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Friday 12 September 2008 Seven Years After 9/11, the Tears Keep Coming
New York City paused on Thursday to observe the seventh anniversary of a day that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said “began like any other and ended like no other.”

Thursday 11 September 2008

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SEVEN YEARS AFTER
The Globe (not available online) fronts, while the Star, the Post, La Presse (not available online), and the Citizen go inside with the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., that ignited the new era in international relations to which we have all become accustomed. The tone of today’s tributes largely encourages Canadians to stay the course in Afghanistan and be wary of the continuing threat posed by Islamic extremism. The Star hits a fundamentally frustrating note with its Washington Post report on the fruitless search-and-destroy mission that Americans have levied against al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden for years and years. Even if it is not hard to believe that bin Laden has evaded his enemies for so long, both the human and financial cost exerted in his pursuit has reached stomach-churning levels. La Presse reports on the social impact of the attacks all these years later, while the Citizen shows that a ceasefire is possible in the ever-volatile war of words between American presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain — the two rivals will jointly attend a memorial ceremony at Ground Zero today. The Post’s Father Raymond De Souza comments on the bizarre relationship that has developed between the Pope and Islamic religious leaders. While his words tend towards promoting the righteousness of Christianity, De Souza applauds the tenuous ability of the two religions to engage in thoughtful debate about their respective faiths. On the same page, David Wilkins, the US ambassador to Canada, encourages Canadians to stay the course in the war on terrorism — a request repeated every year with the same understated desperation as in years before.

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DUBIOUS JUSTICE FOR 9/11
by Jordan Himelfarb
February 12, 2008

In what CTVNews describes as “a milestone in the search for justice,” and Amnesty International calls “discriminatory” and a “violation of international law,” six Guantanamo Bay detainees have been charged for their alleged involvement in the attacks of September 11. The Pentagon announced yesterday that military prosecutors will seek the death penalty for six alleged al Qaeda operatives, who are to be tried for conspiracy, attacking civilians, hijacking, terrorism and 2,973 counts of murder, by the first US war crimes tribunal since the Second World War. Among the accused is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, or KSM as he is sometimes known—the purported mastermind and chief organizer of the 9/11 massacre. KSM has already confessed to having played a central role in the planning of the attacks, as well as to the decapitation of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and a slew of other horrific crimes. However, whether his confessions should be admissible as evidence in his trial is a matter of some disagreement, since they were obtained, the CIA admitted last week, through the use of waterboarding—an interrogation technique widely regarded as a form of torture, whereby the interrogated is made to feel that he is drowning.

The Globe reports that the rules of the court disallow the airing of evidence obtained through torture, though what constitutes torture is up to the court to decide. Unfortunately for KSM, according to The National, the US considers waterboarding torture when used on Americans abroad, but not when used on those in US custody. Human rights groups have long been lobbying to have any trials of Guantanamo detainees, many of whom have been held without charge for years, transferred to civilian court. According to one pundit on The National last night, the US military tribunals have been “set up for convictions,” and cannot offer a fair trial. Every Big Seven source is on this story, but only the Post and the Citizen run non-wire articles and no outlet offers any commentary. Too bad, since the more attention is focused on these trials, the less they will be conducted in the dark. The lack of attention on this story only helps to bring into doubt whatever verdicts these trials might deliver.

Friday 12 September 2008 UNITED STATES
Memorial ceremonies marked the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. In New York City, two minutes of silence was observed by relatives of the several thousand people killed when two hijacked airliner crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center. In Washington, President George W. Bush presided over a short ceremony. There was another observance at the Pentagon, where one of four hijacked airliners plunged into the defence department building. Mr. Bush paid tribute in his remarks to the American soldiers who are fighting terrorists aboard so that they don't reach the U.S. itself.

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Sunday 13 January 2008 The $250 Million East Bathtub at Ground Zero
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2007

TIME Aug. 9, 2007 Rudy to the Rescue

Sunday 30 September 2007

9/11 Is Over
Not long ago, the satirical newspaper The Onion ran a fake news story that began like this:
“At a well-attended rally in front of his new ground zero headquarters Monday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani officially announced his plan to run for president of 9/11. ‘My fellow citizens of 9/11, today I will make you a promise,’ said Giuliani during his 18-minute announcement speech in front of a charred and torn American flag. ‘As president of 9/11, I will usher in a bold new 9/11 for all.’ If elected, Giuliani would inherit the duties of current 9/11 President George W. Bush, including making grim facial expressions, seeing the world’s conflicts in terms of good and evil, and carrying a bullhorn at all state functions.”

Tuesday 11 September 2007

Tuesday 11 September 2007 montrealgazette

• Full Story
• Remember Sept. 11, 2001
• Gallery: Remembering 9/11
• Video: Bin Laden tape released
• Canadians visit Ground Zero
• Site showing signs of rebirth
• Bin Laden eulogizes 9/11 hijacker
• Video: 9/11 hijacker eulogized
• Bin Laden messages since 9/11
• Post 9/11, we identify with U.S.
• Toronto widow wants to mark day

Wednesday 05 September 2007 vanityfair Rare Scenes from 9/11
Watching the World Change, by V.F.'s David Friend, is now available in paperback. Here's the portfolio we ran upon its publication last year. Visit Friend's website to purchase the book.

Wednesday 18 July 2007 Six Years After 9/11, the Same Terror Threat
After years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq and targeted killings in Yemen, Pakistan and elsewhere, the major threat to the United States has the same name and the same basic look as in 2001: Al Qaeda, led by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri, plotting attacks from mountain hide-outs near the Afghan-Pakistani border.

