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WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Gov. George E. Pataki faced off Wednesday over a counseling program for firefighters and police officers affected by 9/11, with the governor blocking Clinton's move to add $4.5 million to the program - saying he will take care of it, not her. The dispute grew out of an amendment that Clinton attached to a Senate bill last week to extend Project Liberty, which provides counseling to New York City fire and police personnel affected by the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001. After the amendment passed, the New York Democrat sought Republican Pataki's...

Gov. Pataki, Sen. Clinton spar over Sept. 11 counseling program Wednesday September 22, 2004 By DEVLIN BARRETT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Gov. George Pataki faced off Wednesday over a Sept. 11 counseling program for firefighters and cops, with the governor blocking Clinton's move to add $4.5 million to the program, saying he'll take care of it, not her. The fight grew out of an amendment Clinton, D-N.Y., attached to a Senate bill last week extending Project Liberty, which provides counseling to FDNY and NYPD personnel affected by the terror attacks. After the amendment passed,...

<p>September 16, 2004 -- 'Relief' for al Qaeda? Saudi Prince Salman.</p> <p>AFTER 9/11, the United States invaded two states: Afghanistan and Iraq. Cantor Fitzgerald — the World Trade Center financial firm that bore a full 22 percent of 9/11's deaths — enjoys no such sovereign powers. So Cantor has spent three years preparing its own bloodless counterstrike.</p>

Port to Sue Saudi Arabia over September 11 Attack The US government agency that owns the World Trade Centre site says it intends to hold Saudi Arabia and nearly 100 other defendants liable for the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and destroyed the complex. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced last night that it planned to join as a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed a week ago by Cantor Fitzgerald Securities, a bond trading firm that lost two-thirds of its workers in the trade centre attack. The Cantor Fitzgerald lawsuit named as...

The government agency that owns the World Trade Center site said Friday it intends to hold Saudi Arabia and nearly 100 other defendants liable for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and destroyed the complex. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced that it planned to join late Friday as a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed a week ago by Cantor Fitzgerald Securities, a bond trading firm that lost two-thirds of its workers in the trade center attack. A Port Authority spokesman said shortly before 6 p.m. that the government agency had not...

Bond brokerage that lost two-thirds of its workers in the 9/11 attack is seeking damages. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cantor Fitzgerald, the bond brokerage that suffered more deaths in the Sept. 11 attacks than any other company, on Friday sued al Qaeda, Saudi Arabia and dozens of foreign companies seeking damages related to the attacks on the World Trade Center. The suit, filed as the three-year anniversary of the airplane attacks that killed about 3,000 people approaches, is the latest filed in New York federal court against al Qaeda, including one last year by a group of insurance companies. It...

Cantor Fitzgerald Suess Saudi Arabia, Accusing Nation of Aiding al-Qaida Prior to 9-11 Attack NEW YORK (AP) -- Cantor Fitzgerald Securities, a bond trading firm that lost two-thirds of its workers in the World Trade Center attack, has sued Saudi Arabia for allegedly supporting al-Qaida prior to the Sept. 11 attack through financing, safe houses, weapons and money laundering. The company, in a $7 billion lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan and made public Friday, also named dozens of other defendants, including numerous banks and Islamic charities, in a bid to hold them accountable for its losses...

(Guest Columnist) 'From Here to Eternity." "Tora, Tora, Tora." "In Harm's Way." These are three films made about Pearl Harbor. There have been more than 20 films made about Pearl Harbor, and over 200 films made about World War II. These films inspire patriotism, courage, and nationalism. They tell us about the honor and bravery of the soldiers and the nation that supported them. Two and a half years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the world watched American forces fight on D-Day. Two and a half years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the world is watching Michael Moore's...

This is a small, but true story to give you an idea of the kind of man and the kind of woman we have in the White House right now. As you may know, the President and Mrs. Bush visited the Washington Burn Center on Thursday 13 September. Among those they visited was TLC Brian Bridewell, who was badly burned in the Pentagon attack. Mrs. Bush went into Brian's room, spoke to him for about a minute, all the time as if they had been life-long acquaintances. She then turned to Brian's wife Mel who at this time had been ...

This is a printer friendly version of an article from www.heraldtribune.com Michael Niewodowski was a chef at the Windows on the World restaurant at the World Trade Center until Sept. 11, 2001. He lives in Bradenton. His e-mail address is niewodowski123@yahoo.com. He is the author of this article. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article published Jun 30, 2004 Sept. 11 witness says Moore's film insults victims of the attacks 'From Here to Eternity." Tora, Tora, Tora." "In Harm's Way." These are three films made about Pearl Harbor. There have been more than 20 films made about Pearl Harbor, and over 200 films made about...

