The following conversation between Bobby Fischer and radio host Pablo Mercado was broadcast September 11, 2001 on the Philippine radio station Bombo Radyo. In 1972, Fischer became the first American to win the World Chess Championship; he fled the United States in 1992 after the federal government indicted him for breaking economic sanctions by playing a chess tournament in Yugoslavia.

PABLO MERCADO: We have on the line a notable friend, a chess grandmaster—yes, he was the World Chess Champion—Bobby Fischer, and he would like to air his opinion and give some commentary on what happened at the World Trade Center just a few…