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<p>JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (CNN) --The jets that sliced through the twin towers of the World Trade Center were like bullets shot into people, a structural engineer said Friday.</p> <p>Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl has spent the past two weeks collecting "perishable data."</p>

Aerial Pictures, Never Seen Before, Of The September 11 2001 Attacks On The World Trade Center A cloud of smoke and ash is blown off the southern tip of Manhattan Picture: AP Photo/NYPD via ABC News, Det. Greg Semendinger

More than eight years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, New York City authorities are demanding that developer Larry Silverstein fork over almost $35m in commercial rent taxes on the Twin Towers and two other buildings that no longer exist. The city's reasoning is that Silverstein continued to pay rent to the Port Authority after the towers fell. That, city officials claim, subjects his transactions to the 3.9 percent commercial rent tax ... On May 27, 2007, the city's finance department sent Silverstein a bill for $34,866,549 - including penalties and interest - on his four trade center buildings. City...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2009 – A new Navy ship named in honor of the courage displayed by New York City’s residents during and after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks received its official commission today. The USS New York is commissioned in New York, Nov. 7, 2009. The Navy ship was named in honor of the courage displayed by New York City's residents during and after 9/11. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Dan Meaney  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The USS New York recalls “the searing memories of Sept. 11” as well as “the bravery of...

A warship built with steel salvaged from the World Trade Center has arrived in New York City. The USS New York sailed up the Hudson River to near Ground Zero, where it fired a 21-gun salute in tribute to those killed in the 2001 attacks. It was watched by relatives of 9/11 victims, along with members of the emergency services and the public. The US Navy is to hold an official commissioning ceremony for the new warship on Saturday. The New York set off on its maiden voyage from Louisiana, where it was built, nearly three weeks ago. The bow...

Lt. j.g. Richard Reese vowed to join the U.S. Navy as he sat in his sophomore fine arts class at Jesuit High School seconds after he watched hijacked airplanes crash into New York City's Twin Towers. The Metairie native kept his word. In the years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks left 3,000 Americans dead, Reese completed Jesuit's Marine Corps ROTC program and earned his commission through Tulane University's Naval ROTC program. After graduating at the top of his class at the Navy's supply officer school, he was able to choose which crew he wanted to join. Reese could...

(English-language translation) [Puerto Rico] Governor Luis G. Fortuño ordered that the flags of the United States and Puerto Rico fly at half-staff yesterday in all government departments, offices, and agencies to remember the victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The Governor's observance was one of several held in the island to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attack against the Twin Towers in New York. Over 2,000 people of different nationalities died on September 11, 2001 in New York when two commercial airliners crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, which is...

Eight years after the Islamic attack upon America the only thing that has changed is America’s divisiveness. There is still a hole in the ground where the twin towers once stood. There was supposed to be a new Freedom Tower there. It took four hundred days to build the empire state building, yet there is a hole in the ground where the Freedom Tower is supposed to be. Oh, and it will no longer be called the Freedom Tower, it will be called the “One World Trade Center Tower”. “One World”, isn’t that special? Combine this with B. Hussein Obama...

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Eight years since the twin towers came crashing down, survivors of the ghastly terrorist attack are still picking up pieces of their lives from among the debris of terrible memories. Jyoti Dave Vyas was among those who were inside the majestic World Trade Centre towers on September 11, 2001, when terror struck and were lucky enough to survive the tragedy. Jyoti was seven months pregnant then. She remembers running down the stairs to safety when United Airlines Flight 175 hit the 78th floor of the South Tower at 9.03 am, and calls it the most tedious and longest journey of...

WILL NEVER FORGET! Have You Forgotten?

Barack Obama can call today a day of national service if he wants to. The rest of us will always remember 9/11 as the day when more than 3,000 innocent men, women, and children were murdered in cold blood by Islamic fanatics. It will always be a day to remember our horrific, collective loss. It will always be a day to remember the heroes who plunged into the war zone, many in the face of near certain death, to rescue complete strangers. You see, years from now when Obama's silly day of service is long forgotten and Obama himself is...

The design for One World Trade Center has attracted substantial criticism, which is to be expected with a project of such public importance. Some of the gripes have merit. Overall, the finished site will be less impressive than the twin towers it is replacing. Nicolai Ouroussoff of the New York Times called the design "somber, oppressive and clumsily conceived, the project suggests a monument to a society that has turned its back on any notion of cultural openness." Not to mention any notion of collective courage in the face of the terrorist threat. The building's most objectionable feature is the...

Cue the music from 2001: A Space Odyssey…they discovered a monolith on the surface of Mars! Here are the details: PSP_009342_1725/PSP_009342_1725_RED.NOMAP.JP2 Image location: X: 6191 Y: 20500 Rotation of image 81.0 degrees.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified Monday that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House. Moussaoui's testimony on his own behalf stunned the courtroom as he disclosed details he had never revealed before. It was in stark contrast to Moussaoui's previous statements in which he said the White House attack was to come later if the United States refused to release a radical Egyptian sheik imprisoned on earlier terrorist convictions. Moussaoui testified Monday he lied to investigators when arrested...

This story contains spoilers for the Season 1 finale of "Fringe." Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello called it "ballsy." Other fans expressed shock. Anna Torv's character of Olivia Dunham finally gets to meet the mysterious William Bell in the season finale of Fox's "Fringe" Tuesday, only to find out that it's not only Leonard Nimoy, but that he's working out of the World Trade Center in New York City. Granted, it's a New York City in an alternate universe. But with Sept. 11 terrorist attacks just eight years old, could it have been a little too soon for the viewing public...

Senators are considering limiting — but not eliminating — the tax-free status of employer-provided health benefits to help pay for President Barack Obama's overhaul plan and provide coverage to 50 million uninsured Americans. Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., said Tuesday that there are no easy options. Senators began grappling with how to finance guaranteed coverage for all Americans, even as independent experts put the costs at about $1.5 trillion over 10 years. Obama sees a world in which doctors and hospitals compete to offer quality service at lower costs, and the savings help cover the uninsured. Turning that vision...

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Posted By:Catherine MoyPermalink9/11 Victims Families: Obama Must Visit Gitmo and Reverse Dangerous Order Debra Burlingame’s brother, Charles “Chick” Burlingame, died as he piloted the plane that was hijacked by terrorists on 9/11. She opposes the closure of Gitmo. Families of those killed on 9/11, a Gold Star mother, and Sen. James Inhofe, sent a strong message today at Move America Forward’s press conference at the National Press conference in Washington DC: Keep Gitmo open for the sake of Americans who will be endangered by President Obama’s order to close the facility for terrorists. MAF has the...

NEW YORK — Construction workers digging at ground zero have uncovered a 40-foot pothole and other features carved by glaciers about 20,000 years ago. Unearthing these glacial features has been critical in preparing the foundation for Tower 4 of the new World Trade Center, being built by Silverstein Properties at the southeast corner of the site. Engineers need a clear understanding of the contours of the rock....... "It's nice to look at," said Robert B. Reina, a supervising structural engineer at Mueser Rutledge, "but it's all got to go."

Most of us remember where we were on September 11, 2001. Televisions across our nation were riveted on one spectacle – the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. We watched, in shock, as pictures of men and women falling from buildings, others rushing from the collapsing rubble, and billowing clouds of debris filled the screen. The World Trade Center was first. Then reports of the Pentagon started flowing in, followed by the horror story that took place aboard United Flight 93. This was a first for America. We never thought another nation...