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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 flag that once waved at all three Sept. 11, 2001, sites — the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pa.
The five accused 9/11 terrorists want to represent themselves at trial so they can denounce the U.S. unfiltered, a lawyer for one of the men said Monday.
Five men accused of plotting the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and detained at Guantánamo Bay will finally be brought to justice. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the men, including self-described mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, will be taken to New York City for trial in a federal court. That is an important affirmation, for all the world to see, of this nation’s profound commitment ...
For over eight years, family members and friends of victims of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks have been trying to heal from the emotional and psychological pain of that dark day in American history. Many will never experience a total healing in their lifetimes. A decision by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to have Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, and four ...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the four other suspected terrorists who will be tried in Manhattan for their involvement in planning the 9/11 attacks will plead not guilty, according to an attorney. Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer representing suspect Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the attacks, but " would explain what happened and why they did it " and share " their ...
A nonprofit group has lost a court fight to block a Sept. 11 memorial from being built at Liberty State Park.
The chairwoman of the Birmingham Public Arts Board said she wants to hear more from the resident who opposes using ruined steel from the World Trade Center in a 9/11 memorial sculpture the city might erect. Barbara Heller said Wednesday that she hopes Kia Pavloff-Pecorelli attends the art board meeting set for 6:30 p.m. tonight in City Hall, 151 Martin.
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.
The accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four of his accused accomplices will stand trial where they should have been tried in the first place — a civilian federal courthouse in Manhattan only blocks from the site of the World Trade Center.If ever a crime demanded the death penalty it was 9/11 with the senseless loss of nearly 3,000 innocent lives, and U.S ...
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Messages that people sent each other via pagers during the Sept. 11 attacks were released Wednesday by the non-profit activist group WikiLeaks.
Glimpse into events of September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks comes from pager messages that have been anonymously published on WikiLeaks.org.
New York juries are often loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists. In fact, a jury spared the lives of two Osama bin Laden followers a month after Sept. 11, while the World Trade Center's ruins were still smoldering.
Critics of Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to bring the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and four other accused terrorists to New York for trial can't seriously believe the city will have trouble handling the expected "Trial of the Century" hoopla. The critics can't really think a judge is going to give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed an open microphone to spew his jihadist views ...
The move to put the self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind on trial just blocks from ground zero raises a host of legal, political and security questions, chief among them: Can a fair-minded jury be found in a city still nursing deep wounds from the attack on the World Trade Center?
The decision to bring accused Sept. 11 terrorists to trial in federal court in New York City is outrageous and could lead to those detained being freed on a technicality, Rep. Mark Souder, R-3rd, said Friday.
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