This week for BuzzReads, Gregory Johnsen tells the gripping tale of a 2008 terrorist attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen — and how much worse it could have been. Read that and these other great stories from around BuzzFeed and the web.
The Benghazi That Wasn’t: How One Man Saved The American Embassy in Yemen — BuzzFeed
In September 2008, seven terrorists in Sanaa killed themselves and 12 others in the deadliest assault on a U.S. Embassy in a decade. And if not for an unlikely hero, things would have been unimaginably worse. Read it at BuzzFeed.
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The Case for Reparations — The Atlantic
Do not miss this very big, very important piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates, who asks: Can America move forward without dealing with its past? Read it at The Atlantic.
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The Worst Day Of My Life Is Now New York’s Hottest Tourist Attraction — BuzzFeed
Nearly 13 years after his sister’s death, Steve Kandell makes a reluctant visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum, where public spectacle and private grief have a permanent home together. Read it at BuzzFeed.
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How YouTube and Internet Journalism Destroyed Tom Cruise, Our Last Real Movie Star — LA Weekly
"You've seen it, too. You can probably picture it in your head: Tom Cruise, dressed in head-to-toe black, looming over a cowering Oprah as he jumps up and down on the buttermilk-colored couch like a toddler throwing a tantrum," Amy Nicholson writes, "There's just one catch: It never happened." Read it at LA Weekly.
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