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Key events in Afghanistan War: Oct. 7, 2001 — U.S. and British forces begin airstrikes in Afghanistan after the Taliban refuse to hand over al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, blamed for the 9/11 attacks.
Sept. 11, 2001: Terrorists crash planes into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Virginia, and a field in Pennsylvania. Sept. 14, 2001: President Bush addresses the rescue workers at the site of the World Trade Center. He tells them, "I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you!
Sept. 11, 2001: Terrorists crash planes into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Virginia, and a field in Pennsylvania. Sept. 14, 2001: President Bush addresses the rescue workers at the site of the World Trade Center. He tells them, "I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you!
NEW YORK - In a Nov. 30 story, The Associated Press reported reactions of family members of Sept. 11 victims to President Barack Obama's plan to increase U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
The upcoming New York trials of five 9/11 terror suspects are already controversial. But now, one defense lawyer says those proceedings will allow the defendants to spout plenty of criticism of U.S. foreign policy. Civilian trial or dangerous platform? That is the central question now in the debate over where the self-confessed planners of the 9/11 attacks should be tried. On Sunday, the ...
NEW YORK — In a Nov. 30 story, The Associated Press reported reactions of family members of Sept. 11 victims to President Barack Obama's plan to increase U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
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. READ MORE >>
Associated Press NEW YORK — 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.
Security issues and legal issues collide, as New Yorkers are taking sides over the terror trial for the accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks. Should he be allowed to walk into a New York City courtroom, just steps from Ground Zero? "I think it's a logistical and security nightmare for the American People," Alice Hoagland, mother of a 9/11 victim, said.
At least one -- and possibly all five -- of the detainees with alleged ties to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, will plead not guilty in a "justification defense," arguing the attacks were responses to American foreign policy, according to a lawyer who met with one of the defendants.
WASHINGTON - In the biggest trial for the age of terrorism, the professed 9/11 mastermind and four alleged henchmen will be hauled before a civilian court on American soil, barely a thousand yards from the site of the World Trade Center’s twin towers they are accused of destroying.
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 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."
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Zacarias Moussaoui was a clown who could not keep his mouth shut, according to his old al-Qaida boss, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. But Moussaoui was surprisingly tame when tried for the 9/11 attacks — never turning the courtroom into the circus of anti-U.S. tirades that some fear Mohammed will create at his trial in New York.
Nearly two weeks after the Obama administration announced its intention to prosecute professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his fellow defendants in civilian court, family members of the terrorist attack's victims remain sharply divided on the issue. On Dec. 5, a group including Sept. 11 victims and family members plans to hold a rally protesting the administration's decision ...