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USA Today - Wed Dec 2, 12:15 am ET
The torture debate doesn't belong in 9/11 courtroom By Carie Lemack When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed goes on trial in the 9/11 murder of my mother and more than 2,000 others, I hope the jury deliberates the horrific acts of that...
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New York Daily News - Tue Dec 1, 4:14 pm ET
A joyful milestone in the 9/11 rebuilding effort dissolved into insults and heckling Tuesday when a Brooklyn Councilman said he had been disrespected and a CUNY trustee called him a "disgrace.".
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Naples Daily News - Tue Nov 24, 8:03 pm ET
The five Guantanamo Bay detainees who are about to be charged with the 9/11 murders had planned on being tried by military commissions because, as they see themselves, they are soldiers, not criminals.Instead, they will stand trial in a federal civilian court, not far from the scene of one of their crimes, the World Trade Center. And even though in one form or another they have confessed to ...
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The Daily Tar Heel - Tue Dec 1, 4:44 pm ET
When I grabbed a copy of The Daily Tar Heel on Friday, I was positive I would see a tribute to 9/11 as the feature story. Instead, Michael Jordan covered the front page, leaving only a small section for an article about the anniversary of that terrible day.
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Fox News - Mon Nov 23, 4:56 pm ET
Former Vice President Dick Cheney suggested Monday that Attorney General Eric Holder wants a "show trial" for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other alleged 9/11 conspirators who are to be tried in a civilian court just blocks away from where the World Trade Center once stood.
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Idaho Press-Tribune - Tue Dec 1, 1:22 am ET
NEW YORK (AP) — Families of some of those killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks welcome President Barack Obama's plan to deploy thousands more troops to Afghanistan as a long-overdue surge that could win the war. "I think it's a long time coming," said Debra Burlingame, whose brother, Charles, was the pilot of the hijacked plane that crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
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New York Post - Fri Nov 27, 7:07 pm ET
Richard Wright exudes patriotism.The former Ground Zero worker and Glen Oaks resident got the opportunity to present the USS New York, an amphibious transport dock made in part by using steel from the fallen World Trade Center towers, with a special ...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 13, 5:56 pm ET
The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks will be tried in a civilian court blocks from where Al-Qaeda hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center, the US government announced Friday.
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CBS4 Miami - Wed Nov 25, 7:32 pm ET
As the World Trade Center and Pentagon were ablaze on Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. Secret Service's presidential protective detail was informed that a "Korean airliner has been hijacked" en route to San Francisco, prompting already-skittish agents to worry about another wave of terrorist attacks.
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Los Angeles Times - Mon Nov 30, 3:14 am ET
Legal experts say Obama was overly confident when he said that critics of the New York trial would be silenced 'when the death penalty is applied to' suspect Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. After Zacarias Moussaoui -- the accused "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11 attacks -- was sentenced to life in prison in 2006 because one juror in Virginia refused to agree to the death penalty, Moussaoui clapped his ...
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Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Mon Nov 30, 5:55 pm ET
NEW YORK - Americans who lost loved ones on Sept. 11 will watch with keen interest when President Barack Obama presents his new plan for the war in Afghanistan.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 30, 6:02 pm ET
Families of some of those killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks welcome President Barack Obama's plan to deploy thousands more troops to Afghanistan as a long-overdue surge that could win the war.
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NPR - Sun Nov 29, 5:33 pm ET
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others are set to stand trial in New York City for the Sept. 11 attacks. They will be moved from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. NPR's counterterrorism correspondent Dina Temple-Raston tells guest host Robert Smith about the challenges in getting the prisoner to the New York courtroom.
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Boston Globe - Tue Dec 1, 9:18 am ET
Two former Guantanamo detainees who will be tried in Italy on terrorism charges have been linked to an Islamic center in Milan described by U.S. authorities as al-Qaida's main station house in Europe before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, officials said Tuesday.
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MSNBC - Mon Nov 30, 9:06 pm ET
Families of some of those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks welcome President Obama's plan to deploy thousands more troops to Afghanistan, but others are wary.