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NYC Terror Attack Apparently Was Planned For September 11

AP | IVAN MORENO and P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 11.25.2009 | New York

Read More: NYC Terror Probe, Hydrogen Peroxide Bombs, Queens, Terror Probe, Bombs, 9/11, Najibullah Zazi, Terrorism, September 11th, New York, Denver, New York News

DENVER — An Afghan immigrant was on the verge of unleashing a terrorist attack on New York City on the Sept. 11 anniversary but was scared off a...

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Abdallah Higazy: FBI Pays Wrongly Detained 9/11 Egyptian Man $250,000

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Wtc, Abdallah Higazy, 9/11, World Trade Center, Aviation Radio World Trade Center, Pilot, Fbi, September 11th, Egyptian Man 9/11, New York News

NEW YORK — The FBI paid $250,000 this week to an Egyptian man detained when a pilot's aviation radio was found after the Sept. 11 attacks in his...

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Thousands Have Illnesses Related To 9/11 Attacks

AP | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Wtc, Wtc Health, Wtc Workers, 9/11 Health Issues, World Trade Center Medical Working Group, 9/11, 9/11 Health, World Trade Center, World Trade Center Workers, New York News

NEW YORK — A city task force on medical problems linked to the collapse of the World Trade Center says tens of thousands of New Yorkers have sou...

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Patriot Act Changes: Congress Weighs Extension, Changes

L.A. Times | David G. Savage | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Reporting from Washington - The Patriot Act -- a favorite tool in the George W. Bush administration's fight against terrorism -- may be renamed later...

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9/11 Trial At Guantanamo Delayed Again: Can We Have Federal Court Trials Now, Please?

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Col. Peter Masciola, House of Representatives, Congress, David Kris, Col. Stephen Henley, World, War on Terror, Walid Bin Attash, Terrorism, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, David Hicks, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, 9/11, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Justice Department, Barack Obama, World News, Al Qaeda, Military Commissions, Politics News, Senate, Capt. John Murphy, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Guantanamo Bay, Maj. David Frakt, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Politics News

Scarcely in its history has the United States entertained such a shabby and shamelessly politicized travesty of justice as the Military Commissions.

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Media Mud Pies: CNN's Embarrassing Response to Fox

Linda Milazzo | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media

Read More: War on Afghanistan, First Amendment, President Obama, Teabaggers, Chicago, Progressives, Phil Donahue, 9/11, Peace, America, Journalism, Msnbc, Infrastructure, Social Media, Corporate Media, Washington Post, State Senator Obama, Rick Sanchez, Fox, War on Iraq, Jessie Jackson, Washington DC, Netherlands, Barack Obama, Fourth Estate, Afghanistan War, Anti-War, Fox News, Cnn, 9/12, Saddam Hussein, Military Industrial Complex, Tv, Protests, Iraq War, Conservative Right, Glenn Beck, Conservatives, Spain, Media News

In response to Fox's childish and embarrassing ad in the Washington Post that challenged competitors' coverage of the 9/12 teabaggers, CNN is airing this equally chilidish and embarrassing ad.

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"Immeasurable Courage and Uncommon Valor"-- Sgt. First Class Jared C. Monti

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Veteran, Medal of Honor, Sgt. Jared Monti, Kanye, 9/11, Obama, Iraq, Afghanistan War, Paul Rieckhoff, Politics News

Last Thursday, we were reminded of what true courage, sacrifice, and heroism is all about.

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Frank Rich: Even Glenn Beck Is Right Twice A Day

nytimes.com | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media

Read More: American Racism, You Lie, Great Recession, Frank Rich Column, Joe Wilson, President Obama, 9/11, Glenn Beck, Global Financial Crisis, Frank Rich, Tea Parties, Race, Frank Rich Glenn Beck, Republican-Extremism, Republicans, Media News

Beck frequently strikes the pose of an apocalyptic prophet, even insisting that he predicted 9/11. This summer he also started warning of domestic ter...

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HAL -- The Cockpit Serial Killer

John T. Halliday | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Read More: Confusing Automation, Air France 447, Murder by Computer, Terrorism, Electronic Mutiny, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 9/11, Quantas 72, Hal, Aviation Psychology, Airbus Planes., Cockpit Computers, Mohammed Atta, Computercide, World News

Let's shift the balance of power in the cockpit back to humans. As MIT's R. John Hansman explains, "Less is more." Dumb cockpit computers down; let pilots be pilots

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U.S. Spy Strategy Released; Intel Chief Dennis Blair Comments On 9/11

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Spy Efforts, , Intelligence, Cia, Terrorism, Spy, 9/11, Obama, Spy Agencies, Counter Intelligence, Nsa, Counterterrorism, Dennis Blair, Military, San Francisco, Spies, Fbi, National Intelligence Strategy, Nis, Politics News

WASHINGTON - The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would not have happened had U.S. intelligence agencies been organized then the way they are now, the top U...

