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  September 11, 2001 attacks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The September 11 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist suicide attacks against the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in the United States on September 11 2001.
The combined attack of September 11 on World Trade Center was the deadliest act terrorism against the United States and one the deadliest attacks of asymmetric warfare in history.
After the U.S. attack removed the Taliban power in many parts of Afghanistan a videotape was discovered abandoned in Kabul the Afghan capital which showed bin discussing the attacks in which he claims of the attacks.
www.freeglossary.com /11-S   (4560 words)

  
 Self-Reported Increase in Asthma Severity After the September 11 Attacks on the World Trade Center --- Manhattan, New ...
Persons with asthma and their clinicians should be aware of the role environmental and psychological factors might play in worsening asthma after disasters.
Persons with asthma who lived or were present south of Canal Street on September 11 were more likely than others to report increased asthma symptoms; however, the association was not statistically significant.
Persons with asthma who reported difficulty breathing because of smoke and debris during the September 11 attacks might have been particularly sensitive to smoke from the fires that burned at the WTC site for several weeks.
www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5135a1.htm   (1374 words)

  
 Persons missing after the September 11, 2001 ... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Able Danger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Speaker, that in September of 2000, that Federal agency actually was prepared to bring the FBI in and prepared to work with the FBI to take down the cell that Mohamed Atta was involved in New York City, along with two of the other terrorists.
On September 15, 2005 Weldon asserted that he had identified an employee who had been ordered to destroy the 2.5 terabytes (TB) of data collected by Able Danger two years before the 9/11 attack.
Anonymous Pentagon sources have alleged Smith was fired after a similar data analysis project to examine Chinese strategic and business connections in the U.S. identified Condoleezza Rice and former Defense Secretary William Perry based on their associations through Stanford University [21].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Able_Danger   (3676 words)

  
 The Effects of September 11 on the Leading Search Engine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The apparent terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 changed the skyscape of New York City, and the political and emotional landscape of the United States.
The September 11 attacks on the United States caused millions of people to urgently seek information about what had happened, who had been killed, what damage had been inflicted, and what new developments were taking place.
September 11 brought tragedy in many ways: the loss of thousands of lives, the loss of an American landmark, the shocking demonstration of how open the United States is to attack.
www.firstmonday.dk /issues/issue6_10/wiggins   (4553 words)

  
 Human Rights Record of the United States in 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
According to a February 11, 2002 Reuters report, from 1973 to 1995, the verdicts of 68 percent of convicts on the death row were overturned owing to misjudgment by the court.
According to a report published in September 2001 by a group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania after three years' investigation, about 400,000 American children are streetwalkers or engage in various obscene activities for money near their schools.
The Third UN Conference Against Racism held in Durban of South African in September 2001 was an important gathering in the area of international human rights at the beginning of the new century.
english.people.com.cn /200203/11/eng20020311_91880.shtml   (5610 words)

  
 Press Conference Transcript on September 11, 2001 Attacks
Yet, it must be understood that these police and fire persons leave their homes everyday to do their duty in an ever-increasingly violent society, never knowing whether they shall return home to their families.
This that happened on September 11 could be a trigger of a war that was predicted regarding this time.
Many followers of Islam were attacked, and then it was found that the perpetrator of this crime was a White American, a soldier who professed to be a Christian.
www.noi.org /statements/transcript_010916.htm   (5954 words)

  
 Physical Health Status of World Trade Center Rescue and Recovery Workers and Volunteers --- New York City, July ...
In the months after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC), concerns grew about the health consequences of exposures sustained by persons involved in the rescue and recovery response.
Of the 610 examinees present in lower Manhattan on September 11, a total of 313 (51%) reported being directly in the cloud of dust created by the collapse of the WTC buildings, and an additional 191 (31%) reported exposure to substantial amounts of dust.
Second, the screened population might overrepresent those most affected; those screened earlier might not be representative of all persons screened with regard to WTC exposures or health outcomes, and persons examined earlier might have had more severe health problems and sought out the program for that reason.
www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5335a1.htm   (2058 words)

