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Beyond the human toll, the financial impact to the nation has been huge. Add up spending on the Iraq and Afghan wars and domestic security, long-term care for veterans and the impact on the deficit, and the total is expected to be staggering. The U.S. launched a global war on terror after the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the most deadly strikes against domestic targets by foreigners in U.S. history. Beyond the incalculable human cost of nearly 3,000 civilian lives and the subsequent deaths of more than 6,000 soldiers, 2,300 contractors and hundreds of...

This is the best footage I have ever seen of the World Trade Center attacks.

Mohammed's 31 terror plots from Big Ben to BangkokMurderous trail of the one-time playboy who turned to terrorKey al-Qa'eda figures: where are they now?Mohammed's statement in fullProfile: Khalid Sheikh MohammedLeader: Guilt and GuantánamoUS military tribunals: Q&ADamian Thompson's blog: Just don't call him a 'terrorist'Ben Fenton's blog: The enemy studies historyThe mastermind of the September 11 attacks boasted that he beheaded an American journalist and devised several attacks against key British targets in a shocking confession to a US military panel.The statement by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, which includes a rambling justification for al-Qa'eda's confrontation with the West and violence against...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - 0314dv-terrorist-confession 0315dv-mohammed-confession Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's capture four years ago didn't shut down al-Qaida or bring the Americans to Osama bin Laden. But if his mega-confession is to be believed, his arrest was a crushing blow to bin Laden's plans for even more deadly attacks in the wake of 9/11. His expertise was never replaced and his absence has contributed to the group's transition from a fear-inspiring attack force to a hate-filled voice on the Internet, urging others to wage terror against the West. "In terms of competence for managing, planning and executing terrorist attacks, KSM was...

The chief of Al-Qaïda in Iraq calls with the removal of Westerners - the chief of the Al-Qaïda branch in Iraq invited his partisans to remove Westerners in this country in order to exchange them against the release of an Egyptian monk held in the United States, in an audio recording put in line Thursday on Internet. "I invite each moujahidine in the country of the two rivers (Iraq) to better do of sound during this blessed month (of the Moslem fast of the Ramadan)", affirmed Abou Hamza Al-Mouhajer. "Can Allah enable us to capture some of the dogs...

he last of the big fires erupted at 3:30 a.m., a rushing orange-and-red wall that swiftly overwhelmed the ruined Marriott Hotel. Dozens of firefighters sat in office chairs in the open air at the corner of Liberty and West Streets. Their faces were brightened by flames. Some slept, slumped backward in fire- retardant coats. This was a command post, the night after the attacks on the World Trade Center. It was also a triage center, although there were no wounded to treat. Mixed in were doctors and nurses and an actor from "The Sopranos" who helped drag out the ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Reading from radiophone transmissions, a federal prosecutor transfixed the courtroom at Zacarias Moussaoui's sentencing trial Tuesday with a minute-by-minute account of al-Qaeda's hijacking of American Airlines' Flight 11 and the plane's journey into the north tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. “We are flying low. We are flying very very low. We are flying way too low,” flight attendant Amy Sweeney told ground controllers who had asked at 8:44 a.m. where the plane was. Then a few seconds' pause, and finally: “Oh my God, we are way too low!” The phone went dead...

The Oliver Stone-directed World Trade Center-themed film will hit theaters one month before the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11. Paramount Pictures has selected August 11, one month before the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, as the release date for its upcoming Oliver Stone 9/11 pic...currently referred to as Untitled World Trade Center, according to Daily Variety. The studio chose the date so that it did not look like it was trying to commercially exploit the disaster. Starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena, the film centers on the last two people pulled from the rubble of the World...

Bombshell new evidence ignored by the FBI suggests a link between the Oklahoma City bombing and the man who masterminded the first World Trade Center bombing and who later drew up the blueprint for the 9/11 attacks, Fox News Channel's Rita Cosby is set to report Sunday night. "It's amazing to me that not more has been made of those phone records,” Oklahoma City attorney Michael Johnston tells Cosby, for her tenth anniversary special on the 1995 attack. The explosive new evidence shows that OKC bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols repeatedly called a boarding house in [the Philippines'] Cebu City, an...

2/26/91 Brig. Gen. Richard Neal in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, says Iraqi forces are in "full retreat" with allied forces pursuing; Iraqi POWs number 30,000-plus, number to climb to 63,000. USA Today website 2/26/91] Saddam Hussein announces Iraqi occupation forces will withdraw completely. USA Today website 2/26/91 Residents of Kuwait City celebrate end to occupation. Resistance groups set up headquarters to control city. USA Today website 2/26/91 The Iraqis, who had the Third World's largest poison-gas operations prior to the Gulf War I, have perfected the technique of making hydrogen-cyanide gas, which the Nazis called Zyklon-B. In the hands of al...

