Edward Snowden on 9/11 and why he joined the army: 'Now, finally, there was a fight'

In an extract from his memoir, the US whistleblower shares his experiences on the day the twin towers fell - and the aftermath that led him to join up Whenever I try to understand how the past two decades happened, I return to that September - to that ground-zero day and its immediate aftermath. To return means coming up against a truth darker than the lies that tied the Taliban to al-Qaeda and conjured up Saddam Hussein's illusory stockpile of WMDs. It means, ultimately, confronting the fact th...