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9/11 First Responders and Survivors Push for $7.4 Billion in Aid
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyFirst responders and survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center traveled to Capitol Hill Wednesday to push for $7.4 billion in aid for those sickened by dust at ground zero. Supporters urged lawmakers to pass the measure that would provide compensation and health care to rescue workers who got ill after working in the ruins of the twin towers, The Associated Press reported. A vote in the House is expected next week. "We are marking the ninth anniversary of 9/11 with a demand that Congress do what it should have done long ago -- provide health care for those who lost their ...
On 9/11 Anniversary, Enduring Grief and Sharp Division
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK – On a clear and cool Saturday, with bells ringing, bagpipes playing and a chorus singing, thousands gathered near ground zero to observe the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as a storm of controversy swirled over the proposed construction nearby of a mosque and Islamic center and the aftermath of a Florida preacher's threat to burn the Koran. Solemnity and visible sorrow prevailed at the morning ceremonies at Zuccotti Park, near the site where 2,752 people were killed when two planes flew into the World Trade Center. As expected, around 1,000 or so activists ...
Opinion: Pointless Protest Against New Mosques
By Michael Cohen - AOL News(June 21) -- Recently in my hometown of New York City, two very ugly public discussions about the role of Muslims in American society emerged. Each, in its own way, suggests that dangerous misconceptions about Islam continue even nearly nine years after Sept. 11, 2001. First in Staten Island, where efforts to open a mosque for the borough's growing Muslim community have been met with outrage by residents. As chronicled in a recent New York Times story, Muslim representatives of the proposed mosque were peppered with angry questions about Shariah law and terrorism. One woman, apparently not ...
Gary Brooks Faulkner: Will It Take a Vigilante to Get Osama Bin Laden?
By Paul Wachter - Politics DailyGary Brooks Faulkner, a 52-year-old construction worker from California, was detained Sunday by Pakistani authorities after being found with a gun, sword and night-vision goggles. Faulkner claims he was on a mission to kill Osama bin Laden. But while that my cause a few chuckles (including from the Pakistanis who detained him), the real joke is not on a would-be Rambo like Faulkner but on the U.S. government, which has yet to capture or kill bin Laden as we approach the nine-year anniversary of 9/11. After those attacks, the Bush administration allowed bin Laden to sneak out from Afghanistan ...
Settlement Awards $712.5M to Ground Zero Workers
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(June 10) -- A renegotiated deal with the city of New York will give more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and cleanup workers a payout of $712.5 million in compensation for health damages they said they suffered at the site of the Sept. 11 attacks. After almost three months of negotiations over the terms of the payout, the city's insurer, WTC Captive Insurance Co., reached a new settlement today in federal court with the firefighters, police officers and construction workers who were exposed to toxic dust at ground zero, The New York Times reports. The new deal represents a significant bump ...
Al-Qaida's No. 3 Leader Reported Killed by US Strike
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(June 1) -- Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, a founder of al-Qaida and its third in command, has been killed by a U.S. drone strike in the northern border regions of Pakistan, according to the terrorist group and a U.S. official. The loss of Egyptian-born al-Yazid -- also know as Saeed al-Masri -- is a major blow for al-Qaida, and could hamper its ability to organize attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan from its bases in Pakistan. Al-Yazid, 55, headed al-Qaida's operations in Afghanistan, controlling everything from finances to mission planning. He is also believed to have arranged the financing ...
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 ...
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