NYPD Launches Lower Manhattan Security Initiative Nov 19, 2008
The center, located in a nondescript office tower, is part of an ambitious $100 million security initiative launched in response to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Earlier this month, about 30 officers assigned to the command center for the first time began monitoring 150 closed-circuit cameras trained on Wall Street. (Fox News)
NYPD opens counterterrorism nerve center Nov 19, 2008
The center quietly began operating earlier this month, the first phase of a $100 million project sparked by the Sept. 11 attack that destroyed the World Trade Center. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Crime)
Rug sale stirs controversy Nov 19, 2008
A Toronto auction house is selling off parts of a collection of modern made-in-Afghanistan rugs that depict weapons, warfare and - controversially - aircraft striking the towers of the World Trade Center ... An auction house is selling a collection of Afghan rugs, including this provocative image of the attack on the World Trade Center ... The Toronto consultant survives a cousin who was a passenger in the first jet to crash into the World Trade Center. (Globe and Mail -- National)
The Citizen's Cinema Nov 18, 2008
TheCitizensCinema wrote on Oct 23, 2008 11:42 AM:" The role of proper chronological distance in non-fiction cinema has received heavy attention in the critical response to Oliver Stone's "W." Like Stone's last high-profile film, "World Trade Center" - and virtually every movie about the current Iraq war and the war on terror - a vocal chunk of the popular reception to "W." can be summed up in two words: too soon.I chose not to discuss this facet of "W." in my original review because the... (Auburn Citizen, NY)
CUBAN'S RESPONSE: Posted on his blog Nov 18, 2008
and we still don t know WHO bought the American Airlines puts before the WTC.. Comment by bill yeager November 17, 2008. (USA Today -- Sports)
LIFE AFTER LOSS: During the holidays and beyond, grievers advised to deal with their pain and move on Nov 18, 2008
As a member of the National Organization of Victim Assistance Community Crisis Response Team, Hamilton is experienced in grief counseling, having responded to a number of national crises including the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado that left 13 dead and many more wounded and working with victims in New York City in the aftermath of the 2001 World Trade Center attack. "Grief is a natural part of life," said David Mikell, a counselor at Orangeburg Area Mental Health Center. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Afghanistan I: Scarred forts and sandbagged pubs Nov 18, 2008
There are stores to buy crafted wood, woollen hats, Uzbek embroideries or handmade carpets, some of which depict key moments in Afghanistan's recent history - the end of the Soviet occupation in 1989, the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11, the arrival of the U.S.-led coalition forces later the same year. The changes that have come to Mazar since 2001 are so great that some returning refugees struggle to find their bearings and the streets and houses where they once lived. (International Herald Tribune)
Backing up the business Nov 18, 2008
According to a report from AMR Research, more than 80 percent of companies inside the World Trade Center towers had redundant, or back-up, systems running on computers located outside their New York City offices. For mid-sized firms, backing up a computer system can cost as much as $10,000 a month -- depending on the amount of data and applications. (Baltimore Business Journal, MD)
Trump Misses Building A Case Nov 18, 2008
Moreover, it's ridiculous to lump in the 11 million square feet to eventually open at the World Trade Center site with the 2 million-odd, newly minted square feet coming on line in Midtown over the next year or two. Yet, last week, on Dominic Carter's NY1 show, Donald Trump called the Freedom Tower a "huge white elephant" that "coul 00004000 d be a catastrophe for New York.". (New York Post -- Business)
How They Got Their Big Break Nov 17, 2008
"You have to stick with it." He'll need every bit of that conviction to pull off his finale--rebuilding the World Trade Center site, into which he sunk $800 million the summer before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. No matter what, when lady luck comes knocking, you'd better be ready to pounce. (Forbes)
LHI scrutinized for handling of 9/11 responder insurance, care Nov 16, 2008
A volunteer with the American Red Cross, Wolff went to the World Trade Center site to help victims and their families get food vouchers and pay bills ... Dr. Jim Melius, chairman of the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Steering Committee, which coordinates care for 9/11 responders, said some patients may simply have dropped out of the program during the rocky transition to LHI. He said HHS should cancel the contract. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Al-Qaida's budget slips through cracks Nov 15, 2008
1993 World Trade Center, New York approximately $31,000 to cover the costs of bomb components, rentals of the garage used to assemble the bomb and storage lockers for components, telephone calls to and from the Middle East, and plane tickets for travel to and from the United States. Six dead. (MSNBC -- International)
Finding Faith Without Fanaticism is mantra of a Top 50 rabbi Nov 14, 2008
Twenty years after the Hebron experience, Sept. 11, 2001, to be exact, when the planes slammed into the World Trade Center, Hirschfield first began to talk about his Hebron years. By then, he had finished college and graduate school in the U.S. and had been ordained an Orthodox rabbi. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Antibodies to cockroach and mouse proteins associated with asthma and allergies risk Nov 14, 2008
Founded in 1998, the Center conducts research in New York City, including a World Trade Center Study, as well as Krakow, Poland, and Chongqing, China. Its mission is to improve the respiratory health and cognitive development of children and to reduce their cancer risk by identifying environmental toxicants and conditions related to poverty that increase their risk of disease. (EurekAlert!)
