AP - Police and the World Trade Center site's owner sketched out a security agreement Thursday that settles a turf war over who will protect ground zero against terrorism as the Lower Manhattan site is rebuilt.
Reuters - U.S. health officials unveiled plans
on Thursday to help people who lived or worked near New York's
World Trade Center who may have been harmed by exposure to dust
and debris from the collapse in the 2001 attacks.
Reuters - A Muslim Canadian
has been awarded C$11,000 over an incident in which a co-worker
falsely concluded he was involved in the September 11, 2001,
attacks and reported him to police.
AP - The World Trade Center site's owner has offered $20 million to acquire the 1,200-square-foot lot of a church destroyed on Sept. 11, freeing one more piece of land needed to rebuild every inch of ground zero.
AP - The judge in the trial of convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui says she told jurors that they made the right decision in sparing his life.
AP - U.S. military prosecutors on Wednesday played an interrogation video that shows a driver for Osama bin Laden denying any connection to al-Qaida but also fretting that he is "finished."
Reuters - Osama bin
Laden's driver overheard the al Qaeda leader saying he was
happy about the death toll in the September 11 attacks and
thought the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was
shot down, according to one of the driver's interrogators.
Investor's Business Daily - The war crimes trial began at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, nearly 7 years after the 9/11 attacks prompted Pres. Bush to declare war on terrorism. Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, is standing trial on charges of conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism. He could face life in prison if convicted by a jury of U.S. military officers.
AP - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain will speak about the need for public service at a national forum on that topic being held in New York on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
AP - A staircase people used to escape the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11, 2001, attack has been moved for a second time on the ground zero site.
AP - Sept. 11 victims' families will be allowed to return to ground zero to mourn their loved ones on the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks, officials said Friday.
Reuters - When
accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed grumbled
to the U.S. military war tribunal he couldn't get paper or file
legal motions with the court, he was told to put his complaints
in legal papers and file them with the court.
AP - A former medical examiner's office worker was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for stealing at least $9 million, much of it intended to identify victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Reuters - An accused
September 11 conspirator told the U.S. military war court at
Guantanamo on Thursday that he should have access to classified
evidence against him, arguing that if he is executed the
secrets will be safer than in the hands of the FBI or CIA.
Reuters - President George W. Bush signed a
law on Thursday overhauling the rules for eavesdropping on
terrorism suspects but immediately met a civil liberties
challenge calling it a threat to Americans' privacy.
AP - Bowing to President Bush's demands, the Senate sent the White House a bill Wednesday overhauling bitterly disputed rules on secret government eavesdropping and shielding telecommunications companies from lawsuits complaining they helped the U.S. spy on Americans.
Reuters - President George W. Bush won final
congressional approval on Wednesday of liability protection for
phone companies that took part in the warrantless domestic
spying program he began after the September 11 attacks.