Tag Archives: September 11 attacks

Pelosi: Republicans Responsible for Benghazi Attack

You know that time Republicans decided to illegally overthrow the Libyan regime and replace it with a bunch of Islamist militias? And then the Republicans spent months ignoring warnings about Al Qaeda in Benghazi, used the Muslim Brotherhood as their … read more »

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U.S. Antiterrorism team Head to Libya

The United States is deploying a US Marine anti-terrorism team to Libya to bolster security after a deadly attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, a US defense official said Wednesday. “The Marines are sending a FAST (Fleet Antiterrorism Security … read more »

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Abandoning My Pre-9/11 Mentality

By: Anthony Gregory On the eve of September 10, 2001, I went to sleep a libertarian, distrustful of the state, holding both major political parties in contempt, seeing the federal government as the primary enemy of the American people, their … read more »

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9/11 anniversary: The terror pretext in tatters

The 11th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks passed Tuesday with diminished official commemoration, as attempts to exploit the tragic deaths of that day as a pretext for Washington’s unending wars have grown ever more hollow. In New York … read more »

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Court Convicts bin Laden’s Wives

A court in Pakistan on Monday jailed former al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden’s three widows and two of his daughters for illegally staying in the country and hiding their identity from authorities. The women were sentenced to 45 days in … read more »

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UK U.S. District Court Rules Iran Behind 9/11 Attacks

UK U.S. District Court Rules Iran Behind 9/11 AttacksFriday, December 23, 2011 1:25 PMNEW YORK, December 23, 2011/PRNewswire via African Press Organization (APO)/ — A federal district court in Manhattan yesterday entered a historic ruling that reveals new facts about … read more »

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9/11: A Ghanaian Perspective

On the eleventh of September 2001, the world bore witness to the unimaginable. America, the greatest country on Earth, came under an attack. Like the walls of Jericho, the Twin Towers in New York came tumbling down. Most of us … read more »

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Al-Qaeda releases video of Osama

Al-Qaeda has released a video marking the anniversary of 9/11 which includes a message from its slain leader Osama bin Laden to the American people, monitoring group SITE Intelligence said on Tuesday. SITE said the 62-minute video titled “The Dawn … read more »

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American City Is ‘Breeding Terrorists’

The White House believes home-grown terrorism is one of the greatest threats the US faces, ten years after the 9/11 attacks. The biggest domestic terrorism investigation since 2001 has focused on the northern city of Minneapolis. It is estimated up … read more »

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US Investigates Potential 9/11 Anniversary Threat

U.S. counterterrorism officials are investigating what they call a credible but unconfirmed terror threat planned to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Authorities said Thursday they had discovered information suggesting the … read more »

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70 dead in Osama ‘revenge’

Pakistan’s Taliban claimed their first major strike in revenge for Osama bin Laden’s death on Friday as at least 70 people were killed in a suicide and bomb attack on paramilitary police. “This was the first revenge for Osama’s martyrdom. … read more »

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South Sudan welcomes killing of Osama bin laden

A senior member of the South Sudan’s ruling party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) on Wednesday welcomed the death of terrorist leader, Osama bin laden, Pakistan following a raid by the United States special forces. “The killing of Al … read more »

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Bin Laden’s Sudan home left empty over attack fears

Behind a high white wall next to an unpaved road in the Sudanese capital, the two-storey house where Osama bin Laden once lived has remained vacant since the leader of al Qaeda was expelled from Sudan in 1996. No one … read more »

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Al-Qaida head bin Laden dead, Says Obama

WASHINGTON – Osama bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was killed in an operation led by the United States, President Barack Obama said Sunday. A small team of Americans … read more »

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WikiLeaks: FBI hunts the 9/11 gang that got away

The FBI has launched a manhunt for a previously unknown team of men suspected to be part of the 9/11 attacks, the Daily Telegraph can disclose. An airliner explodes in a fireball as it hits the south tower of the … read more »

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P Diddy sued for $1-trillion

P. Diddy is being sued for $1 trillion. Valerie Joyce Wilson Turks has filed a lawsuit against the hip-hop superstar accusing him of being behind the 2001 September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and stealing a poker chip from … read more »

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East Africa embassy bomber sentenced to life in prison

NEW YORK — Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was sentenced Tuesday in New York to life in prison for his role in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa — making him the first terrorist to be plucked from the prison … read more »

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Radical Muslim cleric sentenced to life

A radical Muslim cleric who preached hatred of the West from his base in north London for 20 years has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Lebanon. Omar Bakri Mohammed, known as the “Tottenham Ayatollah”, was on the run after … read more »

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Plane with 68 aboard crashes in Cuba

A plane carrying 68 people crashed in a mountainous region of central Cuba after issuing an emergency call, state-run media said on Thursday, and there were no initial reports of survivors. Cuban television said the plane was an ATR-72-212 twin … read more »

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Mail bomb investigators push on with Yemen manhunt

SAN’A, Yemen – Their first suspect in custody, Yemeni police continued to search for the terrorists believed responsible for mailing a pair of powerful bombs to attack the United States. U.S. and Yemeni officials were increasingly seeing al-Qaida’s hand in … read more »

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