{"id":338,"date":"2011-09-16T19:14:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T19:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=338"},"modified":"2011-09-16T19:14:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T19:14:24","slug":"how-911-changed-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"How 9\/11 changed the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/anglo-american-flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-339\" title=\"9\/11 cemented the US\/UK special relationship \" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/anglo-american-flag-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/anglo-american-flag-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/anglo-american-flag.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Just hours after the 9\/11 attacks, the then UK prime minister Tony Blair made it clear he would stand firmly with president George W Bush. It meant going to war in Afghanistan, but just over a year later it also meant invading Saddam Hussein\u2019s Iraq on what many saw as very flimsy evidence. In the ten years since then the UK\u2019s standing in the world has changed and so has British society. My report for Deutsche Welle Radio&#8217;s 10 year anniversary programme of 9\/11 starts with Tony Blair\u2019s reaction on September the eleventh.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"boo_embed_473411\" width=\"400\" height=\"129\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/swf\/fullsize_player.swf\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/swf\/fullsize_player.swf\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"lt\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"mp3=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F473411-how-9-11-changed-the-uk.mp3%3Fsource%3Dembed&amp;mp3Title=How+9%2F11+changed+the+UK&amp;mp3Time=06.49pm+16+Sep+2011&amp;mp3LinkURL=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F473411-how-9-11-changed-the-uk&amp;mp3Author=lbevanger&amp;rootID=boo_embed_473411\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/473411-how-9-11-changed-the-uk.mp3?source=embed\">How 9\/11 changed the UK (mp3)<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just hours after the 9\/11 attacks, the then UK prime minister Tony Blair made it clear he would stand firmly with president George W Bush. It meant going to war in Afghanistan, but just over a year later it also meant invading Saddam Hussein\u2019s Iraq on what many saw as very flimsy evidence. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}