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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.
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!
It's been eight years since Tom Burnett, Sr. lost his son to the 9/11 attacks. But for Burnett, it may as well have been one
The alleged 9/11 mastermind and four co-accused will be tried in a civilian court in New York just blocks from where Al-Qaeda hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center, the government announced Friday.
The prosecutors in the forthcoming 9/11 trials in New York will be seeking the death penalty if the five defendants are found guilty. That could pose a problem for Germany, which is supplying vital evidence for the prosecution.
An Aberdeen business is helping visitors memorialize the site of the World Trade Center by making access to information about the project easier. Meridian Kiosks, which manufactures self-service kiosks for a number of major companies, built five of its Plynth Classic Kiosks for the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site.
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.
The ink was barely dry on the last column concerning the damage that accommodating violent fanaticism does to our society when our very own government announced that it was planning to give the 9/11 co-conspirators an open hearing in civilian court … in downtown New York, no less!
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 ...
Jon Naso/The Star-LedgerA March 2002 photo of Ground Zero workers sifting through derbis.NEW YORK -- As New York struggled to recover from the Sept. 11 terror attacks, an asbestos-cleanup company saw an opportunity for easy money, prosecutors said. The firm...
In other news, a U.K. inquiry revealed that the U.S. focused on Iraq just hours after the Sept. 11 attacks, and the United Nations expressed frustration with Iran over its refusal to export its uranium for enrichment.
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.
NEW YORK — Khalid Sheik Mohammed has acknowledged doing what his nephew Ramzi Yousef couldn’t: toppling the World Trade Center towers.
What's Your Reaction? A nasty spat has broken out among defense lawyers over an issue that is likely to be front and center in the upcoming 9/11 trial in New York: who actually speaks for the defendants?
The man in charge of the New York City Police Department's security planning for the upcoming trial of the Sept. 11 terror attack suspects is being promoted.
KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) — 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
