September 11 Terrorist Attacks
Articles on 9/11 attacks.
9/11 Lawsuits Set to Proceed for Victims’ Families
Forty-one families whose loved ones died in the September 11th attacks chose not to accept money from the Federal Victim’s Compensation Fund; their lawsuits are finally going to court.
Medical Examiner IDs Remains of 9/11 Flight Attendant
The New York City medical examiner’s office has identified three more victims of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, including the remains of a flight attendant on one of the planes.
Five Years Later, America Looks Back on 9/11
America is remembering the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 with services at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Americans Outraged by Ann Coulter’s Liberal Use of Insults
Right-wing commentator Ann Coulter is under fire for the controversial statements made in her latest book, where she criticizes widows whose husbands died in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, calling them "celebrities."
New York Theater Yanks Trailer for Movie About 9/11 Attacks
At least one movie theater in New York City has refused to air the trailer for the new movie that tells the story of United Flight 93, the hijacked jetliner that crashed into a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, the day thousands of people were killed in New York City by terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Soldiers Returning from War Zones Are Dying on Motorcycles
The number of soldiers killed in off-duty motorcycle accidents since the 9/11 terrorist attacks is higher than the number of soldiers killed in combat in Afghanistan during the same time.
Chaplain Resigns from FDNY After Making Offensive 9/11 Comments
An imam scheduled to be the second Muslim chaplain in the New York Fire Department resigned before being sworn in, after he made comments suggesting that the 9/11 terrorist attacks might have been a government conspiracy.
Disturbing Report Shows FBI Overlooked Clues Before 9/11 Attacks
A newly released report about the FBI’s handling of pre-9/11 information reveals that the hijackers might have been thwarted if agencies had been allowed to communicate with each other more efficiently.
Black Tuesday – September 11, 2001: Attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon
Americans struggle to cope in the aftermath of devastation as suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon leave the world stunned.
Castro Says Us Lied About 9/11 Attacks
Fidel Castro today joined the band of September 11 conspiracy theorists by accusing the US of spreading disinformation about the attacks that took place six years ago.
America Remembers 9/11
Ceremonies take place across America to remember the attacks of September 11 2001, which led to the deaths of 2,993 people, including the 19 hijackers.
Scares in Turkey and Germany Add to 9/11 Jitters
An unexploded car bomb has been found in Turkey and threats have made against a US air base in Germany as jittery security forces fear terrorist action timed to coincide with the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
US Documents Show Pakistan Gave Taliban Military Aid
The Pakistani government gave substantial military support to the Taliban in the years leading up to the September 11 attacks, sending arms and soldiers to fight alongside the militant Afghan movement, according to newly released US official documents.
Terror Suspects Held at Cia Jail in Poland, Says Report
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the al-Qaida ringleader who claims to have masterminded the 9/11 attacks, was held, interrogated, and possibly tortured at a secret CIA prison in Poland.
Al-Qaida Suspect Says He Beheaded Daniel Pearl
The alleged al-Qaida mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks boasted of being responsible for decapitating US journalist Daniel Pearl five years ago, in a transcript released by the Pentagon. By Ewen MacAskill.
Mixed Reaction to Alleged 9/11 Confessions of Al-qaida Suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
The apparent confessions of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to planning the September 11 attacks were today met with alarm and doubt in almost equal measure.
THE SCENARIO -- Parts One and Two
A journalist is offered the story of a lifetime by a rogue CIA agent: An alternative scenario for the September 11 terrorist attack. From RANDOM TALES -- A Collection of Stories by Jack Random (unpublished).
German Court Jails Friend of 9/11 Attackers
A friend of the September 11 suicide pilots was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court in Germany today, for being an accessory to murder.
Republicans Change Tack to Fight Democrats on Terrorism
The Republicans returned to the theme that dominated the last two elections since September 11, hammering home the message that a vote for the Democrats would expose America to terrorist attack.
UK Warned Against Invasion
On the day after the September 11 terrorist attacks, senior British intelligence officials told their American counterparts that they would not support retaliatory action against Iraq, a new book claims.
Angry Clinton Defends Record on Fighting Al-qaida
Former US president Bill Clinton reacted angrily in a television interview yesterday to recent criticism of his failure to capture Osama bin Laden, accusing 'President Bush's neocons' of failing to act until after the attacks of September 11 2001.
Bush Threatened to Bomb Pakistan, Says Musharraf
The Bush administration threatened to bomb Pakistan 'back to the stone age' after the September 11 attacks if the country did not cooperate with America's war on Afghanistan, it emerged yesterday.
Clinton Plots His Comeback
The ex-President's attack on TV's 9/11 drama signals his re-emergence on to the world stage and a bid to protect his legacy.
Controversial Italian Journalist Dies
Oriana Fallaci, Italy's best-known journalist, whose diatribes against Islam following the September 11 attacks on America won her global notoriety, has died. She was 77 years old.
US Marks 9/11 Five Years on
Memorial events were taking place around the world today to mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks on the US.
Zawahiri Warns West of Looming Defeat in New Video
Western forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are 'fighting their last battles', al-Qaida's deputy leader says in a new video apparently timed to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
Ground Zero Falls Silent As Americans Recall Fateful Day Their World Collapsed
· New York acts as focus on 5th anniversary of attacks · Bush links Iraq war to September 11 in TV speech
Ruin and Defeat Await You, Al-qaida Tells West
Western forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are 'fighting their last battles', al-Qaida's deputy leader says in a new video apparently timed to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington.
Al-Qaida Tape Warns of New Attacks
A taped message from Osama bin Laden's deputy, broadcast today on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, has warned of further terror strikes.
Clinton Aides Slam 9/11 Drama
A group of Bill Clinton's former aides have labelled a US television mini-series about the September 11 attacks 'terribly wrong', calling for it to be corrected or pulled from the schedule. By Julia Day.
US Confirms Existence of Secret Prison Network
George Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday the existence of a secret CIA prison network, and said the mastermind of the September 11 2001 terror attacks and other high-value detainees had been transferred to Guantánamo Bay.
Presidents Blamed in Docudrama
A mini-series chronicling the build-up to the 9/11 attacks has come under fire for blaming the Clinton administration for failing to capture Osama bin Laden and showing President Bush as determined to pursue al-Qaida prior to the attack.
Executives Given Cut-price Stock Options in Weeks After 9/11
Executives at leading US companies could make millions through the award of stock options issued in the weeks after the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks.