The headline on the intelligence estimate, said Daniel L. Byman, a former intelligence officer and the director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University, might just as well have been the same as on the now famous presidential brief of Aug. 6, 2001: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”

Friday 13 July 2007 OTTAWA: AFTERMATH OF SEPT. 11 COST CANADIAN TRANSPORT DEARLY
A Canadian government report says that the repercussions of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have cost the Canadian transport sector almost $2.6 billion. The report obtained by the Ottawa Citizen newspaper outlines the impact on airlines, airports, railways, shipping lines and trucking firms. The report says that their operating costs increased by as much as $549 million up to the present. The study notes that millions of dollars have been spent on administration to comply with new U.S. security rules. The report says that the trucking industry has been hurt the most because of longer waits at the border. Airlines, for their part, suffered a drop in numbers of passengers and had added costs from the installation of reinforced cockpit doors, the reservation of seats for air marshals and the collection of passenger screening data.

CANADIANS DEEM BORDER SAFER
A public opinion survey indicates that most Canadians think their country's border with the U.S. safer than five years ago after the Sept. 11 attacks. However, the poll by the EKOS firm also shows that 79 per cent of the some 3,000 people asked last February were either "worried" or "very worried" that goods or people crossing the border into Canada threatened their personal security. The survey also indicates that few people have an idea of what measures have been taken by government to make the border more secure.

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More than five years after 9/11, global aviation security is still an "uncoordinated mess" that's costing the industry millions of dollars, the CEO of the IInternational Air Transport Association charged. IATA

nyt Monday 18 September 2006 More Questions of Accuracy Raised About ABC Mini-Series on 9/11 Prelude
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11 — The first half of ABC’s dramatic mini-series “The Path to 9/11,” which drew fierce advance partisan reaction last week over its portrayal of Clinton administration officials, drew an estimated 13 million viewers Sunday night, several million more than a rebroadcast of a CBS documentary about Sept. 11 but far fewer than NBC’s opening-week National Football League game.

Posted September 11, 2006
Are We Safe Yet? Round Two
Read John Mueller's 2006 essay | Read Round One of the Online Roundtable | Read Round Two of the Online Roundtable  Web Exclusive

Five years after 9/11, there have been no further terrorist attacks in the United States. Many claim that the threat nevertheless remains very high. In this special Web-only feature, an all-star cast of experts assess the state of the "war on terror" at five.

Posted September 7, 2006
Are We Safe Yet?
Read John Mueller's 2006 essay | Read Round One of the Online Roundtable  Web Exclusive

Five years after 9/11, there have been no further terrorist attacks in the United States, but many claim that the danger remains real and that another might be just around the corner. John Mueller argues in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs that the "fear-mongerers" are wrong and that the threat is much less dire than most people think. In this special Web exclusive, Foreign Affairs has assembled and all-star panel — James Fallows, Fawaz Gerges, Jessica Stern, and Paul R. Pillar — to assess Mueller's claim and the general state of the "war on terror" at five.

nyt Sunday 10 September 2006 Last night as we began to write this week's invitation we could not help a slight tremor - what would the fifth anniversary of 9/11 bring? As it turned out, -nothing-, but our collective psyche has been damaged as the dreaded, unidentified threat remains, and our foreboding increased by the 9/11 statement from Ayman al-Zawahiri , calling on Muslims to step up their resistance and warning that "new events" are on the way (likely reserved for a future date that means nothing to western culture, but may have symbolic meaning for a movement or an individual terrorist).

maisonneuve.org FIVE YEARS LATER
by Philippe Gohier
September 11, 2006

How do you remember 9/11? According to the Star, George Bush has pledged a “renewed resolve” to remember the lessons of September 11, 2001, specifically endeavouring to bear in mind that “there is still an enemy out there who would like to inflict the same kind of damage.” For Dick Cheney, the memory of 9/11 provides a lens through which to view the ongoing war in Iraq, reports the Star in a separate article; although Cheney has said that there is no connection between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 attacks, he believes that the Iraqi invasion and the events of five years ago are two security issues inextricably tied in Americans minds. In yet another 9/11 piece, the Star’s Rosie DiManno reports that for victim’s families, the grieving process has been “naturally, exceedingly consumed with memorial plans,” despite the fact that “scepticism runs rampant about what actually will be built.” And according to the Citizen, two-thirds of New Yorkers remember 9/11 as reason enough to be “very concerned about another terrorist attack.”

Perhaps most interesting, however, is what the Globe’s Christie Blatchford remembers. She recalls “being glad for the outpouring of support for the United States that briefly followed 9/11, and for Americans. I remember being dismayed that it wasn’t even greater, and by its short duration.” The memory of this rapid erosion of international public support leads Ron Suskind to wonder in today’s Star (not available online) if any lessons at all were learned from the event. Suskind argues that, despite initial widespread support for American retaliation in Afghanistan, “opposing the US in every way possible” has since become “the key to political success across much of the globe,” and that, as a result of the Bush administration’s missteps, “America is significantly less safe today than it was five years ago.” La Presse’s Mario Girard asks many of the same questions, wondering whether September 11 has become a day for commemoration, or one for politics. With no end to sight to the missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, and growing concerns over the sacrifice of civil liberties in the name of security, Girard notes that Republicans have a lot of political ground to make up since Bush’s popularity peaked in the aftermath of 9/11. That we remember September 11, 2001, is a given. Today’s news cycle, critical of post-9/11 political and military indulgence, suggests that we’re finally remembering the way the world was on September 10.

