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I had a delightful luncheon with two of my grandsons on Fathers Day, and one of the topics under discussion was what the older one had observed about the clashes between Muslims and the native populations in several European countries he had visited, including Holland and France. President Bush, as president of all Americans, has often reminded us that Muslim-Americans should not be subjected to harassment as an expression of our anger about barbaric Islamic terrorist acts carried out against Americans – including 9/11.

WASHINGTON, June 13, 2008 – Tomorrow the United States observes National Flag Day, an annual tribute to the American flag, the ideals it stands for and the sacrifices made to preserve them. President and Nancy Reagan file by the flag-draped caskets of victims of the April 18, 1983, bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon in an April 23, 1983 file photo. Photo courtesy Ronald Reagan Presidential Library  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. President Woodrow Wilson recognized during his first Flag Day address in 1915 that the freedoms the U.S. flag stands for weren’t and never would...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has charged six detainees at Guantanamo Bay with murder and war crimes in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks, it was announced Monday. Officials said they'll seek the death penalty in what would be the first trials under the terrorism-era military tribunal system. "These charges allege a long term, highly sophisticated, organized plan by al-Qaida to attack the United States of America," Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann, the legal adviser to the tribunal system, told reporters. He added that the charges have been sworn "against six individuals alleged to be responsible for the planning and execution...

NEW YORK – Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani says God is a very important part of his life. "I believe in God. I pray to God, and I pray to Jesus for guidance, help,” Giuliani said in an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network. “I have very, very strong views on religion that come about from having wanted to be a priest when I was younger, having studied theology for four years in college.” The former New York mayor said he feels God’s help when “in crisis and under pressure like Sept. 11, when I was dealing with prostate cancer, or...

Al Qaeda's As-Sahab media arm released a video Sept. 11 commemorating the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Although the 47-minute video features a voice-over introduction by Osama bin Laden, the bulk of it is of Abu Musab Waleed al-Shehri, one of the suicide bombers who crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center's north tower. That recording made prior to al-Shehri's travel to the United States in spring 2001. There is nothing in bin Laden's audio segment to indicate it was recorded recently. The production does include a still photograph of him -- one taken from what...

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Sept. 11, 2007 – At 5:16 p.m., the only sounds that could be heard here were the distant drone of helicopter rotors and the flap of flags in the wind. Army Sgt. Gregory J. Barbaccia, who was in New York during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, gives a speech at the Combined Joint Task Force 82 Sept. 11 memorial ceremony at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, on Sept. 11, 2007. Barbaccia, 23, was in school in lower Manhattan during the attacks. Photo by Sgt. Jim Wilt, USA  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available....

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2007 – In stark contrast to Sept. 11, 2001, when thousands fled the burning Pentagon building, today thousands walked toward it during the third annual America Supports You Freedom Walk honoring those killed in the 9/11 attacks and the nation’s veterans, past and present. Army Sgt. Larry Miller walks across Memorial Bridge with his wife Holly and two children, Jacob, 5, and Kyla, 4. “It’s personal for me,” Miller said of the Freedom Walk. “I wanted to be here because this is a good event and a good cause.” Defense Dept. photo by Donna Miles  (Click photo...

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/pdf/dcpi/NYPD_Report-Radicalization_in_the_West.pdf "Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat" prepared by Mitchell D. Silber and Arvin Bhatt Senior Intelligence Analysts NYPD Intelligence Division

CHARLESTON, South Carolina: President George W. Bush is seeking anew to highlight connections between the Al Qaeda group in Iraq and the one responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, sharply criticizing those who contend that the groups are independent of one another. At a time when Bush is trying to beat back calls for withdrawal from Iraq, his speech at Charleston Air Force Base reflected concern at the White House over criticism that Bush was focusing on the wrong terrorist threat. Bush chose as the location of the speech on Tuesday the same city where Democrats had held their nationally...

