The 9-11 Memorial, New York City (Getty)

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I joined Australia’s ABC News and Times Radio on Thursday to link the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks in 2001 to the conflicts in the Middle East and Iran in 2024.

I discuss the deal for three of Al Qa’eda’s plotters, held in the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for 21 years, to plead guilty in return for life sentences.

And I analyze today’s likely course of developments after Israel’s targeted assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran’s capital Tehran.

Watch ABC News’s The World from 19:22

In the last appearance of legendary anchor Beverley O’Connor on The World, I begin with an explanation of why the 9-11 case finally ended in a plea deal.

I review Iran’s position following the Israeli attack and the ongoing “open-ended” war in Gaza.

Let’s be honest here. If the Biden Administration really wanted to push Israel’s leaders into a ceasefire to end this, they would have cut military aid months ago and joined other countries in the UN Security Council and voted for a meaningful ceasefire.

They have given Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the space to continue this.

Finally, I pay tribute to O’Connor by noting the good fight against disinformation and bad actors throughout the world.

You bring information to people every night to let them think, “Maybe I understand. Maybe I’m not just overwhelmed.”

Thank you for reinforcing, “Y’all be smart. Be sensible. And be decent to each other.”

Watch Times Radio

My brief, to the point chat with Times Radio on Thursday morning about the guilty pleas of 9-11 plotters Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid al-Attash, and Mustafa al-Hawsawi.