http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/september11/ en-us Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:03:23 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409814/posts Disgusted relatives of 9/11 victims yesterday were shocked to hear a city lawyer call debris that contains the remains of their loved ones "dirt." The insensitive comment was made as the families fought to have more than a million tons of World Trade Center wreckage at the Fresh Kills landfill, Staten Island, sifted for remains. "These ashes are undifferentiated dirt," said attorney James Tyrell. His comment brought gasps of horror from dozens of 9/11 relatives, who were crammed into the federal appeals court in Manhattan. New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409814/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:03:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401472/posts NEW YORK, DECEMBER 5, 2009 — Several thousand protesters gathered at Foley Square in New York City to rally against Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and 4 other 9/11 co-conspirators as civilians in federal court. Despite bitter cold, strong winds and heavy rain the crowd stayed through the 2-hour rally. The event was organized by the 9/11 Coalition to Never Forget and featured speakers representing 9/11 family members, first responders and our troops. See our full post-rally press release, plus videos, photograph and links to local and national news reports here at 911NeverForget.Us. 911FamiliesForAmerica.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401472/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:11:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400893/posts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Bill Zeiser at bill.zeiser@gmail.com (516) 448-5489 Website: www.911neverforget.us SPEAKER LIST FOR THE 9/11 NEVER FORGET COALITION DECEMBER 5 RALLY When: Saturday, December 5th, 2009 12:00 noon; Where: Foley Square, New York City; Who: The 9/11 Never Forget Coalition, a diverse group of 9/11 victims, family members, first responders, active and reserve members of the military, veterans, and concerned Americans, is holding a major rally on December 5th to protest Attorney General Eric Holder’s plan to bring the 9/11 terrorist conspirators to trial in New York City. Confirmed speakers list: DAVID BEAMER David Beamer is the father... 911NeverForget.Us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400893/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 13:07:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400883/posts The bottom line for the editors at the New York Daily News is this: "[Khalid Sheikh] Mohammed belongs in front of one of the fully constitutional military tribunals created by Congress expressly for the purpose of trying his ilk, rather than being given a propaganda platform that downgrades the notion from an act of war into a crime. If you're appalled by the Ghailani preview, we can guarantee you'll hate the Mohammed feature-length movie even more. So stop it from coming to a theater near you. Join the rally. (I'll only add: the 911NeverForget rally is noon today, in Foley... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400883/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 12:46:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2400435/posts Husband of WTC survivor Lauren, Greg Manning appeared on Fox News this morning about our rally tomorrow, Saturday December 5, at noon in Foley Square, in lower Manhattan. The rally will be in front of the same federal courthouse -- a mere six blocks from al Qaeda's greatest victory -- where AG Eric Holder thinks war criminals Khalid Sheihk Mohammed should be given a stage, Constitutional rights, the right to act as his own attorney, and to see the classified evidence against him during time of war. Greg Manning calls the decision "outrageous." (Click here to watch the Fox News... 911FamiliesForAmerica.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2400435/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 20:04:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398375/posts There is a lesson here. KSM & Co. do not have to be brought to the United States — a move that would make it significantly more likely that other Gitmo detainees, trained terrorists, would be transferred here. Similarly, KSM & Co. do not have to be given a civilian trial — a move that would make it far more difficult to justify military commissions for lesser terrorists. This is not a fait accompli. It is still possible to block these developments and to induce the Obama administration to reverse itself. But doing so will require the same two things... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398375/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:52:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2397843/posts "KSM describes a grandiose original plan ... KSM himself was to land the tenth plane at a U.S. airport and, after killing all adult male passengers on board and alerting the media, deliver a speech excoriating U.S. support for Israel, the Philippines, and repressive governments in the Arab world. Beyond KSM's rationalizations about targeting the U.S. economy, this vision gives a better glimpse of his true ambitions. This is theater, a spectacle of destruction with KSM as the self-cast star -- the superterrorist." -- page 154, 9/11 Commission Report Attorney General Eric Holder wants to fly Khalid Shiekh Mohammed... 911FamiliesForAmerica.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2397843/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:28:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396303/posts The attorney general has suggested that those who oppose prosecuting these men here in New York City are afraid – that we somehow don’t have the courage to face Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in court. How dare this man, who didn’t have the decency to notify victims’ families of his decision to bring these monsters here, imply that we lack courage. Courage is carrying on after watching your loved ones die, in real time, knowing that they burned to death, were crushed to death, or jumped from 100 flights high. Courage is carrying on, even as we waited, in some cases... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396303/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:19:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394094/posts Syndicated talk-radio host Mark Levin spoke with former Assistant United States Attorney Andrew McCarthy this evening about AG Eric Holder's decision to prosecute 9/11’s conspirators, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four lieutenants, in federal court a mere 6 blocks from Ground Zero. "The Cole bombing did not prompt a military war against al-Qaeda. It eventually resulted in a civilian indictment that is still pending. The Pentagon is the ultimate military target, and the attack against it spurred both the war we are now fighting and the implementation of military commissions to try jihadist war criminals. Yet, Holder has decided to give... 911FamiliesForAmerica.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394094/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:43:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388427/posts The Obama administration has chosen the wrong New York venue to try five co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. Instead of a Manhattan courtroom less than a mile from the site of where the World Trade Center stood, the government should have chosen the Bronx Zoo, because a zoo is what will be created when this terrorist trial is held. In announcing the decision to try in a civilian court these "enemy combatants," as the Bush administration rightly described them, Attorney General Eric Holder said, "For over 200 years, our nation has relied on... Townhall.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388427/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:17:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387353/posts This morning on Fox & Friends, three 9/11 family members debated President Barack Obama's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other top attack conspirators in a federal court just six blocks away from the World Trade Center. The three were Debra Burlingame, James Riches Sr., and Charles Wolf. (See the video after the jump.) 911FamiliesForAmerica.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387353/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:18:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387321/posts On Wednesday, November 18, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder will attempt to explain his decision to bring war criminal Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to trial in Manhattan's federal courtroom six blocks from Ground Zero. This is our Action Alert to you: Americans, it is time to unite, not as Republicans or Democrats, not as Conservatives or Liberals or Progressives. It is time to unite as CITIZENS. President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have forgotten that their chief duty is the safety and the security of the American people. IT IS TIME FOR US TO REMIND THEM. AG Eric Holder... 911FamiliesForAmerica.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387321/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:54:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385455/posts Eight year ago today, on November 13, 2001, my family laid to rest a 9/11 hero on what would have been his 46th birthday. Outside the church, along with hundreds of friends and neighbors and 1,200 firefighters tearfully saluting their fallen brother, we felt our nation standing as one. Today, we ask that you stand once more, for your families and with ours, to support our troops, and in the common defense. We have appealed directly to the President. Below is that letter. If you wish to add your name to it, PLEASE CLICK HERE. (Note: 911FamiliesForAmerica.org is partners with... 911FamiliesForAmerica.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385455/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:18:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379228/posts We strongly object to the President creating a two-tier system of justice for terrorists in which those responsible for the death of thousands on 9/11 will be treated as common criminals and afforded the kind of platinum due process accorded American citizens, yet members of Al Qaeda who aspire to kill Americans but who do not yet have blood on their hands, will be treated as war criminals. The President offers no explanation or justification for this contradiction, even as he readily acknowledges that the 9/11 conspirators, now designated "unprivileged enemy belligerents," are appropriately accused of war crimes. We believe... KeepAmericaSafe.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379228/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:48:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376662/posts Click on photo to enlargeThe soon to be commissioned USS New York sails up the Hudson River approaching midtown Manhattan a few minutes after pausing near the World Trade Center. A detail rendered a 21-gun salute in remembrance of the 2,976 murdered on September 11, 2001 as 9/11 family members, first responders, and a honor guard gathered just west of Ground Zero. 911FamiliesForAmerica.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376662/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:43:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366720/posts KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: Is the Obama administration keeping America safe? DEBRA BURLINGAME: When Barack Obama was sworn in as president, I actually had a sliver of hope that he would surprise his worst critics and govern from the center — the smart pragmatist. That hope pretty much evaporated on January 22 when he signed a series of executive orders shutting the Guantanamo Bay detention center by a date certain and suspending the trial of 9/11 conspirators — who were at that moment sitting at Gitmo, crowing about their role in the murder of 3,000 of our fellow human beings. Surrounded... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366720/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:13:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365604/posts Friday evening, Mark Levin spoke with Michael Ledeen about Iran and his new book 'Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War Against the West.' Ledeen says of the situation in Iran, "The Supreme Leader is in a coma ... When an evil man dies, it is never bad." (Audio interview plus links and evidence of Iran's involvement in 9/11 after the jump.) MarkLevinFan.