Towers

Ares, Caglecartoons.com Sep 10, 2011 Dig deeper

Statue of Heroism

Milt Priggee, Cagle Cartoons, www.miltpriggee.com Sep 10, 2011 Dig deeper

Tom Engelhardt: America, Tear Down ‘Freedom Tower’

Staff / Truthdig Sep 9, 2011 Seven years into the Soviet Union's fatal adventure in Afghanistan, U.S. President Ronald Reagan stood before the international community in West Berlin and demanded that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev tear down the wall that separated East Germany from the West. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Chomsky 10 Years After 9/11

Staff / Truthdig Sep 8, 2011 This Thursday, Seven Stories Press will release a 10th anniversary reissue of Noam Chomsky's book on the World Trade Center attacks titled "9-11: Was There an Alternative?" and TomDispatch has an exclusive excerpt from the new preface. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Life Sentence for Times Square Bomb Plotter

Staff / Truthdig Oct 5, 2010 The fate of Faisal Shahzad, who attempted to set off a bomb in Times Square on May 1, was decided in a Manhattan court Tuesday The 31-year-old Pakistani-American, who pleaded guilty to 10 charges in June, was sentenced to life in prison (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

USS New York Docks in NYC

Staff / Truthdig Nov 3, 2009 It was partly intended as a tribute to those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on New York's Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, but, considering America's bellicose response to that tragedy, it's hard not to read more into the story of the USS New York, a new Navy warship constructed partly from melted-steel remnants of the World Trade Center. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

WTC, etc.

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9/11: Is the U.S. Safer Seven Years Later?

Staff / Truthdig Sep 12, 2008 On the seventh anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Link TV's Mosaic Intelligence Report takes stock and asks some key questions: Has President Bush's "war on terror" made any progress? Has al-Qaida diminished or grown in strength? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Troy Jollimore on Martin Amis’ ‘The Second Plane’

BLANK Apr 25, 2008 When the second plane hit the second skyscraper on 9/11, how many of us knew then just how radically our world would change? Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Giuliani Apologizes for Ground Zero Gaffe

Staff / Truthdig Aug 12, 2007 Rudy Giuliani switched to damage-control mode Friday in an effort to minimize the negative impact of a comment he made to the press Thursday at a Cincinnati baseball game. Referring to his dedication to the rescue and relief efforts at the World Trade Center site after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Giuliani said Thursday that he was at ground zero "as often, if not more, than most of the workers." Whoops. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

9/11 Model Backs Up Tower Collapse Theory

Staff / Truthdig Jun 20, 2007 A two-year study of the World Trade Center Towers' collapse by Purdue University has reaffirmed the findings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which suggested that the buildings crashed under their own weight after crucial support columns and fireproofing were damaged or destroyed. The research team released an animation of the first plane's collision to show how heat and flame eventually brought the towers down. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

French Intelligence Warned of Airline Terror Plot in 2001

Staff / Truthdig Apr 17, 2007 Months before 9/11, French intelligence warned the CIA that al-Qaida was planning an attack involving airplanes, according to classified documents and former French intelligence officials. The information was vague and possibly misleading, but it speaks to the intelligence community's inability to coalesce fragmentary warnings into something concrete and comprehensive. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )