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911 Anniversary

Police Question Adis Medunjanin, Zarein Ahmedzay In New York Terror Probe

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 10.09.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK — Federal investigators have questioned two men whose photographs were shown to a Muslim religious leader along with a picture of an Af...

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Obama Team Stops Another 9/11, Gets Help From Unlikely Source (Najibullah Zazi's Lawyer)

Craig Alan Silverman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Denver

Read More: Terror Plot, Fbi, Najibullah Zazi, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Arthur Folsom, Terrorism, Colorado, Denver, 9/11 Anniversary, New York City-New York, Denver News
Craig Alan Silverman

I don't know Arthur Folsom despite my having practiced law in Denver for 30 years. For three days he held exhaustive meetings with the FBI. That resulted in an arrest for, you guessed it, lying to the FBI.

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Time to Heal Osama Trauma to the American Psyche

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 09.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tony Shalhoub, 9/11m Osama Bin Laden, 9/11 Anniversary, Entertainment News
Michealene Cristini Risley

We will never forget those whom we lost. We can however, replace those awful moments with better ones that allow for hope to sprout through the cracks in the rubble. Monk did that for us last week.

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9/11: Never Again?

Michael Brenner | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Richard Holbrooke, Terrorism, Al Qaeda, Jose Padilla, 9/11 Anniversary, Politics News
Michael Brenner

Let's drop the childish game of scaring ourselves with the likes of high school drop-out Jose Padilla and similarly I.Q. challenged riff-raff. In doing so, we are behaving like kids who conjure monsters.

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New Osama Bin Laden Tape: Obama Reportedly Called "Powerless" By Al-Qaida Leader

AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: 9/11 Anniversary, Video, Obama Powerless, Al-Qaida, Osama Bin Laden, 9/11, Obama, Terrorism, New Tape, World News

WASHINGTON — In a tape released Sunday by al-Qaida's media wing, terrorist leader Osama bin Laden said President Barack Obama is "powerless" to ...

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Glenn Beck's Crazy 9/12 Tea Party Had Nothing to do With 9/11

Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

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Rachel Sklar

Beck wants this country to return to the values it held on 9/12/2001. As someone who was in New York on 9/11 (and 9/12) I remember those values being terror and a profound grief.

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Music and Memory: Listening to 9/11

Albert Imperato | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York

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Albert Imperato

Friends who know how much I like to program my day with music in this way frequently ask me what I listen to on 9/11, but it's not easy to answer.

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Joe Wilson and the 9/12 March: The Week That Decency Died?

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

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John R. Bohrer

The 9/12 protests are extensions of the 'sore loser' rallies, and they're one hundred percent partisan. That is why their attempts to wrap themselves in the tragedy of 9/11 is so wrong.

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Lingering Disgrace

Kelly Caldwell | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, 9/11 First Responders, September 11th Victims Compensation Fund, Christie Todd Whitman, 9/11 Anniversary, Giuliani 9/11, World Trade Center, Congress, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, New York News
Kelly Caldwell

Everyone remembers the huge dust clouds. Almost immediately, people began streaming into the Disaster Assistance Center where I worked, asking for help with toxic-air related problems.

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We The Fallen of 9/11

Stephen Herrington | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

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Stephen Herrington

One must question at this point, on this day of the year especially, whether the power of the U.S. government, diplomatic and military, has been used in the best way to honor our own fallen of 9/11

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Left, Right & Center: ObamaCare, No to Afghanistan, and 9/11 Eight Years On

Huff Radio | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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Huff Radio

A truly substantive discussion of Swiss and Massachusetts models for health care. And on the eighth anniversary of 9/11, is the country any safer?

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The Unedited Truth: Why MSNBC Re-Airs 9/11 Coverage

Dan Abrams | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

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Dan Abrams

Some have called it gruesome or ghoulish, even referring to it as "death porn." Maybe so, but it also really happened.

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9/11 Remembered: Photos From The Day (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

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Rain mixed with tears in New York today as mourners commemorated the 8th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Below are images from the memoria...

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Turning Tragedy Into Compassionate Action

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: National Day of Service, 9/11 Anniversary, New Orleans, Volunteering, Hurricane Katrina, World Trade Center, Ground Zero, Ted Kennedy, New York News
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

I can think of no greater tribute to the victims of September 11th than in the positive and inspirational actions that millions of Americans have taken on their behalf both today and year round.

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Keep Your Shoes On: A Modest Proposal for Rational Airport Security

Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Shoe Bomber, Department of Homeland Security, Fearmongering, Tom Ridge, Homeland Security, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Airport Security, Bush War on Terror, September 11th, Living News
Jay Michaelson

The rest of the world is laughing at us. Literally, in some cases -- when I reflexively took my shoes off at a security line in Berlin, the guard chuckled. Stupid American.

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Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

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Len Berman

Take a moment to reflect on what happened 8 years ago.

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Sacred Memories: A 9/11 Ritual

Rabbi Irwin Kula | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

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Rabbi Irwin Kula

So what message would I like to send out today 9/11? No words at all. Simply a chant of actual final cell phone conversations of people, who simply and heroically witnessed a yearning to love.

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This 9/11, Urban Communities Remember and Serve

Rev. Lennox Yearwood and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

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Rev. Lennox Yearwood and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

To see people from all walks of life take up service as a way to remember the tragedy of 9/11 is beauty from ashes. It is also part of the solution that will put our nation on the road to recovery, permanently.

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Interview with NYC Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler - 9/11 Then And Now

Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

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Edward Skyler has worked for Mayor Michael Bloomberg since before his election, and was actively campaigning for the candidate when the 9/11 attacks t...

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9/11 Mourners Observe Moment Of Silence As Bells Toll

Huffington Post/AP | SUZANNE MA | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK — Cold rain mixed with tears as mourners collected under umbrellas and a dreary sky Friday to mark the eighth anniversary of the Sept. ...

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9/11: Good War, Bad War, No War

Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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Jamal Dajani

Today, America needs to reassess what has been done in the name of the victims of 9/11: two horrible and unwinnable wars.

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9/11 iPhone App Remembers Terrorist Attacks

Mashable | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology

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To help you recall and remember what occurred eight years ago today, there's an app called "9/11 Numbers" which brings the sobering realities of Septe...

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Commemorate 9/11 With A New Dollar Coin?

New York Times | Sewell Chan | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

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Representative Jerrold L. Nadler, a Manhattan Democrat whose district includes ground zero, introduced a bill on Thursday that would require the Unite...

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President Obama On 9/11 Anniversary: Every Year On This Day, We Are All New Yorkers

New York Daily News | President Barack Obama | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

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Eight years ago, on an ordinary Tuesday morning, nearly 3,000 lives were lost in the deadliest attack on American soil in our history. It was an even...

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8th Anniversary of Sept 11: Do We Understand Them?

Mohamed Elmenshawy | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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Mohamed Elmenshawy

For the Obama administration to continue its focus only on improving the image of the United States abroad, through the approach of "strategic communication" or "public diplomacy," is to see only half of the picture.

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