tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37338629001973549812012-01-14T05:19:51.036-08:00RKLnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-66280014995314149692010-02-20T03:30:00.000-08:002010-02-20T03:30:05.021-08:00

Nearly a decade after the Twin Towers fell, a dozen of those who claim they've been condemned to death by Ground Zero's toxins are finally headed to court. Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein Friday revealed the 12 health cases tied to the terror attacks that will go to trial in Manhattan federal court just blocks from the World Trade Center site. "These cases include some who have spent the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-25663967557025954282010-02-18T03:38:00.001-08:002010-02-18T03:38:30.427-08:00

Lawyers defending New York City against thousands of lawsuits filed by Sept. 11 emergency responders say many of the claims are baseless and have asked a judge to dismiss some of the first cases headed toward trial. In a series of court filings late Tuesday, the city's legal team detailed several instances in which it said people who claimed to have been sickened by World Trade Center ash were

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-31756173251655872632010-02-15T03:07:00.001-08:002010-02-15T03:07:57.964-08:00

The Obama administration prefers a civilian trial for the alleged 9/11 mastermind, but says that in the face of public and political opposition it must be open to a military tribunal. In an interview published Monday in The New York Times, Attorney General Eric Holder said, "I have to be more forceful in advocating for why I believe these are trials that should be held on the civilian side."

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A trove of aerial photographs of the collapsing World Trade Center was widely released this week, offering a rare and chilling view from the heavens of the burning twin towers and the apocalyptic shroud of smoke and dust that settled over the city. The images were taken from a police helicopter — the only photographers allowed in the airspace near the skyscrapers on Sept. 11, 2001. They were

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As the first cases in a massive battle over illnesses linked to 9/11 near trial, an Associated Press investigation has found that several of the initial 30 suits contain inconsistent or exaggerated claims about how the workers got sick or how much time they spent at ground zero. One demolition worker who said he developed health problems after toiling for six months in the toxic ruins of the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-91651468752624498052010-02-08T03:58:00.001-08:002010-02-08T03:58:31.224-08:00

President Barack Obama said Sunday he has not ruled out a New York federal court trial for Sept. 11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, but he was taking into account the objections of the city's mayor and police commissioner. The Obama administration has come under withering attack, mainly from Republicans, for a decision by his Justice Department to try the terrorist mastermind in a U.S. court

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Where should the men accused of planning the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks be tried? Not here, say New York City business and community leaders whose list of alternatives includes military bases, federal prisons and a 172-acre island in New York Harbor. Even Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who previously supported the Obama administration's decision to hold the trial in New York, appeared to change his

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-23722978479247687572010-01-28T03:52:00.001-08:002010-01-28T03:52:36.828-08:00

An astronaut is donating an American flag that traveled aboard the NASA space shuttle Atlantis to New York City in honor of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Michael J. Massimino (ma-sih-MEE'-noh), of Franklin Square, N.Y., is scheduled to present the flag at a ceremony Thursday at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in lower Manhattan. The 9/11 victims included 343 city fire

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-66217939440740587822009-12-30T09:32:00.001-08:002009-12-30T09:32:24.225-08:00

New York police commissioner Raymond Kelly says security for the upcoming trial of the Sept. 11 terror attack suspects will cost much more than the initial estimate of $75 million. Kelly drafted a security plan Dec. 18 for the upcoming trials of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in New York federal court. The men have been charged with war crimes. Kelly says the costs will considerably

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-69808750155559603772009-12-28T13:47:00.001-08:002009-12-28T13:47:14.257-08:00

A woman who identified herself as the wife of actor Charlie Sheen said in a 911 call to Aspen police that Sheen threatened her with a knife. Police released the audio of the call on Monday, three days after Sheen was arrested on suspicion of menacing, second-degree assault and criminal mischief. Authorities haven't identified the alleged victim, but the woman on the 911 call says her name is

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-77988231266638480852009-12-28T13:34:00.001-08:002009-12-28T13:34:21.576-08:00

Law enforcement deaths this year dropped to their lowest level since 1959, while the decade of the 2000s was among the safest for officers — despite the deadliest single day for police on Sept. 11, 2001. The drop in deaths, cited in a police group's report Monday, was tempered by an increase in firearm deaths. In one horrific November shooting, four officers were executed as they discussed their

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-7554333767475850732009-12-02T15:08:00.001-08:002009-12-02T15:08:18.259-08:00

A 2012 deadline to screen all cargo entering the United States by ship will likely be missed without enormous new investment and resources, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Wednesday. Concerns were raised after the September 11, 2001, attacks that a nuclear or other weapon of mass destruction could be smuggled into the country by sea. In response, Congress ordered that

