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Insurgency gains strength, ground

(9/11/2008) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, al-Qaida and its allies are gaining ground across the region where the plot was hatched, staging their most lethal attacks yet against NATO forces and posing a growing threat to the U.S.-backed governments in Afghanistan and nuclear-armed Pakistan.

Sept. 11 charges face hurdles

(2/12/2008) WASHINGTON – The plan announced by the Pentagon Monday to seek the death penalty against six suspects accused of planning and organizing the Sept. 11 attacks could be complicated by the recent acknowledgment that one of the accused was the subject of waterboarding, as well as the legal and international communities' antipathy toward the Bush administration's military tribunals.

WTC site owner fined $9 million

(1/1/2008) NEW YORK – The owner of the World Trade Center site said Monday it is at least a month behind on a deadline to turn over part of the site to a private developer and will pay at least $9 million in fines.

Firefighters union blasts Giuliani

(3/10/2007) WASHINGTON – The N.Y. firefighters union has accused GOP presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani of "egregious acts" against firefighters who died in the Sept. 11 attacks.

World in brief: Sept. 11 participant screams in court

(1/6/2007) The last local member of the infamous Hamburg sleeper cell that planned the Sept. 11 terror attacks broke four years of silence Friday to scream out his innocence.

Not a matter of if, but when, experts say

(9/11/2006) WASHINGTON – The threat of terrorism against the United States remains chillingly lethal five years after 9/11, and offi-cials predict that another massive attack is not a matter of if, but when.

ABC to air Sept. 11 miniseries

(9/9/2006) HOLLYWOOD – Walt Disney Co. 's ABC is forging ahead with plans to air a miniseries starting Sunday despite controversy over its efforts to dramatize – and some say unfairly politicize – the events leading up to the Sept.

New Sept. 11 tapes frantic

(8/17/2006) NEW YORK – Trapped and running out of air on the smoky 83rd floor of the World Trade Center, Melissa Doi begged the 911 operator not to hang up.

Moussaoui told he'll 'die with a whimper'

(5/5/2006) ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced Thursday to spend his life in the country's strictest prison, scolding Americans on the way for missing a chance to learn from him why they are hated by al-Qaida terrorists.

Moussaoui says he was to hijack plane

(3/28/2006) WASHINGTON – Zacarias Moussaoui took the stand at his death penalty trial Monday and declared that he was supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and crash it into the White House in the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Conspirator vows he'll testify in 9/11 trial

(3/24/2006) WASHINGTON – Prosecutors concluded their argument Thursday that Zacarias Moussaoui is eligible for the death penalty, and the al-Qaida operative made it clear in his typically theatrical style that he intends to take the stand.

Moussaoui judge to allow untainted aviation evidence

(3/18/2006) WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Friday revived the government's death penalty case against Sept. 11, 2001, conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, ruling that prosecutors can present untainted aviation security evidence to the jury that is considering whether Moussaoui should be executed.

Rescue workers fuel 9/11 quarrel

(2/28/2006) Two weeks before work is set to begin on the ground zero memorial, firefighters, police officers and Sept. 11 family members rallied at the site Monday to protest the design and question its safety.

Whitman blasted for 9/11 statements

(2/3/2006) NEW YORK – A federal judge on Thursday blasted former Environmental Protection Agency head Christine Todd Whitman for telling residents and workers in lower Manhattan that the air was safe to breathe immediately following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Illness, death allegedly caused by WTC dust

(1/18/2006) NEW YORK – James Zadroga spent 16 hours a day toiling in the World Trade Center ruins for a month, breathing in debris-choked air. Timothy Keller said he coughed up bits of gravel from his lungs after the towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001.

Many default on 9/11 loans

(10/18/2005) WASHINGTON – Roughly $1 of every $5 in loans the Small Business Administration directly made to companies hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks has fallen into default, leaving the government with an uphill effort to recover millions of dollars in taxpayer money.

SBA defends 9/11 loans

(9/14/2005) WASHINGTON – Facing a congressional inquiry, the Small Business Administration said Tuesday it believes it followed the law during its nearly $5 billion lending effort to help small companies recover from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

'We miss you, we love you'

(9/12/2005) NEW YORK – Weeping relatives marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack Sunday with prayers, solemn remembrances and heartfelt messages to their dead brothers and sisters at the site where the World Trade Center collapsed in a nightmarish cloud of dust and debris four years ago.

Memorial to 9/11 still just a vision

(9/11/2005) NEW YORK – The tourists from California peered through the slats of a metal fence surrounding the World Trade Center site, looking down into the nearly empty 16 acres for a sign of what happened here on Sept.

Pentagon-sponsored 9/11 march draws criticism

(9/11/2005) NEW YORK – The Pentagon will celebrate the nation's freedom on the fourth anniversary of Sept. 11 under super-tight security. As many as 10,000 people are expected to march today in Washington for a patriotic Freedom Walk that is raising eyebrows for its unprecedented Defense Department backing as well as its security lockdown.

Senate will probe misuse of post-Sept. 11 loan help

(9/10/2005) WASHINGTON – Congress will investigate the "flagrant abuse" of a federal loan program designed to help businesses recover from the Sept. 11 attacks and make sure such problems don't occur with Hurricane Katrina relief, a key Senate Republican announced Friday.

TV programs marking 9/11 anniversary

(9/10/2005) Sunday marks the fourth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In addition to Discovery's "The Flight That Fought Back," several other new programs airing Sunday explore various aspects of the tragedy.

Loans for 9/11 recovery went to many who didn't need them

(9/9/2005) The government's $5 billion effort to help small businesses recover from the Sept. 11 attacks was so loosely managed that it gave low-interest loans to companies that didn't need terrorism relief – or even know they were getting it, the Associated Press has found.

Friend of 9/11 plotters sentenced as terrorist

(8/20/2005) BERLIN – A Moroccan with links to the Sept. 11 hijackers was sentenced to seven years in prison Friday for belonging to a terrorist organization, but a German court found he was not involved in the plot that killed nearly 3,000 people.

9/11 histories add dimension to horror

(8/13/2005) NEW YORK – In thousands of pages of oral histories released Friday, firefighters describe in vivid, intimate detail how they rushed to save fleeing civilians from churning smoke and fire before the World Trade Center collapsed in a monstrous cloud of debris and choking dust.