Studio Sues Student Over 9/11 Film
Paramount Pictures is to go to court over concerns that a 12-minute student art project, distributed free on the web, might be confused with its forthcoming $60m blockbuster about the September 11 attacks.
Terror Suspect Loses Extradition Appeal
A Moroccan terrorism suspect linked to the September 11 attacks, who claimed he had been tortured on the orders of British intelligence, lost his high court appeal against extradition to Spain today.
The Hidden Leader of a Virtual War
Nearly five years after the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden still eludes his American pursuers. Operation Mountain Lion, a large-scale, month-long military sweep through Afghanistan's Konar province abutting Pakistan, folded with a whimper. By Simon Tisdall
Abrupt Exit for Chief of 'floundering' Cia
Porter Goss, charged with revitalising the CIA after its failures of intelligence in the September 11 2001 attacks and the run-up to the Iraq war, abruptly resigned from his post yesterday barely a year after taking the job.
No Soft Options in 'alcatraz of the Rockies'
Alexander Santora, who lost his son in the 9/11 attacks, said yesterday that Zacarias Moussaoui was receiving a soft option by being sent to prison for life instead of getting the death sentence.
Moussaoui in Final Court Outburst
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in the US of involvement in the September 11 2001 attacks, left court flashing a victory sign today after being formally sentenced to life imprisonment.
Death Penalty: Federal Exceptions
Given the seriousness of the 9/11 attacks and America's reputation for capital punishment, Zacarias Moussaoui's life sentence may come as a surprise.
Moussaoui Attacks Own Lawyers
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only man to be prosecuted in connection with the September 11 2001 attacks, took the witness stand at his trial today and immediately launched into a vehement criticism of his lawyers.
Jury Finds Would-be Hijacker Moussaoui Eligible for Death Penalty
A jury found yesterday that Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person to be prosecuted in connection with the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001, was eligible for the death penalty.
Moussaoui Eligible for Death Penalty
The US jury in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui today found that the confessed al-Qaida plotter is eligible for the death penalty for his role in the September 11 2001 terror attacks.
Anger at Bin Laden Niece's Reality Tv Show
The news that Osama bin Laden's niece is to star in a US reality TV show has provoked fury from families of some of those killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Death Penalty Call for Man Who 'could Have Stopped 9/11'
Lawyers for the US government yesterday demanded the death penalty in the trial of a man they said could have chosen to prevent the September 11 attacks.
Bush Tells of Al-qaida Plot to Fly Jet Into Tallest Building in Los Angeles
· Architect of 9/11 planned to use Asian recruits · Several states collaborated to foil new attack, US told
Alleged 9/11 Conspirator Evicted From Court
The sole conspirator brought to trial in the September 11 terror attacks was removed from the Virginia court that is to decide whether he will live or die yesterday after he disrupted proceedings by shouting "I am al-Qaida".
Congress Never Debated Use of Wiretaps, Says Ex-senate Chief
Congress had reservations about granting George Bush expanded wartime powers after the September 11 attacks and never discussed the use of wiretaps without warrants on US citizens, a former Senate majority leader said yesterday.
Initial Test of Patriot Act Fails to Produce One Conviction
A trial billed as the most important terrorism case in the United States since the September 11 attacks ended in defeat yesterday for the US government after a Florida professor accused of leading a terrorist cell that funded attacks against Israel was acquitted on nearly half the charges against him, and the jury was deadlocked on the rest.
Caught Between Iraq and a Hard Place
Simon Tisdall: Jordan's 9/11 - the al-Qaida suicide bomb attacks on three Amman hotels on November 9 that killed 63 people - is still sending shockwaves across the kingdom.
More Than 80,000 Held By Us Since 9/11 Attacks
· Growing worries over treatment of prisoners · Fury in Europe over secret CIA terror suspect flights
Madrid Al-qaida Leader Jailed for 27 Years Over 9/11 Attacks
· Fourteen convicted of belonging to terror group · Al-Jazeera to back reporter jailed for acting as courier
Spain Jails 9/11-linked Al-qaida Suspect
A suspected al-Qaida leader was sentenced to 27 years in prison in Madrid today for conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the September 11 attacks on New York. Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, 42, the alleged head of an al-Qaida cell, was sentenced to 15 years in jail plus 12 more...
9/11: 4 Years Later
The Fight is the same, and it is not West versus Islam. It is within Islam and outside Islam; within the West and outside the West. It is a diachronic Fight between Good and Evil. Murad III failed and the Ottoman Empire started losing ground to the West. President Bush must avoid failing similarly.
Tenet Could Face 9/11 Reprimand
The former CIA director George Tenet is among more than a dozen current and former officials who could be subject to disciplinary proceedings over the agency's performance before the September 11 attacks.
US Officer Says Pentagon Prevented Al-qaida Reports Reaching the Fbi
A US army intelligence officer went public yesterday with claims that a secret military unit had identified Mohammed Atta and three other al-Qaida members as a potential threat a year before they carried out the September 11 attacks in 2001.
90% of Terror Arrests Fail
Fewer than 10% of the people prosecuted for terrorism in the United States since the September 11 attacks were convicted of crimes related to that or national security, according to a study conducted by the Washington Post.
Freedom Tower Redesign
The architects behind the Freedom Tower - the replacement for the twin towers destroyed in the September 11 attacks - have been sent back to the drawing board yet again.
Court Told Man Filmed Us Sites for 9/11 Terrorists
A Spanish court yesterday saw video footage, taken by an alleged al-Qaida member, of the World Trade Centre and other alleged terrorist targets in the US that were supposedly passed on to the organisers of the September 11 2001 attacks.
Europe's Biggest Al-qaida Trial Starts
Strict security measures were in place around a Madrid court last night ahead of the start today of a mass trial of alleged members of al-Qaida, some of whom are charged with involvement in the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks in the US.
Only 9/11 Prisoner Will Admit Terror Role
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in the US for the September 11 2001 terror attacks, was set to appear in court tomorrow to register a guilty plea.
FBI Chief Admits $170m Computer Failure
More than three years after the September 11 attacks, and $170m (£88m) later, the FBI has abandoned an attempt to upgrade its computer database, hampering America's ability to track suspected terrorists.
Trolley Fire Halts New York Trains
A fire believed to have been started by a vagrant trying to keep warm has done more extensive and longer-lasting damage to the New York subway than the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Republicans Snub Bush on 9/11 Reforms
Conservative Republicans and Pentagon allies in Congress rebelled against President George Bush at the weekend by blocking legislation to reform US intelligence in the light of the September 11 attacks.