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-58403678872416695432009-12-01T14:55:00.001-08:002009-12-01T14:55:24.419-08:00

Families of some of those killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks welcome President Barack Obama's plan to deploy thousands more troops to Afghanistan as a long-overdue surge that could win the war. "I think it's a long time coming," said Debra Burlingame, whose brother, Charles, was the pilot of the hijacked plane that crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. "My feeling is that the war in

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-55193745767675525992009-12-01T14:54:00.001-08:002009-12-01T14:54:51.712-08:00

Britain's top law enforcement official says he will allow the extradition of a Briton accused of hacking into U.S. military computers in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Home Office Secretary Alan Johnson says new medical evidence submitted by lawyers for Gary McKinnon is not convincing enough to merit blocking his extradition to the United States. McKinnon's supporters say the 43-year-old

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-27996802331087817682009-11-30T09:49:00.000-08:002009-11-30T09:49:53.540-08:00

As the United States prepares to unveil a new strategy to defeat Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, the EU's counter-terrorism czar warned Monday that the network still poses the main security threat to Europe. "It remains a very serious problem in this part of the world," EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove told reporters in Brussels, on the sidelines of talks between EU interior

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-56632817961959947742009-11-30T09:46:00.000-08:002009-11-30T09:46:28.900-08:00

Right after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, then-U.S. President George W. Bush talked about possible links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida, a key adviser to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday. David Manning, who served as a Blair's top foreign policy aide before being appointed ambassador to Washington in 2003, told a British inquiry into the Iraq war that the issue came up in

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-11973939410717312492009-11-26T11:24:00.000-08:002009-11-26T11:24:38.662-08:00

Tony Blair could have delayed the 2003 invasion of Iraq and ensured better plans were in place for its chaotic aftermath by taking a tougher stance with President George W. Bush, Britain's ex-ambassador to Washington said Thursday. Christopher Meyer, Blair's U.S. envoy from 1997-2003, told a panel investigating the Iraq war that Blair failed to use his influence with Bush to stall the frantic

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-25736442146149870472009-11-23T07:12:00.000-08:002009-11-23T07:12:32.433-08:00

The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday. Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but "would explain what happened and why they did it." The U.S. Justice

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-4394290084834720842009-11-16T08:22:00.000-08:002009-11-16T08:22:19.803-08:00

Prominent Republicans on Sunday lashed out at the administration's decision to try five alleged plotters of the 9/11 attacks in a New York civilian court, saying it would harm efforts to fight terrorism. While President Barack Obama's team defended the move, his political foes said the men, including alleged September 11, 2001 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, should be tried in military

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-74557926119275350612009-11-13T05:32:00.000-08:002009-11-13T05:32:11.469-08:00

President Barack Obama says he will insist that the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks will be subject to "the most exacting demands of justice." Speaking at a news conference in Tokyo with Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, Obama would not comment directly on the decision to send Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (HAH'-leed shayk moh-HAH'-med) and four other Guantanamo Bay

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-89492481294121723882009-11-13T05:31:00.000-08:002009-11-13T05:31:08.494-08:00

Self-proclaimed September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, an Obama administration official said Friday. The official said Attorney General Eric Holder plans to announce the decision later in the morning. The official is not authorized to discuss the decision before the announcement,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-73466385020044044762009-11-09T08:22:00.001-08:002009-11-09T08:22:56.284-08:00

The personal Web site for a radical American imam living in Yemen who had contact with two 9/11 hijackers is praising alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as a hero. The posting Monday on the Web site for Anwar al Awlaki, who was a spiritual leader at two mosques where three 9/11 hijackers worshipped, said American Muslims who condemned the attacks on the Texas military base last

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-32811675770998502252009-11-05T07:07:00.000-08:002009-11-05T07:07:52.426-08:00

Just days before starting a triathlon of trials, former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik appears to be opting for a shortcut. A person familiar with the case said Wednesday that Kerik, who won praise nationwide for his steadiness after the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York, planned to enter a guilty plea Thursday that would resolve three pending federal criminal trials. The

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-81056432673903129922009-11-04T04:58:00.001-08:002009-11-04T04:58:59.175-08:00

Five immigrant men who were detained in roundups in New York and eventually deported following the Sept. 11 attacks have reached a $1.26 million settlement with the U.S. government. The men were part of a lawsuit against the government over the roundups that put them in federal detention and the abuse they say they suffered while they were there. Two other plaintiffs are still part of the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-13921364282743078242009-11-02T09:18:00.000-08:002009-11-02T09:18:26.095-08:00