CBC NEWS: SUNDAY NIGHT: “This city and this country prepare to mark the five-year anniversary of 9/11”
CTV NEWS: “Anguished Anniversary: Reliving the anguish of Ground Zero five years later”
GLOBE AND MAIL: “Canada sending fifteen tanks, 120 more troops”
TORONTO STAR: “Took ten seconds to bring it all down”
NATIONAL POST: “Toronto bookseller ‘friend’ to terror boss”
LA PRESSE: “The world changed!”
OTTAWA CITIZEN: “’A day of renewed resolve’”

Monday 11 September 2006 CBS Videos 9/11 Looking Back At The Attacks

nyt Sunday 10 September 2006 10 Ways to Avoid the Next 9/11 The Op-Ed page asked 10 experts to answer the following question: What is one major reason the United States has not suffered a major attack since 2001?

ts What if 9/11 had not happened?
In Ray Bradbury's famous short story, A Sound of Thunder, a time traveller changes the course of evolution by stepping off a designated tourist path and crushing one little butterfly underfoot.

nyt Sep 11 Five years after the dust cloud settled on New York City, ground zero responders and downtown residents are still feeling the effects. Has the government done enough for them?

nyt Pinned Under the Weight of Skyscrapers and History in 'World Trade Center'
Oliver Stone has taken a public tragedy and turned it into something at once genuinely stirring and terribly sad.

August 9, 2006 nyt New Tapes Disclose Confusion Within the Military on Sept. 11 < By PHILIP SHENON
The tapes further undermine claims by the Pentagon that it moved quickly to try to intercept and shoot down one or more of the hijacked jets.

August 1, 2006 nyt A Skeptic on 9/11 Prompts Questions on Academic Freedom By GRETCHEN RUETHLING
Some state legislators have demanded that the University of Wisconsin, Madison, fire a lecturer who believes that the Sept. 11 attacks were an “inside job.”

Tuesday May 30, 2006 nyt

NEW YORK/REGION
		Video: Preserving the 9/11 Archives The Times's Glenn Collins discusses efforts to preserve amateur video and other materials from the World Trade Center attacks. Related Article

Judicial Watch Pentagon Plane Crash from September 11 - 9/11 - Video #2 1 hr 21 min 50 sec 911 Loose Change | Pentagon stike: Where is the plane? Where are the videos? 4 min 47 sec - Feb 25, 2006 [not new]

APPETITE FOR JUSTICE
by Ceri Au
May 4, 2006 maisonneuve.org/

Commonly referred to as the “20^th hijacker,” Zacarias Moussaoui remains the only person ever to stand trial in the US in connection with the 9/11 attacks. In April 2005, he pleaded guilty to six charges including conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism, conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and conspiracy to destroy aircraft. After seven days of deliberations, a jury in Alexandria, Virginia decided yesterday that Moussaoui should spend the rest of his life in prison rather than face the death penalty, as federal prosecutors, backed publicly by the Bush administration, had demanded. For more than four years, Moussaoui participated in a media circus of his own-making with a series of bizarre courtroom stunts. From refusing to speak with his court-appointed lawyers, to filing motions suggesting the judge and his own council were trying to murder him, to stunning the court with declarations that he and ‘shoe-bomber’ Richard Reid were tasked with hijacking a fifth plane targeting the White House—it’s hardly surprising that one of his lawyers emerged from court yesterday and admitted that Moussaoui was “the most difficult client I’ve ever had in my life.”

As Tom Clark reported on CTV News, Moussaoui will be jailed in Colorado’s "SuperMax" prison, known to house America’s most dangerous felons. Upon hearing the jury’s verdict, Moussaoui clapped his hands and reportedly shouted: “America you lost.” Although Moussaoui was in FBI custody on September 11, 2001 – he was arrested after his flight instructor found it suspicious he only wanted to practice flying planes, not land them, on a flight simulator – he did not reveal details about the planned hijackings that ultimately killed more than 3,000 people. For this reason, the Bush administration will press ahead with an appeal of the jury’s decision. Commenting from the White House, Bush declared “Evil, will not have the final say.” Yet as Neil McDonald explained on The National, the jury found several mitigating points in their decision to spare Moussaoui’s life. Among them, Moussaoui’s self-aggrandizement of his actual role in planning the attacks, the fact that he was the product of a broken-home and that he faced extensive racism growing up. The jury’s decision was not, La Presse reports, based on the belief that giving Moussaoui the death penalty would turn him into a martyr for extremists around the world. Outside the courthouse, relatives of 9/11 victims lined up to give statements, a majority of whom appeared satisfied with the jury’s decision. An Associated Press article appearing in the Citizen and the Star points out that yesterday’s decision was the sixth time in a row federal prosecutors have failed to receive a death sentence. The verdict was deemed even more shocking considering the proximity of the courthouse to the Pentagon, one of the targets of the 9/11 attacks. But as Moussaoui trades the media spotlight for the obscurity of prison, MediaScout wonders if the public’s thirst for justice has truly been sated.


THE LEADS:
THE NATIONAL: “Spared death: A US Jury reaches its decision on Al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui”
CTV NEWS: “Life sentence: The verdict that stunned the White House”
THE GLOBE AND MAIL: “Budget puts provinces at odds”
THE NATIONAL POST: “Terrorism’s ‘new guard’”
TORONTO STAR: “Buyers want GST cut…now” (top non-local)
LA PRESSE: “Mont Orford controversy: Quebec pushes ahead”
OTTAWA CITIZEN: Iran detains Canadian scholar

Petition to the Senate to Investigate Oddities Involving 9/11 Terrorist Attacks

Tuesday Apr 11, 2006 nyt Right Trial, Wrong Defendant The Zacarias Moussaoui death-penalty proceeding has been misguided as the signature prosecution of the 9/11 atrocities.

