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 …

I-Team: Illegal Strip Searches at Reagan National?

NEW ALLEGATIONS TONIGHT ABOUT ILLEGAL STRIP SEARCHES TAKING PLACE INSIDE REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT. ON MONDAY, THE I-TEAM UNCOVERED CHARGES OF SERIOUS SECURITY LAPSES THERE AND NOW, WE’RE HEARING ABOUT SOME DISTURBING INCIDENTS RELATED TO PASSENGER SCREENING. ANDREA MCCARREN JOINS US WITH MORE ON THE STORY. Andrea McCarren  on-set:IN TSA JARGON, THEY’RE CALLED PRIVATE SCREENINGS. THAT’S …

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 …

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 …

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 …