9/11 ‘Truthers’ Adopt a Highway in Missouri
The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has approved a controversial “9/11 truther” group’s application to adopt a highway. The St. Louis 9/11 Questions Meetup Group, which suggests the U.S. government may have been involved in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001, will have a sign erected with [...]
The US military has held a pre-trial hearing for five Gitmo inmates accused of planning the controversial 9/11 attacks in 2001 as the defendants maintain justice does not exist in the court martial. Pre-trial hearings for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other alleged al-Qaeda operatives opened Monday with a ruling that the defendants cannot be [...]
Congress’ Sequester Raids 9/11 Treatment And Compensation Funds To Cut Deficit
September 18, 2012 No Comment
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers vowed to “never forget” 9/11 again last week, but it appears many already had — in the budget sequester legislation Congress passed last summer to try and cut the deficit. The sequester set up automatic budget cuts of some $1.2 trillion over 10 years, and legislators were careful to spare veterans from [...]
More information is coming out about what led the FBI to declare Sunday’s Sikh temple shooting an act of domestic terrorism. According to the Los Angeles Times, tattoos plus “certain biographical details” were the source of that conclusion. A representative of the Sikh congregation, Kanwardeep Singh Kaleka, told CNN that “members described the attacker as a bald, white [...]
Two convicted felons, including a Manahawkin man, defrauded the public by falsely soliciting donations for surviving family members of Sept. 11 victims, according to a lawsuit filed by the state Attorney General’s Office. The two men were accused of driving around in a pickup truck painted with the names of first responders who perished in [...]
Obama Administration Declares All Statements by 9/11 Accused “Presumptively Classified”
July 21, 2012 No Comment
All statements made by the five Guantánamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11, 2001, attacks have been classified by the Obama administration, prompting legal challenges from civil libertarians and news organizations. The order, made in April at the beginning of the military trials of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others, applies to anything they [...]
George W. Bush knew of bin Laden terrorist threat before 9/11, CIA documents show
July 9, 2012 No Comment
Recently released CIA documents show that President George W. Bush was warned of an imminent terrorist attack months before 9/11. Although the Senior Executive Intelligence Briefings were very vague at first, they began to increasingly suggest an attack by al-Qaeda in a major U.S. city as September approached. The warnings began in late June. A [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon revealed Tuesday that partial, incinerated remains of some 9/11 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 [...]
Abdulaziz al-Hijji and his wife Anoud left three cars at their luxurious home in a gated community in Sarasota, Florida — one of them new — and flew to Saudi Arabia in August 2001. The refrigerator was full of food; furniture and clothing were left behind; and the swimming pool water was still circulating. Security [...]
Terrorists supposedly attacked the World Trade Center towers on 9/11 because they hated the freedoms of Americans. Now their ilk will be satisfied to learn that anyone in the vicinity of the new World Trade Center will have absolutely no freedoms whatsoever. According to plans seen by The New York Post, The Port Authority is to [...]
9/11 Responders Must Prove They’re Not Terrorists Before Receiving Benefits
April 23, 2011 No Comment
The new 9/11 health bill requires “tens of thousands of cops, firefighters, construction workers and others who survived the worst terrorist assault in U.S. history and risked their lives in its wake” to prove to the government that they’re not terrorists before they can receive medical care, the Huffington Post reports. The James Zadroga 9/11 [...]
By ANNIE KARNI Schoolchildren thought their penny jars and bake-sale proceeds would go toward building a 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero — not the six-figure salaries of nonprofit execs. But 11 staffers at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum each pulled down more than $170,000 in total compensation in 2009, according to the most [...]
By David Edwards Furor over the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” has long since died down, but a group of conservatives has refused to let the issue drop. A new movie titled “The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 911 Attacks” is set to premier at the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and [...]
