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
Cuba: The second attempt to prosecute the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks and four men accused of helping orchestrate the plot got off to a rough start, with the defendants disrupting their arraignment and forcing the proceedings to drag on late into the night. The court hearing for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants should have taken a couple of hours at most. Instead it lasted almost...
05:58 PM, May 06, 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: Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who all his life boasted that he would go down fighting and would ask his bodyguards to shoot him if ever he came near Americans, offered no resistance when US commandos cornered him in his Abbottabad hideout a year ago, claims a new book. "For all his bluster that he would go down fighting and his bodyguards would shoot him if he were...
02:05 PM, May 03, 2012
Washington: Al Qaeda's core organization is likely incapable of carrying out another mass-casualty attack on the scale of September 11, 2001, US intelligence and counterterrorism officials said on Friday. US government experts also believe that the likelihood of an attack using chemical, biological, atomic or radiological weapons over the next year was not high, said Robert Cardillo, deputy director of US National Intelligence. Cardillo and other US officials, who spoke...
03:52 AM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Taking strong exception to reports of pilots allowing entry of unauthorised persons in the cockpit and flyers snapping photos from inside planes, aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has warned of strict action against airlines or individuals violating guidelines on the issue. The directive came after the DGCA received reports that the flight crew of a scheduled airline had allowed entry of unauthorised persons into the...
05:59 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Washington: The US on Wednesday charged Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks, along with four alleged plotters, vowing to seek the death penalty in a much-awaited military trial. The other four Guantanamo Bay inmates are Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi. They will face charges including terrorism, hijacking, conspiracy, murder and destruction of...
04:23 AM, Apr 05, 2012
Washington: Newly released Pentagon documents show that Air Force officers debated briefly about burial at sea before concluding that 1,321 unidentifiable fragments of remains from the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon should be treated as medical waste and incinerated. A string of emails running from August 5 to 7, 2002, reveals that an unidentified Air Force colonel suggested scattering the already cremated remains at sea. A second official - a...
08:47 AM, Mar 31, 2012
London: It was not Osama bin Laden who had come up with the 9/11 plot, a new book has claimed which also says that he had initially dismissed the plan. When the strike was first proposed to him in 1996 the al Qaeda leader was 'noncommittal' and refused to give his backing. It was not until three years later before he could be brought around and another five years before...
09:51 PM, Mar 30, 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
New York: The agency that is building the new World Trade Centre is "dysfunctional" and has let costs get out of control on the $14.8 billion project, auditors said on Tuesday. The projected cost of the complex has raised $3.8 billion since 2008, when it was estimated at $11 billion, Navigant Consulting, Inc, said in its audit of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Third parties have...
11:21 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New York: Actor Mark Wahlberg has apologized for asserting that he would have stopped terrorists from flying an airliner into New York's World Trade Center on September 11 if he had been on the plane. The star of the film 'Contraband' issued his apology Wednesday after comments he made to Men's Journal drew criticism. He told an interviewer in the February issue that had he been on American Airlines Flight...
12:45 PM, Jan 19, 2012
London: Director Steven Spielberg says he has changed the direction of his moviemaking after the 9/11 terror attacks in America. The 65-year-old - who is well-known for family friendly projects such as 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial', 'Indiana Jones' franchise and 'Jurassic Park' - said he felt compelled to create "darker" films after the tragedy, Daily Express reported. "9/11 changed a lot for me. It changed a lot for everybody in the...
07:29 PM, Jan 12, 2012
New Delhi: 162 BJP MPs from both Houses of Parliament on Friday submitted declarations to their respective presiding officers stating they have no illegal money stashed in foreign bank accounts in an apparent bid to pressurise the government to act on the issue of black money. In keeping with an announcement made by party leader LK Advani, 112 of the 115 BJP MPs in Lok Sabha and 50 of the...
09:12 PM, Dec 09, 2011
Yakkaghund: NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging US-Pakistan relations, already deeply frayed, further into crisis. Pakistan retaliated by shutting down vital NATO supply routes into Afghanistan, used for sending in almost half of the alliance's non-lethal materiel. The attack is the worst single incident of its kind since Pakistan uneasily allied itself with Washington...
07:51 PM, Nov 26, 2011
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