Cuba: US prosecutors and defense attorneys for five defendants in the September 11 attacks dug in on Sunday for a long legal battle that one lawyer said may never be resolved. The military tribunal is not expected to start for almost another year and if Saturday's 13-hour arraignment was an accurate preview, the trial will be chaotic and drawn out with continuing disputes about torture and whether a military trial...
10:55 AM, May 07, 2012
New York: Lee Hanson became deeply angry as the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks and co-defendants tried to undermine their arraignment on 3,000 counts of murder at a military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Hanson's son, daughter-in-law and 2-year-old granddaughter, the youngest 9/11 victim, were killed in the terror attacks over a decade ago. All were aboard United Flight 175, the second plane to crash into the twin...
02:58 PM, May 06, 2012
Washington: The Pentagon revealed on Wednesday that partial, incinerated remains of some September 11 victims that could not be identified were sent to a landfill. The number of victims involved was unclear according to a Pentagon report, but it involved some of those killed when a terrorist-hijacked airplane struck the Pentagon, killing 184, and another crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, killing 40, in the September 11, 2001, attacks against...
07:17 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Islamabad: A battered al Qaeda suffered another significant blow when Pakistani agents working with the CIA arrested a senior leader believed to have been tasked by Osama bin Laden with targeting American economic interests around the globe, Pakistan announced on Monday. Younis al-Mauritani's arrest - made public five days before the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks - was seen as damaging al Qaeda's central leadership in Pakistan, further degrading...
10:26 PM, Sep 05, 2011
Washington: Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed to meet on August 24 with family members of some of the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks regarding the FBI inquiry into allegations surrounding Rupert Murdoch's media empire, a lawyer said on Wednesday. According to a London tabloid's story based on unidentified sources, a former New York police officer-turned-private investigator said he had been contacted by journalists from Murdoch's News of...
03:45 AM, Jul 28, 2011
New York: The FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp sought to hack into the phones of September 11 victims, a law enforcement official said on Thursday. The official spoke on Thursday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. New York City-based News Corp has been in crisis mode. A rival newspaper reported last...
01:04 AM, Jul 15, 2011
London: Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper reported on Monday that News of the World journalists had offered to pay a New York police officer to retrieve the private phone records of victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks. Citing an unidentified source, the newspaper said journalists had wanted the phone numbers of the dead as well as details of the calls they had made and received in the days leading to...
12:50 PM, Jul 11, 2011
Washington: The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be tried in a military commission at the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention center along with four suspected co-conspirators, the Pentagon said. "The prosecutors have recommended that the charges against all five of the accused be referred as capital. Capital charges may only be pursued with the convening authority's approval," a Pentagon statement said. "Under rules governing military commissions,...
08:18 AM, Jun 01, 2011
Cairo: Al Qaeda released a posthumous audio recording by Osama bin Laden posted on Jihadi websites, in which the Islamist group's ex-leader praised revolutions sweeping the Arab world. The SITE monitoring service reported on Thursday that the audio by bin Laden, who was killed in a US raid on May 2 in Pakistan, was included in an Internet video lasting more than 12 minutes. Al Qaeda had said bin Laden,...
06:59 AM, May 19, 2011
Washington: Some of the first information gleaned from Osama bin Laden's compound indicates al Qaeda considered attacking US trains on the upcoming anniversary of the September 11 attacks. But counter-terrorism officials say they believe the planning never got beyond the initial phase and have no recent intelligence pointing to an active plot for such an attack. As of February 2010, the terror organization was considering plans to attack the US...
06:57 AM, May 06, 2011
Boston: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said that Osama bin Laden's actions had to be "brought to justice" and forgiveness for the slain al-Qaeda chief does not mean one should "forget what happened." Speaking to students at the University of Southern California, the Dalai Lama said bin Laden may have deserved compassion and even forgiveness as a human being. But "forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something...
11:17 AM, May 05, 2011
Jerusalem: Israel, a key ally of United States in the Middle East, on Monday welcomed the news of Osama bin Laden's killing, saying "it shares the joy of the American people on this historical day". Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the US operation a "resounding victory for justice, freedom, and the values shared by all democratic countries fighting shoulder to shoulder against terror." Netanyahu, in a statement released by his...
11:48 AM, May 02, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama has hit out at his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for saying that America was behind the 9/11 attacks. Ahmadinejad in his speech at the UN had suggested that the US was involved in the 9/11 attacks. While speaking to BBC, the President called the comments hateful and inexcusable. Obama lashed out at Ahmadinejad for the latest of what the White House called a long list...
12:54 PM, Sep 25, 2010
Washington: The reigning Miss USA has come out against the Ground Zero mosque, saying "it shouldn't be so close" to the site of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in New York. The 24-year-old Rima Fakih, is the first Muslim winner of the Miss USA contest and is preparing for the Miss Universe Pageant, scheduled for Monday in Las Vegas. "I totally agree with President Obama with the statement on...
11:55 AM, Aug 21, 2010
A Canadian man and his young son were deboarded from a flight for allegedly watching the 9/11 attacks video. ...
03:20 PM, Jul 23, 2010
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