9/11 attacks

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We Didn't Always Flip Out Over Terrorism

Before 9/11, we handled this better

(Newser) - Imagine this: Muslim terrorists hijack a jet and hold it hostage for two weeks. Simultaneously, a bomb blows up a 747 in midair, killing 300-plus people. Months later, a US airliner is bombed over Greece. Five months after that, terrorists kill 20 aboard a US plane in Pakistan. All of...

Al-Qaeda Cleric Attended Pentagon Lunch After 9/11

Terror imam Anwar al-Awlaki chowed down with top brass

(Newser) - Anwar al-Awlaki, currently on the FBI's "kill-or-capture" list, was invited to lunch at the Pentagon a few months after the 9/11 attacks, a Fox News investigation finds. The Yemeni-American cleric dined with Defense Department brass as part of a Pentagon campaign to reach out to moderate Muslims, a defense...

High Court to Decide if Ashcroft Can Be Sued

Post-9/11 policy left Muslim American jailed without charge

(Newser) - The Supreme Court will step in to decide whether a Muslim American can sue John Ashcroft for a policy that led to his arrest in the wake of 9/11. The FBI arrested Kansas native Abdullah al-Kidd at Dulles International Airport in 2003, while he was preparing to board a flight...

WikiLeaks Might Have Stopped 9/11
 WikiLeaks Might 
 Have Stopped 9/11 
OPINION
Oct 15, 2010 10:35 AM CDT

WikiLeaks Might Have Stopped 9/11

Security officials say they might have resorted to warnings on site

(Newser) - If WikiLeaks were around in 2001, it might have helped prevent the 9/11 attacks, argue Coleen Rowley and Bogdan Dzakovic in the LA Times . “There were a lot of us in the run-up to 9/11 who had seen warning signs,” they explain. “But we worked for ossified...

Whoopi, Behar Storm Off O'Reilly Interview

Shouting match erupts over 'Ground Zero mosque'

(Newser) - Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar became so upset with Bill O’Reilly that they stormed off the set of The View today, Mediaite reports. The View hosts were in the midst of a debate with the Fox personality over the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” when Goldberg declared “this...

Immigration Fight Threatens 9/11 Health Bill

House leaders will cancel vote if Republicans add amendment

(Newser) - Illegal immigration might scuttle a bill to provide health care for people who worked at Ground Zero in the aftermath of 9/11. House leaders are considering canceling today’s planned vote if Republicans introduce an amendment barring illegal immigrants from benefiting from the bill, the Wall Street Journal reports. Democrats...

Obama Calls Ahmadinejad's Speech 'Offensive'

Especially because he made it so close to Ground Zero

(Newser) - Barack Obama was definitely not a fan of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s UN speech , in which he called for an inquiry into 9/11 conspiracy theories. “It was offensive. It was hateful,” Obama told the BBC today. “Especially for him to make the statement here in Manhattan, just a...

US Walks Out on Ahmadinejad Speech

He again floats 9/11 conspiracy theories

(Newser) - The US delegation walked out of the UN speech of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today after he yet again speculated that the US staged the 9/11 attacks to boost the economy and save the "Zionist regime" of Israel. Ahmadinejad has "chosen to spout vile conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic slurs that...

Paper: Sorry for Photo of Muslims Praying on 9/11

Many deride peaceful portrayal of religion on anniversary of attacks

(Newser) - The Portland Press Herald has apologized for having the temerity to show Muslims praying peacefully on September 11th. The upbeat frontpage story followed local Muslims as they celebrated the end of Ramadan, which this year fell near the anniversary of the terror attacks (for details, click here ). These worshipers,...

Beck: In 2012, Palin and I Will Be...

Um, 'voting.' Duo tease Alaska crowd on 9/11

(Newser) - The Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck traveling show played to a packed house in Alaska last night. The dynamic duo of the Christian right remembered 9/11 and then hit on some of their favorites: love of country, small government, and 'common sense conservatism.' Palin told the crowd Beck inspired...

Stop Worrying About al-Qaeda
 Stop Worrying About al-Qaeda 
Fareed Zakaria
Sep 11, 2010 4:18 PM CDT

Stop Worrying About al-Qaeda

We're relatively safe—so now what?