March 28, 2006 The Pentagon Attack:
What the Physical Evidence Shows
In this essay I asked what conclusions about the Pentagon attack were supported by physical evidence -- primarily post-crash photographs of the site. I found that, in every aspect I considered, this evidence comports with the crash of a Boeing 757. At the same time, the evidence does not conclusively prove that the aircraft was a 757, much less that it was Flight 77. However, that lack of conclusiveness should not be surprising given the systematic suppression of evidence by authorities.
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Tuesday Feb 28, 2006 nyt U.S. Is Settling Detainee's Suit in 9/11 Sweep An Egyptian man who was held for months after 9/11 and deported after being cleared of terrorist links will receive $300,000.

Wednesday Feb 1, 2006 nyt When 9/11 Shakes Privileged Mind-Sets
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
In Jay McInerney's latest novel, the boom years have come to a dead halt with 9/11 — an event that rocks even his most jaded hedonists.

Wednesday Jan 4, 2006 nyt Agency First Acted on Its Own to Broaden Spying, Files Show
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and SCOTT SHANE
The N.S.A. acted without a formal directive from President Bush to expand its domestic surveillance in the weeks after 9/11.

2005

Friday Dec 9, 2005 ec Could do better
The members of the federal commission set up to investigate the September 11th attacks issued a final report on the American government's response to their recommendations. Although some progress has been made, the members gave a grade “F” in areas such as pre-screening airline passengers and providing cash to cities most at risk.
Federal air marshals shot and killed a man at Miami airport who said he had a bomb and ran from an aircraft. No bomb was found. It is the first case of a shooting incident involving an air marshal since September 11th 2001.
John Campbell, the Republican candidate, won a special congressional election in a conservative district in southern California, seeing off a challenge not just from the Democrats but also from Jim Gilchrist, a co-founder of the Minuteman Project, which vociferously opposes illegal immigration.

Wednesday Nov 23, 2005 nyt mStill Searching for a Strategy Four Years After Sept. 11 Attacks
By ADAM LIPTAK
U.S. efforts at holding and punishing suspected terrorists have been notable for false starts and a reluctance to test the government's broadest claims in the courts.

Sunday Sep 11, 2005 nyt Revising 9/11
Hurricane Katrina has forced us to expand our vision of 9/11, which, until now, had defined the limits of tragedy in America.

Saturday Sep 10, 2005 nyt

A Deepening Gloom at Ground Zero Four years have passed since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, and the road to recovery at ground zero looks bleaker than ever. With an audio slide show.

September 4, 2005 nyt
Falluja Floods the Superdome By FRANK RICH
The failures of 9/11 come home to roost.

Saturday Aug 13, 2005

NEW YORK REGION
	Complete Coverage: The Sept. 11 Records The city of New York opened part of its archive of records from Sept. 11, 2001, releasing a digital avalanche of oral histories, dispatchers' tapes and phone logs.

Saturday Aug 13, 2005 nyt Vast Archive Yields New View of 9/11
By JIM DWYER
The oral histories are a mosaic of vision and memory recalling the human struggle against surging fire, confusion, and horror.

Thursday Jul 7, 2005 ts
Security boom
While the terrorist attacks of 9/11 dealt a serious blow to the U.S. and Canadian economies, one business sector that did benefit was the private security industry. Hicham Safieddine reports.

The Downing St. Memo Jul 2002
Why it mattrers a video from alternet.org/

Friday Jun 10, 2005 ts
FBI under fire for 9/11 blunders
WASHINGTON— The inability to detect the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacking plot amounts to a "significant failure" by the FBI and was caused in large part by "widespread and long-standing deficiencies" in the way it handled terrorism and intelligence cases, according to a new report released yesterday.
Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore) see preview The highest-grossing documentary of all time! ttp://www.cnn.com/POLLSERVER/results/14340.content.html

Sunday Nov 14, 2004
Do you believe there is a U.S. government cover-up surrounding 9/11? last seen 90% voted Yes

October 14, 2004 nyt
9/11 VICTIMS COLLECT $38.1 BILLION US IN COMPENSATION Victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks have received $38.1 billion US in compensation so far from insurance companies, the U.S. government and charities, according to a study released Monday by the Rand Institute for Civil Justice.

October 14, 2004 nyt
Addicted to 9/11 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Monday Oct 4, 2004 tsPost-9/11 heroic hokum is all smoke, no fire In his role as Cap`n Mike Kennedy, the paternal mentor to the Baltimore firefighters whose uncomplicatedly selfless exploits comprise the bulk of Ladder 49, John Travolta asks a reasonable question of these kind of men: What makes them run into a burning building when most would run out?

Sep 11, 2004
Intelligence meets politics The Economist Congressmen have begun a drive to reform America’s intelligence and counterterrorism efforts. But competing proposals—and the political points to be scored before November’s presidential election—will make agreement difficult

Saturday Sep 11, 2004 cbs
Poll: 50% of NYC Says U.S. Govt Knew

Please click here for the movie "9-11: IN PLANE SITE". . . . . . The video is contentious, it develops very slowly but if you make time to do so and stick with it you will very likely find that it does in fact pose some real questions to which I at least have no sensible answers. {75 minutes of video/ Color / Not Rated }
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"911 In Plane Site" ?
NOTE: The absence of a 100 ft. crater on the front lawn. For reference, the hole that you see on the front of the Pentagon is only about 65 ft. wide.
Where is a hole large enough to accommodate an airplane which is 124 ft. wide and 44 ft. tall? Where is the Boeing 757 wreckage? What happened to the passengers?

Hi Diane and David,

A propos to the absence of a large crater or passengers at the Pentagon - let me share a personal experience at a crash site.