Breaking NewsCity continues to find Sept. 11 remains THE ASSOCIATED PRESSTuesday, July 3rd 2007, 4:31 PM World Trade Center rebuilding and an ongoing search for human remains have continued to unearth debris from the fallen twin towers under nearby roads and possibly under ground where families gather each year to mark the Sept. 11 anniversary, a city official said Tuesday.Hundreds of human bones, ranging from fragments to full arm and leg bones, have been found since October and continue to be recovered daily in a massive city-led search for the remains of Sept. 11 victims missed in the cleanup...

Unindicted co-conspirator of 1993 World Trade Center terror attack helps CAIR affiliate raise $100,000. At 12:17 pm on February 26, 1993, a 1,500lb urea-nitrate fuel-oil bomb hidden inside a rental van caused a massive explosion that ripped through the parking garage of the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring another 1,042 – the first large-scale terrorist attack on U.S. soil by Islamic extremists. The terrorists had intended to topple one of the buildings onto the other, potentially killing tens of thousands of innocent Americans. Sadly, the fourteenth anniversary of that event passed last week with very little discussion...

Reuters Counts 9/11 Hijackers as 9/11 Victims Posted by Ken Shepherd on March 8, 2007 - 18:15. From the March 8 edition of James Taranto's Best of the Web. (H/t: Nathan Burchfiel): Another Man's Victim?Reuters has a cute little human interest story about funny people from Vermont holding "town meetings" where they call for President Bush's impeachment. What caught our eye was not the darling little Vermonters, though, but something in this paragraph: Doug Dunbebin, who walked door-to-door collecting signatures to get the question onto the town meeting ballot, said there are still unanswered questions about September 11, 2001, when...

On July 6, 2006, Stonebridge International, a global strategy firm, announced that it had added a new member to its high-profile, five-member advisory board—former Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton. True to form, the major media ignored the Hamilton appointment. They should not have. Hamilton, who had served as Vice-Chairman of the 9/11 Commission, had just joined a firm headed by the man who had criminally undermined that very Commission, Stonebridge chairman and founder, Samuel "Sandy" Berger.

Whiskey co.'s Bravest effort BY RICHARD WEIR DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER In 212 years, not much has changed on the label of a Jim Beam bottle - except the occasional addition of a new name to a list of distillers that spans seven generations. But the Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey has a new label in New York that pays tribute to the legacy of a fallen firefighter. Replacing the time-honored red seal and Jim Beam family crest is a red firefighter's helmet emblazoned with "343" - the number of firefighters who died on Sept. 11, 2001. Next to the helmet,...

Saw a documentary, "Grounded on 9-11" on the History Channel a few days ago that mentioned something major about 9-11 that I have not heard before. At 9:00AM on 9-11 United Airlines sent to all planes a warning message regarding the other hijacks. On United Flight 23, that was on the runway, the captain decided on his own not to take off. He fakes a mechanical problem and returns to the gate! When the passengers were asked to exit the plan three Middle Eastern men, or possibly as many as six, refuse to follow the request to deplane. Security is...

LA MESA, Calif. (AP) -- Osama Awadallah never even had a parking ticket when he was detained by FBI agents in San Diego 10 days after hijacked jets destroyed the World Trade Center and struck the Pentagon. One of hundreds of Muslim men picked up in a frenzied law enforcement dragnet that followed the attacks, Awadallah was a 21-year-old community college student from Jordan who had met two of the hijackers. He was whisked to New York to testify as a material witness before a grand jury investigating the terrorist plot. He was never accused of any involvement in terrorism,...

9/29/2006 - DOBBINS AIR RESERVE BASE, Ga. (AFPN) -- Earlier this year, base firefighter Gerard Reheiser created a painting on a tile to commemorate 9/11. Mr. Reheiser entered the tile in a contest sponsored by Tiles for America at a store in Woodstock, Ga., that not only won the contest, but also is now part of a permanent display at Ground Zero in New York City. "I did not have any expectations to win," said the Air Force Reserve Command employee. "I have a deep sense of remorse for the people who have died for this country, both military and...