The new Navy assault ship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel, arrived in its namesake city Monday with a 21-gun salute near the site of the 2001 terrorist attack. First responders, families of Sept. 11 victims and the public gathered Monday at a waterfront viewing area, where they could see the crew standing at attention along the deck of the battleship gray vessel. The big

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Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday the alleged terror plot disrupted in New York was "one of the most serious in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001" — but he gave no indication when more arrests might be made.In a question-and-answer session with reporters, Holder said prosecutors will bring all those involved in the plot to justice."There are people both in this country and also

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-51085711526151428012009-09-24T07:12:00.000-07:002009-09-24T07:13:06.190-07:00

The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Poland is criticizing the "fortress-like" construction of American embassies worldwide since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, saying they are built at a huge cost to U.S. taxpayers and often send an unfriendly message to non-Americans.Victor Ashe was appointed by U.S. President George W. Bush in 2004, and is in his final week as ambassador to Poland.He says U.S.

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-67676318959094815412009-09-23T08:12:00.001-07:002009-09-23T08:12:45.884-07:00

Al Qaeda's number two Ayman al-Zawahri appeared on Tuesday in a new video apparently marking the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, according to a U.S.-based terrorism monitoring service.Zawahri was among leading figures from the group who spoke in the 106-minute Arabic-language video, entitled "The West ... and The Dark Tunnel," SITE Institute said.The video

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-77247818614374736322009-09-21T08:24:00.000-07:002009-09-21T08:26:01.180-07:00

Alleged terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was expected to make what could be his last court appearance at this military base as he responds Monday to an attempt to delay his war crimes trial.The chief military prosecutor said Mohammed, who refused to attend his last court session, would show up to respond to a request for another continuance while President Barack Obama's

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-86219777700486275042009-09-11T05:13:00.001-07:002009-09-11T05:15:19.010-07:00

A museum dedicated to the September 11 attacks will display written quotations drawn from "martyrdom" videos made by the hijackers, along with witness testimonials that will be screened to prevent sympathizers from praising the perpetrators, museum officials said on Thursday.Previous attempts to put into context the motivation of the men who used hijacked passenger planes to attack the United

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-82023847085622998872009-09-11T05:13:00.000-07:002009-09-11T05:14:49.243-07:00

Families carrying photos of lost loved ones streamed into a plaza near ground zero to observe the eighth anniversary of the World Trade Center attack.Thousands were expected Friday at now-familiar ceremonies in New York City, at the Pentagon and at the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 in a Shanksville, Pa., field.Elaine Dejesus of Clifton, N.J., brought a framed picture of her sister,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-7907007165342867802009-09-10T17:01:00.001-07:002009-09-10T17:01:43.237-07:00

The White House says Vice President Joe Biden will travel to New York on Friday to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.Spokesman Robert Gibbs says Biden will take part in the memorial service honoring the victims. The vice president's wife, Jill Biden, will also attend. President Barack Obama will be at the Pentagon Friday to visit the memorial to those who died there in the 2001 attacks

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-28111960771809892692009-09-10T16:59:00.000-07:002009-09-10T17:00:53.262-07:00

Americans planned beach cleanups, packages for soldiers and save-the-tree fundraisers along with familiar remembrances in three cities to mark eight years since the attacks of Sept. 11, the first time the anniversary was named a national day of service."Instead of us simply remembering the horrible events and more importantly the heroes who lost their lives on 9/11, we are all going to turn

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-74683981578883494822009-09-10T11:37:00.000-07:002009-09-10T11:38:34.820-07:00

A camera in Brooklyn points through a chain-link fence at black smoke pouring from one skyscraper, while a plane pierces another. Papers fly through the sky; some of them end up in the filmmakers' hands.That evening — Sept. 11, 2001 — another camera finds firefighters trudging through dust-caked streets, carrying their helmets or a spare pair of shoes. The spindly facade of the World Trade

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-38292948220171616462009-09-09T07:05:00.001-07:002009-09-09T07:05:51.354-07:00

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani joined Sept. 11 family members and college professors on Tuesday at a hotel blocks from the World Trade Center site to unveil a plan to teach middle and high school students about the 2001 terrorist attacks.The 9/11 curriculum, believed to be the first comprehensive educational plan focusing on the attacks, is expected to be tested this year at schools in New York City,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-54676687822724326782009-09-08T05:48:00.000-07:002009-09-08T05:49:09.468-07:00

A volunteer firefighter who died helping to rescue people from the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been awarded the 9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor.Lawmakers presented Glenn Winuk's relatives with the medal Monday in his Long Island hometown.Winuk was a 40-year-old lawyer and longtime volunteer Jericho firefighter who raced from his Manhattan office into the trade center.