Bin Laden Warning to America
· Threat of fresh attacks in run-up to US elections
· Al-Qaida leader admits 9/11 atrocities for first time
· We will continue war on terror, vow Bush and Kerry
FBI Swamped By Terror Tapes
More than 120,000 hours of wiretapped conversations between terrorist suspects and sympathisers since the September 11 attacks have not been translated because of the FBI's lack of linguists, according to an official report. The report, by the justice department's inspector-general, also...
9/11 Widows Join Kerry Campaign
John Kerry tried to re-establish his credentials on national security yesterday, recruiting prominent widows from the September 11 terror attacks to support his election campaign. In an election season dominated by issues of national security, yesterday's endorsement was designed to...
German 9/11 Trial in Doubt After Us Blocks Witnesses
The retrial of a Moroccan man convicted of involvement in the September 11 attacks appeared to be in doubt last night after the Bush administration refused to allow two key al-Qaida suspects to give evidence. On the first day of the new trial of Mounir el Motassadeq, a court in Hamburg...
Bush Names Rightwing Republican As Cia Chief
President George Bush turned yesterday to a Republican congressman with intelligence expertise to lead the CIA through an era of change following the September 11 terror attacks. If approved by the Senate, Porter Goss, 65, a former CIA operative and leader of the House intelligence...
We Are a Nation in Danger - Bush
President George Bush bowed to election-year pressure yesterday and ended his opposition to the reforms urged by the congressional inquiry into the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks. "We are a nation in danger," he said, announcing the appointment of a national intelligence director on...
Trouble Ahead for Bush From 9/11 Panel
Commission plans to campaign, not disband. Members of the commission investigating the September 11 terror attacks have injected a potentially unsettling element into President George Bush's re-election campaign by deciding not to disband.
Iran Rejects Us Claim of Al-qaida Link
The Iranian government yesterday admitted for the first time that half a dozen of the al-Qaida terrorists behind the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington had passed through Iran. But the government, anxious to avoid being the next US target after Afghanistan and Iraq, denied...
No Iraq Link to September 11 Plot, Us Report Finds
The US commission investigating the September 11 attacks reported yesterday it had found no evidence that Iraq and al-Qaida cooperated in the plot or had any sort of "collaborative relationship", bluntly contradicting persistent White House claims. The finding was presented in a report by...
9/11 Compensation Agreed
The US government's compensation fund for victims of the September 11 attacks completed its work today, agreeing to pay $7bn (£4bn) to more than 5,000 claimants. Under the law that created the fund, nearly three years ago, administrators had until midnight to decide how much each...
Greece and Italy 'failing in Security'
Greece and Italy were yesterday singled out for lagging behind in intensifying efforts to improve Europe-wide coordination in the fight against terrorism. Ireland, holder of the EU presidency, said Rome and Athens had failed to meet almost every target set since the September 11 attacks...
Under-fire Cia Chief Resigns
The director of the CIA, George Tenet, resigned abruptly yesterday after months of intense criticism for intelligence failures in the run-up to the September 11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq. Mr Tenet cited personal reasons for stepping down. President Bush said he had accepted Mr...
Greek Pm Admits Olympic Security Problems
The Greek prime minister has acknowledged room for improvement in security preparations ahead of the August Olympics, despite Athens spending £660m on safeguarding the world's most significant sporting event since the September 11 attacks. In his first interview with a British paper,...
I Told Them Everything, Says Bush After Secret Hearing in Oval Office
President George Bush yesterday said he had answered every question he was asked in a White House meeting with a public commission investigating the September 11 attacks, but would not give details of the closed-door session. The 10-member commission described the meeting in the Oval...
Bush Hails 'cordial' 9/11 Session
The US president, George Bush, said today that he had a "good ... cordial" session with the panel investigating the September 11 attacks and that they had asked "a lot of good questions." Mr Bush appeared behind closed doors with the panel alongside his vice-president, Dick Cheney.
Spanish Charges Link Attacks
A Spanish judge yesterday charged one of the men being sought by police in connection with the Madrid train bombings with involvement in the September 11 attacks in the US.
'Unrealistic' War Game Pooh-poohed Before 9/11
Five months before the September 11 attacks, US military planners suggested a war game to practise a response to a terrorist attack using a commercial airliner flown into the Pentagon, but senior officers rejected the scenario as "too unrealistic".
We Made Mistakes, Says Cia Boss
The director of the CIA, George Tenet, today told the commission investigating the September 11 2001 attacks that the US had been effectively "unprotected" before them and that the intelligence services had made mistakes. He predicted it would take the US another five years to get the...
We Made Mistakes - Cia Boss
The director of the CIA, George Tenet, today told the commission investigating the September 11 attacks the intelligence services had made mistakes. It would take the US five years to get the "clandestine service our country needs", he warned. Mr Tenet said there had been some...
Rice: Bush Understood Al-qaida Threat
· 'No silver bullet' to stop September 11
· Focus after attacks 'on Afghanistan'
· 'Not aware' of reports on hijacking threat
Man Jailed Over 9/11 is Freed
The only person to have been jailed in connection with the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington was today released from prison, pending a retrial in a German court. Mounir El Motassadeq, 30, was serving a maximum 15-year prison term in Hamburg after a court in the city...
Rice Told to Testify Before 9/11 Hearing As Bush Caves in
President George Bush surrendered yesterday to public demands for greater disclosure from the White House to the investigation into the September 11 attacks, authorising his national security adviser to testify in public before the commission. The retreat - after weeks of resisting a...
White House Moves to Defuse Rice Row
White House may consider releasing transcripts from testimony by Condoleezza Rice to the commission investigating the September 11 attacks.
Memory of Twin Towers Wins New Arts Prize
A handful of dust, gathered from the streets of New York in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, last night won the first £40,000 Artes Mundi prize for the Chinese artist Xu Bing. Mr Xu, who was born in China in 1959, left the country after the Tiananmen Square massacre. He now...
Bush Under Fire Over Response to Al-qaida Threat
George Bush's record on fighting terrorism today suffered a further blow when the president's former anti-terror adviser said that his administration had failed to take the threat from al-Qaida seriously before the September 11 attacks. Former counter-terror coordinator Richard Clarke,...
Bush Accused of Exploiting 9/11 Attacks
George Bush's election strategists have been forced to fend of accusations of exploiting the September 11 tragedy in their latest campaign ads, writes Suzanne Goldenberg.
The Day the Earth Screamed
Mark Bain has turned the seismological data from the September 11 attacks in New York into a musical composition. It's not easy listening, says Mark Oliver.