Malik Ali claims Jews control the world's media, planned 9/11, and orchestrated the Danish Mohammed Cartoons. In fact, he says, all the evils of the world can be blamed on the "Zionist Jews" that control the White House, Congress, the CIA, Supreme Court and more. Yes, this is real live demagogue and supporter of terrorists, coming to speak at Long Beach State once again sponsored by the Muslim Student Association. He openly voices support for suicide bombing, Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah, and world-wide anti-Western Jihad. We cannot stand by and let these lies, libel, hate, and intollerance go unchalleneged. Join...

ABC 9/11 Docudrama's Right-Wing Roots Max Blumenthal Mon Sep 11, 6:28 PM ET The Nation -- On Friday, September 8, just forty-eight hours before ABC planned to air its so-called "docudrama," The Path to 9/11, Robert Iger, CEO of ABC's corporate parent, the Walt Disney Company, was presented with incontrovertible evidence outlining the involvement of that film's screenwriter and director in a concerted right-wing effort to blame former President Bill Clinton for allowing the 9/11 attacks to take place. Iger told a source close to ABC that he was "deeply troubled" by the information and claimed he had no previous...

Over the years, historians and dramatists will produce many, many versions of "The Path to 9/11." If Bill Clinton wishes in the future to complain about historical inaccuracies, I suggest he first answer one question: What handwritten notes, and by whom, were on the three copies of classified documents (out of five) that Sandy Berger chose to steal and cut up with scissors in 2003, smack in the middle of the 9/11 commission's investigation? When we know the answer to that question, Bill, then and only then will you be entitled to complain about historical inaccuracies in the record.

SEBRING, Ohio, Sept. 12, 2006 – Under a “no rain” proclamation issued earlier in the week by the town’s mayor, Colton Lockner, age 9, led nearly 2,000 people in Sebring, Ohio’s first Freedom Walk yesterday. Mother Nature took heed and altered her rainy forecast so participants could walk from the town’s elementary school to the Sebring Veterans Memorial. Lockner, the walk’s organizer, served as master of ceremonies during the short program at the walk’s culmination to remember the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and honor the nation’s servicemembers. “We are not on the Mall in Washington or on Times...

SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 12, 2006 – Despite a downpour and half-flooded streets, about 1,200 people braved the rain yesterday to participate in San Antonio’s first Freedom Walk, a 2-mile tribute to the 3,000 victims of Sept. 11, 2001. The walk, sponsored by Operation Homefront and USAA, was one of more than 130 that took place throughout the nation as a remembrance of Sept. 11 and a tribute to veterans and servicemembers still serving today. The trek through the soaked, yet still scenic, downtown area offered participants an opportunity to reflect on past tragedies, as well as a few more recent...

He mentioned that an FBI agent slipped the idea that other box cutters were found, but that since the planes were grounded, they were not hijacked. He also mentioned that six weeks prior to 9/11, he identified four men on his flight from Boston and told the flight stewardess. Turns out two were actual 9/11 hijackers, but the report was dismissed as racial profiling.

BAGHDAD, Sept. 11, 2006 -- Multinational Corps Iraq held a 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony at the Al Faw palace here today, reminding everyone in attendance why servicemembers stand on foreign ground today. Members and senior leaders of Multinational Corps Iraq pause for a moment of silence during a memorial ceremony Sept. 11, 2006, at Al Faw palace, at Camp Victory, Iraq. Photo by Sgt. Joe Battle, USA  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. On Sept. 11, 2001, America was attacked by terrorists, resulting in the death of 2,973 people. “I will not forget the wound to our country and those...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11, 2006 – Tears flowed freely under the gray sky as family members of those killed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, gathered outside the Pentagon today to honor the memory of their loved ones. “Five years ago, Sept. 11 forever ceased to be an ordinary date on the calendar,” Vice President Richard B. Cheney said at the Pentagon memorial observance for family members. “So we gather once again to recall events that still have the power to move us and always will. And we honor the men, women and children whose lives were taken so...