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-75462786742755906292009-09-07T08:25:00.000-07:002009-09-07T08:26:21.605-07:00

Three British Muslims were convicted Monday of plotting to murder thousands by downing at least seven airliners bound for the U.S. and Canada in what was intended as the largest terrorist attack since Sept. 11.A jury at a London court found Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Assad Sarwar, 29, and Tanvir Hussain, 28, guilty of conspiracy to murder by detonating explosives on aircraft while they were

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-76349327544418813612009-09-04T06:16:00.000-07:002009-09-04T06:17:13.025-07:00

The Obama administration has rehired the Sept. 11 health czar let go by the Bush administration.The Department of Health and Human Services reappointed John Howard on Thursday as the country's 9/11 health coordinator. Howard will also direct the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.Howard was the federal government's point person on post-Sept. 11 health issues from 2006 until

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-34749679688411948352009-08-31T06:01:00.001-07:002009-08-31T06:01:53.359-07:00

Jay-Z will hold a Sept. 11 benefit concert in New York City.The New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund says the rapper is scheduled to make the announcement Monday at Madison Square Garden. He'll be joined by Gov. David Paterson, Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.The charity concert, billed "Answer the Call," will benefit

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-23697578962223376872009-08-28T08:27:00.001-07:002009-08-28T08:27:35.431-07:00

President Barack Obama is asking Americans to volunteer on Sept. 11, making this year's anniversary of the terror attacks the first National Day of Service and Remembrance, organizers announced Thursday."Our ultimate goal is to leave a positive legacy that honors the victims and those who rose in service," said David Paine, the president of MyGoodDeed, one of the organizations responsible for the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-49259042314247858582009-08-24T04:27:00.000-07:002009-08-24T04:34:04.082-07:00

It became a makeshift memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. Now a massive steel column has been returned to ground zero as a symbol of rebirth.After more than seven years in storage at a hangar at Kennedy International Airport, the 58-ton, 36-foot-tall beam was delivered before dawn Monday to the World Trade Center site.Column No. 1,0001 B of 2 World Trade Center, as it's officially

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-10948658044819693772009-07-22T02:30:00.000-07:002009-07-22T02:33:44.555-07:00

Human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia have soared as a result of counter-terrorism measures introduced since the 2001 attacks in the United States, Amnesty International said Wednesday.The London-based rights organisation warned in a new report that under the guise of national security, thousands of people had been arrested and detained in virtual secrecy and others had been killed in "uncertain

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-8867976581738064692009-07-21T05:26:00.003-07:002009-07-21T05:26:51.702-07:00

The warden of the federal Supermax prison that holds some of the country's most notorious criminals, including Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski, is retiring.Warden Ron Wiley has announced he will retire effective Oct. 1 after 28 years of government service, Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Traci Billingsley confirmed Monday.Inmates at Supermax in Florence, Colo.,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-70262455122965533072009-07-21T05:26:00.001-07:002009-07-21T05:26:21.530-07:00

World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein has agreed to continue talks to renegotiate a lease at ground zero after meeting with New York Gov. David Paterson.Paterson said Monday "it's unfair to the taxpayers" to completely finance two towers planned by Silverstein with public money. But he says Silverstein agreed to delay seeking arbitration for a few weeks after meeting in Manhattan on

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-24855722483357493682009-07-14T07:54:00.000-07:002009-07-14T07:55:21.134-07:00

The multicolored terror alert system that was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks could be getting an overhaul — or could be eliminated entirely.Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is expected to appoint a panel Tuesday to reevaluate the system, a senior administration official said.The five-tiered system that goes from green, which signals a low danger of attack, to red, which

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-8029973702573596532009-07-01T08:00:00.000-07:002009-07-01T08:03:11.578-07:00

Most but not all of the 19 September 11 attackers would have been picked up beforehand if today's air travel security had been in place, so vigilance is still needed, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said."We think that with many of the rules on travel and screening that have been put into places since 9/11, all but four of the 9/11 attackers would have been picked up," Napolitano, on

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-57999770434588337112009-06-29T07:17:00.001-07:002009-06-29T07:17:22.477-07:00

The Supreme Court has refused to allow victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to pursue lawsuits against Saudi Arabia and four of its princes over charitable donations that were allegedly funneled to al-Qaida.The court, in an order Monday, is leaving in place the ruling of a federal appeals court that the country and the princes are protected by sovereign immunity, which generally means that foreign

