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Downtown Dispatch: Fear and Anxiety Grip Lower Manhattan as It Braces for the Terror Trials

Julie Menin | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Militray Tribunal, New York, Eric Holder, Terrorism, Torture, KSM Trial, 9/11, Lower Manhattan, World Trade Center, Ksm, New York News

Emotions bubbled to the surface in lower Manhattan this week. Neighborhood activists lambasted Eric Holder's decision to hold the KSM trial in the shadow of the World Trade Center site.

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9/11 Families Want Ashes Removed From Dump

AP | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York

Read More: 9/11, September 11th Families Want Ashes, New York City, New York, New York News

NEW YORK — A lawyer has asked a federal appeals court to let families of victims of the World Trade Center attacks remove ashes of their loved o...

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FBI Lends Hand With 9/11 Trial

AP | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York

Read More: 9/11, Fbi, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Terror-Trials-in-Us-Courts, New York City, New York, Terrorism, New York News

NEW YORK — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is forming a squad to assist prosecutors in the upcoming New York trials of Sept. 11 suspects. F...

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Flickr, YouTube Feature World Trade Center Rebuilding

AP | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, One World Trade Center, Wtc, 9/11, Youtube, World Trade Center, World Trade Center Construction, September 11th, Flickr, New York News

NEW YORK — New pictures and video showing the rebuilding at the World Trade Center site are now on two social networking sites. The Port Author...

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Majid Khan, Guantanamo Detainee, May Get Brooklyn Trial

AP | TOM HAYS and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 12.14.2009 | New York

Read More: 9/11 Trials, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Majid Khan, Brooklyn, 9/11, New York, New York City, New York News

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are considering sending a Guantanamo Bay detainee named Majid Khan – who grew up in Maryland before alleg...

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WaPo's Public Enemy Correction Inspires Hilarious Twitter Meme [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Twitter, Corrections, Trending Topics, 911, Washington Post, Public Enemy, Media News, September 11th, Media News

The Post published an article reporting rap legends Public Enemy referred to 9/11 as "a joke," when in reality they were referring to emergency number 9-1-1. Happily, something is being done about it!

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Obama's Lincolnesque Nobel Peace Prize

William Bradley | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Al Qaeda, Pakistan, Cairo, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, Taliban, Iraq, Nobel Peace Prize, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, 9/11, Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War, World News

Lincoln is Obama's professed ideal. We remember Lincoln today from civics lessons and the monument in Washington, but the historical reality is that he was both soaring idealist and ruthless pragmatist.

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Eric Holder Personally Inspects Courthouse Where 9/11 Trial Will Take Place

AP | Posted 12.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Manhattan, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Terror Trial, 9/11 Trial, Terrorism, 9/11, Ksm, Eric Holder, New York News

NEW YORK — Attorney General Eric Holder made an unannounced visit to a Manhattan courthouse Wednesday to inspect security for the pending trial ...

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Cheney: Trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed In NYC Could Make Him 'More Important Than Osama bin Laden'

AP | Posted 12.09.2009 | New York

Read More: 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Dick Cheney Obama, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Trial, Sean Hannity, September 11th, New York City, Dick Cheney, New York News

NEW YORK — Former Vice President Dick Cheney says trying suspected Sept. 11 terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (HAH'-leed shayk moh-HAH'-med) in New Y...

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A Toilet in Somalia

Dr. Charles G. Cogan | Posted 12.08.2009 | World

Read More: Yemen, Somalia, Afghan Taliban, Al Qaeda, Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, 9/11, Obama Afghanistan Speech, Afghanistan War, World News

Al-Qaeda and like-minded terrorists don't need Afghanistan to carry out operations. These can be mounted from anywhere or anyplace, from Yemen to Somalia, to Hamburg or to ... Detroit.

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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Trial: Shortlist Of Defense Lawyers For 9/11 Case

nytimes.com | BENJAMIN WEISER | Posted 12.08.2009 | New York

Read More: 9/11, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Trial, Lawyers, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, September 11th, New York City, New York, Defense-Lawyers, New York News

Lawyers to defend Khalid Shaikh Mohammed are expected to initially be chosen from a cadre of about 20 veteran defense lawyers in New York who have bro...

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Walter Kirn Is Feeling Up in the Air

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 9/11, Walter Kirn Interview, George Clooney, Up in the Air, Jason Reitman, Marshall Fine Interview, Entertainment News

Up in the Air is based on a Walter Kirn novel. As I sit down to dinner with him, Kirn has the slightly wide-eyed look of someone who realizes that the old lottery ticket he's been carrying around in his wallet is a jackpot winner.

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No Good Osama bin Laden Intelligence In Years, Says Robert Gates

AP | Posted 12.06.2009 | World

Read More: Al Qaida, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Terrorism, 9/11, Afpak, Saudi Arabia, Robert Gates, Osama Bin Laden, World News

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of terrorist Osama bin Laden...