Terror Inquiry Hampered By White House
An independent commission on the September 11 terror attacks, established along similar lines to the intelligence inquiry announced by the White House this week, has been dogged by a constant struggle between the investigators and the Republican administration, which the commission regularly...
US 'need Not Have Suffered' Attacks of 9/11
Inquiry chairman calls for sackings over intelligence failure.
Europe War Slated By Nobel Winner
Iran's Shirin Ebadi became the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace prize yesterday and sent a bold anti-war message to the west, accusing it of hiding behind the September 11 attacks to violate human rights. Ms Ebadi, 56, a reformist lawyer, was handed the $1.4 million...
Nobel Prize Winner Attacks West
Iran's Shirin Ebadi became the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel peace prize yesterday and sent a bold anti-war message to the west, accusing it of hiding behind the September 11 attacks to violate human rights. Ms Ebadi, 56, a reformist lawyer, was handed the $1.4 million...
New York Memorial Shortlist Revealed
With light to reflect lost lives and quiet gardens to reflect on the dead, the eight shortlisted designs for a World Trade Centre memorial to honour the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001 and 1993 were unveiled yesterday. Four months of secrecy surrounding the...
Fight Jews, Mahathir Tells Summit
The Malaysian prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, yesterday opened the largest gathering of heads of state from Islamic countries since September 11 with a stinging attack on what he perceived as the global Jewish domination. He urged the world's 1.3 billion Muslims, represented by their...
200 Held in Yemen 'to Placate Us'
The US-led "war on terror" has caused a worsening of human rights in Yemen, with the authorities there holding almost 200 people without trial in an effort to placate the Americans, says a report published today. In the months following the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington,...
Iraq dumped WMDs years ago, says Blix
No evidence to link Saddam with September 11 attacks, Bush admits. The former UN chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, believes that Iraq destroyed most of its weapons of mass destruction 10 years ago, according to an interview broadcast yesterday.
Bali bombing 'brains' to face firing squad
An Islamist militant described as the intellectual mastermind of the Bali bombings, the most deadly terrorist attacks since September 11, was sentenced to death yesterday by an Indonesian panel of judges.
New 'bin Laden' Videotape Warns of Real Battle to Come
A chilling videotape, purportedly of Osama bin Laden, was released yesterday on the eve of the second anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, warning that the real battle with America and the west has not even started. The tape shows a figure believed to be Bin Laden, the...
Al-Qaida Issues a Chilling Warning
A new tape purporting to be from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network yesterday threatened an onslaught against Americans so devastating it would obliterate memories of the September 11 suicide attacks. The audio tape message, dated September 3, was broadcast on al-Arabiyya satellite TV...
We Must Prepare for the Worst
Twin Towers plans should not disguise an uncomfortable truth. The debate over the memorial to those who died in the Twin Towers attack of September 11 2001 expresses in a concentrated way the perplexities and contradictions that the event brought in its train.
Moroccan on trial for 9/11 attacks
A Moroccan student went on trial in Germany yesterday, charged with 3,066 counts of being an accessory to murder: one for each of the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US.
Report Suggests Hijackers Crashed Flight 93
Investigators piecing together the final minutes of United Airlines flight 93 now believe that it was deliberately crashed into a Pennsylvania field by its suicide hijackers. A version of events that emerged after the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington suggested...
Secret detentions allowed
The names of hundreds of people arrested or detained by the US government since the September 11 attacks can be kept secret in order to protect national security, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.
Anthrax Suspect Lied to Get Jobs
The man at the centre of the investigation into the post-9/11 anthrax attacks in the US faked a UK medical degree and membership of the Royal Society of Medicine, to fool his way into a job at America's highest security bio-defence installation. Dr Steven Jay Hatfill was named last August...
Trade centre developer sues Cantor for rent
Cantor Fitzgerald, the securities firm that suffered enormous losses in the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, is being sued for unpaid rent by the property developer behind the World Trade Centre site.
Fleischer Resigns As White House Spokesman
With a presidential kiss of blessing planted on his balding pate, Ari Fleischer, the White House press spokesman, announced his resignation today. Mr Fleischer, the public face of the Bush administration through two wars and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, said he was stepping...
US says it will hunt down terrorists
President George Bush vowed yesterday that the perpetrators of the bombings in Saudi Arabia would "learn the meaning of American justice", warning the US would be "on the hunt" after the worst terrorist attack on American interests since September 11 2001.
Terror list
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'20th Hijacker' Taunts Us Attorney General With Quiz
In a gambit surely unprecedented in US legal history, Zacarias Moussaoui, awaiting trial for conspiracy in the September 11 attacks, has set the US attorney general a multiple choice quiz, offering a seat at his execution as a mock reward for getting the right answer. The suspected...
Airline that needs a class on economy
If there were a league table of crass executive behaviour, the bosses of American Airlines would be outright winners. Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, airlines have cut thousands of workers from the payroll.
Bin Laden 'hiding on Afghan border'
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected architect of the September 11 attacks who was arrested on Saturday, has told his captors that he met Osama bin Laden within the last month along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, it was reported yesterday.
Raided family of microbiologist denies official version of al-Qaida arrests
US and Pakistani officials were last night questioning Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected architect of the September 11 attacks and al-Qaida kingpin arrested in a dramatic swoop over the weekend.
The henchmen
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: A 37-year-old Kuwaiti who is said by the US to have been behind the September 11 attacks. Also accused of involvement in the first World Trade Centre bombing in 1983, as well as an unsuccessful attempt to blow up American airliners over the Pacific.
Architect of New York's day of terror
He was the smiling strategist who plotted death and destruction. Jason Burke profiles the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.
Kissinger Resigns As Chairman of Inquiry Into September 11 Attacks
Faced with a choice between his new appointment as the head of an inquiry investigating the September 11 attacks and keeping his business contacts secret, Henry Kissinger last night chose the path of discretion and resigned from the inquiry. The resignation came just over two weeks after...
Hijacker 'planned September 11-type Attack'
A suspected hijacker who tried to take over an El Al flight yesterday has told Turkish interrogators that he wanted to divert the plane back to Tel Aviv and crash it into a building, Turkey's private NTV television reported. Security guards aboard the airliner overpowered the man, who...
Hamburg Trial Opens for 'key Operative' in 9/11 Attacks
The trial opened today of a 28-year-old Moroccan student accused of aiding the Hamburg terrorist cell involved in the September 11 attacks on the US, which included the lead suicide hijacker Mohamed Atta. Prosecutors allege that Mounir el-Motassadeq, who is being tried in a Hamburg state...