I just found this very touching video and thought I'd pass it along. The singer/song writer, Kristi Nelson, has a beautiful voice. Click on : Watch Mama Will Hold Me video at the link above (I couldn't get it to work in cable mode but it worked in 56k mode) It's been a tough day. Never Forget.

President Bush has dramatically enlarged the issue of terrorism in the 2006 midterm elections by revealing the names, faces and confessed plots of the Islamic radicals held by the CIA. In a sweeping, lay-it-all-out White House address that elevated the issue of the deadly dangers Americans still face from terrorism, Bush confirmed the existence of foreign-based CIA prisons where terrorists have been secretly interrogated by intelligence agents and even disclosed some of the plots they planned to execute against the United States and our allies. Last week's speech, part of a series of speeches to remind Americans of the increasing...

By Kathy Blumenstock, Washington Post Staff Writer, TV Week, Page 5(Exerpt) Actor Harvey Keitel, star of ABC's "The Path to 9/11", said he believes movies and TV programs detailing what happened that day are important.......Filming the story behind the attacks "evoked in all of us...a sense of responsibility to the heroes of that day, to be as truthful as is humanly possible to honor them," (Harvey) Keitel said. "There isn't anyone from the top on down to the caterer and prop master who didn't have it in their bones to get it right."Keitel, who lives in New York's TriBeCa...

Via the ABC News blog “Political Punch� comes this message from Michael Scheuer on The Path to 9/11 controversy. “This morning we received an email from Michael Scheuer, former chief of the Osama bin Laden Unit at the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center (and the previously “Anonymous� author of “Imperial Hubris�) who is clearly no fan of either the Bush nor the Clinton Administrations — nor the 9/11 Commission. He writes the following: “This whole business over ABC’s movie is amazing. Now Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and a pack of political whores who pass themselves off as ‘historians’ have come out four-square for...

Under growing pressure from Democrats and aides to former President Bill Clinton, ABC is re-evaluating and in some cases re-editing crucial scenes in its new mini-series “The Path to 9/11” to soften its portrait of the Clinton administration’s pursuit of Osama bin Laden, according to people involved in the project. Among the changes, ABC is altering one scene in which an actor playing Samuel R. Berger, the former national security adviser, abruptly hangs up on a C.I.A. officer during a critical moment in a military operation, according to Thomas H. Kean, a consultant on the ABC project and co-chairman of...

Senate Democratic leadership threatens Disney with legal and legislative sanctionsby John in DC - 9/07/2006 06:02:00 PM This letter was sent today by the entire Democratic leadership of the US Senate. This letter is such a major shot across the bow of Disney, it's not even funny. It is FILLED with veiled threats, both legal and legislative, against Disney. US Senators don't make threats like this, especially the entire Democratic leadership en masse, unless they mean it. Disney is in serious trouble. Read it, then read my analysis of it below:September 7, 2006 Mr. Robert A. Iger President and...

Fox News has been running internet coverage of 9/11 events on an unpublished internet stream. I have been watching the coverage since this afternoon after I discovered the link was active. At midnight EDT, Fox just rolled over the coverage and restarted it with Fox and Friends at 8 a.m. EDT, Tuesday September 11. The Windows Media Player link can be found here: http://foxnews-foxstream.wm.llnwd.net/foxnews_foxstream

I’m hearing all kinds of disturbing, though predictable, stories about a Clintonista offensive against “The Path to 9/11,� an ABC documentary written and produced by Cyrus Nowrasteh ("Into the West"), and directed by David Cunningham ("To End All Wars").  I haven’t seen it yet (although I hope to this weekend), but it is already drawing rave reviews from people who have (the piece is reviewed at FrontPage, here).   Apparently, the documentary recounts the bureaucratic bungling and lack of action against al Qaeda that was pervasive prior to the September 11 atrocities.  It is by no means, I understand, pro-Bush.  It...

