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Guantanamo Hearing Set for 9/11 ‘Mastermind’

A hijacked commercial plane crashes into the World Trade Center 11 September 2001 in New York.

A hijacked commercial plane crashes into the World Trade Center 11 September 2001 in New York.

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17:06 15/10/2012

The US government will try again Monday to move forward in its case against the accused mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four co-defendants, as pretrial motions begin at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba.

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Commemoration ceremony for victims of the 9/11 tragedy
23:21 11/09/2012
The United States on Tuesday marked the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks with moments of silence. The names of the victims were also read out loud.
Elegant Skyscraper Built at Ground Zero in New York City
16:32 11/09/2012
Construction workers have completed work on the first skyscraper on the site where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center once dominated the New York City skyline, and where they were destroyed by airliners hijacked by terrorists 11 years ago. Watch this RIA Novosti video showing the new 72-story building.
Ground Zero 11 Years After
13:10 11/09/2012
The first high-rise to go up at the site of the World Trade Center in New York has been topped out, 11 years after the attack that brought down the twin towers on September 11, 2001.
9/11: The Worst Terrorist Attack in Modern History
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The worst terrorist attack in modern history was committed eleven years ago, on September 11, 2001.
September 11, 2001 Attacks
10:24 11/09/2012
Eleven years ago, the largest terrorist attack in modern history took place on Sept. 11, 2001.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Other ‘9/11 Masterminds’ in Court
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The arraignment of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other people accused of masterminding the 9/11 attacks in the United States got complicated when they appeared before a U.S. military court at Guantanamo to be charged on Saturday, the BBC reported.
10 years after 9/11: the world has become safer, but the threat of terrorism is still high
16:24 15/09/2011
The 10th anniversary of September 11 reminded the whole world of the terrorist threat and what should be done to prevent it.
New York City remembers 9/11
17:36 12/09/2011
On the 9/11 terrorist attack’s tenth anniversary, New York City residents and tourists commemorated victims by tying white ribbons on the fence around St. Paul’s Chapel. The chapel is located opposite the area where the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers collapsed in 2001, killing over 3,000 people. So far, 2,750 victims have been identified. Their names are inscribed on Flags of Honor in the Lower Manhattan district, which witnessed the worst terrorist attack in history. The victims’ names were also read aloud on the spot where the towers once stood.
The endless "war on terror," or How America exposed itself
15:47 12/09/2011 RIA Novosti military commentator Konstantin Bogdanov
For a few days in September 2001, the whole world was watching the CNN video footage of the falling twin towers, accompanied by a general mood that resonated with the mobilizing headline, "America under Attack." Later, President George W. Bush began what came to be known as "the war on terror."
The Arab Spring as the echo of the 9/11 tragedy
13:25 12/09/2011 RIA Novosti commentator Olga Barykova
The tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the United States has been accompanied by the unfolding Arab Spring and the consolidation of radical Islamists in the Middle East and North Africa. Experts note a link between the acts of terror in New York that shook the world ten years ago and the current revolutions in the Arab world.
Two U.S. flights get escort of F-16 fighters over security concerns
06:30 12/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 12 (RIA Novosti)
F-16 Falcon fighter jets escorted two U.S. domestic flights after crews reported passengers behaved suspiciously on board, U.S. media said on Monday.
U.S. will not wage war against Islam - Obama
05:29 12/09/2011 WASHINGTON, September 12 (RIA Novosti)
The United States will never wage a war against Islam or any other religion, President Barack Obama said in a speech to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
U.S. Secret Service investigates threats on White House Facebook page
02:46 12/09/2011 WASHINGTON, September 12 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating terrorist attack threats posted by an unknown user on the White House page in Facebook on Sunday, a spokesman said.
Washington police in search of van on concerns of terrorist threat
23:16 11/09/2011 WASHINGTON, September 11 (RIA Novosti)
Police of the District of Columbia and neighboring states Maryland and Virginia are seeking for a van, stolen from U-Haul truck renting company in the wake of an investigation of a terror threat linked to the 10th anniversary of September, 11 on Sunday.
Reports of suspicious activity up 60% in Washington-police
20:58 11/09/2011 WASHINGTON, September 11 (RIA Novosti)