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-22889202908356741782009-06-16T11:43:00.001-07:002009-06-16T11:43:31.816-07:00

The former New York City policeman who stormed into a suburban middle school with a gun had to sort through body parts after 9/11 and suffers from post-traumatic stress, his attorney said Tuesday.Defense lawyer Gerard Damiani spoke after the former officer, Peter Cocker, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Rockland County Court. Cocker, 37, of Tappan, is charged with kidnapping, burglary,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-48840298416445621482009-06-10T16:04:00.000-07:002009-06-10T16:06:29.014-07:00

Audio-visual tributes to the thousands of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will form the core of the museum commemorating the day's destruction, officials announced Wednesday.Victims' families have been asked to share materials for the underground exhibit within the footprint of the toppled World Trade Center's south tower. They also must confirm the accuracy of the names to be

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-54044128270278100852009-06-08T09:03:00.000-07:002009-06-08T09:06:44.071-07:00

The world's airlines are expected to lose nine billion dollars this year, industry body IATA has said, describing the current crisis as worse than the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.The losses -- almost double an estimate made just three months ago -- will come on the back of an estimated 80-billion-dollar drop in carriers' 2009 revenues due to plunging passenger and freight demand

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-24624617625460846032009-06-01T09:41:00.000-07:002009-06-01T09:42:10.653-07:00

Relatives of Sept. 11 victims say they're angry that the Justice Department is supporting the Saudi royal family's bid to be removed from a 9/11 lawsuit.The families of some victims have accused the royal family of financially backing terrorist groups that carried out the 2001 attacks.The Justice Department filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday. It supports the Saudis' argument that

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US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Wednesday she now knows 9/11 terrorists did not enter the United States from Canada, seeking to bury controversy over a diplomatic gaffe."I know that 9/11 terrorists did not cross the Canadian border," Napolitano told reporters, referring to an "earlier misstatement" used to justify increased security at the United States' northern

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The government is scrapping a post-Sept. 11, 2001, airport screening program because the machines did not operate as intended and cost too much to maintain.The so-called "puffer" machines were deployed to airports in 2004 to screen randomly selected passengers for bombs after they cleared the standard metal detectors. The machines take 17 seconds to check a passenger and can analyze particles as

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-9577424548877289552009-05-18T09:32:00.000-07:002009-05-18T09:33:18.655-07:00

A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General John Ashcroft can't face a lawsuit from a former Sept. 11 detainee who argued they were responsible for his restrictive confinement because of his religious beliefs.The court on Monday overturned a lower court decision that let Javaid Iqbal's (Ick-ball) lawsuit against the high-ranking

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-42513800976781388712009-05-18T08:24:00.000-07:002009-05-18T08:26:35.004-07:00

It was an emergency drill, yet the scene of hundreds of firefighters, police officers and other first responders hustling around the World Trade Center site Sunday evoked the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.Firefighters carried oxygen tanks, hoses and heavy axes into an underground train station, while police and other emergency personnel helped those playing injured — all part of a large

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-1832747955359826042009-05-13T06:29:00.001-07:002009-05-13T06:30:00.398-07:00

It took three trials, three juries and nearly three years, but federal prosecutors finally succeeded Tuesday in convicting five Miami men of plotting to start an anti-government insurrection by destroying Chicago's Sears Tower and bombing FBI offices. One man was acquitted.When the FBI swarmed the downtrodden Liberty City neighborhood to make the arrests in June 2006, the administration of

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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says the crown of the Statue of Liberty will reopen July 4 for the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.Salazar, speaking from inside the statue's crown, made the announcement Friday morning on NBC's "Today."The statue was closed to the public after 9/11 because of security concerns. The base, pedestal and lower observation deck have since been

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One man inherited property that his grandfather bought during the Depression. A Lutheran pastor owns a cottage where he planned to retire with his wife. Two others own businesses.But they and other property owners in rural southwestern Pennsylvania knew things would change in the aftermath of United Flight 93's crash on Sept. 11, 2001, which killed 40 passengers and crew and four terrorist

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-84843176735984978542009-05-07T06:00:00.000-07:002009-05-07T06:02:40.928-07:00

The government will begin taking land from seven property owners so that the Flight 93 memorial can be built in time for the 10th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, the National Park Service said.In a statement obtained by The Associated Press, the park service said it had teamed up with a group representing the victims' families to work with landowners since before 2005 to acquire the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-91091010870193917902009-05-01T04:43:00.001-07:002009-05-01T04:44:11.818-07:00