(Newser) - “We’re safer than we think,” declares Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek , “but no one wants to admit it.” It should go without saying that we’re safer than we were nine years ago today. Al-Qaeda used to operate so successfully “because most governments treated the...

We 'Are Not at War With Islam': Obama
 We 'Are Not 
 at War With 
 Islam': Obama 
9/11 anniversary
Sep 11, 2010 1:18 PM CDT

We 'Are Not at War With Islam': Obama

President, VP, and First Lady mark 9/11 anniversary

(Newser) - President Obama laid a wreath at the Pentagon; Michelle Obama joined Laura Bush at the Flight 93 crash site; Vice President Biden went to Ground Zero. Their comments on the 9/11 anniversary, via the Wall Street Journal and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette :
  • President Obama: Americans “are not—and never will
...

Meet the One 9/11 Family That Refuses to Settle

They want a trial, not the money

(Newser) - Since Sept. 11, 2001, every legal claim for people injured or killed in the attacks has been resolved…except one. Mark Bavis, a 31-year-old hockey scout from Boston, died on United Airlines Flight 175, and his family has no intention of joining the large group of victims and their families...

9/11: Nine Years of Images
 9/11: Nine Years of Images 
Sep 11, 2010 7:47 AM CDT

9/11: Nine Years of Images

(Newser) - There are moments in US history where time grinds to a halt. Above, a gallery of photos from the moment when time stopped on 8:46am on September 11, 2001 through to nine years later at 8:46am on September 11, 2010.

Mosque Supporters Rally at Ground Zero

Quiet rally on eve of September 11

(Newser) - Candlelight, songs, and prayers drifted near Ground Zero last night, reports the Washington Post, as hundreds rallied not to remember those lost nine years ago today, but in support of the proposed mosque two blocks away. Organizers said they staged the event on September 10 so as not to detract...

Obama: At Our Best, We Are One
 Obama: 
 At Our Best, 
 We Are One 


9/11 ANNIVERSARY
Sep 11, 2010 6:15 AM CDT

Obama: At Our Best, We Are One

President urges a split nation to remember sense of unity

(Newser) - At the dawn of the ninth 9/11 anniversary, President Obama looked out over a divided country and urged it to remember that shared sense of horror and unity it felt as it watched towers collapse. "If there is a lesson to be drawn on this anniversary, it is this:...

Bin Laden Won, Because We Overreacted
Bin Laden Won, Because We Overreacted
Ted Koppel
Sep 10, 2010 1:54 PM CDT

Bin Laden Won, Because We Overreacted

US has handed al-Qaeda everything it could have hoped for

(Newser) - “The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, succeeded far beyond anything Osama bin Laden could have possibly envisioned,” writes Ted Koppel in Sunday’s Washington Post . Not because they killed nearly 3,000 Americans, but because they provoked an excessive, crippling reaction from the US. Had George Bush stopped...

9/11 Now America's 'Day of Hate'

 9/11 Now 
 America's 
 'Day of Hate' 

opinion
Sep 10, 2010 5:04 AM CDT

9/11 Now America's 'Day of Hate'

The post 9/11 push for solidarity is gone

(Newser) - September 11th was once a day of remembrance. No more. The anniversary of the worst terror attacks in American history is now a day of "fighting and political battles," writes Gregor Peter Schmitz in Der Spiegel . The battle over the so-called Ground Zero mosque , plans to publicly burn...

Angry Kin: 9/11 Memorial in Pennsylvania 'Looks Muslim'

Dirt carvings highlight 'huge crescent pointing to Mecca,' critics charge

(Newser) - The latest Muslim brouhaha to erupt in the US involves an earthen memorial to 9/11 victims that "looks" Islamic, according to furious critics. The father of a passenger killed on Flight 93, which went down in Pennsylvania, is taking out an ad in a local newspaper blasting the planned...

French Ad: Twin Towers Should Have Been Shorter

Learn to anticipate, you silly architects!

(Newser) - There have been some tasteless 9/11 ads over the years, but this new offering from the French newspaper Courrier has to take the cake. Playing off the newspaper's "Learn to Anticipate" catch phrase, the ad seems to suggest that those silly World Trade Center architects should have anticipated the...

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