Warning of 9/11 attack 'ignored'
American officials were investigating yesterday reports that US diplomats in Peshawar were warned by a moderate Taliban minister that a 'huge attack' by al-Qaeda in the United States was imminent.
Italian police tapes hint at September 11 attacks
Italian police recorded al-Qaida suspects in Milan discussing aerial attacks and infiltration of the US in the 13 months before September 11, with the mastermind of the plot being referred to as an insane genius who would chill the world.
American injured by suicide bomb also survived September 11 attack
An American who survived the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York was among those injured by yesterday's suicide bomb attack in West Jerusalem's Jaffa Street. Bandaged and bloody, Mark Sokolow, 43, described from his hospital bed how he had escaped death twice in...
First man charged for September 11 attacks
A French-Moroccan man, won over to radical Islam while a student in London, became the first person to be charged for the September 11 terrorist attacks against the US yesterday, when he was indicted by a grand jury in Virginia for being an "active participant" in the conspiracy. The...
Fidel Castro today joined the band of September 11 conspiracy theorists by accusing the US of spreading disinformation about the attacks that took place six years ago.
America Remembers 9/11
Ceremonies take place across America to remember the attacks of September 11 2001, which led to the deaths of 2,993 people, including the 19 hijackers.
Scares in Turkey and Germany Add to 9/11 Jitters
An unexploded car bomb has been found in Turkey and threats have made against a US air base in Germany as jittery security forces fear terrorist action timed to coincide with the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
US Documents Show Pakistan Gave Taliban Military Aid
The Pakistani government gave substantial military support to the Taliban in the years leading up to the September 11 attacks, sending arms and soldiers to fight alongside the militant Afghan movement, according to newly released US official documents.
Terror Suspects Held at Cia Jail in Poland, Says Report
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the al-Qaida ringleader who claims to have masterminded the 9/11 attacks, was held, interrogated, and possibly tortured at a secret CIA prison in Poland.
Al-Qaida Suspect Says He Beheaded Daniel Pearl
The alleged al-Qaida mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks boasted of being responsible for decapitating US journalist Daniel Pearl five years ago, in a transcript released by the Pentagon. By Ewen MacAskill.
Mixed Reaction to Alleged 9/11 Confessions of Al-qaida Suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
The apparent confessions of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to planning the September 11 attacks were today met with alarm and doubt in almost equal measure.
THE SCENARIO -- Parts One and Two
A journalist is offered the story of a lifetime by a rogue CIA agent: An alternative scenario for the September 11 terrorist attack. From RANDOM TALES -- A Collection of Stories by Jack Random (unpublished).
German Court Jails Friend of 9/11 Attackers
A friend of the September 11 suicide pilots was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court in Germany today, for being an accessory to murder.
Republicans Change Tack to Fight Democrats on Terrorism
The Republicans returned to the theme that dominated the last two elections since September 11, hammering home the message that a vote for the Democrats would expose America to terrorist attack.
UK Warned Against Invasion
On the day after the September 11 terrorist attacks, senior British intelligence officials told their American counterparts that they would not support retaliatory action against Iraq, a new book claims.
Angry Clinton Defends Record on Fighting Al-qaida
Former US president Bill Clinton reacted angrily in a television interview yesterday to recent criticism of his failure to capture Osama bin Laden, accusing 'President Bush's neocons' of failing to act until after the attacks of September 11 2001.
Bush Threatened to Bomb Pakistan, Says Musharraf
The Bush administration threatened to bomb Pakistan 'back to the stone age' after the September 11 attacks if the country did not cooperate with America's war on Afghanistan, it emerged yesterday.
Clinton Plots His Comeback
The ex-President's attack on TV's 9/11 drama signals his re-emergence on to the world stage and a bid to protect his legacy.
Controversial Italian Journalist Dies
Oriana Fallaci, Italy's best-known journalist, whose diatribes against Islam following the September 11 attacks on America won her global notoriety, has died. She was 77 years old.
US Marks 9/11 Five Years on
Memorial events were taking place around the world today to mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks on the US.
Zawahiri Warns West of Looming Defeat in New Video
Western forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are 'fighting their last battles', al-Qaida's deputy leader says in a new video apparently timed to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
Ground Zero Falls Silent As Americans Recall Fateful Day Their World Collapsed
· New York acts as focus on 5th anniversary of attacks · Bush links Iraq war to September 11 in TV speech
Ruin and Defeat Await You, Al-qaida Tells West
Western forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are 'fighting their last battles', al-Qaida's deputy leader says in a new video apparently timed to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington.
Al-Qaida Tape Warns of New Attacks
A taped message from Osama bin Laden's deputy, broadcast today on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, has warned of further terror strikes.
Clinton Aides Slam 9/11 Drama
A group of Bill Clinton's former aides have labelled a US television mini-series about the September 11 attacks 'terribly wrong', calling for it to be corrected or pulled from the schedule. By Julia Day.
US Confirms Existence of Secret Prison Network
George Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday the existence of a secret CIA prison network, and said the mastermind of the September 11 2001 terror attacks and other high-value detainees had been transferred to Guantánamo Bay.
Presidents Blamed in Docudrama
A mini-series chronicling the build-up to the 9/11 attacks has come under fire for blaming the Clinton administration for failing to capture Osama bin Laden and showing President Bush as determined to pursue al-Qaida prior to the attack.
Executives Given Cut-price Stock Options in Weeks After 9/11
Executives at leading US companies could make millions through the award of stock options issued in the weeks after the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks.
Studio Sues Student Over 9/11 Film
Paramount Pictures is to go to court over concerns that a 12-minute student art project, distributed free on the web, might be confused with its forthcoming $60m blockbuster about the September 11 attacks.
Terror Suspect Loses Extradition Appeal
A Moroccan terrorism suspect linked to the September 11 attacks, who claimed he had been tortured on the orders of British intelligence, lost his high court appeal against extradition to Spain today.
The Hidden Leader of a Virtual War
Nearly five years after the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden still eludes his American pursuers. Operation Mountain Lion, a large-scale, month-long military sweep through Afghanistan's Konar province abutting Pakistan, folded with a whimper. By Simon Tisdall
Abrupt Exit for Chief of 'floundering' Cia
Porter Goss, charged with revitalising the CIA after its failures of intelligence in the September 11 2001 attacks and the run-up to the Iraq war, abruptly resigned from his post yesterday barely a year after taking the job.
No Soft Options in 'alcatraz of the Rockies'
Alexander Santora, who lost his son in the 9/11 attacks, said yesterday that Zacarias Moussaoui was receiving a soft option by being sent to prison for life instead of getting the death sentence.