How DARE THEY!!!  CAIR to Host Dinner for Former President of Iran   How DARE the sob's at CAIR sponsor a dinner for the ex-president of a terrorist regime that has connections to alQaeda and allowed some of the 911 Terrorists to pass thru Iran on their way here to murder our citizens!!! "'The Dialogue of Civilizations: Five Years After 9/11' "...How Effing OUTRAGEOUS!!!    

The second trial of Iraqi former president Saddam Hussein was adjourned on Wednesday for three weeks until Sept. 11, the Iraqi High Tribunal said. The deposed president and his six codefendants were back in dock on Wednesday for their alleged involvement in the anti- Kurdish Anfal campaign that slaughtered tens of thousand of Kurds. Four Kurdish witnesses, three women and one man, testifies before a panel of judges on third session, accusing Saddam and his top commanders of ordering chemical attacks on their villages. The witness, 45-year-old Adiba Owla Bayez, told the court one of her daughters died due to...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2006 – Momentum continues to build as 48 U.S. cities -- a number that continues to grow -- prepare to sponsor America Supports You Freedom Walks to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The first Freedom Walk, inaugurated Sept. 11, 2005, in Washington, D.C., attracted more than 15,000 participants, including family members who lost loved ones in the attacks. The walk proved to be so meaningful to those involved that Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, hopes to make it a nationwide observance. “We knew that it...

Excerpt - The airline terror plot to blow up at least seven transatlantic jets was intended to mark the fifth anniversary of September 11, intelligence sources have revealed. But it was not executed because its alleged conspirators were too 'inexperienced' to carry it out. The claims, by senior Pakistani security officials, came as Scotland Yard requested more time to question 23 of the 24 suspects arrested since last week. The officials also alleged that many of those held learnt how to handle weapons and bomb-making training by reading textbooks. A highly placed source said: 'Look at their ages ... their...

Allegations Brought to Inspectors General Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate. Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, according to...

NEW YORK - The agency created to oversee rebuilding of the World Trade Center site and downtown Manhattan after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will go out of business this fall, its chairman said Tuesday. "We've completed our mission," said Kevin Rampe, who has served as president and chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. The LMDC, created by Gov. George Pataki and then- Mayor Rudolph Giuliani months after terrorists destroyed the trade center in 2001, chose plans to redesign the 16-acre site with office buildings, a memorial, a performing arts center and a transit hub. Rampe said the agency...

June 27, 2006 | According to Dylan Avery, a 22-year-old filmmaker in upstate New York, no terrorists hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, and no passengers heroically revolted. The plane didn't even crash in that Shanksville, Penn., field, he says, but instead landed safely in Cleveland. And not only that. As Avery sees it, the true 9/11 attackers brought down the World Trade Center in a controlled demolition, most likely to get at $160 billion in gold bars he believes were buried under the towers. As for the attack on the Pentagon, Avery insists...

The images come at them -- not as often as they used to, but often enough. In a movie trailer before the feature presentation. On a newspaper's Web site, or on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart." They pick up a magazine in the dentist's office and there is President Bush giving some speech or another, raising once again the specter of Sept. 11, 2001. The day that no one will let them get beyond. Freddye Carter lost her mother at the Pentagon that day. Mike Rogers's mom died at the World Trade Center. Melissa Shulman's dad died there too,...

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2006 – In a solemn ceremony under sunny skies, the ground that nearly five years ago was the scene of a catastrophic attack was today dedicated to the memory of those who were killed. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld speaks to the audience at the June 15 site dedication ceremony to mark the beginning of work on the Pentagon Memorial at the site where 184 innocent lives were lost when terrorist hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley, USN  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image...