  
 Representative Phil English - (PA21) - WEEK OF September 9, 2002
We were all reflecting upon the significance of September 11 2001 and will continue to remember how our world changed in one day.
On September 11, I had the pleasure of speaking with some of you about your thoughts on homeland security during a program on WJET AM radio and heard from you about some of the ways you were all remembering September 11.
Wednesday, I stood shoulder to shoulder with my colleagues in Congress to honor the victims and heroes of the September 11 terrorist attacks and pledge that their memory be upheld.
www.house.gov /english/hotline2001-2002/090902.html   (625 words)

  
 Missing: Last Seen at the World Trade Center
is an exhibition of the missing person fliers distributed throughout New York City by the friends and family of those who did not come home in the days after September 11, 2001.
The first was that "thousands" of victims lay unconscious and unidentified in hospital beds--friends and family members crowded emergency rooms in hopes that their loved ones were inside.
Since "Missing" began a national tour in January, more than sixty fliers have been donated by visitors to the exhibit who noticed that their loved ones' fliers were not on display.
www.bronston.com /missing   (1639 words)

  
 Killtown's:  9/11 coincidences and oddities page! - 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This explanation for the devastating attacks of September 11th, simple on its face, is wrong in its value.
After months of investigation and a series of congressional hearings last year, the House and Senate Intelligence panels wrapped up their report Dec. 20 and released a summary.
In an interview given the month after the Sept. 11 attacks, Mzoudi told the German magazine Der Spiegel that while he was friends with all three Hamburg-based suicide pilots and other cell members, he was not privy to their plans.
thewebfairy.com /killtown/oddities/2003.html   (14844 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - Bosnia to offer DNA assistance to Iraq
Most of the missing are believed to be buried in mass graves, and several mass grave sites have already been found and exhumed.
“Resolving the fate of missing persons is a crucial element in providing justice for family members and in allowing any reconciliation process to move forward.
And in those cases, identification only occurred if documents were found on or near the exhumed body, or if families were able to identify the clothes the victim had been wearing on the day he or she disappeared.
www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?id=10214   (517 words)

  
 New York City Armory photographs - September 11: Bearing Witness to History
Context: Following September 11, many companies sought a way to contribute to the rescue effort and preserve the memory of those who perished.
In these technically innovative images, John Taylor and Dianne Dubler photographed the numerous missing persons fliers and memorials made to those who died on September 11, 2001.
The outside wall of the building, covered with missing person fliers, became one of the city’s many makeshift memorials to World Trade Center victims.
americanhistory.si.edu /september11/collection/record.asp?ID=63   (272 words)

  
 Criminals target tsunami victims - The Washington Times: World - January 05, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Thai police yesterday said a Western-looking man was suspected to have kidnapped the boy, Kristian Walker, after he was treated by a Thai doctor for an ear injury.
The boy's brother and sister survived the tragedy and have been taken back to Stockholm by their father, but Kristian and his mother are on the list of missing persons.
Similar fraud occurred after the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
www.washtimes.com /world/20050105-120434-6088r.htm   (853 words)

  
 CNN.com - FBI whistleblower requests, gets new job - Mar. 21, 2003
Shortly after that, she asked Special Agent in Charge Deborah Pierce to shift her to an investigative position, said Paul McCabe, a spokesman for the Minneapolis FBI office.
In December, Rowley was named one of Time magazine's three "Persons of the Year" for her decision to publicly criticize FBI headquarters' handling of the investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was arrested in Minnesota the month before the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Their criticism grew this month after she gave the Star Tribune and The New York Times copies of a letter she had sent to FBI Director Robert Mueller, in which she expressed fear that a war with Iraq would lead to a "flood of terrorism" on a scale the bureau is unprepared to handle.
www.cnn.com /2003/US/Midwest/03/21/whistleblower.reassigned.ap   (460 words)

  
 WhatReallyHappened.com: 911Archives
After it became obvious that the kerosene used as fuel in the 757s could not create the temperatures needed to bring down the towers, government apologists tried to re-sell the "blazing inferno" by substituting the aluminum of the planes for the jet fuel.
Mr Raissi, 31, was the first person in the world to be arrested in connection with the attacks of September 11, 2001.
After the FBI questioned Suter on September 11, he fled the United States on September 14, 2001.
www.whatreallyhappened.com /archives/cat_911.html   (10298 words)