The number of reports of suspicious activity in Washington increased 60 percent over an investigation of a terrorist threat just a decade after hijacked plane attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people, the capital's Police Chief Cathy Lanier said on Sunday.
Rebuilding a church at Ground Zero with Red Tape
19:49 11/09/2011 By Andrei Zolotov, Jr., editor-in-chief of Russia Profile, for RIA Novosti
Ten years after it became the only house of worship destroyed by the terrorist attack on New York City, the tiny St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which used to stand just south of the South Tower, is far from being rebuilt.
Curiosity 9/11
19:02 11/09/2011 Blog by Anna Arutiunova
As the world marks the tenth anniversary of the tragic events in the United States on September 11, 2001, the Russian segment of the online community is also very much involved in the discussion, both in terms of analyzing the changes that have taken place in the world in the past ten years and in plumbing the circumstances surrounding the terrorist acts themselves.
U.S. marks 10th anniversary of terrorist attacks
17:45 11/09/2011 NEW YORK, September 11 (RIA Novosti)
Americans commemorate on Sunday the 10 anniversary of the September 11 tragedy and remember 3,000 people died in the hijacked plane attacks.
Musings of a Russophile: After 9/11 - How We’ve Changed
13:23 11/09/2011 Weekly column by Frederick Andresen
The first phone call I received was from Russia. After witnessing on TV the catastrophes of September 11, 2001, my friends and business partners were calling to share their shock and advising me to “stay inside.” New York, and certainly Moscow, seemed far away—but not anymore. It was all one world.
9/11: New Pearl Harbor
10:40 11/09/2011
Ten years ago, the largest terrorist attack in modern history took place on Sept. 11, 2001.
9/11: The worst terrorist attack in modern history. Archive video
10:21 11/09/2011
The worst terrorist attack in modern history was committed ten years ago, on September 11, 2001.
September 11, 2001 attacks
10:09 11/09/2011
Ten years ago, the largest terrorist attack in modern history took place on Sept. 11, 2001.
Russian churches in U.S. to hold memorial services for 9/11 victims
01:55 11/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 11 (RIA Novosti)
Memorial services for the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States will be held in Russian churches across the U.S.
The dog who searched for survivors after September 11
17:04 10/09/2011
When the September 11 terrorist attacks shook the United States in 2001, this labrador named Red was 18 months old.
U.S. faces "credible but unconfirmed" threat from al Qaeda - Clinton
23:54 09/09/2011 NEW YORK, September 9 (RIA Novosti)
The United State faces a possible threat from al Qaeda, U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton said in a speech at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice on Friday.
Structure of the Twin Towers
17:00 09/09/2011
The towers were the architectural centerpiece of the World Trade Center and the highest skyscrapers in the world.
U.S. sees 'credible' 9/11 anniversary threat
11:38 09/09/2011 NEW YORK, September 9 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. officials say the threat of a car- or truck-bomb attack in New York or Washington as Americans mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11 is "specific, credible but unconfirmed." the New York Times reported on Friday.
Uncertain World: The opportunity that wasn’t
15:11 08/09/2011 Weekly column by Fyodor Lukyanov
Vladimir Putin, then the president of Russia, was the first to call President George W. Bush to express his support and solidarity with the American people after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington in September 2001. Some were surprised; others searched for a hidden meaning in that call.
Due West: Why do ‘they’ hate America and the West so much?
18:01 07/09/2011 Weekly column by Konstantin von Eggert
In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy two questions stood out: “Why do ‘they’ hate America and the West so much?” and “What is to be done with militant Islam?”
The intriguing death of Osama bin Laden
15:03 04/05/2011
Think of the irony of it. Osama bin Laden was finally tracked down not in the lawless wilds of Afghanistan but in the teeming Pakistani city of Abbottabad, which is hardly 50 kilometers away as the crow flies from the headquarters of the military establishment in Rawalpindi.
Bin Laden's liquidation and struggle for power in the United States
23:27 03/05/2011 Alexei Pilko for RIA Novosti
Al-Qaeda's leader Osama bin Laden is dead. The world's number-one terrorist, whom U.S. secret services suspect of organizing the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, was assassinated in Pakistan yesterday.
New helicopter footage of World Trade Center attack released (Natural sound)
14:59 09/03/2011
New video of the September 11, 2001 attacks surfaced on Monday, from a police helicopter hovering near the burning World Trade Center towers in the hope of rescuing survivors from the rooftops.
Life after September 11th
16:46 11/09/2010
The mourning day on September 11 will begin with the traditional moment of silence, a bell ringing and a commemoration service in New York cathedrals at 8.46 a.m. local time, when the first hijacked airplane crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower.

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