred and ninety-six people were killed as the direct result...

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