Friday, September 10, 2004 We Are So Sorry for 9-11 This September 11 marks the third unforgettable anniversary of the worst mass murder in American history. After September 11, many in the Muslim world chose denial and hallucination rather than face up to the sad fact that Muslims perpetrated the 9-11 terrorist acts and that we have an enormous problem with extremism and support for terrorism. Many Muslims, including religious leaders, and “intellectuals” blamed 9-11 on a Jewish conspiracy and went as far as fabricating a tale that 4000 Jews did not show up for work in the World Trade...

This evening on KABC Radio 790 AM on the Al Rantel program distinguished author Dr. Laurie Mylrioe (Bush vs. The Beltway) and Mr. Doug Hagmann, Direcror of the HomelandSecurityUS.Com website will be guests.

The Iraqi-Bin Laden Connection Bin Laden imitates Saddam DUBAI - Osama bin Laden has urged Muslims to join a holy war on American infidels, in an uncanny echo of language used a decade ago by another US foe, Saddam Hussein. In a carefully staged video recording, Bin Laden vowed to rid Palestinians of Israeli occupation and to purify Arabia's holy places of "defilement" by the US military. Saddam made similar promises to try to rally Muslim opinion during the Gulf crisis when he stood alone against a US-led coalition that drove Iraqi occupation troops from Kuwait. The two men have...

Muslims are on edge and suspicion reigns in city where Mohammed Atta studied, prayed and plotted the 9/11 hijackings HAMBURG THE SPIRITUAL home of the Sept. 11 plotters is off a dark stairway on the second floor of a drab building in the heart of a neighbourhood where hookers and drug pushers rule the streets at night. A dozen worshippers have answered the call to prayer on a cool evening, kneeling on the green and white striped carpet of the Al Quds mosque, where Mohammad Atta and his cell were inspired by hate-filled sermons. It's a small turnout, even for...

Sept. 11 victims honored alongside fallen soldiers Many Memorial Day ceremonies include travelers on 'front line' 05/28/2002 By DAN NEPHIN / Associated Press SHANKSVILLE, Pa. - On a holiday normally reserved for remembering the nation's war dead, victims of the Sept. 11 attacks were given a place of honor alongside soldiers who died in battle. Memories of the attacks made Memorial Day 2002 particularly painful and poignant. On Monday, scores of people visited the Pennsylvania field where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed after an apparent struggle between hijackers and passengers. Ernie Philips, 38, a U.S. Navy commander from Woodbridge,...

Detention transformed doctor into man of peace Saudi carries no bitterness home as he ends San Antonio stay 05/25/2002 By DAVID McLEMORE / The Dallas Morning News SAN ANTONIO - Dr. Al-Badr Al-Hazmi sits easily on the carpeted floor of the mosque. He speaks with a soft intensity, the words spilling out as he describes the day his life was turned upside down. Stony-faced FBI agents whisked him from his San Antonio home a day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He was flown to New York and secreted in a detention cell for nearly two weeks. Like hundreds...

There has been a great deal of talk about alleged insider trading of airline stocks by associates of Osama bin Laden prior to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Government investigators remain tight-lipped about a Department of Justice (DOJ) probe of possible profiteering by terrorists with advance knowledge of the attacks despite data that show trading activity on at least two of the most obvious stocks don't support the premise. In fact, based on financial information almost immediately available to investigators, even the most febrile conspiracy theorists would have to agree that this...

Bush denies he ignored warning Bush, supporters assail critics; Democrats press for disclosure 05/18/2002 By G. ROBERT HILLMAN / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - President Bush lashed out Friday at critics who suggest that he ignored early warnings before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, declaring that if he had known about the suicide hijackings, he would have done anything to thwart them. "I take my job as the commander in chief very seriously, that my most important job is to protect America and to protect our homeland," Mr. Bush said at a Rose Garden ceremony honoring the U.S....

Americans know that President Bush when faced with credible information about a threat would act swiftly and strongly. It is terribly unfair to the victims and victim families of the terrible tragedy of September 11 for anyone to suggest anything to the contrary. Such statements are irresponsible and politically motivated. Last summer, President Bush received briefings that contained general information about possible threats. The information was not specific. It did not mention time, place or method. These general threats were also uncorroborated. Any briefings containing specific information were uncorroborated and not credible. The same information was shared with members of...

<p>MANILA, Philippines (CNN) -- The FBI was warned six years ago of a terrorist plot to hijack commercial planes and slam them into the Pentagon, the CIA headquarters and other buildings, Philippine investigators told CNN.</p> <p>Philippine authorities learned of the plot after a small fire in a Manila apartment, which turned out to be the hideout of Ramzi Yousef, who was later convicted for his role in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Yousef escaped at the time, but agents caught his right-hand man, Abdul Hakim Murad, who told them a chilling tale.</p>