I was driving from Ste-Adele to Montreal on the evening of November 29, 1963 when I heard on the radio that a Trans-Canada DC 8 had disappeared minutes after takeoff from Dorval and was believed to have crashed north of Montreal. As I neared Ste-Therese-de-Blainville on the Autoroute I saw many police vehicles heading north and I assumed that this was connected with the disappearance of the DC 8 - I made a u-turn and followed them to the crash site. At that time the area had not been cordoned off and with flashlight in hand, I was free to wander about and stayed for over an hour. There was no fire even though the DC 8 would have had a full load of fuel for its flight to Miami; there were pieces of plane wreckage strewn about but I did not see a crater, I had the eerie feeling that the plane had buried itself! The only human remain that I saw was a thumb, sort of hanging from a shrub by a tendon - it could have belonged to a member of the flight deck since the ground at that location was littered with pages from flight manuals and airports landing guides.

I found it hard to believe that a DC 8 (with 118 persons on board) had just crashed at that site!

Gerry

PS I was living in Dorval at that time and dating a stewardess who lost her room-mate on that flight.

Sunday Sep 19, 2004 ts
Hunt the Boeing! the show made in France | more | Google 1,760 pages

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Sunday Sep 19, 2004 ts
Moore foes offer DVD swap A right-wing American publisher is trying to save the world from Michael Moore, one DVD at a time.

Friday Aug 6, 2004 cbc
MOORE PREACHING TO THE CONVERTED: POLL Michael Moore's movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, is making money, but it's not making new friends, a poll shows.

Friday Aug 6, 2004 cbc
MOORE PREACHING TO THE CONVERTED: POLL Michael Moore's movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, is making money, but it's not making new friends, a poll shows.

THE LEADS: from maisonneuve.org/
SUNDAY REPORT: “Code Orange: The US raises its alert level”
CTV NEWS: “Armed and Ready: America faces the most specific threat since 9/11”
LA PRESSE: “The United States on edge”

Tuesday Aug 3, 2004 THE STRAIGHT GOODS:
Tom Ridge warns of new and specific threats against America’s “iconic” financial institutions. Dozens are injured as five Iraqi Christian churches are attacked in the first coordinated violence against Iraq’s Christian minority. Workers and union organizers are fighting to make a Wal-Mart in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, the first unionized Wal-Mart in North America.

July 22, 2004 cbc INDEPTH: SEPTEMBER 11 The 9/11 Commission Report: a summary

Thursday Jul 29th 2004 ec In defence of the intelligence services
JERUSALEM The committees of inquiry into American and British intelligence failures may have left the West less secure, argues Efraim Halevy, an ex-chief of Mossad

Thursday Jul 29, 2004 tc
9/11 film is moving, bin Laden kin says
PARIS (AP) — A half-brother of Osama bin Laden says he enjoyed most of Michael Moore`s Fahrenheit 9/11, except for what he called "inaccuracies" about his family.

Monday Jul 26, 2004 tc
Clinton, 9/11 cloud Democratic meeting OTTAWA—This week`s U.S. Democratic convention will have two clouds over it.

Friday Jul 23, 2004 ec
U.S. failed `to grasp 9/11 threat magnitude` Americans were left unprotected by successive governments unable to grasp the threat posed by Al Qaeda, an independent panel studying the Sept. 11, 2001, suicide attacks has concluded. Tim Harper reports from Washington.

Friday Jul 23, 2004 ec
9/11 COMMISSION SLAMS 'FAILURE OF IMAGINATION' A 'failure of imagination' was the greatest problem that allowed the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 to happen, the bipartisan commission looking into the attacks concluded. links Full report & more

Friday Jul 23, 2004 ec
The September 11th attacks Still haunting America
Although it spreads the blame, the September 11th report raises politically awkward questions for the Bush administration

Friday Jul 23, 2004 ts 9/11 report urges overhaul
WASHINGTON—The final report of the commission studying the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks will today call for an overhaul of the U.S. intelligence community and point to "deep institutional failings`` within successive governments that were exploited by the hijackers.

Tuesday Jul 13, 2004 ts Iraq-Al Qaeda link debunked
WASHINGTON—The commission investigating the 9/11 attacks is nearing completion of a finalreport that will probably stand by the conclusions of the panel`s staff and largely dismiss White House theories about a close working relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda, and possible Iraqi involvement in Sept. 11, 2001, say commission officials.

Saturday May 1, 2004 cbc BUSH 'CANDID' WITH 9/11 COMMISSION U.S. President George W. Bush, who had resisted the creation of an independent Sept. 11 commission, said he enjoyed being questioned by its members Thursday, adding that he answered every question during his three-hour meeting with them.

Friday Apr 16, 2004 ts FBI director Robert Mueller testifies before the Sept. 11 commission yesterday.
CIA failed to act on pilot-school alert
WASHINGTON—In August, 2001, George Tenet and his deputies at the CIA were given a briefing paper labelled "Islamic Extremist Learns to Fly" about the arrest days earlier of Zacarias Moussaoui — but they did not act on the information.

April 9, 2004 For advice on travel to Spain, see 'No silver bullet' to prevent 9/11 attacks
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice defended the White House against charges it had not taken the threat from al-Qaeda seriously before Sept. 11, saying there was no "silver bullet" to prevent the attacks.

Friday Apr 9, 2004 ec
He said, she said
Condoleezza Rice has given a firm response to the accusations that the Bush administration did not take terrorism seriously before September 11th. There are now two competing versions of the story, and in a polarised America voters are likely to believe the one they were already inclined to believe

Friday Apr 9, 2004 ts
Security adviser sticks to the script
WASHINGTON—When U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice took the stage yesterday, her task was to defend President George W. Bush against the charge that he was inattentive to terrorism before attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and to defuse a debate that threatens his re-election campaign.

