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At Ground Zero, a Battle's Decisive Moment
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsNEW YORK (March 11) -- A longstanding battle that has stymied construction at the site of the World Trade Center comes to a head this week. Barring a last-minute deal, arbitrators are set to impose a solution Friday on the financial spat that pits the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the site, against Larry Silverstein, the developer who leased the World Trade Towers only weeks before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "It's a disgrace that nine years after the attacks we are still looking at a hole in the ground," New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said Tuesday, ...
Never-Before-Seen 9/11 Attack Photos Released
By not in system - AOL News(Feb. 10) -- Just-released aerial police photos show the World Trade Center attack on Sept. 11, 2001, from a new angle. ABC News was handed 2,770 photos, many taken from police helicopters, after filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Click through the gallery, below, to see some of the images. http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=832032&pid=832031&uts=1265828507 ...
Americans Say 'Good Riddance' to the Last Decade
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyMay the next 10 years be better than the last 10, because by nearly two-to-one, a majority of Americans have a negative view about the decade drawing to a close, according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted Dec. 9-13. Fifty percent of those surveyed expressed a negative view of the 2000s, compared to 27 percent who viewed them positively, with 21 percent who held neither a positive nor negative view and 2 percent undecided. When those polled were asked to remember how they felt about previous decades, the positives outweighed the negatives dating back to the '60s, although, ...
Opinion: Obama's Speech -- Long on Platitudes, Short on Substance
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 1) - If you tuned in late to President Obama's speech this evening announcing his decision to send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, you might be forgiven for initially thinking that George W Bush was still president. For a candidate who ran for the nation's highest office on the notion that he would change the mind-set of American foreign policy and de-emphasize the war on terror, the initial part of Obama's speech brought back the bogeyman of al-Qaida. In vivid detail he reminded Americans of the terrible events of Sept. 11 -- and the potential for new violence. Though ...
Majority Say Accused 9/11 Conspirators Should Be Tried in Military Court
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAmericans believe by 59 percent to 36 percent that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four accused co-conspirators in planning the Sept. 11 attacks should be tried in a military court and not in a civilian court in New York City as Attorney General Eric Holder has decided, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted Nov. 20-22. ...
New Yorkers Divided on Having Terror Trial in Their City
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFollowing one national poll that said almost two-thirds of Americans opposed putting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial in a civilian New York court, a Marist Institute survey conducted Nov. 16 found New York City residents to be more closely divided with 45 percent supporting a trial in the city, 41 percent saying it's a bad idea and 14 percent undecided. The margin of error is 4 points.Forty-seven percent say having the trial in New York will make no difference as far as increasing the risk that the city will be a target for terrorism, while 40 percent think it will make New York more of a ...
Most Americans Say Accused 9/11 Mastermind Should Face a Military Court
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySixty-four percent of Americans disagree with the Obama administration's decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other co-conspirators in the Sept. 11 attacks in a civilian court in New York City instead of having them face a military tribunal while 34 percent support a trial in a civilian court, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll conducted Nov. 13-15. Thirty=seven percent said the trial should take place in another country while the rest said it should be held somewhere in the U.S. "The decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in front of a civilian court is universally ...
Republicans, Democrats Clash Over N.Y. Trial for Accused 9/11 Plotters
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe partisan debate continued today over the Obama administration's decision to try the accused Sept. 11 conspirators in a civilian court in New York, with Republicans asserting they should face a military tribunal because the attacks were an act of war, while Democrats said the trial would demonstrate to the world the U.S. commitment to the rule of law. ...
The Backstory Behind the Decision to Try the 9/11 Plotters in N.Y.
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe decision to hold a civilian criminal trial in New York City for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his co-conspirators in planning the Sept. 11 attacks was the single biggest legal and political question that Attorney General Eric Holder has had to face, and it was preceded by four months of "deliberation, lobbying and tug of war" inside the Justice Department, according to the Washington Post. The process started in July when Holder asked top federal prosecutors in four districts to give him recommendations by Oct. 1 on whether to send Guantanamo Bay detainees to military commissions, federal ...
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