Doug Copp was awarded $649,000, tax free, from the fund set up to compensate victims of 9/11. He says it's not enough. But it's doubtful he deserves anything. A Journal investigation found little evidence that Copp did real rescue work in New York. His forays into the rubble were to shoot video, some of which he tried to sell. His claim of seeking medical care within the time frame appears false. All typical of Copp's years as a self-proclaimed rescue guru. Part two in a four-day series I flew from Albuquerque to New York with Doug Copp and four of...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A man who claims to have waded in "toxic soup" deep beneath the World Trade Center rubble to help find bodies is being accused of making up his tale of courage and defrauding the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund of nearly $650,000. Doug Copp has traveled to disaster areas around the world over nearly 20 years, but a report in Sunday's Albuquerque Journal said its investigation showed a history of exaggeration and self-promotion with little evidence of real rescue work. Copp has said he and a so-called death-detection device helped find as many as 40 bodies....

Article published Jun 30, 2004 Sept. 11 witness says Moore's film insults victims of the attacks 'From Here to Eternity." Tora, Tora, Tora." "In Harm's Way." These are three films made about Pearl Harbor. There have been more than 20 films made about Pearl Harbor, and over 200 films made about World War II. These films inspire patriotism, courage, and nationalism. They tell us about the honor and bravery of the soldiers and the nation that supported them. Two and a half years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the world watched American forces fight on D-Day. Two and a...

Michael Niewodowski was a chef at Windows on the World in the World Trade Center until September 11, 2001. He has written a guest column for the Herald-Tribune in Florida about Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11". Here's an excerpt: So, how do we explain Moore's film to future generations? I wonder. More than that, I wonder how I would explain this film to Nancy D., Jerome N. or Heather H. I am sure you don't know their names, but their faces haunt me day and night. How would I explain to them that a film was made accusing the president...

Trapped beneath the rubble of 1 World Trade Center, his legs crushed from hip to foot on the morning of Sept. 11, Lt. John McLoughlin accepted that this was his last shift with the Port Authority police. "I assumed I was going to die where I was buried," McLoughlin said Wednesday at his retirement party, an event that seemed as improbable as his miracle rescue 33 months ago from the carnage at ground zero. Rescuers pulled McLoughlin from the burning wreckage of lower Manhattan about 22 hours after the twin towers collapsed, making him the last person rescued from the...

A 32-year-old West Side woman brutally injured in the 9/11 terrorist attacks has been awarded $8.6 million by the federal Victim Compensation Fund, the largest payment under the program so far. Deborah Mardenfeld, a human resources executive at American Express, was walking on Vesey St. shortly after 9 a.m. when she was crushed by debris falling from the second plane that slammed into the World Trade Center. "I had just left the subway, I was in the underground mall and a man told us to go out onto the street," she told the Daily News. "I looked up, I saw...

WASHINGTON (AP) A 33-year-old woman who suffered massive injuries in the attack on the World Trade Center has been awarded $8.6 million by the Sept. 11 Victims Compensation Fund. The award to Deborah Mardenfeld, first reported by the New York Law Journal on Thursday, was among the largest of the awards the fund has made to date. Mardenfeld, an American Express human resources director, lost her left heel and buttocks and had her legs crushed by falling debris. She spent more than a year in hospitals after the attack. "I have hopes of returning to a normal life but I...

April 8, 2004 9/11 Survivors See Hearing From Varying AnglesBy MICHAEL JANOFSKY ASHINGTON, April 8 — They sat several seats apart today, listening to President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, testify before the 9/11 commission. What they had in common was suffering.But John Owens of Mineola, N.Y., whose brother, Peter, died in the World Trade Center, and April Gallop of Woodbridge, Va., an executive assistant for the Army who sustained injuries at the Pentagon, came away from the three hours of long questions and longer answers with vastly different views.Mr. Owens nodded his head in agreement and applauded several...

As survivors of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the members of the D.C. Chapter of Free Republic feel entitled to issue this report. Many of us witnessed the attacks and their aftermath in person. Some of us were in New York City at the World Trade Center that day, others were at, near or just across the river from the Pentagon. (None of our chapter members witnessed the plane crash in Pennsylvania.) The D.C. Chapter of Free Republic is an independent grassroots conservative organization founded in 1998. Every Saturday for the last 28 months of the Clinton administration, members...

A former Syracuse-area man who survived the September eleventh, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center was among the passengers killed in Wednesday's ferry crash in New York City. Darius Marshall was living in the city after attending Wagner College on Staten Island. He was riding a Staten Island ferry when it rammed into a concrete pier, killing him and nine other passengers. The 25-year-old Marshall was a 1996 graduate of Christian Brothers Academy in the Syracuse suburb of DeWitt. He was recruited by Wagner to play football. He graduated in 2000 with a degree in criminal justice and recently...