Friday Apr 9, 2004 ts
No way to stop attack: Rice
WASHINGTON—U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice has used a historic public hearing to paint a picture of a vigilant Bush administration that was on high alert to the dangers of Al Qaeda, but was ultimately blind to the specific threat posed by Osama bin Laden during the summer of 2001.

Howard Dean

from Political Site of this Week CBC on Sep 11
Osama bin Laden w-n page

bbc on TIMELINE

The 9-11 bombings Are Not Acts of War

The 9-11 bombings Are Crimes Against Humanity

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European,or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. --J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known, pp.51-52

Cato scholars insight Since the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, Cato Institute scholars have published a series of articles examining various issues, ranging from military strategy to civil liberties to the economic and political impact of the attacks. Below you'll find these pieces arranged by topic. Media should click on the "press information" link at the left for list of Cato experts in each of these areas. work Cato scholars have done since September 11 regarding a potential U.S. war with Iraq.

cbc tv Jul. 31, 2001 September 11 [2:36] | From Unforgettable Moments | September 11, 2001 [2:36] | From "That Was Then..."

Sep. 11, 2001 September 11, 2001 [2:36] | From "That Was Then..."
Four passenger planes have been hijacked - two have flown into New York City's World Trade Center, another has crashed into the Pentagon, and a fourth airliner has gone down in a field near Pittsburgh. The American Federal Aviation Authority is diverting all international flights bound for the United States, rerouting approximately 200 planes to Canada. All other air travel has been halted.
From coast to coast, security is heightened in Canada's flooded airports. Travelers sit around television sets in airport lounges, watching the unbelievable coverage unfold. CBC News has this report on the thousands of international travelers who are stranded in Canadian airports, waiting and hoping to find a safe passage home.
• Following September 11, Canada stepped up its air security measures spending $55.7 million on advanced explosive-detection systems, $9 million to hire new customs and security inspectors, and $3 million for extra training of airline and airport security workers.

The costliest disaster on the U.S. list was the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at $20.7-billion, followed by Hurricane Andrew in 1992 at $19.9-billion and the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake at $15.2-billion.

2003

Tuesday Dec 23, 2003 bbc
Deadline runs out for 9/11 fund

Tuesday Dec 23, 2003 ts
Families sue U.S., reject 9/11 `bribe'
Ignore deadline for compensation Payouts average $1.8 million

Wednesday Dec 17, 2003 cbc
U.S. VIOLATING HUMAN RIGHTS: NOBEL WINNER
Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi of Iran Wednesday took aim at the United States for using the events of Sept. 11, 2001 and the war on terror to violate the rights of Muslims.

Thursday, 4 September, 2003, bbc
Towering problems Rebuilding on World Trade Center site still arouses passions

Thursday Sep 4, 2003 cbc
CANADIANS JOIN 9/11 TRILLION-DOLLAR LAWSUIT Some families of Canadians killed in the Sept. 11 attacks have joined thousands of Americans in a $1-trillion US lawsuit against the alleged financial backers of the terrorists.
TORONTO: CANADIANS JOIN SEPT. 11 LAWSUIT
Several Canadian families who lost family members in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have joined a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. brought against its presumed financial backers. The Canadians' lawyer in Toronto, Paul Miller, says 22 individuals from at least five families have joined the $1-trillion action. Mr. Miller says those joining in the lawsuit are doing so not for financial gain but rather to prevent future attacks. The lawyer says attacks such as those that took place on Sept. 11 can only be carried out with financial support and that the removal of that support is the best way to prevent them from recurring. Canadians have until Sept. 10 to join the lawsuit. The defendants in the case named in the court documents include the Sudanese government, members of the Saudi royal family, and several banks and charities.

Friday Aug 29, 2003 bbc
	Tapes rekindle horror of 9/11 Transcripts of frantic calls made as 9/11 victims tried to flee the burning twin towers are released in New York.

Wednesday Aug 6, 2003 TORONTO:
FAMILIES OF CANADIAN 9- 11 VICTIMS INVITED TO JOIN CLASS-ACTION SUIT
The families of the 25 Canadians who lost their lives in the Sept. 11 attacks have until Sept. 10 to join a class-action lawsuit. That's the date fixed by a judge in the U.S. for the deadline for the families of victims to join a lawsuit against the parties allegedly responsible for the terrorist attacks. The $1-trillion lawsuit was filed on last year on behalf of 4,000 plaintiffs, mostly of them Americans. The suit has been filed against the Saudi royal family, the government of Sudan, and a number of banks and charities. Paul Miller is the Toronto-based lawyer organizing the participation of any Canadians who choose to join the lawsuit. Mr. Miller says the case is more than just trying to recover money from an insurance company but rather about an attempt to stop terrorists. The lawyer says that the more Canadians are involved, the more money will be taken from the people who fund terrorists. Mr. Miller says no Canadians have so far joined the class-action suit.

Sunday Mar 2, 2003 cbc
KEY 9/11 SUSPECT INTERROGATED IN PAKISTAN American politicians continued to gush over the capture of the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, as the suspect was interrogated in Pakistan.

Sep 2002 National Geographic

Sunday Mar 2, 2003 cbc
Pakistanis Arrest Qaeda Figure Seen as Planner of 9/11
By ERIK ECKHOLM
The arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed represented a major victory in the U.S.-led global search for leaders of Al Qaeda.

Sunday Mar 2, 2003 cbc
U.S. HAILS ARREST OF ACCUSED 9/11 SCHEMER In a development that Washington calls "extraordinarily significant," Pakistan arrested a man Saturday suspected of being one of the masterminds behind the Sept. 11 attacks.