A man whose case sparked a furious legal debate over whether the government can hold terrorism suspects indefinitely entered a surprise guilty plea, admitting to training in al-Qaida camps and coming to the nation's heartland a day before Sept. 11.Ali al-Marri, 43, pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization. A

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-58260794611642399552009-04-22T12:11:00.001-07:002009-04-22T12:12:33.670-07:00

Four suspected Islamic militants accused of plotting attacks on US citizens in Germany aimed for bloodshed on the scale of the 9/11 attacks, prosecutors said as their trial opened here Wednesday.In what authorities call one of their biggest terror cases in decades, three Germans and a Turkish national face charges of belonging to a terrorist group and conspiring to mount a series of

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-67808399020050025092009-04-22T12:10:00.001-07:002009-04-22T12:10:55.186-07:00

The Canadian government moved on Tuesday to correct U.S. homeland security chief Janet Napolitano after she wrongly said some of the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks had crossed into the United States from Canada.Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan -- who met with Napolitano in March -- said his aides had contacted her office on Tuesday after she made the remarks to the Canadian Broadcasting

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-85401512177418544132009-04-20T05:45:00.001-07:002009-04-20T05:46:08.077-07:00

CIA interrogators used the waterboarding technique on Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the admitted planner of the September 11 attacks, 183 times and 83 times on another al Qaeda suspect, The New York Times said on Sunday.The Times said a 2005 Justice Department memorandum showed that Abu Zubaydah, the first prisoner questioned in the CIA's overseas detention program in August 2002, was waterboarded 83

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-62922573825112408852009-04-17T07:18:00.000-07:002009-04-17T07:20:12.941-07:00

The global economic crisis is hitting Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific harder than the SARS outbreak and September 11 attacks on the United States, the airline's head said on Friday.Chief executive Tony Tyler made the claim as the company said it would be slashing flights and asking all 17,000 staff to take unpaid leave after it announced a 22-percent drop in first-quarter revenue.And just

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Construction of several ground zero office towers could be put off for decades because of the failing real estate market, the site's owners said Thursday, citing an analysis that projected one skyscraper might not be built and occupied until 35 years after Sept. 11.Developer Larry Silverstein and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have been talking on and off for months about

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A Dutch TV jury has found Osama bin Laden not guilty of the September 11 attacks.In the conclusion Wednesday night to the show "Devil's Advocate" on Dutch public broadcaster Nederland 2, the jury of two men and three women, along with the studio audience, ruled that there was no proof bin Laden was the mastermind behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001.The

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US President Barack Obama's efforts in Turkey to repair the relationship between Washington and Muslims won praise in the Arab world on Tuesday, more than seven years after the 9/11 attacks."This is a first important step towards lessening tensions that have existed in recent years between the Muslim world on the one side and the United States and the West on the other," Egypt's Foreign

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The National Park Service has decided to acquire the mineral rights on a major portion of land at the Flight 93 crash site in western Pennsylvania to help ensure memorial construction isn't delayed.Just who would retain the oil and gas rights — the landowner or the government — was one of the last open issues in negotiations.In February, government officials and representatives of the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-80327858608515782832009-04-07T08:35:00.000-07:002009-04-07T08:36:27.871-07:00

The mother of a man charged with killing three Pittsburgh police officers told a 911 dispatcher he had weapons, but the dispatcher didn't relay that information to officers, the official in charge of county dispatchers says.The dispatcher should have asked more questions about the weapons, but didn't, and certainly should have told officers so they could take necessary precautions, Allegheny

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-22591525629231578912009-04-02T06:27:00.001-07:002009-04-02T06:28:12.275-07:00

New York City has positively matched another Sept. 11 victim to long-held human remains after retesting DNA.The city medical examiner's office says 54-year-old Manuel Emilio Mejia has been identified from remains found at the World Trade Center site in the months after the 2001 terrorist attack.Mejia was a kitchen worker at Windows on the World, the restaurant on top of the trade center's

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Even without the name, the symbolism of the Freedom Tower as an American response to the Sept. 11 terror attacks was hard to miss.The original architect designed a twisting form he wanted to imitate the Statue of Liberty, with a spire that rose to the deliberate height of 1,776 feet to recognize the year of American independence. Politicians called the tower proof of the country's triumph

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Families of three victims who died in the September 11 attacks argued in a federal court on Wednesday for the release of materials relating to airline security procedures in 2001.After the attacks, more than 90 claims were filed by families against the airlines and their security contractors seeking damages and information. All but three have settled.In Manhattan federal court on Wednesday,

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World airlines will lose $4.7 billion this year due to the economic crisis, while revenues will drop by more than after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S., a major industry association predicted Tuesday.The revised loss estimate, nearly double the previous forecast issued in December, reflects "the rapid deterioration of the global economic conditions," said the International Air