Moussaoui in Final Court Outburst
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in the US of involvement in the September 11 2001 attacks, left court flashing a victory sign today after being formally sentenced to life imprisonment.
Death Penalty: Federal Exceptions
Given the seriousness of the 9/11 attacks and America's reputation for capital punishment, Zacarias Moussaoui's life sentence may come as a surprise.
Moussaoui Attacks Own Lawyers
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only man to be prosecuted in connection with the September 11 2001 attacks, took the witness stand at his trial today and immediately launched into a vehement criticism of his lawyers.
Jury Finds Would-be Hijacker Moussaoui Eligible for Death Penalty
A jury found yesterday that Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person to be prosecuted in connection with the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001, was eligible for the death penalty.
Moussaoui Eligible for Death Penalty
The US jury in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui today found that the confessed al-Qaida plotter is eligible for the death penalty for his role in the September 11 2001 terror attacks.
Anger at Bin Laden Niece's Reality Tv Show
The news that Osama bin Laden's niece is to star in a US reality TV show has provoked fury from families of some of those killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Death Penalty Call for Man Who 'could Have Stopped 9/11'
Lawyers for the US government yesterday demanded the death penalty in the trial of a man they said could have chosen to prevent the September 11 attacks.
Bush Tells of Al-qaida Plot to Fly Jet Into Tallest Building in Los Angeles
· Architect of 9/11 planned to use Asian recruits · Several states collaborated to foil new attack, US told
Alleged 9/11 Conspirator Evicted From Court
The sole conspirator brought to trial in the September 11 terror attacks was removed from the Virginia court that is to decide whether he will live or die yesterday after he disrupted proceedings by shouting "I am al-Qaida".
Congress Never Debated Use of Wiretaps, Says Ex-senate Chief
Congress had reservations about granting George Bush expanded wartime powers after the September 11 attacks and never discussed the use of wiretaps without warrants on US citizens, a former Senate majority leader said yesterday.
Initial Test of Patriot Act Fails to Produce One Conviction
A trial billed as the most important terrorism case in the United States since the September 11 attacks ended in defeat yesterday for the US government after a Florida professor accused of leading a terrorist cell that funded attacks against Israel was acquitted on nearly half the charges against him, and the jury was deadlocked on the rest.
Caught Between Iraq and a Hard Place
Simon Tisdall: Jordan's 9/11 - the al-Qaida suicide bomb attacks on three Amman hotels on November 9 that killed 63 people - is still sending shockwaves across the kingdom.
More Than 80,000 Held By Us Since 9/11 Attacks
· Growing worries over treatment of prisoners · Fury in Europe over secret CIA terror suspect flights
Madrid Al-qaida Leader Jailed for 27 Years Over 9/11 Attacks
· Fourteen convicted of belonging to terror group · Al-Jazeera to back reporter jailed for acting as courier
Spain Jails 9/11-linked Al-qaida Suspect
A suspected al-Qaida leader was sentenced to 27 years in prison in Madrid today for conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the September 11 attacks on New York. Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, 42, the alleged head of an al-Qaida cell, was sentenced to 15 years in jail plus 12 more...
9/11: 4 Years Later
The Fight is the same, and it is not West versus Islam. It is within Islam and outside Islam; within the West and outside the West. It is a diachronic Fight between Good and Evil. Murad III failed and the Ottoman Empire started losing ground to the West. President Bush must avoid failing similarly.
Tenet Could Face 9/11 Reprimand
The former CIA director George Tenet is among more than a dozen current and former officials who could be subject to disciplinary proceedings over the agency's performance before the September 11 attacks.
US Officer Says Pentagon Prevented Al-qaida Reports Reaching the Fbi
A US army intelligence officer went public yesterday with claims that a secret military unit had identified Mohammed Atta and three other al-Qaida members as a potential threat a year before they carried out the September 11 attacks in 2001.
90% of Terror Arrests Fail
Fewer than 10% of the people prosecuted for terrorism in the United States since the September 11 attacks were convicted of crimes related to that or national security, according to a study conducted by the Washington Post.
Freedom Tower Redesign
The architects behind the Freedom Tower - the replacement for the twin towers destroyed in the September 11 attacks - have been sent back to the drawing board yet again.
Court Told Man Filmed Us Sites for 9/11 Terrorists
A Spanish court yesterday saw video footage, taken by an alleged al-Qaida member, of the World Trade Centre and other alleged terrorist targets in the US that were supposedly passed on to the organisers of the September 11 2001 attacks.
Europe's Biggest Al-qaida Trial Starts
Strict security measures were in place around a Madrid court last night ahead of the start today of a mass trial of alleged members of al-Qaida, some of whom are charged with involvement in the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks in the US.
Only 9/11 Prisoner Will Admit Terror Role
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in the US for the September 11 2001 terror attacks, was set to appear in court tomorrow to register a guilty plea.
FBI Chief Admits $170m Computer Failure
More than three years after the September 11 attacks, and $170m (£88m) later, the FBI has abandoned an attempt to upgrade its computer database, hampering America's ability to track suspected terrorists.
Trolley Fire Halts New York Trains
A fire believed to have been started by a vagrant trying to keep warm has done more extensive and longer-lasting damage to the New York subway than the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Republicans Snub Bush on 9/11 Reforms
Conservative Republicans and Pentagon allies in Congress rebelled against President George Bush at the weekend by blocking legislation to reform US intelligence in the light of the September 11 attacks.
Bin Laden Warning to America
· Threat of fresh attacks in run-up to US elections
· Al-Qaida leader admits 9/11 atrocities for first time
· We will continue war on terror, vow Bush and Kerry
FBI Swamped By Terror Tapes
More than 120,000 hours of wiretapped conversations between terrorist suspects and sympathisers since the September 11 attacks have not been translated because of the FBI's lack of linguists, according to an official report. The report, by the justice department's inspector-general, also...
9/11 Widows Join Kerry Campaign
John Kerry tried to re-establish his credentials on national security yesterday, recruiting prominent widows from the September 11 terror attacks to support his election campaign. In an election season dominated by issues of national security, yesterday's endorsement was designed to...
German 9/11 Trial in Doubt After Us Blocks Witnesses
The retrial of a Moroccan man convicted of involvement in the September 11 attacks appeared to be in doubt last night after the Bush administration refused to allow two key al-Qaida suspects to give evidence. On the first day of the new trial of Mounir el Motassadeq, a court in Hamburg...