Saturday Mar 1, 2003 nyt
The Pentagon Releases a Proposed List of War Crimes to Be Judged by Tribunals By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Categories in the document include attacks on civilians, the taking of hostages, the use of poisons, the deployment of human shields, terrorism and rape.

Friday Feb 28, 2003 nyt
Libeskind Design Chosen for Rebuilding at Ground Zero
By EDWARD WYATT
An open pit will stand as the centerpiece of the city's effort to rebuild following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

January 29, 2003 Bush's state of the union Real Video (Runs 4:29) Story: Bush prepares America for war with Iraq (Jan. 29, 2003) To war or not to war (Runs 4:02) Story: Canada faces a morality test (March 11, 2003)

2002

SEPTEMBER 11 REMEMBERED Canadians from coast to coast stepped up on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to tell their stories.

Sunday Oct 6, 2002 nyc Defining Evil in the Wake of 9/11 A new book looks for guideposts in Lisbon's earthquake, fires and floods of 1755.

September 11, 2002 A day to remember by David Jones
Remembrance. Remembrance. Remembrance. We are deep into the nonstop "remembrance" process: speeches; plaques; statues; TV specials; books; poems; personal stories; religious services; marches; declarations; minutes of silence. For some the activities of this day will be seen as solemn, dignified, and appropriate. For others mawkish, commercialized, self-absorbed: a veritable Super Bowl of Grief. And, of course, in the process, the U.S. lies open to the criticism of others.

Sep 13, 2002 NYT
Never Forget What? By FRANK RICH
The unofficial motto of the 9/11 anniversary may have been "Never forget," but by 9/12, if not before, the war on Al Qaeda was already fading from memory.

Sep 13, 2002 cbc
9-1-1 PROVES LUCKY ON 9/11 The New York lottery rounded out a day of remembrance in a truly astonishing way Wednesday night.

Friday Sep 13, 2002
	Canada PM criticises 'arrogant' West Jean Chretien says America and other Western nations are partly to blame for the 11 September attacks.

Friday Sep 13, 2002 rci OTTAWA:
PM GETS MIXED REVIEWS FOR SEPT. 11 REMARKS
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has received both praise and blame for comments made in a recorded interview that was aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. on Wednesday. The interview concerning the Sept. 11 attacks was taped last summer with the intention of broadcasting it as part of coverage of the event's first anniversary. In the interview, the prime minister said that one of the lessons of the attack is that western nations, including the U.S., must take care not to misuse their power and wealth. The leader of the federal official opposition party, the Canadian Alliance, expressed outrage. Stephen Harper says Mr. Chrétien appears to be blaming the victims of the attacks for their own unhappy fate. The leader of the opposition Conservative Party, Joe Clark, has defended the prime minister, saying Mr. Chrétien's comments have been misinterpreted, adding however that the prime minister is a hypocrite to talk about the plight of the developing world while his government chops foreign aid. Many callers to radio talk shows said on Thursday they agreed with the prime minister's remarks.

PM says U.S. attitude helped fuel Sept. 11 | Globe 9/11/02 page

Thursday Sep 12, 2002 nyt
Imagining the Worst-Case Scenario in Iraq
By MILTON VIORST
In suggesting that our forces will dispose of Saddam Hussein in a war that is quick and painless, President Bush is clearly choosing not to consider the worst-case scenario.

9/11 HEADLINES BY cda com

September 11, 2002 A day to remember by David Jones
Remembrance. Remembrance. Remembrance. We are deep into the nonstop "remembrance" process: speeches; plaques; statues; TV specials; books; poems; personal stories; religious services; marches; declarations; minutes of silence. For some the activities of this day will be seen as solemn, dignified, and appropriate. For others mawkish, commercialized, self-absorbed: a veritable Super Bowl of Grief. And, of course, in the process, the U.S. lies open to the criticism of others. Subject:

September 11: Enough Day

George W. Bush, acting upon a joint resolution of Congress, has declared September 11 to be Patriot Day. According to his proclamation, we're supposed to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities and to display the flag at half-staff from their homes and observe a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. EDT, this in honor of the Americans who died in the terrorist attack. I have heard of a better idea, so I'm making it a proclamation of my own, which of course is completely unendorsed by any US politician so far that I'm aware of.

I declare September 11 International Enough Day. Enough flag-waving, enough violence, enough nationalism. Enough already! September 11 was not an American tragedy ... it was a human tragedy. It was a tragedy not just for the people in the US who died, but for every innocent person killed as a result of the US reaction to the attacks as well. It was a tragedy for the human spirit, regardless of nationality, religion, and anything else.

On September 11, let's say Enough. No more killing. Let's remember not only the victims of the hijacked airplanes in the US, but of the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Let's remember all the Israelis killed by Palestinian bombers and all the Palestinians killed by Israeli troops. Let's remember all the innocent people slain by Union Carbide in Bhopal, India in 1984. Let's take the day to contemplate the people who've been victims of genocidal warfare in Africa, and the ones who've starved to death because of political games as well.

Let's remember the victims of the Holocaust and of the firebombing of Dresden, too. Let's not forget those who were slain in the Mai Lai Massacre.

Instead of waving the flag of one nation and thinking only about our own dead, let's make September 11 a day to remember all the people who've died at the hands of someone else's political agenda through no fault of their own, and let's say enough. We should stand up and disavow this, no matter what country we're in, no matter what religion we are, no matter our political affiliation or status or race or anything else.