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Thomson Prison Will Likely Be Next Stop For Gitmo Detainees, Says Obama Administration

Washington Post | Peter Slevin and Peter Finn | Posted 12.06.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Durbin, Afghanistan, Interrogation, Terrorism, 9/11, Obama, Gitmo, Detainees, Illionois, Enemy Combatants, Thomson Prison, Chicago, Iraq, Cuba, Torture, Chicago News

CHICAGO -- Despite opposition from congressional Republicans, the Obama administration is signaling that a state prison in rural Thomson, Ill., will p...

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Washington Post Forced To Correct Report That Public Enemy Called 9/11 A Joke

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Washington Post, Public Enemy, 911, September 11th, Corrections, Media News

ABC News White House correspondent Jake Tapper offers up, via Twitter, a Washington Post correction that addresses what Tapper terms an example of "un...

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9/11 Responders' Anger: Obama Offers Sympathy, But No Support

nydailynews.com | By Michael Mcauliff | Posted 12.04.2009 | New York

Read More: 9/11, 9/11 Responders' Health, Ground Zero, New York City, New York, New York News

Angry September 11th responders say President Obama has offered sympathy but no support for their appeal to champion their cause in Congress: a bill t...

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Jesse Ventura Storms Out Of Studio During Verbal Dust-Up (VIDEO)

Posted 12.02.2009 | Media

Read More: 9/11, Conspiracy Theories, Radio Alaska, Opie and Anthony, Jesse Ventura, Tv, Jesse Ventura Conspiracy Theory, Haarp, Haarp Conspiracy, Haarp Project, Media News

On Wednesday, former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura appeared on the Opie & Anthony radio show to promote his new TV show Conspiracy Theory. But thi...

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Obama To Bring Troops Home!

Tom Gregory | Posted 12.03.2009 | Comedy

Read More: George Bush, Troops, Political Satire, Afghanistan Surge, Obama 2012, Osama Bin Laden, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan War, Tommy Franks, Iraq War, Afghanistan, World Trade Center, Obama Afghanistan, Obama Speech, Presidential Address, West Point, Comedy News

Obama announced that he will deploy 30,000 additional US troops to Afghanistan, promising to bring them home just in time to vote in the next presidential election.

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Obama at West Point

Michael Brenner | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, 9/11, Iraq, Tommy Franks, West Point, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, Tora Bora, Politics News

After the Bush years of outright lies and systematic deception, we now have Obama plumbing new depths as he tortures the very language itself. 1984 here we are.

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The Speech Obama Should Give Tonight

Adam Hanft | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, 9/11, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Politics News

Churchill was an orator who knew the power of the simple declarative: "The news from France is very bad." In that spirit, I stand before you tonight and say the news from Afghanistan is very bad.

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Obama's Afghanistan Surge Is Backed By 9/11 Families, But Some Are Wary

AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, 9/11, Obama West Point, West Point Speech, September 11th, Barack Obama, New York News

NEW YORK — Families of some of those killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks welcome President Barack Obama's plan to deploy thousands more troops...

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Decades Are Only "From Hell" If We Make Them

Will Bunch | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1960s, Time Magazine, Ronald Reagan, Decades, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, 9/11, 2000s, Osama Bin Laden, Iraq War, Minneapolis Bridge Collapse, Peak Oil, Financial Crisis, Jimmy Carter, Hurricane Katrina, 1970s, Torture, Politics News

In the 2010s, I don't think we can afford to sit around watching CNBC and waiting for the Decade Gods to automatically turn everything green as some sort of karmic balance for the awfulness of the 2000s.

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Senate Report: Bin Laden Was 'Within Our Grasp' In 2001

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan War, Bush, Rumsfeld, US Military, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Pakistan, 9/11, Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Afghan War, John Kerry, Military, George W. Bush, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld, Tora Bora, World News

WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made th...

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"Radical Evil"

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books

Read More: Theodicy, Collective Trauma, 9/11, Atrocities, Morality, Auschwitz, Eichmann, Evil, Destructiveness, Totalitarianism, Nihilism, Books, Books News

Richard Bernstein has written an important philosophical inquiry into the phenomenon of evil (Bernstein 2002), an inquiry that will be of great value to psychoanalysts.

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9/11 Text Messages Released: Wikileaks Publishes Intercepted Government Pager Texts As They Were Sent

Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Msnbc, Terrorism, 9/11, Washington DC, 9/11 Record, Intercepted Messages, Messages From 9/11, Wikileaks, 9/11 Events, Journalism, New York City, Dc, Government Issued Pagers, Open Government, Wikileaks 9/11, 9/11 Series of Events, Pagers, World Trade Center, Text Message Pagers, 9 11 Text Messages, 9/11 Text Messages, 9/11 Texts, 911 Text Messages, 911 Texts, 9/11 Text, 911 Text Message, 911 Text, Text Messages From 9/11, 911 Text Messaging, Politics News

Government employees sent more than 500,000 text pager messages In the hours before and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. At 3 a.m. (...

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