The Italian author Oriana Fallaci, who once wrote that Muslims "breed like rats", may be facing up to three years in prison after she vowed to blow up a mosque.Ms Fallaci, 75, who has cancer, is due to appear in court next week charged with the lesser offence of vilifying Islam, punishable with a £3,450 fine. But after her latest outburst in the New Yorker last week Muslim leaders are demanding that she be tried for inciting religious hatred, which carries a three-year jail term. The former journalist, who has said she will not attend Monday's hearing in Bergamo, told...

This is the response from a retired Delta pilot in response to questions about whether he was going to see UAL 93. I haven't seen the movie, yet, but I intend to when I get the chance. Retirement has made me busier than ever, and I haven't had the chance to see many movies lately. As a Delta B-767 captain myself at the time of the attacks on 9/11 I was in crew rest in Orlando that morning. I had just turned on the TV in my hotel room only to see the WTC tower on fire, then saw the...

The lawyer for Zacarias Moussaoui's mother expressed delight Wednesday that the Frenchman was spared the death penalty, and vowed to lead a legal battle to bring the al-Qaida conspirator home. A federal jury in Alexandria, Va., on Wednesday decided Moussaoui should spend life in prison for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001 attack, rejecting the government's appeal for death. Moussaoui, a Frenchman of Moroccan descent, is the only person charged in the United States in connection with the four suicide jetliner hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people. "We will pursue unrelentingly a request to French authorities that they demand...

Gypsy Taub, a mother of three from Oakland, does not believe that 9/11 happened. At least not the way the government said it did. A Russian émigré, Taub is one of a growing number of people in the USA who are using the Internet, college campuses and pamphleteering to get the word out. "Oh yeah, absolutely. On the day it happened, I thought it was the government that did it," she said. Taub is promoting one of the latest presentations of revisionist theories on the 2001 attacks by al-Qaeda terrorists, a film that says, among other things, that the Pentagon...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The parents of Sept. 11, 2001, hero Todd Beamer, gave "United 93," the controversial movie about the doomed flight their blessing. Beamer's parents recently returned home to Jacksonville after watching a special screening of the movie. David Beamer, Todd Beamer's father, lives in Jacksonville. Todd Beamer was the passenger who yelled, "let's roll" as he and other passengers tried to take down the hijackers on United Flight 93. Some theaters around the country have refused to show the trailer for the film, saying it's just too soon, and too painful to watch. However, Beamer's father and other...

More Human Remains Found Near Trade Center1 hour, 32 minutes ago The Deutsche Bank building, center right, shrouded in black netting with a large American flag, is across from the World Trade Center site in New York in this May 30, 2002 file photo. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) NEW YORK - Construction workers near the World Trade Center discovered 74 more bone fragments on a damaged skyscraper being prepared for demolition, the largest discovery of human remains since cleanup of the building began last fall, officials said. Investigators reviewing emergency calls from the morning of the terrorist attacks also identified eight...

Universal Will Not Pull 'United 93' Trailer, Despite Criticism By SHARON WAXMAN LOS ANGELES, April 3 — Universal Studios said on Monday that it would stick with plans to show an adrenaline-pumping trailer for "United 93," its forthcoming thriller about the passenger revolt on one of the planes hijacked on 9/11, despite qualms from some moviegoers and families of 9/11 victims. Adam Fogelson, Universal's president of marketing, said the trailer, which was pulled from AMC Loews Lincoln Square 12 Theater in Manhattan on Saturday after complaints from patrons, would be shown only before R-rated movies or "grown-up" PG-13 ones. He...

NEW YORK - Emergency operators listening to trapped callers' heartbreaking pleas from the burning World Trade Center repeatedly said help was on the way while they struggled with crashing computers, utter confusion and their own emotions, several hours of 911 calls released Friday show. In releasing the 130 calls, city officials edited out the voices of those who sought help. But the police and fire dispatchers often repeated the callers' words, reflecting the fear and chaos of the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. The first call came seconds after terrorists flew a hijacked jetliner into the north tower of the...