Bush Names Rightwing Republican As Cia Chief
President George Bush turned yesterday to a Republican congressman with intelligence expertise to lead the CIA through an era of change following the September 11 terror attacks. If approved by the Senate, Porter Goss, 65, a former CIA operative and leader of the House intelligence...
We Are a Nation in Danger - Bush
President George Bush bowed to election-year pressure yesterday and ended his opposition to the reforms urged by the congressional inquiry into the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks. "We are a nation in danger," he said, announcing the appointment of a national intelligence director on...
Trouble Ahead for Bush From 9/11 Panel
Commission plans to campaign, not disband. Members of the commission investigating the September 11 terror attacks have injected a potentially unsettling element into President George Bush's re-election campaign by deciding not to disband.
Iran Rejects Us Claim of Al-qaida Link
The Iranian government yesterday admitted for the first time that half a dozen of the al-Qaida terrorists behind the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington had passed through Iran. But the government, anxious to avoid being the next US target after Afghanistan and Iraq, denied...
No Iraq Link to September 11 Plot, Us Report Finds
The US commission investigating the September 11 attacks reported yesterday it had found no evidence that Iraq and al-Qaida cooperated in the plot or had any sort of "collaborative relationship", bluntly contradicting persistent White House claims. The finding was presented in a report by...
9/11 Compensation Agreed
The US government's compensation fund for victims of the September 11 attacks completed its work today, agreeing to pay $7bn (£4bn) to more than 5,000 claimants. Under the law that created the fund, nearly three years ago, administrators had until midnight to decide how much each...
Greece and Italy 'failing in Security'
Greece and Italy were yesterday singled out for lagging behind in intensifying efforts to improve Europe-wide coordination in the fight against terrorism. Ireland, holder of the EU presidency, said Rome and Athens had failed to meet almost every target set since the September 11 attacks...
Under-fire Cia Chief Resigns
The director of the CIA, George Tenet, resigned abruptly yesterday after months of intense criticism for intelligence failures in the run-up to the September 11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq. Mr Tenet cited personal reasons for stepping down. President Bush said he had accepted Mr...
Greek Pm Admits Olympic Security Problems
The Greek prime minister has acknowledged room for improvement in security preparations ahead of the August Olympics, despite Athens spending £660m on safeguarding the world's most significant sporting event since the September 11 attacks. In his first interview with a British paper,...
I Told Them Everything, Says Bush After Secret Hearing in Oval Office
President George Bush yesterday said he had answered every question he was asked in a White House meeting with a public commission investigating the September 11 attacks, but would not give details of the closed-door session. The 10-member commission described the meeting in the Oval...
Bush Hails 'cordial' 9/11 Session
The US president, George Bush, said today that he had a "good ... cordial" session with the panel investigating the September 11 attacks and that they had asked "a lot of good questions." Mr Bush appeared behind closed doors with the panel alongside his vice-president, Dick Cheney.
Spanish Charges Link Attacks
A Spanish judge yesterday charged one of the men being sought by police in connection with the Madrid train bombings with involvement in the September 11 attacks in the US.
'Unrealistic' War Game Pooh-poohed Before 9/11
Five months before the September 11 attacks, US military planners suggested a war game to practise a response to a terrorist attack using a commercial airliner flown into the Pentagon, but senior officers rejected the scenario as "too unrealistic".
We Made Mistakes, Says Cia Boss
The director of the CIA, George Tenet, today told the commission investigating the September 11 2001 attacks that the US had been effectively "unprotected" before them and that the intelligence services had made mistakes. He predicted it would take the US another five years to get the...
We Made Mistakes - Cia Boss
The director of the CIA, George Tenet, today told the commission investigating the September 11 attacks the intelligence services had made mistakes. It would take the US five years to get the "clandestine service our country needs", he warned. Mr Tenet said there had been some...
Rice: Bush Understood Al-qaida Threat
· 'No silver bullet' to stop September 11
· Focus after attacks 'on Afghanistan'
· 'Not aware' of reports on hijacking threat
Man Jailed Over 9/11 is Freed
The only person to have been jailed in connection with the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington was today released from prison, pending a retrial in a German court. Mounir El Motassadeq, 30, was serving a maximum 15-year prison term in Hamburg after a court in the city...
Rice Told to Testify Before 9/11 Hearing As Bush Caves in
President George Bush surrendered yesterday to public demands for greater disclosure from the White House to the investigation into the September 11 attacks, authorising his national security adviser to testify in public before the commission. The retreat - after weeks of resisting a...
White House Moves to Defuse Rice Row
White House may consider releasing transcripts from testimony by Condoleezza Rice to the commission investigating the September 11 attacks.
Memory of Twin Towers Wins New Arts Prize
A handful of dust, gathered from the streets of New York in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, last night won the first £40,000 Artes Mundi prize for the Chinese artist Xu Bing. Mr Xu, who was born in China in 1959, left the country after the Tiananmen Square massacre. He now...
Bush Under Fire Over Response to Al-qaida Threat
George Bush's record on fighting terrorism today suffered a further blow when the president's former anti-terror adviser said that his administration had failed to take the threat from al-Qaida seriously before the September 11 attacks. Former counter-terror coordinator Richard Clarke,...
Bush Accused of Exploiting 9/11 Attacks
George Bush's election strategists have been forced to fend of accusations of exploiting the September 11 tragedy in their latest campaign ads, writes Suzanne Goldenberg.
The Day the Earth Screamed
Mark Bain has turned the seismological data from the September 11 attacks in New York into a musical composition. It's not easy listening, says Mark Oliver.
Terror Inquiry Hampered By White House
An independent commission on the September 11 terror attacks, established along similar lines to the intelligence inquiry announced by the White House this week, has been dogged by a constant struggle between the investigators and the Republican administration, which the commission regularly...
US 'need Not Have Suffered' Attacks of 9/11
Inquiry chairman calls for sackings over intelligence failure.
Europe War Slated By Nobel Winner
Iran's Shirin Ebadi became the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace prize yesterday and sent a bold anti-war message to the west, accusing it of hiding behind the September 11 attacks to violate human rights. Ms Ebadi, 56, a reformist lawyer, was handed the $1.4 million...
Nobel Prize Winner Attacks West
Iran's Shirin Ebadi became the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel peace prize yesterday and sent a bold anti-war message to the west, accusing it of hiding behind the September 11 attacks to violate human rights. Ms Ebadi, 56, a reformist lawyer, was handed the $1.4 million...
