News on September 11 Attacks

Ground Zero workers settlement unfair: judge

2010-03-19T14:15:31Z

<div><p>A proposed 657-million-dollar health settlement for some 10,000 people who worked at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks was too low and must be renegotiated, a judge ruled Friday.</p><p>"In my judgment, this settlement is not enough," federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein said in New York after hearing two hours of testimony from plaintiffs in the hu...

$657mln deal for sick Ground Zero workers

2010-03-12T04:16:12Z

<div><p>More than 10,000 people who worked in the toxic chaos of New York's Ground Zero after 9/11 could receive compensation totaling 657 million dollars for health problems under a deal reached Thursday.</p><p>Thousands of plaintiffs, mostly firefighters, police and construction workers, have sued the city for what they say are health problems connected to work in the debris of the World Trade Center, w...

Sick Ground Zero workers could get $657 mln payout

2010-03-12T02:21:48Z

New York's "Ground Zero" workers reach deal on claims

2010-03-11T22:15:14Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of workers who suffered health problems after the September 11 attacks in 2001 have reached a settlement worth up to $657.5 million with an insurer representing the city of New York, city officials and lawyers said on Thursday.</p><p>Thousands of firefighters, police, contractors and others who worked at "Ground Zero" in ...

Attacks Health Trials

2010-03-11T22:00:46Z

This Jan. 31, 2007 file photo shows Jimmy Nolan, of Yonkers, N.Y., who worked at at Ground Zero after the attack on the World Trade Center, displays the rash on his hands during a news conference at Ground Zero in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

657 mln dlr compensation deal for Ground Zero workers

2010-03-11T20:16:02Z

<div><p>More than 10,000 people who worked in the toxic chaos of New York's Ground Zero after 9/11 could receive compensation totalling 657 million dollars for health problems under a settlement reached.</p><p>Thousands of plaintiffs, mostly firefighters, police and construction workers, have sued the city for what they say are health problems connected to work in the debris of the World Trade Center, whi...

Attacks Health

2010-03-11T19:03:58Z

FILE- In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, a shell of what was once part of the facade of one of the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center rises above the rubble that remains after both towers were destroyed in the terrorist attacks. New York City has agreed to pay up to $657 million to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits filed by ground zero rescue and response workers...

Obama Guantanamo

2010-03-08T15:01:32Z

FILE - This March 1, 2003 file picture shows Khalid Sheik Mohammed, shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. White House aides are increasingly convinced that accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will never face trial in a civilian court and are trying to cut a deal that would still transfer...

US lawmakers: No civilian terrorism trials at bases

2010-03-03T16:16:28Z

<div><p>A group of 16 US lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday aimed at preventing civilian trials for suspected terrorists from being held at US military installations.</p><p>"Military installations are inappropriate locations to try terrorists in civilian trials," said Representative Buck McKeon, the top Republican on the Reuters) - The only known aerial photographs of the World Trade Center as it collapsed on September 11, 2001, were released by ABC News on Wednesday.</p><p>The photos, taken from a helicopter by New York Police Det.

Attacks World Trade Center

2010-02-10T07:31:50Z

In this Sept. 11, 2001 photo made by the New York City Police Department and provided by ABC News Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010, smoke and ash rise as a World Trade Center tower burns at left center, after terrorists flew two airliners into the World Trade Center towers. AP Photo/NYPD, via ABC News...

Sept 11 Memorial Waterfalls

2010-01-22T12:16:32Z

Ribbons of water flow off a mock-up waterfall designed for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. The 30-foot waterfall will cascade down the sides of the footprints of the destroyed LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar winning film director Steven Spielberg is to make a TV documentary on the rebuilding of New York's World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the September 11 2001 attacks.</p...

F-16s scrambled due to unruly airline passenger: US

2010-02-22T23:18:50Z

<div><p>Two F-16 fighter jets took to the air Friday after a report of an unruly passenger aboard a airliner bound for San Francisco, the North American Aerospace Defence Command said.</p><p>As the fighter aircraft arrived, the Air Tran plane that had taken off from Atlan...

Two men arrested in NY bomb plot probe

2010-02-22T23:36:13Z

<div><p>Two men were arrested Friday in connection with an alleged plot to bomb New York around last year's anniversary of the September 11 attacks, law enforcement officials said.</p><p>The two men were arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents early Friday, FBI spokesman New York of suspects in the 9/11 attacks will cost more than 200 million dollars a year, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday.</p><p>Giving the first estimate of the price tag for securing the highly sensitive trial of Zacarias Moussaoui for complicity in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.</p><p>The Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit rejected claims by Moussaoui -- the o...

Court upholds Moussaoui's 9/11 conviction, life prison term

2010-02-23T01:29:12Z

<div><p>A US appeals court upheld Monday the conviction and life prison sentence of Zacarias Moussaoui, a French national, for complicity in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.</p><p>The US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ...

September 11 conspirator loses U.S. court appeal

2010-02-23T01:34:06Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a U.S. court on criminal charges related to the September 11, 2001, attacks, lost a bid on Monday to overturn his guilty plea and his sentence of life in prison.</p><p>A U....

Airline plot exposes pitfalls in US intelligence

2010-02-23T07:47:44Z

<div><p>The bungled response that allowed a suspected bomber onto an airliner has exposed persistent holes in US security operations despite the post-September 11 revamp, officials and experts say.</p><p>The father of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab raised concerns about his son's radicalism to the US embassy...