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The private developer redeveloping New York's World Trade Center site, destroyed in the September 11 attacks, has asked the government for financial assistance, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.Quoting people familiar with the matter, the Journal said The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the government body that owns the site, was considering helping finance at least one of

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Actor Ron Silver, who won a Tony Award as a take-no-prisoners Hollywood producer in David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" and did a political about-face from loyal Democrat to Republican activist after the Sept. 11 attacks, died Sunday at the age of 62."Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him early Sunday morning" in New York City, said Robin Bronk, executive director of

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Former Colorado Gov. Bill Owens denied making veiled threats to get a University of Colorado professor fired after the professor compared some Sept. 11 victims to Nazi Adolf Eichmann.Owens testified Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by Ward Churchill, who was fired in 2007 on allegations of plagiarism and other research misconduct after his Sept. 11 comments caused a furor.Churchill sued to get his

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A mediator said Thursday that all but three of nearly 100 lawsuits brought on behalf of those killed or injured in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks have been settled for half a billion dollars. Many of the legal battles hinged not on money, she added, but on a chance for families to express their losses and anger.Face-to-face encounters between individual families and airline or airline safety

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Former Colorado University professor Ward Churchill was vilified for comparing Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi. Former Weather Underground member William Ayers was vilified as a radical.On Thursday, they're due to appear together at a student rally for academic freedom at the University of Colorado at Boulder.Churchill, Ayers and writer-activist Derrick Jensen are to speak at an event titled, "

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Joseph O'Neill's "Netherland," an acclaimed post-Sept. 11 novel bypassed for the National Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle prize, has finally received a literary honor: the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.The choice was announced Thursday by Susan Richards Shreve and Robert Stone, directors of the Washington-based PEN/Faulkner Foundation.O'Neill, whose book is narrated by a man who

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One of the victims of Continental Flight 3407, Beverly Eckert, was a Sept. 11 widow who put her never-ending grief to good use to make the country safer.Just last week, Eckert was at the White House with Barack Obama, part of a meeting the president had with relatives of those killed in the 2001 attacks and the bombing of the USS Cole to discuss how the new administration would handle terror

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-82372518337659258212009-02-06T06:36:00.000-08:002009-02-06T06:38:37.924-08:00

President Barack Obama was spending time with families of 9/11 victims and the 17 sailors killed in the bombing of the USS Cole after a senior Pentagon judge dropped charges against an al-Qaida suspect in the Cole attack being held at Guantanamo Bay.The legal move Thursday by Susan J. Crawford, the top legal authority for military trials at Guantanamo, upholds Obama's Jan. 22 executive order to

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Researchers tracking Sept. 11 responders who became ill after working at the World Trade Center site found many had lung problems years later in a study the authors said proves persistent illness in people exposed to toxic dust caused by the twin towers' collapse.The study by the Mount Sinai Medical Center's medical monitoring program examined more than 3,000 responders between 2004 and 2007,

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The head of the agency that owns the World Trade Center site says the Sept. 11 memorial will open on the 10th anniversary of the attacks.But that doesn't mean the memorial will be completed by then.Executive Director Chris Ward says the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is still determining exactly how much public access will be allowed while the construction continues.Reflecting pools

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A Sept. 11 memorial is taking shape at ground zero, with a nearly completed reflecting pool the size of the World Trade Center's north tower footprint.New aerial photos show the pool, one of two being built over the twin towers' footprints. The pool is the first piece of the Manhattan site that looks like the long-completed plans for office towers and other facilities.The pools are meant to

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Zacarias Moussaoui's guilty plea in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was invalid because the government failed to turn over evidence that could have helped his defense, his attorney told a federal appeals court Monday.Justin Antonipillai urged a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to throw out the plea and order a new trial for Moussaoui, who once claimed to be part of the

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A federal appeals court in Virginia is set to hear arguments for a new trial by Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui (zak-uh-REE'-uhs moo-SOW'-ee).Moussaoui was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to helping plan the 2001 terrorist attacks. His lawyers now claim court-imposed secrecy undermined Moussaoui's ability to present an adequate defense, so the plea should be thrown out

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-66927170379056950012009-01-20T07:31:00.001-08:002009-01-20T07:32:22.078-08:00

Plans to close Guantanamo are not sitting well with the Sept. 11 victims' relatives who sat stunned while two alleged terrorists declared they were proud of their role in the plot.The U.S. military brought relatives of three Sept. 11 victims to Guantanamo to observe pretrial hearings in the case of five men charged in the plot who could get the death penalty if convicted.It is a potentially