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365604/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:40:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348822/posts DENVER - Claims that an Afghan immigrant was on the verge of unleashing a terrorist attack on New York City on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 are missing a key element: explosives or the chemicals allegedly used to make them, the man's attorney said. FBI agents have yet to find those elements and connect them to Najibullah Zazi, charged with conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction in a plot authorities say was aimed at commuter trains, attorney Arthur Folsom told a federal judge in Denver Friday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Craig Shaffer ultimately ordered Zazi's transfer to New York,... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348822/posts#comment Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:55:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345034/posts Michelle Malkin asked "Who’s behind “Islam on Capitol Hill?” today. Part of the answer is Sheikh Ahmed Dewidar who, shortly after 9/11, implied Jews were complicit in the mass-murder of the 2,976. On June 6, 2006, the Steven Stalinsky wrote about it in the New York Sun: Within weeks of September 11, 2001, an Egyptian sheik serving as Al-Azhar University's representative in America and an imam at the Islamic Cultural Center and Mosque of New York City, Muhammad al-Gamei'a, was interviewed at an unofficial Al-Azhar University Web site, www.lailatalqadr.com. Sheik al-Gamei'a returned to Egypt shortly after his interview was translated.... 911FamiliesForAmerica.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345034/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:32:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344887/posts GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors in New York, Washington and Virginia are vying to try the accused plotters of the September 11 attacks if their cases are moved into U.S. civilian courts, the chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo war crimes court said. The Obama administration said last week it would decide by November 16 whether to try Guantanamo prisoners in a revised version of the much-maligned military tribunals or in regular civilian courts. Case files for self-described 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged al Qaeda co-conspirators are already under review by U.S. attorneys... Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344887/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:32:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339368/posts The jihadi attacks against New York and Washington created an unforgettable date in the collective psyche of Americans: this nation was bled by men indoctrinated by an ideology that, both in its texts and in its actions, knows no mercy for free societies. The terrifying three numbers and a hyphen 9-11 took their place in the country's national identity, alongside Pearl Harbor in the high drama of American history. But 9-11 became also a benchmark to other nations and regions of the world. In Europe, Russia, and India, civil societies began identifying the date 9/11 with their own subsequent traumas.... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339368/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:39:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2338121/posts Okay-- imagine that the week after the worst terrorist attack in world history, in which almost 3,000 of your countreyment were murdered you were in church and the pastor began telling the parishioners that the United States brought it on itself. That we deserved it. That America deserved to be damned by God. Imagine he's saying this, complete with foul language, in front of your young children. He's saying that your country deserved the vicious assault and that your countrymen just got in the way. Wouldn't you punch that pompous asshole in the face? Right Handed Pitcher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2338121/posts#comment Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:28:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2337657/posts Well, it’s been eight years since that terrible morning – George Bush was as deep into his first term of office as Barack Obama is today when those awful events unfolded. The anniversary in the mainstream media will be muted, as always – and we’ll come back to that. And even though three thousand people died that day, I want to concentrate on two – not to exclude the others, but simply to show you that they were not some abstract number but individual lives. Kevin CosgroveOne of the people who died that day, eight years ago, was a businessman... Big Hollywood http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2337657/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:52:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2337644/posts Here is video of Glenn Beck remembering 9/11 and asking why Ground Zero is "still just a whole in the ground" after 8 years and "is this the best we can do?" Beck points out the the Empire State Building took only 400 days to build in the 1930s. (Watch Video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2337644/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:36:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2337552/posts Examining President Barack Hussein Obama’s ubiquity – even when your favorite TV show has not been pre-empted yet again by one of his prime time speeches or press conferences, you can still watch his Public Service Announcement (video link) about national service that gets heavy rotation, even on FOX – an unabashedly worshipful article by Jennifer Senior in New York magazine noted: “Since occupying the White House, Barack Obama has hosted fifteen town-hall meetings; appeared in more than 800 images on the White House Flickr photo-stream; and held four prime-time press conferences, the same number held by George W. Bush... The Stiletto Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2337552/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:41:00 GMT