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NYPD Helicopter Video Shows 9/11 Aftermath [VIDEO]
By Lisa Flam - AOL News"Holy crap!" a man shouts, watching the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. A new 17-minute video of the twin towers after they were hit on Sept. 11, 2001, taken from aboard a New York Police Department helicopter, shows thick, black smoke billowing out into the Lower Manhattan sky. The video was posted by the website Cryptome, which says it publishes documents that are "open, secret and classified." In posting the video on YouTube, the group said the video was provided by NYPD to the National Institute of Standards and Technology for its trade center investigation. "Holy crap! ...
Madison Square Garden Case Illustrates Paranoia Around Asbestos
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News
(Nov. 29) -- The paranoia and outright government and corporate silliness that often surrounds even the most benign discussions involving asbestos too often add to the fear and distrust. Take something simple like the Nov. 2 National Basketball Association game between the New York Knicks and the Orlando Magic, which was postponed when safety officials discovered that dusty debris had fallen from the ceiling onto some seats in Madison Square Garden. The debris had reportedly come from workers cleaning near some asbestos-related materials in the attic above the arena's ceiling. Seth ...
New York's 9/11 Tribute in Light Traps Thousands of Birds
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Sept. 16) -- New York City's Tribute in Light, the twin beams that illuminate the sky in memory of those who died in the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center towers, attracted some unusual visitors last weekend. The display turned into a magnet for thousands of confused migratory birds that were heading south for the winter. In a sight that was documented by many YouTube videos, the birds flocked to the beams, flying around in circles, unable to head away from the light. "This was an epic night for migration," John Rowden of the conservation group New York City Audubon told AOL News. ...
My Own Private 9/11
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyNine years ago on the morning of September 11, 2001, I turned on the TV to check the weather. My default station, CNN, broadcast a huge gaping hole in the World Trade Center, with black smoke billowing out. I yelled, "Robert, come here! Something horrible has happened." If I recall correctly, we were watching live TV as the tower collapsed. My husband and I knew we were experiencing the biggest story of our lives. Robert is a journalist, and he headed off to work at The Kansas City Star. Around noon a nurse called me. "How about surgery tomorrow?" Four weeks earlier, a scan showed a mass ...
9/11 in Photos: A Nation Remembers
By not in system - AOL NewsOn the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a nation remembers the horrors of that Tuesday morning in 2001. Here's a look at an unforgettable moment in American history. http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=931364&pid=931363&uts=1284176697 http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/media_gallery/v1/ke_media_gallery_wrapper.swf Remembering September 11 The twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind the Empire State Building in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. In a horrific sequence ...
NY Imam Breaks Silence on 'Ground Zero Mosque' Plans
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Sept. 8) -- After staying quiet while controversy swirled, the imam who wants to build a Muslim community center near the spot where the Twin Towers fell is finally speaking out -- saying he's moving forward with the project, is "awed" by the "furor" over it and is promising to "clearly identify" its financial backers. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf wrote an op-ed posted on The New York Times website late Tuesday saying that the "ground zero mosque" -- a $100 million planned YMCA-like community center with a swimming pool, classrooms and separate prayer spaces for Christians, Muslims and Jews -- ...
Mosque Debate Muddles Partisan Lines: Howard Dean Against, Ted Olson For
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 19) -- Though New York Democratic officials, including Gov. David Paterson, are divided on whether the Park51 "ground zero mosque" project should proceed, nationally the issue has largely and predictably broken down along partisan lines. Republicans, especially religious conservatives like Sarah Palin, are against it, while Democrats, including President Barack Obama, are for it. But a couple of prominent political figures now have muddled the line. Beloved liberal politician Howard Dean, one of the few Democratic 2004 presidential candidates who opposed the Iraq war, called the Islamic ...
Why Ground Zero Mosque Still Has a Long Way to Go
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 3) -- No matter what actually happened Tuesday, the New York City Landmarks and Preservation Commission was destined to become a magnet for controversy. As it was, its nine members voted unanimously against making the 45-47 Park Place building in Lower Manhattan a landmark, thus allowing plans for the hot-button "ground zero mosque" to proceed. But even if the committee had decided the other way, there surely would have been harsh condemnations from those who support the mosque that the decision was clearly the wrong one. Such is the climate surrounding the proposed construction of an ...
Is BP Oil Spill in the Gulf Our Environmental 9/11?
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyFor five weeks now -- although it sure feels longer -- we've been arguing over whether this BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is or is not Obama's Katrina. But in South Louisiana, that comparison lost its juice a while ago. "This is worse than Katrina,'' shrimper Floyd Robin told Politics Daily's Ben Sandmel. Now a worst-case corporate cockup -- potentially compounded by whatever loyal American forgot to change the batteries on the blowout preventer -- is looking more by the hour like our environmental 9/11. I know that's a risky comparison, because of all we lost that day, both in terms of ...
After the Times Square Bomb: Living in the No. 1 Terrorist Target
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyWhen the towers fell -- why does it feel like it was just a while ago? -- I was fast-walking around my neighborhood as I did most mornings. Pretty soon I noticed clusters of folks huddling on sidewalks and gesturing with obvious agitation. Somebody told me that a small plane had crashed into a building. I rushed up to my apartment and turned on the TV. Up until that moment I had envisioned a single-motor small plane from Teterboro airport in New Jersey running into a skyscraper. But what I was seeing on my TV screen was incredible: a commercial plane carrying more than 100 passengers had ...
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