  
 UNITED STATES
In light of the history of backlash violence against Arabs and Muslims in the United States before September 11 2001, the hate crimes that followed September 11 were all too predictable.
On October 11, 1985, the regional director of the ADC Southern California office, Alex Odeh, was killed when a bomb exploded outside the front door of his office.
In Oklahoma City, a Muslim woman who was seven months pregnant suffered a miscarriage after a brick thrown through her window traumatized her the morning after the bombing.
www.hrw.org /reports/2002/usahate/usa1102-03.htm   (2493 words)

  
 European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress.
A day after his decisive victory in presidential polls, Kyrgyzstan's interim leader said that the presence of a US base in his Central Asian nation should be reconsidered.
Personal documents have been found of 3 of the 4 men close to scene of the explosion.
One of the men was reported as missing by his family after 10am the morning of July 7th.
www.eurotrib.com /story/2005/7/12/43530/5046   (1019 words)

  
 Britons favor tracking Muslim activities - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Since the bombings, several isolated attacks on mosques have been reported, and one Pakistani man was killed during the weekend in what police are investigating as a hate crime, prompting Muslim leaders to worry about a violent backlash now that the bombers have been identified.
Even before yesterday's developments, 82 percent of Britons were convinced that the London attacks were carried out by Islamic extremists, according to a YouGov poll published during the weekend in the London Telegraph.
A similar question asked after the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States received a positive response from 32 percent.
www.washtimes.com /world/20050712-094358-2788r.htm   (513 words)

  
 JAMA -- Physical Health Status of World Trade Center Rescue and Recovery Workers and Volunteers--New York City, July ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the months after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World
accounted for 11% and 15% of the population, respectively.
After official site closure, exposure levels were reduced markedly.
jama.ama-assn.org /cgi/content/full/292/15/1811   (1429 words)

  
 NEJM -- A National Survey of Stress Reactions after the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks
Knowledge of heart attack symptoms in a population survey in the United States.
Posttraumatic stress two years after the Oklahoma City bombing in youths geographically distant from the explosion.
Events of 11 September 2001 significantly reduced calls to the New Zealand Quitline.
content.nejm.org /cgi/content/full/345/20/1507   (4720 words)

  
 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Physical health status of World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers and ...
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This report summarizes data analyzed from a subset of 1,138 of the 11,768 participants evaluated at Mount Sinai School of Medicine during July 16-December 31,2002.
Of the 1,138 participants, 525 (46%) worked on WTC rescue and recovery efforts on September 11, 2001, and 963 (84%) worked or volunteered during September 11-14, when exposures were greatest.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0906/is_35_53/ai_n6213565   (1361 words)

  
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 Conversations with Dina
From the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center through the Asian tsunami and the recent hurricane disaster in New Orleans, Internet communities have evolved increasingly sophisticated and useful response mechanisms.
Blogs, wikis, photo-sharing sites and other services have been put to use to improve rescue efforts,help collect relief funds, find missing persons and structure recovery efforts.
Because these responses harness the newest features of the Net around focused, important activities, they are a good barometer of what works on the Net and harbingers of what that might mean for other spheres, such as mainstream media, response agencies, participative design, citizen mobilization and more.
radio.weblogs.com /0121664/categories/blogsBlogging/2005/09/11.html   (439 words)

  
 TIME.com: Timeline of U.S. Attacks in NYC, D.C. -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
— Government buildings in Washington, including the Capitol and the White House, are evacuated with officials citing a credible threat of a terrorist attack.
Eastern, one World Trade Center tower in New York collapses, about an hour after being hit by plane.
— American Airlines says one of the planes that crashed into the Trade Center was American Airlines Flight 11, hijacked after takeoff from Boston en route to Los Angeles.
www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,174517,00.html   (579 words)

  
 America's War Against Terrorism, 9/11
Annotated Bibliography of Government Documents Related to the Threat of Terrorism and the Attacks of September 11, 2001 (Oklahoma Dept. of Libraries
As of September 13, 2001, considerable information on the Taliban, condemnation of the terrorist attack on the U.S. Assassination of opposition leader on September 11, just before the New York attacks
Attack on America: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and Terrorism (East Carolina University)
www.lib.umich.edu /govdocs/usterror/html   (7176 words)

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