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Iraq -- The War Card: Orchestrated Deception on the Path to War
The project, the product of two and half years of reporting and research, produced a 380,000-word database that juxtaposes what President Bush and seven top officials were saying for public consumption against what was known, or should have been known, on a day-to-day basis. This fully searchable database includes the public statements, drawn from both primary sources (such as official transcripts) and secondary sources (such as major news organizations) over the two years beginning on September 11, 2001. It also interlaces relevant information from government reports, books, articles, speeches and interviews. An interactive timeline shows the examination of the records. All 935 records highlighted false statements and hundreds of secondary accounts that illuminate the discrepancies between what was being said against what was known privately, for a two-year time span.
Tags: September 11 attacks; 9/11; World Trade Center attacks; Bush administration; George W. Bush; Richard Cheney; Condoleeza Rice; Donald Rumsfeld; Colin Powell; Paul Wolfowitz; Ari Fleisher; Scott McClellan
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Sept 11 - Lax loans
The governments $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.
Tags: 9/11; World Trade Center attacks; federal loans; small business loans; FOIA; NICAR; Small Business Administration; disaster loans
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The Churchill Files
The Rocky Mountain News tells how University of Colorado-Boulder ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill ignited a major controversy when he called the victims of the World Trade Center terrorist attack "Little Eichmanns." After calls for his firing, he was also accused of plagiarism and misrepresenting himself as having American Indian heritage. The News investigated and found evidence of academic misconduct through unauthorized use of others' material and language, inaccurate historical references in his scholarly work and no Indian ancestry.
Tags: Ward Churchill; University of Colorado; CAR; September 11; 9/11; Cherokee; corruption
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The Mastermind
Close on the heels of Khalid Shaikh Mohammad's capture in Pakistan, CBS investigate's his larger role in world terrorism, particularly against USA. Specifically, CBS traces how Mohammad had directed his nephew, Ramzi Yousef, in the first WTC bombing in 1993. Further, Mohammad was not only the cheif architect of the failed American Airlines hijacking attempt in Phillipines, but also blending these two plans to make a blue print for the 9/11 attacks. The article also focuses on a raw copy of the audiotape with the voice of Ramzi bin al Shibh, who was Mohammad Atta's roommate in Hamburg, Germany.
Tags: Al-Jazeera; World Trade Center; Yosri Fouda; Karachi; Pakistan; Osama Bin Laden
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Terror Behind Bars
Tipped off by a riot at the Lompoc jail, the Santa Barbara News Press pieces together a six-year old gruesome murder of a prison guard therein. From the questionnaire, "the investigation reveals an alleged plot by radical Islamic prisoners - including one of t he men behind the World Trade Center bombing in 1993- who goaded a mentally challenged inmate into attacking. Though the Bureau of Prisons assured the slain guard, Scott Williams' family of swift justice, its been eight years and Scott's wife Kristy is still attending court hearings.
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Anti-Terror Funds Buy Wide Array of Pet Projects
The Washington Post traced the path of the region's first wave of homeland security aid from its distribution through its final use, a trail that has been largely unexamined by federal regulators. The reporters found that much of the $324 million directed to the Washington region after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks remained unspent or was funding projects with questionable connections to homeland security. The analysis included a review of contracts, grant proposals, and purchasing databases. Results showed millions were spent on items such as leather jackets for police officers.
Tags: anti-terrorism; anti-terrorism funds; terrorism; homeland security; Prince George's County prosecutors; Congress; The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; World Trade Center; Pentagon; Department of Homeland Security; Bethesda-Chevy Chase Fire Squad; Tom Ridge; District of Columbia Hospital Association; Psychiatric Institute of Washington; Kroll Government Services; bioterrorism; Prince William County; D.C. Department of Mental Health; D.C. Emergency Management Agency; anthrax; Montgomery County; Fairfax County; Federal Communications Commission
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City in the Sky; the Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center
This book tells the story of the conception, design, constriction, life and destruction of the World Trade Center. It considers the various factors that went into the building, as well as the attack that caused its destruction.
Tags: BOOK; architecture; New York; terrorism; construction
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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
The author examines the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from an engineering perspective. He discusses how the rescue teams went about deconstructing the collapsed towers, the physics behind the building structures and how different engineers involved in the original construction felt about the attacks.
Tags: September 11; engineering
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Life before, during and after
In this special report, Florida Today looks at life before, during and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Tags: 9/11; September 11; terrorism; World Trade Center towers; Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; Brevard; security; economy
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Airport Security
An investigation by KPIX-TV revealed "serious lapses in security at Oakland International Airport" -- just one year after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Tags: airports; September 11; airplanes; terrorist attacks; Oakland International Airport; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT