- The Washington Times - Wednesday, November 11, 2026

A new poll showed more than 1 in 5 college students said America deserved the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in 2001.

The survey from the Buckley Institute found that 22% of those surveyed agreed that “America deserved Sept. 11,” the cataclysmic day in which Islamic radicals hijacked commercial jets and crashed them into New York City’s Twin Towers and the Pentagon just outside the nation’s capital.

The poll received responses from 803 undergraduates at American colleges.

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