If we had a moment of silence marking the time of every atrocity ever committed in the name of nationalism, religion ... every atrocity committed in the name of the artificial borders that try to make us forget that we're all human, all in this together, all fragile creatures whose lives can be snuffed out in an instant through no fault of our own ... then we would never speak again. So we here in America should, I think, observe September 11 as the day when the nightmares that humans around the world have been living with for decades came lumbering ashore on the East Coast of the US. We should see it for what it is; the day the US truly experienced the horror that rings like a bell around the globe, from South America to the Middle East to Micronesia, the day we joined the human race at a most profound and fundamental level.

There should be no Patriot Day, no day to further emphasize that we're different. Instead, let's say Enough. Enough of putting the interests of any one nation above the interests of the human race. Enough dwelling on our small differences. Enough killing each other over them. Enough hate, enough fear, enough hunger, enough violence, enough bombing, enough.

We cannot find any attribution for this 'Enough Day' text, but might add a note to that effect and state that we would be happy to attribute if the author will contact us. On the other hand, the author may not wish to do so because of fear of reprisals, hate mail, whatever.

Last Wednesday Dr. John Jonas gave us an engineer's view of the tower's fall. For a well made computer interactive report of the attacks see the Guardian site.

BBC How the World Changed | ONE Year On | Video Video essays

Wednesday Sep 11, 2002 cbc
TSX GAINS; U.S. MARKETS FALTER ON DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
Trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange was light as investors did some cautious buying Wednesday. But U.S. markets couldn't hold on to their gains as the NYSE and the Nasdaq delayed the start of trading following sombre remembrance services for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Wednesday Sep 11, 2002 cbc
NOT QUITE BUSINESS AS USUAL The business community paused - and in some cases stopped entirely - Wednesday as gestures of remembrance for the victims of Sept. 11 took precedence over normal day-to-day routines.

Wednesday Sep 11, 2002 cbc
THE ECONOMIC HIT: ONE YEAR LATER Even as the smoke was still drifting across the wreckage of the World Trade Center towers in the immediate aftermath of last September's attacks, economists across Canada were struggling to quantify the likely financial cost of the disaster. One thing seemed certain at the time - they would have to redraw their outlook for the Canadian and American economies.

CANADIANS PAUSE TO REMEMBER U.S. DAY OF TERROR
Canadians from sea to sea to sea are marking the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in fire halls, churches, airports, memorials and public spaces.

AMERICANS MARK SEPT. 11
Americans began a series of sombre ceremonies Wednesday, commemorating the lives of thousands killed in the terrorist attacks in Washington, New York and Pennsylvania.

CITIES ACROSS THE GLOBE HOLD SEPT. 11 CEREMONIES New Zealand, Australia and Asian countries began marking the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks while heightening security around their own international interests.

Europe
	Europe falls silent to mark 11 September Ceremonies are held across Europe to mark the first anniversary of 11 September, with silences honoured across the continent.

UK
	St Paul's tribute to US victims A service is held at St Paul's Cathedral in London as the UK joins the world in marking the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Wednesday Sep 11, 2002
	City marks terror anniversary London's financial sector observes a minute's silence in remembrance of the September 11 terror attacks, exactly one year on.

Wednesday Sep 11, 2002

Their master's voice? An Arabic satellite television channel broadcasts what it says is the voice of Osama Bin Laden praising the 11 September hijackers

Wednesday Sep 11, 2002
		One year on... 6 ways the UK changed since 11 September

Sept 11 by canada.com An in-depth chronology of events since the 9/11 tragedy.
   
Also see NewYorkTimes

We note that some 3,500 Died in the Towers on September 11th. and we have bein going to furnals for a year. We also note that 36,000 childern die evey day for lack of food!

9/7/2002 Did world change forever? About 35,000 children died of hunger Sept. 11, 2001, Senator Lois Wilson points out, and about 35,000 continue to die every day. THE NATIONAL POST Soon we will be awash in reportage and opinion on the occasion of the first anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, the day that changed the world forever. Or did it? Senator Lois Wilson thinks not.

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2001

September 24, 2001 “We have much to do and much to ask of the American people,” U.S. President George W. Bush said yesterday.
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Sept. 14, 2001
Real Video(Runs 4:09) Rex Murphy on A Day for Mourning

14 September 2001 Letters from USAF offices
Recently, I was asked to look at the recent events through the lens of military history. I have joined the cast of thousands who have written an "open letter to Americans."
Thanks to John Ciaccia

Mon 9/17/01 Of Human Missiles By WILLIAM SAFIRE
A powerful weapon of radical Islam is its ability to erase from the brains of recruits the basic will to live. A perversion of one of the world's great faiths produces suicide bombers.
Thanks to Diana Nicholson

September 11, 2001 Networks Solid After Attacks By Paul Coe Clark III
Carriers contacted said they were increasing security and working to ensure that communications remained in place. The strongest threat to the network is unnecessary calling, and some carriers asked people to avoid non-essential calls.
"The volume of calls travelling on our long-distance network today is twice our normal traffic for a business day, and thus there is a significant amount of congestion on the circuits serving East Coast cities," AT&T spokesman Jim McGann told us today.

Sept. 12, 2001 Congress, please untie the president's hands
By RICHARD SINDELAR If we as a nation are to retaliate for what British Prime Minister Tony Blair has termed a "day of shame" for terrorists, as we inevitably must, then we should do so with a formal declaration of war. Sindelar, a Houston attorney, is a former deputy director of the State Department's Office of Near East Analysis. and was a regular Wednesday-Night performer

Thu Sep 13 >CANADIANS USE CBC MESSAGE BOARDS TO EXPRESS FEELINGS Tuesday began like any other day, as Canadians started the routines of their regular, weekday lives of work and school, only to be jolted off schedule by the news of devastating terror attacks in New York and Washington.

DO see W-N FORUM with notes from frinds Frank Kinnelly & David Jones in Washington