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Poll: Support For Afghan War At All-Time Low

CNN Politics | Paul Steinhauser | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Geoff Morrell, US Military, Robert Gates, American Public, Pakistan, President Obama, 9/11, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Politics News

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Support for the war in Afghanistan is at an all-time low, according to a new national poll. A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey r...

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Katrina's Lessons Are as Important as 9/11's

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, Healthcare, President Barack Obama, Politics News

While the media covered a lot of the 9/11 memorials, concerts and memories, it seemed as if the legacy of Katrina got very little attention.

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9/11: Never Again?

Michael Brenner | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

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

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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Kennedy Memoir Excerpt Blasts Bush Admin. For Iraq War

Talking Points Memo | Ben Frumin | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Ted Kennedy Memoir, Al Qaeda, Dick Cheney, Politics News

We've obtained an exclusive excerpt from the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's autobiography "True Compass" -- which goes on sale today -- in which the Massachu...

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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

Read More: Politics News, Tea Party, 9/12, 912 Project, 2001, 9/11 Anniversary, September 11, 9/11, Fox News, 9-12-Project, Glenn Beck, 9/12 Tea Party March, 9/12 March on Washington, Glenn Beck 9-12, Glenn Beck 9/12, Teabaggers, Media News

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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Bloomers and Birthers

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: 9/11, Religion, Childhood, Parochial School, Living News

As a child, religions seemed to me a way of separating people, and in the aftermath of the eighth anniversary of 9/11, it doesn't look a whole lot different to me now.

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

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2010, John Boehner, Joe Wilson, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, 9/12 March on Washington, Tea Party, Rep. Joe Wilson, New York, Barack Obama, 2012, New York News, Politics News

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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White Whine

Kate Clinton | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy

Read More: 9/11, Obama Speech, Barack Obama, Obama Speech to Congress, Joint Session of Congress, Joe Wilson, Comedy News

Republicans treat President Obama as if he were a substitute teacher and they are just waiting for the real deal to come back in the room.

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We The Fallen of 9/11

Stephen Herrington | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Nyfd, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Special Forces, George W. Bush, 9/11 Anniversary, Nypd, 9/11, Taliban, Tora Bora, Osama Bin Laden, World News

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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An Historian's Prescient View of 9/11

Al Eisele | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home

Read More: 9/11, 9/11 Media Coverage, The Hill, Katie Couric, September 11th, David McCullough, Home News

On the morning of Sept. 11, David McCullough called me to say that an airplane had just crashed into the World Trade Tower. Here is the story that my colleagues and I filed in the Sept. 12 issue of The Hill.

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

Huff Radio | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Obama Speech, Obamacare, Afghanistan, Health Care, 9/11 Anniversary, Politics News

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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9/11 Film Review of Amreeka: Drama of the Arab-Christian Experience in America Also Strikes Notes of Heart and Humor

Penelope Andrew | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Palestinian-Americans, Arrested Development, Independent Films, National Geographic, Hiam Abbass, Films, Arab-Americans, 9/11, Nisreen Faour, Babel, Munich, The Immigrant Experience, Cherien Dabis, Lemon Tree, Lebanese-Americans, Melkar Muallem, Women Directors, Alia Shawkat, The Visitor, Amreeka, Jordanian-Americans, Muslim-Americans, Arab-Christians, Yussef-Abu-Warda, Arab-Muslims, Entertainment News

Amreeka is an artful, moving testimony to the perils of making assumptions about individuals or groups. It is a is a film of impeccable taste that unites instead of divides.

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Michael Williams, Delta Passenger, Caught Carrying Gun On 9/11 At LaGuardia

NBC New York | Jonathan Dienst | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Laguardia Security, Delta Airlines, LaGuardia Airport, 9/11, Laguardia Airport Security, Post-911 Security, Airport Security, Delta, Michael Williams, New York News

As New York remembered the 9/11 attacks, a man with a loaded handgun tried to board a Delta Airlines flight at LaGuardia Airport, authorities said. ...

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

Dan Abrams | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

Read More: 9/11, Dan Abrams, Msnbc, 9/11 Memorial, 9/11 Media Coverage, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11 Msnbc, Twin Towers, Ground Zero, Media News

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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