Every now and then, Americans are reminded of the true meaning of Thanksgiving. For Guy Taylor, it began the morning of Sept. 11, as he sat at his desk at the New York Board of Trade at Four World Trade Center. Every now and then, Americans are reminded of the true meaning of Thanksgiving. For …
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Who Bombed the U.S. World Trade Center? — 1993
Growing Evidence Points to Role of FBI Operative We are publishing this incisive and pioneering analysis written eleven years ago by Ralph Schoenman pertaining to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Schoenman correctly identifies the support provided by the Clinton Administration to the al Qaeda network at a time when Al Qaeda, and more specifically …
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Most of WTC Down Payment to Be Returned
Under a pending agreement, a developer and two investors will get back most of their original $124 million investment to lease the World Trade Center just six weeks before a terrorist attack destroyed the twin towers. Developer Larry Silverstein and investors Lloyd Goldman and Joseph Cayre are nearing a deal that would give them about …
Workday Minnesota
Fire Fighters excluded from 9/11 testimony The independent commission probing the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington decided not to hear from the worker group that lost more lives than anyone else to the terrorists: The Fire Fighters. Speaking as the 9/11 panel heard New York officials discuss communications, wrong instructions …
The Tragic Timeline
Tuesday September 11, 2001 is a date that will go down in history for the brutal terrorist attacks in America. Here we have drawn together the key moments to make a complete diary of that terrible day. 7.59 a.m. A glorious morning when American Airlines Flight 11 takes off from Boston’s Logan Airport for Los …
Company helps 9/11 probe after losing one of its own
TEWKSBURY, Mass. — Like many businesses, Avid Technology Inc. lost one of its own in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Douglas Gowell, the company’s director of new business development, was traveling to Los Angeles to promote a new product when Flight 175 slammed into the World Trade Center. Avid employees struggled to cope with the …
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Exercise Jump-Starts Response to Attacks
Sept. 11, 2001: “American 11 heavy, Boston Center. Your transponder appears to be inoperative. Please recycle. . . . American 11 heavy, how do you read Boston Center? Over. “Watch supervisor, I have a possible hijack of American 11 heavy. Recommend notifying Norad.” At 8:40 a.m. EDT, Tech. Sgt. Jeremy W. Powell of North American Aerospace …
NY Daily Half of Victims IDd
The medical examiner’s office passed the halfway mark in identifying the World Trade Center dead yesterday, as the number of victims verified by remains reached 1,401. The bleak but encouraging milestone came a day before the one-year anniversary of the disaster that killed 2,801 and generated the largest and most prolonged forensics effort in U.S. …
Flight School Says FBI Trailed Suspect Prior To Hijackings
FBI Director Robert Mueller continued to insist yesterday that federal authorities had no reason to suspect Islamic extremists were training at US flight schools before last week’s suicide hijackings, even as more evidence surfaced raising questions about those assertions. The vice president of a flight school in Oklahoma told The Boston Globe yesterday that three …
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