(The Center Square) – The 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center occurs as a political battle rages in Congress over government surveillance powers enacted after the deadly event that killed 2,996 people.

(The Center Square) – In 1993, Islamic terrorists detonated a truck filled with explosives at the World Trade Center in Manhattan. Five years later, a related group, al Qaeda, bombed two U.S. embassies in Africa.