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Mastermind of 9/11 gives Texans a chill
Thu, February 26th, 2009 @ 3:30am
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is shown in these undated FBI photos.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Michael McCaul called the moment chilling and eerie. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said she froze in place. And Rep. Pete Olson stared through the one-way glass, thinking, “My God, that’s the man who planned the attacks.”
There he was in a stark cell at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba, kneeling on a prayer rug, head bowed, wearing the white cap of faithful Muslim men worldwide.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 44, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 al-Qaida attacks on the United States, appeared thinner than in the photos taken the 2003 night of his capture in Pakistan.
NY lawmakers ask Obama to rehire 9/11 health czar
Mon, February 23rd, 2009 @ 4:53pm
NEW YORK - New York lawmakers want President Obama to rehire the World Trade Center health czar let go by the Bush administration.
Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler and 9/11 responders held a news conference at ground zero Monday to push for the reappointment of John Howard.
Don’t Let Terror Win in Our Courts
The real risk is that federal judges will do what al-Qaeda cannot: order that committed jihadists be released.
Mon, February 23rd, 2009 @ 2:20am
Two weeks ago, I was among a small group of USS Cole and 9/11 victims’ families who met with President Obama at the White House. Despite President Obama’s assurances that the safety and security of the American people is his number one priority, I left the meeting with little confidence that the President appreciates the grave consequences of shutting down Guantanamo or the complex problems associated with adjudicating detainee cases in the federal court system. Indeed, he told us that he is “not at all concerned” about the security issues of bringing the detainees to the U.S. His rationale for this is simple: whether detainees are held in a federal prison or a military facility, either location would present a “hard target” for future terrorist attacks aimed at freeing them. He believes the detainees will be forgotten by their fellow militants.
New nuclear plants to protect against jet strikes
Sat, February 21st, 2009 @ 2:35am
Under the rule, designs must protect both the reactor cores and pools of spent fuel.
WASHINGTON (CNN)—The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted Tuesday to require any future nuclear power plants to be designed to withstand strikes from commercial jetliners, addressing a possible terrorist scenario that has haunted some people since the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Under the rule, designs must protect both the reactor cores and pools of spent fuel.
Citizen activists have sought such a rule since the attacks, saying the consequences of an air assault would be catastrophic.
But industry officials and some commission members opposed the requirement, contending that the probability of any such attack is small and the costs of the protection would be prohibitive.
9/11 family reacts to loss of one of their own
“God did not turn his back on this plane.”
Sat, February 21st, 2009 @ 2:26am
Continental Connections Flight 3407 crash victim and Sept. 11 widow Beverly Eckert, was one of almost a dozen family members who met with President Barack Obama earlier this month. (photo courtesy of Pete Sousa/The White House)
Long Island City resident Maureen Santora, mother of fallen Sept. 11 firefighter Christopher Santora, is referring to last week’s crash of Flight 3407, which claimed the life of 9/11 widow and tireless safety advocate Beverly Eckert.
The Stamford, Conn. native, who lost husband Sean Rooney in the collapse of Tower Two, was one of 49 passengers and crew who died in the crash outside of Buffalo last Thursday.
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