Rebecca Gordon | The 9/11 Hijackers Were Iraqis, Right? Teaching in a Time of Wars




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Smoke-filled skies loom over an American tank destroyed during a firefight with Iraqis on the south side of Baghdad. (photo: Carolyn Cole/LA Times)
Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch
Gordon writes: "I was teaching the day the airplanes hit the World Trade Center. It was the second meeting of 'The Communist Manifesto for Seminarians,' a course for my fellow graduate students. By the time I got to class, both towers had collapsed."
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