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On January 5, the Council on American-Islamic Relations offered a new service for the Muslim American families among its members: It released a guide titled "A Muslim parent's guide to talking to children about acts of violent extremism." It was meant to help parents guide their children through a new world in which the tide of Islamophobia, as well as the threat of violent extremism, is growing. The guide reflects a difficult new truth: Muslim parents in the US and Canada today no longer just have to worry about giving their kids the "birds and the bees" talk. They must...

"84th floor, west office, 12 people trapped" those are the 7 words Randy Scott scribbled on a scrap of paper on September 11th 2001, after united Airlines flight 175 struck Two World Trade Center floors away from where Scott was working...

On Friday, just outside of Dallas/Ft Worth International Airport, the first national memorial to 9/11 heroes was dedicated. Shirley Hall, who is a Flight Attendant and the Vice President of the 9/11 Flight Crew Memorial Foundation, explained the memorial sculpture's symbolism during the memorial's July 4, 2008, dedication ceremony: As volunteers on this project, we have each spent time describing this statue in our attempts to raise funds to turn Valerie’s dream into a reality. From Bryce Cameron Liston’s original interpretation to the final magnificent piece of art you see here today, each of us has shared our ideas on...

Much the September 11, 2001, anniversary coverage struck me as distastefully tasteful. On the morning of Sept. 12, I was pumping gas just off Interstate 91 in Vermont and picked up the Valley News. Its lead headline covered the annual roll call of the dead -- or, as the alliterative editor put it, "Litany of the lost." That would be a grand entry for "Litany of the Lame," an anthology of the all-time worst headlines. September 11 wasn't a shipwreck: the dead weren't "lost": They were murdered.

I didn't know if there was a west coast version of this thread. It didn't make sense to post on thread for the show that was almost over on the East Coast.

Part I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJKeCl_dIEo Part II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJKeCl_dIEo Part III http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIEmMVCF6os Part IV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHktnT2bSuY Part V http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzbimCro8RQ Part VI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-sZw0Fnbhc

For the first time, the government played 911 audiotapes of two people trapped inside the World Trade Center, each screaming into the phone while trying desperately to summon emergency crews to burning offices high above Manhattan. "I'm going to die, aren't I?" cried Melissa Doi, 32, who said she was lying on the floor, trying to find fresh air in a south tower engulfed in smoke and fire. Sixteen stories above her, on the 99th floor, Kevin Cosgrove, 46, cried, "I'm not ready to die!" Both died that day. So did Peter Hanson, his wife, Sue Kim, and their 2-year-old...

C Lee Hanson was on the phone with his son - a passenger on United Flight 175 on September 11 - and heard him say "Oh my God!" just before watching his airplane crash into the World Trade Centre. Hanson's testimony on Monday at the sentencing trial of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was one of several emotional stories told by survivors or family members of victims of the deadly hijackings. Hanson, 73, said he received two calls from his son Peter, who was travelling to California with his wife and two and a half-year-old daughter on September 11, 2001....

(CNSNews.com) - In addition to dissecting the intelligence failures and recommending improvements, the 585-page report issued Thursday by the 9/11 Commission retraces in excruciating detail the worst terrorist attacks in American history. It also chronicles President Bush's desire to "to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis," after he learned that America was under attack. Aboard United Airlines Flight 175, which had taken off in Boston bound for Los Angeles, passenger Peter Hanson called his father. "I think they've taken over the cockpit -- an attendant has been stabbed -- and...

<p>Washington, Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The FBI is investigating whether terrorists plotted to seize more than the four jetliners commandeered last week for deadly attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said.</p> <p>The U.S. is broadening the largest criminal investigation in FBI history and is concerned about further attacks, he said. Authorities have detained 75 people on immigration charges, up from 49 as of yesterday, and investigators believe associates of the 19 hijackers may still be in the U.S. The FBI has received more than 96,000 tips, including many that are redundant or contradictory, Ashcroft said.</p>

WASHINGTON — "Is this real-world or exercise?" That was the incredulous response from NORAD on a sunny September day three years ago, when the duty officer got an unthinkable call: "We have a hijacked aircraft headed toward New York and we need you guys to scramble some F-16s or something up there." A few seconds later, realizing that even exercises had not prepared them for reality, they scrambled the jets. "The air defense of America began with this call," said a 9/11 commission report released yesterday. The report paints the government's response to the terrible Al Qaeda onslaught as a...

Today, Ed Ballinger will speak to a roomful of strangers about the one subject he doesn't care to discuss: The first two hours of his shift as a flight dispatcher for United Airlines on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. The Arlington Heights resident and former United Airlines employee will meet with a sub-committee of the 9/11 commission in Washington, D.C., so panel members can decide whether his testimony warrants his appearance before the full commission. Ballinger is there because he was in charge of United flights 175 and 93 when they crashed into the World Trade Center and a...

Official: Kerry failed to act on pre-9/11 tip 3rd agent to say he warned security lapses made Boston airport ripe for 'jihad' attack WASHINGTON - A third federal aviation-security agent, one still with the government, has stepped forward to say he also warned Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry about security lapses at Boston's Logan International Airport before the 9/11 hijackings there. Earlier this week, two former FAA agents said the Democratic presidential hopeful failed to take effective action after they gave him a prophetic warning that his home airport was vulnerable to multiple hijackings. Brian Sullivan, a retired special agent from...

NEW YORK - (KRT) - The widow of a Gulf War veteran aboard doomed United Airline Flight 175 revealed for the first time yesterday that passengers tried to stop hijackers from crashing the plane into one of the Trade Center towers. "I might have to hang up quickly, we're going to try to do something about this," Brian Sweeney reportedly said in a cell phone call to his mother. "Okay," Louise Sweeney said. "Do what you have to do." The account was related yesterday to the Daily News by Sweeney's widow, Julie, and has never before appeared in print. Until...

For all its successes, the U.S. anti-terror war was conceived in sin, the sin of U.S. government negligence. As much post-9/11 journalism has pointed out, there was the foreign-policy error of abandoning post-Soviet Afghanistan after having infused it with weapons, the CIA's failure to act more forcefully on tips and intercepts regarding al-Qaida operatives overseas, and the FBI's and INS's similar failings regarding suspicious characters already in the United States. And the FAA's (and the airlines', the airports', and security firms') breakdown on airport security. However, there has been a good deal less focus on another federal fubar, that ...

Events of September 11, 2001. 8:48 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 en route from Boston's Logan Airport to Los Angeles International with 92 people onboard, slams into the north tower, 1 World Trade Center. 9:05 a.m. Approximately 18 minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175, also a Boeing 767 enroute from Boston to Los Angeles with 65 people onboard, hits the south tower, 2 World Trade Center. 9:21 a.m. New York City Port Authority closes all bridges and tunnels in New York City. 9:24 a.m. President Bush calls the crashes "an apparent terrorist attack on our country." 9:32...