http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/911attacks/ en-us Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:52:58 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080567/posts "Why did it take a bunch of Arabs to do what you all should have done a long time ago?"August, 2003: Ward Churchill Caught On Tape Advocating Terrorism [vs Fellow Americans] Audio link at Michell Malkin's website (included below) Question from audience: You mentioned a little bit ago, "Why did it take a bunch of Arabs to do what you all should have done a long time ago," that's my question. Churchill: I'm gonna repeat that, tell me if I got that right: Why shouldn't we do something and how do you you move so they don't see you coming.... several sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080567/posts#comment Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:52:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000495/posts A German opera house is to unveil a provocative new production staged in the ruins of New York's World Trade Centre. It features naked pensioners and Mickey Mouse masks, Hitler salutes and Elvis impersonators. The self-consciously outrageous September 11th staging of Verdi's 'A Masked Ball' has been dreamed up by Austrian director Johann Kresnik. He has described the concoction as a populist critique of modern American society, aimed at showing up the disparities between rich and poor, which attracting a large audience. It will be a different, a provocative masked ball on the ruins of the World Trade Centre," he... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000495/posts#comment Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:11:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993209/posts WASHINGTON — The FBI has narrowed its focus to "about four" suspects in the 6 1/2-year investigation of the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, and at least three of those suspects are linked to the Army’s bioweapons research facility at Fort Detrick in Maryland, FOX News has learned.Among the pool of suspects are three scientists — a former deputy commander, a leading anthrax scientist and a microbiologist — linked to the research facility, known as USAMRIID. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993209/posts#comment Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:08:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993220/posts FBI Focusing on 'About Four' Suspects in 2001 Anthrax Attacks Friday , March 28, 2008 By Catherine Herridge and Ian McCaleb WASHINGTON — The FBI has narrowed its focus to "about four" suspects in the 6 1/2-year investigation of the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, and at least three of those suspects are linked to the Army’s bioweapons research facility at Fort Detrick in Maryland, FOX News has learned. Among the pool of suspects are three scientists — a former deputy commander, a leading anthrax scientist and a microbiologist — linked to the research facility, known as USAMRIID. The FBI... FOX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993220/posts#comment Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:32:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969385/posts WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has instructed U.S. diplomats abroad to defend its decision to seek the death penalty for six Guantanamo Bay detainees accused in the Sept. 11 terror attacks by recalling the executions of Nazi war criminals after World War II. A four-page cable sent to U.S. embassies and obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press says that execution as punishment for extreme violations of the laws of war is internationally accepted and points to the 1945-46 International Military Tribunals as an example. Twelve of Adolf Hitler's senior aides were sentenced to death at the trials in Nuremberg, Germany,... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969385/posts#comment Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:05:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959289/posts WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Minnesota flight instructor who notified his bosses of student Zacarias Moussaoui's suspicious behavior received a $5 million reward Thursday from the State Department, two government officials told CNN. Zacarias Moussaoui was convicted in 2006 of conspiring to kill Americans on September 11, 2001. Clarence "Clancy" Prevost was an instructor at the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Eagan, Minnesota, when Moussaoui was a student there. Moussaoui, sometimes called the "20th hijacker," is the only person charged and convicted in connection with the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. ... Prevost, a retired Northwest... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959289/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:37:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1942268/posts The man who gave al-Qaeda its philosophical justifications for murderous jihad has repented, and wants Muslims to stop the jihad. Eli Lake at The Sun reports on the story of Sayyed Imam al-Sharif, the man who literally wrote the book on radical Islamist terrorism, and who now serves a life sentence in Egypt for his crimes. Sharif has decided that the 9/11 attacks have been a "catastrophe" for Muslims, and that the war against America has created a huge problem for Islam: One of Al Qaeda's senior theologians is calling on his followers to end their military jihad and saying... Captain's Quarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1942268/posts#comment Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:13:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925706/posts & Anthrax And Al Qaeda By Michael Barone Nov 13, 2007 (US News) On the conservative website The American Thinker, military operations research analyst Ray Robison had an article on the September 2001 anthrax attack. It's based on a recently revealed pre-September 11 letter from a London jihadi named Numan Bin Uthman to al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Robison's conclusion: "Now let's put that big picture together." "Uthman says he tried to talk Mohammad Atef and Usama bin Laden out of using WMD in a terrorist attack to convince the U.S. not to retaliate in Afghanistan because it would ultimately... CBSNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925706/posts#comment Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:44:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923465/posts New light is being shed on the 2001 anthrax attacks in a fascinating open letter to Ayman al Zawahiri of al Qaeda, written by a jihadi living in London. Numan Bin Uthman, a former leader of an armed Islamic group in Libya, provides yet more evidence that the global Islamic jihad movement is losing its resolve.  