New York Memorial Shortlist Revealed
With light to reflect lost lives and quiet gardens to reflect on the dead, the eight shortlisted designs for a World Trade Centre memorial to honour the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001 and 1993 were unveiled yesterday. Four months of secrecy surrounding the...
Fight Jews, Mahathir Tells Summit
The Malaysian prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, yesterday opened the largest gathering of heads of state from Islamic countries since September 11 with a stinging attack on what he perceived as the global Jewish domination. He urged the world's 1.3 billion Muslims, represented by their...
200 Held in Yemen 'to Placate Us'
The US-led "war on terror" has caused a worsening of human rights in Yemen, with the authorities there holding almost 200 people without trial in an effort to placate the Americans, says a report published today. In the months following the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington,...
Iraq dumped WMDs years ago, says Blix
No evidence to link Saddam with September 11 attacks, Bush admits. The former UN chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, believes that Iraq destroyed most of its weapons of mass destruction 10 years ago, according to an interview broadcast yesterday.
Bali bombing 'brains' to face firing squad
An Islamist militant described as the intellectual mastermind of the Bali bombings, the most deadly terrorist attacks since September 11, was sentenced to death yesterday by an Indonesian panel of judges.
New 'bin Laden' Videotape Warns of Real Battle to Come
A chilling videotape, purportedly of Osama bin Laden, was released yesterday on the eve of the second anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, warning that the real battle with America and the west has not even started. The tape shows a figure believed to be Bin Laden, the...
Al-Qaida Issues a Chilling Warning
A new tape purporting to be from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network yesterday threatened an onslaught against Americans so devastating it would obliterate memories of the September 11 suicide attacks. The audio tape message, dated September 3, was broadcast on al-Arabiyya satellite TV...
We Must Prepare for the Worst
Twin Towers plans should not disguise an uncomfortable truth. The debate over the memorial to those who died in the Twin Towers attack of September 11 2001 expresses in a concentrated way the perplexities and contradictions that the event brought in its train.
Moroccan on trial for 9/11 attacks
A Moroccan student went on trial in Germany yesterday, charged with 3,066 counts of being an accessory to murder: one for each of the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US.
Report Suggests Hijackers Crashed Flight 93
Investigators piecing together the final minutes of United Airlines flight 93 now believe that it was deliberately crashed into a Pennsylvania field by its suicide hijackers. A version of events that emerged after the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington suggested...
Secret detentions allowed
The names of hundreds of people arrested or detained by the US government since the September 11 attacks can be kept secret in order to protect national security, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.
Anthrax Suspect Lied to Get Jobs
The man at the centre of the investigation into the post-9/11 anthrax attacks in the US faked a UK medical degree and membership of the Royal Society of Medicine, to fool his way into a job at America's highest security bio-defence installation. Dr Steven Jay Hatfill was named last August...
Trade centre developer sues Cantor for rent
Cantor Fitzgerald, the securities firm that suffered enormous losses in the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, is being sued for unpaid rent by the property developer behind the World Trade Centre site.
Fleischer Resigns As White House Spokesman
With a presidential kiss of blessing planted on his balding pate, Ari Fleischer, the White House press spokesman, announced his resignation today. Mr Fleischer, the public face of the Bush administration through two wars and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, said he was stepping...
US says it will hunt down terrorists
President George Bush vowed yesterday that the perpetrators of the bombings in Saudi Arabia would "learn the meaning of American justice", warning the US would be "on the hunt" after the worst terrorist attack on American interests since September 11 2001.
Terror list
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'20th Hijacker' Taunts Us Attorney General With Quiz
In a gambit surely unprecedented in US legal history, Zacarias Moussaoui, awaiting trial for conspiracy in the September 11 attacks, has set the US attorney general a multiple choice quiz, offering a seat at his execution as a mock reward for getting the right answer. The suspected...
Airline that needs a class on economy
If there were a league table of crass executive behaviour, the bosses of American Airlines would be outright winners. Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, airlines have cut thousands of workers from the payroll.
Bin Laden 'hiding on Afghan border'
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected architect of the September 11 attacks who was arrested on Saturday, has told his captors that he met Osama bin Laden within the last month along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, it was reported yesterday.
Raided family of microbiologist denies official version of al-Qaida arrests
US and Pakistani officials were last night questioning Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected architect of the September 11 attacks and al-Qaida kingpin arrested in a dramatic swoop over the weekend.
The henchmen
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: A 37-year-old Kuwaiti who is said by the US to have been behind the September 11 attacks. Also accused of involvement in the first World Trade Centre bombing in 1983, as well as an unsuccessful attempt to blow up American airliners over the Pacific.
Architect of New York's day of terror
He was the smiling strategist who plotted death and destruction. Jason Burke profiles the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.
Kissinger Resigns As Chairman of Inquiry Into September 11 Attacks
Faced with a choice between his new appointment as the head of an inquiry investigating the September 11 attacks and keeping his business contacts secret, Henry Kissinger last night chose the path of discretion and resigned from the inquiry. The resignation came just over two weeks after...
Hijacker 'planned September 11-type Attack'
A suspected hijacker who tried to take over an El Al flight yesterday has told Turkish interrogators that he wanted to divert the plane back to Tel Aviv and crash it into a building, Turkey's private NTV television reported. Security guards aboard the airliner overpowered the man, who...
Hamburg Trial Opens for 'key Operative' in 9/11 Attacks
The trial opened today of a 28-year-old Moroccan student accused of aiding the Hamburg terrorist cell involved in the September 11 attacks on the US, which included the lead suicide hijacker Mohamed Atta. Prosecutors allege that Mounir el-Motassadeq, who is being tried in a Hamburg state...
Warning of 9/11 attack 'ignored'
American officials were investigating yesterday reports that US diplomats in Peshawar were warned by a moderate Taliban minister that a 'huge attack' by al-Qaeda in the United States was imminent.
Italian police tapes hint at September 11 attacks
Italian police recorded al-Qaida suspects in Milan discussing aerial attacks and infiltration of the US in the 13 months before September 11, with the mastermind of the plot being referred to as an insane genius who would chill the world.
American injured by suicide bomb also survived September 11 attack
An American who survived the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York was among those injured by yesterday's suicide bomb attack in West Jerusalem's Jaffa Street. Bandaged and bloody, Mark Sokolow, 43, described from his hospital bed how he had escaped death twice in...
First man charged for September 11 attacks
A French-Moroccan man, won over to radical Islam while a student in London, became the first person to be charged for the September 11 terrorist attacks against the US yesterday, when he was indicted by a grand jury in Virginia for being an "active participant" in the conspiracy. The...