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CHIPPEWA FALLS - A memorial to honor lives lost in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks may be built in Chippewa County. District Attorney Jon Theisen presented a plan to the county's Buildings and Grounds Committee on Thursday to obtain steel from the World Trade Center.
Right after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, then-U.S. President George W. Bush talked about possible links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida, a key adviser to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday.
Sept. 11 made a hero of Mark Jakubek, lauded for his key role in rescuing two people from an elevator in the burning World Trade Center. But the aftermath of the attacks became a forum for his crimes.
President Obama will outline his strategy for the war in Afghanistan in a prime-time address from West Point, N.Y. on Tuesday night. A major component of the strategy is a surge in American troops to find and defeat the terrorists behind 9/11. Obama is expected to tell the American people that the United States cannot get out of Afghanistan until it sends more troops in to defeat the Taliban ...
London (AFP) Nov 30, 2009 - George W. Bush first mentioned a link between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda to Tony Blair days after 9/11, but the British premier advised against pursuing the Iraqi dictator, an aide said Monday.
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...
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.".
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 ...
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.
A former government official once lauded as a Sept. 11 hero was convicted Friday of taking bribes to let an asbestos-cleanup company overcharge for work on the World Trade Center cleanup.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