But the letter contains a startling admission. Uthman tells us of a conversation he had with al Qaeda leaders before the 9/11 attacks in which he urged them not to use WMD. From AKI News: Uthman also said that he had taken part in... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923465/posts#comment Fri, 9 Nov 2007 19:03:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863414/posts Tidying up the other day, I came across an old newspaper and, flipping through it, saw a picture on page 22 that made my heart stop. It showed Palestinians, most of them young, all of them males, reacting with glee to a particularly heinous terrorist attack. The date was Sept. 12, 2001, and the Palestinians were cheering the deaths of about 3,000 innocent Americans the day before. You can, as they say, look it up. What you don't have to look up, though, is the fact that this was before America's retaliatory invasion of Afghanistan or the war in Iraq.... Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863414/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:57:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846982/posts WASHINGTON — Sandy Berger, who served as national security adviser during the Clinton administration, has given up his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, two years after admitting he illegally sneaked classified documents out of the National Archives. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846982/posts#comment Fri, 8 Jun 2007 13:48:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1828512/posts 22% Believe Bush Knew About 9/11 Attacks in Advance Friday, May 04, 2007 Democrats in America are evenly divided on the question of whether George W. Bush knew about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in advance. Thirty-five percent (35%) of Democrats believe he did know, 39% say he did not know, and 26% are not sure. Republicans reject that view and, by a 7-to-1 margin, say the President did not know in advance about the attacks. Among those not affiliated with either major party, 18% believe the President knew and 57% take the opposite view. Overall, 22% of all voters believe... Rasmussen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1828512/posts#comment Fri, 4 May 2007 18:57:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827294/posts [I]n 1984, [Wright] traveled to Cuba to teach Christians about the value of nonviolent protest and to Libya to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, along with the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Mr. Wright said his visits implied no endorsement of their views. ---snip--- On the Sunday after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Mr. Wright said the attacks were a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later he wrote that the attacks had proved that “people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West went on its merry way... New Duranty Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827294/posts#comment Wed, 2 May 2007 18:14:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1815929/posts A Bush spokesman raises eyebrows by suggesting that the current economic surge is more robust than the surge of the late '90's Allow me to preface this post by saying that presidents always get way too much credit and blame for the state of the economy. Having said that, it's interesting to compare the economic conditions of the Bush presidency to the Clinton presidency. Bush Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto told the Examiner that "This is a much stronger expansion in a lot of ways. It's much deeper and more measured." Rochester Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1815929/posts#comment Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:41:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797966/posts Hamas used to be wary of connecting the national Palestinian cause to Jihad - religious and non-national in character. This has now changed. After 9/11, the Palestinian leadership was embarrassed by Palestinians cheering the massive terrorist attack against the United States. For some years after, both Fatah and Hamas were careful to distance themselves from al-Qaida, even though Osama bin Ladin at times would wrap himself in the Palestinians' cause. The Palestinians were understandably wary that what had been portrayed as a purely nationalist struggle for their own state might be construed as an adjunct to the jihadist struggle to... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797966/posts#comment Fri, 9 Mar 2007 13:35:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756663/posts The left in the United States remains distracted by fantastic stories about conpiracies hatched by the Bush administration: in many of these, even the 9/11 attacks are believed to have been an inside job. (...) I am therefore sure that the Bush gang, and all the real conspirators of Washington, are delighted at the obsessions of the 9/11 conspiracists. It’s a distraction from the 1,001 real plots of capitalism that demand exposure and political challenge. As Theodore Adorno wrote: “The tendency to occultism is a symptom of regression in consciousness” (5). http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756663/posts#comment Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:04:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703455/posts September 12, 2006 -- WELL, here it is, five years late, but here just the same: an apology from an Arab-American for 9/11. No, I didn't help organize the killers or contribute in any way to their terrible cause. However, I was one of millions of Arab-Americans who did the unspeakable on 9/11: nothing. The only time I raised my voice in protest against these men who killed thousands of innocents in the name of Allah was behind closed doors, among the safety of friends and family. I did at one point write a very vitriolic essay condemning their actions,... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703455/posts#comment Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:49:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702961/posts It was stunning and yet it was eerily reminiscent of the extraordinary discipline of Team Clinton. Days before the ABC miniseries, "The Path to 9/11," was to air, they determined the network fudged in its commitment to follow faithfully the facts in the 9/11 commission report. Some scenes in the otherwise remarkable presentation were false. pittsburghtrib http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702961/posts#comment Sun, 17 Sep 2006 07:54:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701585/posts UT professor who outraged readers says antiwar activists like him were right about 9/11 We all remember where we were and what we felt on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. I also have a clear recollection of the morning of Sept. 14, 2001.I got to my office early, and the red message light on my phone was already blinking. My voice-mailbox was full of angry condemnations of an essay that had run in the Houston Chronicle that morning ("U.S. just as guilty of committing own violent acts," Outlook), in which I sharply criticized past U.S. policy and warned that... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701585/posts#comment Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:32:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701543/posts Yesterday, Slate posted this piece criticizing Frank Rich's New York Times column about the 9/11 photo shown here. The picture was taken by Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker on the afternoon of 9/11. Calling the image "shocking," Rich suggested that the five New Yorkers were "relaxing" and were already "mov[ing] on" from the attacks. Slate's David Plotz disputed that characterization of the picture, arguing that the subjects had almost certainly gathered to discuss the attacks and to find solace in others' company. Rather than showing callousness, as Rich suggested, it depicted civic engagement. But since neither Rich nor Plotz knew exactly... Slate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701543/posts#comment Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:28:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700767/posts September 13, 2006, 4:54 a.m. StagnationThe deadly cocktail of poppy and incompetence. By Michael Yon Slightly more context in Tarin Kot: This government sign threatens poppy eradication, but the area around it was heavily sowed with poppy. In some areas the flowers undulate for as far as the eye can see. I took this photo at a traffic circle where the local government often dumps the bodies of its enemies. Half a decade ago, Steve Shaulis gave me a copy of the excellent book written by his Pakistani friend Ahmed Rashid , Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700767/posts#comment Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:37:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699570/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush, on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, planned to say Monday the war against terror "is a struggle for civilization" that will require a determined effort by a unified country. "We are fighting to maintain the way of life enjoyed by free nations," Bush was to say in remarks prepared for a prime-time address from the Oval Office. The speech was coming at the end of a day in which he honored the memory of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks that rocked his presidency and thrust the United States into... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699570/posts#comment Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:33:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699568/posts Title and link only. USA Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699568/posts#comment Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:26:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699137/posts Never mind where I was standing or what I was doing this time five years ago. (Because really, what could be less pertinent?) Except that I do remember wondering, with apparent irrelevance, how soon I would be hearing one familiar cliché. And that I do remember hearing, with annoyance, one other observation that I believe started the whole post-9/11 epoch on the wrong foot. The cliché, from which we have been generally but not completely spared, was the one about American "loss of innocence." Nobody, or nobody serious, thought that this store-bought phrase would quite rise to the occasion of... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699137/posts#comment Mon, 11 Sep 2006 04:17:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1657598/posts WASHINGTON, June 28 — Ever since President Bush vowed days after the Sept. 11 attacks to "follow the money as a trail to the terrorists," the government has made no secret of its efforts to hunt down the bank accounts of Al Qaeda and its allies. But that fact has not muted the fury of Mr. Bush, his top aides and many members of Congress at the decision last week by The New York Times and other newspapers to disclose a centerpiece of that hunt: the Treasury Department's search for clues in a vast database of financial transactions maintained by... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1657598/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:45:14 GMT