CNN's Aliza i. Kassim (center, wearing a t-shirt with pink flower), shown here with some fellow classmates in 2002, was attending the private Karachi American School when the 9/11 attacks took place.
May 19th, 2011
10:18 AM ET
It’s my war too
Editor's note: Aliza I. Kassim is an editor at CNN’s International Desk in Atlanta covering the Middle East and south Asia. Aliza is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and has reported for various media organizations from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
It is hard to believe that the name that became infamous and on the lips of every child and adult alike, from the depths of the East to the peaks of the West, finally met his demise on May 1, 2011.
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