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Obama Meets With Family Members of U.S.S. Cole, 9/11 Victims
Sat, February 7th, 2009 @ 4:47am
President Obama on Friday assured family members of Americans who were killed in the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole and in the Sept. 11 attacks that the terror suspects will be prosecuted and brought “to a swift and certain justice.”
Mr. Obama met for more than an hour with about 40 relatives of terror victims during an emotional afternoon session in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White House. He explained his rationale for ordering the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be closed within a year, but pledged that the terror cases would be reviewed and handled through the courts.
Newman and One 9/11 Truther’s Academic Freedom
Tue, February 3rd, 2009 @ 7:59pm
J. Bonnie Newman, interim Senator for Cabinet-appointed New Hampshire Sen. Gregg Judd.
Those interested in learning more about New Hampshire’s next Republican Senator should check out the end of this interview she gave the New Hampshire Business Review in February 2007.
Here is the context: William Woodward is a psychology professor at the University of New Hampshire and a peace activist. That is not unusual, but his 9/11 conspiracy theories are. Woodward sparked great controversy when he alleged that “government elites orchestrated 9/11.” For a sample of his views, here is a sample from a lengthy letter he wrote the Portsmouth Herald last year…
Face to face with evil: 9/11 family member tells of close encounter with Gitmo terrorists
BY LORRAINE ARIAS-BELIVEAU
Sun, February 1st, 2009 @ 7:34pm
9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (in long beard) at his Jan. 19 hearing in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
My brother was killed in the World Trade Center on 9/11. I have been waiting for justice ever since. Last month, I went to Guantanamo Bay to try to find it.
What I witnessed was shocking. I saw a place where prisoners toy with the authorities, read the newspaper and get one hour breaks for prayer. I saw a place where detainees are treated far better than many ordinary American criminal defendants - and, as far as I’m concerned, far better than they deserve.
I looked straight into the eyes of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the man who masterminded the attacks that killed my brother and almost 3,000 other Americans. I was there when President Obama was inaugurated - and, soon thereafter, when he called a four-month halt to the criminal trials that were just getting underway.
I left with a deep fear that some day the men we now hold in custody will be free to inspire others who hate - if not to continue to kill innocent people themselves.
WTC survivors up in arms over Stump Towers plan
Sat, January 31st, 2009 @ 10:05pm
The last thing Ground Zero needs is a sorry-looking pair of stumpy low-slung buildings where chi-chi retail chains would peddle jewels, jeans and lingerie to tourists.
That was the emotionally charged verdict of 9/11 families Friday on a Port Authority plan to erect temporary stump-like structures in place of two of the towers long planned for the World Trade Center site.
“It’s a national embarrassment,” said Rosaleen Tallon, a biology teacher whose brother Sean, a 26-year-old probationary firefighter, died in the collapse of the north tower. “Rebuilding towers at the site was supposed to make a powerful statement of our grand resolve. Building chintzy, second-rate placeholders to sell retail goods makes a very different kind of statement.”
Honors Continue For Kathy Mazza
Lodge Renamed For 9/11 Heroine
Sat, January 31st, 2009 @ 12:42am
Kathy Mazza, Massapequa native and a heroine of 9/11
On Sunday, January 25, The Aida Lodge of the Order of the Sons of Italy honored Kathy Mazza, a Massapequa native and a heroine of 9/11.
The lodge held a ceremony at the Bethpage Senior Community Center with the purpose of changing their name in honor of Port Authority Police Captain Kathy Mazza.
Over 250 family, friends and lodge members attended the ceremony. Guest speakers included New York State Assemblyman Joseph S. Saladino, Nassau County Legislator Edward Mangano, Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, Town of Oyster Bay Councilwoman Ruth Marie Walker and Deputy Director of the Port Authority Police Carol Maresca.
Also present were national and state officials of the Order of the Sons of Italy in America. They included Joseph DiTrapani, First National Vice President, Salvatore Lanzilotta, First State Vice President and Nancy DiFiore Quinn, New York State President.
The moving ceremony celebrated Kathy’s life and career, especially her heroism on that tragic day.
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