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-85933722649271000762009-01-19T22:33:00.000-08:002009-01-19T22:34:41.128-08:00

Two accused September 11 plotters boasted of their guilt on Monday when the Guantanamo war crimes court convened in a chaotic final session before the United States inaugurates a new president widely expected to halt the proceedings.Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the September 11 hijacked plane plot, tried unsuccessfully to banish U.S. military lawyers from his defense

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The United States may never be able to prosecute an alleged plotter of the September 11, 2001 attacks because he was tortured, a top Pentagon official said in an interview.Susan Crawford, who is charged with deciding whether to bring Guantanamo detainees to trial, told The Washington Post that US interrogators had tortured Saudi terror suspect Mohammed al-Qahtani."We tortured Qahtani," she said

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A U.S. intelligence report says there is no credible threat of terrorist attacks at the Feb. 1 Super Bowl, but police said Wednesday that visitors should still expect the type of heavy security typical of every Super Bowl since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.While no specific threat was identified, a joint FBI and Homeland Security intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press

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The official overseeing tribunals for Guantanamo Bay inmates has said the U.S. military tortured a Saudi man accused of planning to take part in the September 11, 2001, attacks, prompting calls for his release."We tortured Qahtani," Susan Crawford said in an interview with the Washington Post published on Wednesday. "His treatment met the legal definition of torture. And that's why I did not

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Ever since the September 11 attacks moved him to appreciate members of the military more than ever, "CSI: NY" star Gary Sinise has been on a mission to increase awareness of their contributions to this country.It's a mission that has taken him to Iraq four times and Afghanistan as well as military bases in Europe, Asia and the U.S. And it's one that is chronicled in an hourlong documentary

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The woman who led the nation's public health agency in a post-Sept. 11 world of bioterrorist fears is out, her resignation announced in a Friday night e-mail to employees.Dr. Julie Gerberding has resigned as director of the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and will be replaced on an interim basis by a deputy as of Jan. 20, the day President-elect Barack Obama is

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A construction official falsely billed $1.2 million for supplies not delivered to clean up a toxic ground zero skyscraper in exchange for cash, clothes and trips to the Caribbean, prosecutors said Tuesday.Robert Chiarappa was the purchasing agent for the John Galt Corp., which was hired to clean up the former Deutsche Bank tower after it was heavily damaged in the 2001 terrorist attack on the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-60127056003481681252009-01-05T11:31:00.000-08:002009-01-05T11:33:39.599-08:00

Three men charged with involvement in a deadly synagogue bombing in Tunisia went on trial Monday in Paris in a case expected to highlight the reach and complexity of al-Qaida-linked networks in North Africa.Among those charged is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who says he orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States. Mohammed is being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by U.S.

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-37561097086195751092008-12-30T09:13:00.001-08:002008-12-30T09:14:19.136-08:00

Struggling airlines hit more trouble in November, with passenger numbers down and freight plunging by a "shocking" 13.5 percent, the worst drop since the September 11 terror attacks, IATA said Tuesday.Profits at Asia-Pacific carriers, which saw the sharpest downturn in demand as the global economic crisis deepened, are expected to be "disproportionately" affected by the plunge in cargo traffic,

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Three construction supervisors and a subcontractor were indicted Monday on manslaughter charges in the 2007 deaths of two firefighters at a skyscraper that once housed Deutsche Bank at ground zero.The charges cap a 16-month investigation that exposed numerous failures by city officials.The people charged include two senior officials at subcontractor John Galt Corp. and a manager with general

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Malaysia released a former army captain accused of helping the Sept. 11 hijackers and six other suspects who had been held without trial after deciding they no longer posed a threat, officials said Wednesday.Three alleged members of the Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, two suspected Thai separatists and two Malaysians accused of spying for foreign intelligence agencies were

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733862900197354981.post-1958685949615482852008-12-08T08:39:00.000-08:002008-12-08T08:42:14.825-08:00

Relatives of victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks for the first time will watch in Guantanamo Monday as an alleged mastermind of the terror strikes, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, appears in a US military tribunal.Mohammed and his four co-defendants face the death penalty on charges related to the attacks in a trial that takes place amid uncertainty over the future of the US "war on terror" camp

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The American Civil Liberties Union is criticizing a decision by the U.S. military to assign a new judge to handle the cases against the alleged Sept. 11 conspirators held at Guantanamo Bay.ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero says the decision to replace commission judge Marine Col. Ralph Kohlmann is "highly suspect" since it follows President-elect Barack Obama's vow on CBS' "60 Minutes" to

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