Report: Obama May Deny KSM a Trial
White House Has Given Up on Shutting Down Guantanamo Bay
President Barack Obama will have the final word on whether Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be given a trial or whether the man dubbed the “mastermind” of the 9/11 attacks will remain imprisoned without trial indefinitely, the Washington Post reports. Peter Finn and Anne Kornblut write that conservative opposition to a civilian trial in Manhattan and liberal opposition to a military tribunal are prompting the administration to consider simply not trying Mohammed at all.
9/11 Families Ask Attorney General For Court Trial of Suspects
Washington, DC – Families of 9/11 victims asked the Justice Department on Thursday to continue its original plan of prosecuting suspects of the terror attacks in civilian courts. The appeal was in response to comments by Attorney General Eric Holder that a decision on the trial would be made soon. In an open letter, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows urged the attorney general to try the suspects “in federal courts that rely on the U.S. Constitution and the tenets of America’s 200 year-old system of justice.”
Michael Moore Offers Fahrenheit 9/11 to NBC For Free
Moore’s documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, looked critically at Bush’s handling of the attacks on 9/11 and the Iraq war.
“I would love it actually — my plea if [GE CEO Jeff Immelt] or anyone who is watching here at GE, if they — I will give them for free Fahrenheit 9/11 to run on NBC as balance to all this publicity they have been giving president Bush this week and his answers, you know, that the worst thing that happened to him was Kanye West and all this,” Moore offered.
“I hope we never forget what this man did. Parents tonight, thousands of them sit at home, their children no longer with them because of a war that was essentially a lie. So that’s my answer to Mr. Bush,” Moore concluded.
Obama Extends 9/11 War
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided to begin publicly walking away from what it once touted as key deadlines in the war in Afghanistan in an effort to de-emphasize President Barack Obama’s pledge that he’d begin withdrawing U.S. forces in July 2011, administration and military officials have told McClatchy.
Rachel Maddow on Bush's 9/11 Revisionism
Interviewer: Did you ever ask yourself the question “What more could I have done?” Bush: Uhhhh…
Gawker Trashes "Truthers"
Reporting on Jon Stewart’s executive producer Rory Albanese being arrested after punching a We Are Change activist in the face, trendy celebrity gossip site Gawker refers to the punched activist as a “typical Truther asshole”. The rest of the entry is the usual insipid hate-inspiring trash you might expect from such an uninformed source, with commenters joining in with the likes of “I think it should be completely legal to punch or otherwise assault a 9/11 Truther. And I’m not joking.”
Gawker exhibits a hint of a clue when it points out that the incident has been completely unreported in the media: “Pretty amazing, especially given the easy joke to be made by juxtaposing Albanese’s arrest with Jon Stewart’s huge rally calling on everyone to be nice to each other.” Indeed. It should be noted that WAC’s ham-fisted confrontation of Stewart and company was met with heavy criticism from many in the 9/11 truth movement. Has sanity been restored yet?
Excerpt: Bush In His Own Words on 9/11
MSNBC has published excerpts regarding 9/11 from George W. Bush’s new memoir:
“The Secret Service wanted to get me to Air Force One, and fast. As the motorcade charged down Florida Route 41, I called Condi from the secure phone in the limo. She told me there had been a third plane crash, this one into the Pentagon. I sat back in my seat and absorbed her words. My thoughts clarified: The first plane could have been an accident. The second was definitely an attack. The third was a declaration of war.”
Yemeni PM: al Qaeda is "Western-made"
Yemeni Prime Minister Ali Muhammed al- Mujawar said Saturday that al-Qaeda was originally a Western-made group and was never created by his country, the state-run Saba news agency reported. The prime minister’s remarks were made during a meeting in the capital Sanaa with ambassadors of Asian and African countries to Yemen to clarify Yemen’s stance against those who propagated negative impacts on Yemen over the bomb parcels shipped to the United States last week.
Rescue Workers Have Until Monday To Accept Settlement
Thousands of rescue workers sickened after the September 11 attacks in New York have until the end of Monday to accept a settlement that could near 800 million dollars. A settlement on Friday saw a subgroup of workers compensated 28 million dollars for exposure to debris removed and transferred from Ground Zero to Staten Island […]
Irish Songwriter Jim Corr Believes 9/11 Was Staged
Jim Corr, known worldwide as the musicians and songwriter behind middle of the road Irish pop act The Corrs, has found a new – and some might argue rather paranoiac – calling. These days Corr is speaking out about what he calls “the end of a once great nation.” The nation he’s referring to is […]