9/11 News

A summary of news and opinion on the current state of the 9/11 community.

Families in 9/11 Financing Case Ask to Have Judge Replaced

Tue, June 15th, 2010 @ 3:33pm

Judge George B. Daniels

Lawyers for families of 9/11 victims have taken the unusual legal step of asking a federal appeals court in Manhattan to replace a judge overseeing a group of terrorism-financing lawsuits, saying he is moving too slowly in resolving key motions.

The judge, George B. Daniels of Federal District Court in Manhattan, has yet to rule on almost 100 motions by defendants to dismiss the case, the lawyers said in a petition to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

The judge’s inaction is “effectively suspending the litigation,” the lawyers wrote, “and immunizing those alleged to have sponsored the attacks from having to answer for their conduct in this nation’s courts.”

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Happy Responders Day: NYC Cuts 9/11 Counseling

Sat, June 5th, 2010 @ 1:55pm

Mayor Bloomberg’s administration left one thing off the roster of events for Saturday’s “World Trade Center Responder Day: A Salute To Heroes” - news that the city is ending its 9/11 mental health program.

The effort serves some 4,500 New Yorkers, including many who do not qualify for other World Trade Center health treatment programs.

But the city has begun warning patients to find help elsewhere starting Jan. 7, describing the effort as temporary in letters being sent patients, the Daily News has learned.

“The NYC Benefit Program has filled an important need by temporarily continuing a privately funded program that ensured cost would not be a barrier for people,” says a copy of the letter obtained by The News.

City officials had been negotiating for federal funding of the $3.5 million effort, but declined to accept an Obama administration requirement to keep the program running after this year if the feds agreed to bail it out.

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The 9/11 Mosque’s Peace Charade

How does building a giant mosque at Ground Zero address the problem of moderate Muslims not speaking out against terrorism? How does this mosque honor those who were “harmed” — i.e., brutally murdered — on September 11? Whom does a mosque at 9/11 really honor: the Americans who lost their lives, or the jihadis who murdered them?

Wed, June 2nd, 2010 @ 8:32pm

Brave Ground Zero Heroes.

WASHINTON, DC (Big Government) -  A massive fifteen-story mosque and Islamic Center going up in what was once the shadow of the World Trade Center claims to offer "the opposite statement to what happened on 9/11." The Center organizers, the America Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), have worked hard in the media to portray themselves as Islamic moderates working for peace on the exact spot where their belligerent coreligionists perpetrated murder and mayhem in the name of their religion.
 
But the words and deeds of the leader of the effort, the Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, suggests a more ominous reality: Abdul Rauf is a master of deceptive, Orwellian use of language, manifesting a deep contempt for non-Muslims and full accord with the supremacist goals of the 9/11 hijackers.

So anxious were they to secure the location at Ground Zero that a Muslim real estate company paid $4.85 million in cash for the building, with part coming from Abdul Rauf's other Islamic group, the Cordoba Initiative. It is unnerving - the deliberate speed and anxiousness that the leader of the American Society for Muslim Advancement has demonstrated in working to open a mosque at the gaping wound of Ground Zero. He claims that it will heal that wound.

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Another 9/11 responder death spurs new aid-bill push to help Ground Zero heroes

Wed, June 2nd, 2010 @ 8:27pm

An aeriel view of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Another 9/11 responder's death prompted her family to plead Monday for federal funding to treat rescuers sickened by their work at Ground Zero.

Paula Rodriguez, 44, an FDNY emergency medical technician, died Sunday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Relatives contend Rodriguez's fatal disease was linked to the many days she spent working in the toxic cloud over lower Manhattan in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

"If this government really cared, they would have done something years ago," said Rodriguez's niece Stacy Asencio-Sutphen.

Rodriguez, of Lindenhurst, L.I., the mother of two young boys, is among nearly 900 first responders to have died from an array of ailments traced to their service at the smoldering World Trade Center.

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Mayor Bloomberg to A.G. Holder: Make a decision on 9/11 terror trial already!

Fri, April 16th, 2010 @ 10:30pm

Mayor Bloomberg (r.) wants Attorney General Holder to rule out New York as a location for the trial.

Mayor Bloomberg has a message for Attorney General Eric Holder: Make up your mind on the terror trials.

Holder refuses to rule out New York for the trail of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his cronies despite cries from local lawmakers to hold it someplace else.

"They should make a decision," said Bloomberg Friday on WOR radio. "I don't think the decision is going to get any easier for them."

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