Ask the pilot Nov 14, 2008
Site Presented By Friday, Nov 14, 2008. Tedium in the age of terror: 9/11, Martin Amis and the real legacy of Mohamed Atta. (Salon)
Start spreading the news Nov 13, 2008
I know it's a little depressing but if you get a chance you should go see the WTC site it is very interesting to see ... There was a barricade around the WTC site so you couldnt really see anything. (Florida Today)
Air marshals' crimes raise hiring questions Nov 13, 2008
Partly motivated by enduring images of planes hitting the World Trade Center, the Pentagon aflame and a charred Pennsylvania field, 200,000 applied. With limited spots, the Air Marshal Service had an acceptance rate of about one in 40 four times as tough as Harvard's. (USA Today)
WTC owner, developer in arbitration over late fees Nov 13, 2008
By Amy Westfeldt ASSOCIATED PRESS. 12:27 p.m. November 12, 2008. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
OUR VIEW: Spit at each other, then shake hands Nov 12, 2008
Until there is some real information on why there were obvious cutter charges on all 3 WTC buildings only used in PREPLANNED demolitions which on a scope of these 3 buildings would have taken at least WEEKS of not MONTHS to plan and prepare for. Bush knew. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Terror suspects accused of jihad plan Nov 12, 2008
Police raids on the men's homes had also uncovered a substantial cache of extremist material, Maidment said, including bomb making instructions, graphic videos of ritual beheadings and images of the hijacked planes smashing into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. All the men had been living in Sydney at the time of their arrests, wire services reported. (Boston Globe)
* Islam not on trial in terror case, Australian judge says Nov 12, 2008
They had pictures and videos showing the hijacked aircraft smashing into the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, 2001, as well as beheadings and death on the battlefield, he said. Maidment described all five as devout Muslims who believed Islam was under attack throughout the world and that there was a religious obligation to come to its defense. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Crazy conspiracy theories Nov 11, 2008
A hijacked commercial plane crashes into the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 in New York. AFP. (iAfrica.com)
Bush warns of vulnerability in a transition Nov 7, 2008
She cited the bombing of the World Trade Center five weeks after Clinton took office in 1993; the Madrid train bombings in 2004, three days before national elections in Spain; and the car-bomb plot in London and an attack in Glasgow just days after a new British prime minister took office in 2007. Elsewhere in the administration, officials are racing to complete budget options for the Obama team, without knowing whether they will be accepted or rejected. (International Herald Tribune)
Wall Street Bonuses May Plunge 41 Percent in 2009: Assembly Nov 6, 2008
3 percent next year, which would even top the plunge that occurred one year after the World Trade Center was smashed, the state Assembly said on Wednesday. "A decline of this magnitude is unprecedented, surpassing even the 24.1 percent falloff in the industry variable wages in 2002 after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001," the Assembly said in a new report. (ABC News -- Wire)
Obama revives US tourism? Nov 6, 2008
"Obama brings hope," said Leticia Giorello (26) an architecture student from Uruguay, as she surveyed the mammoth building site at the former World Trade Center. "Everybody in Latin America wanted Obama.". (iAfrica.com)
Its funny how some Louisiana citizens condemn Obama for "possibly" being "Muslim", when y'all voted for an INDIAN to be your governor?? Nov 5, 2008
The ones who want kill all Americans and who crashed planes into the WTC. The so called "religion of peace". Yeah, we want a president with THOSE ties. (New Iberia, LA)
Obamageddon... Fiction? Nov 5, 2008
President Obama forgot that the World Trade Center in New York was first hit after Bill Clinton became president. He forgot that while September 11th happened on the watch of George W. Bush, it was conceived, planned, and financed while Bill Clinton was still president. (Townhall.com)
Tucson appoints new fire chief Nov 5, 2008
He was chief of emergency services for Westchester County, N.Y. - just north of New York City - when the World Trade Center was attacked in 2001. Before that, Kelly served 26 years with the Baltimore County Fire Department. (KOLD.com, AZ)
Bone hunt block Nov 4, 2008
CITY BARS PROS AT WTC ... The city's memo has many of the family members up in arms - especially after Con Ed workers digging in a manhole at the WTC site last week found victims' remains. (Yahoo News -- World Trade Center)
Freedom Tower's first column laid Nov 4, 2008
The first two foundation columns have been put in place for the Freedom Tower that will replace the World Trade Center in New York ... Initial plans for a replacement for the World Trade Center were greeted with disappointment by the public. (Yahoo News -- World Trade Center)
Post a comment » Nov 4, 2008
Whether you believe in our efforts on the war on Terror or that our government was responsible for the World Trade Center attack (can you say, Rosie O'Donnell)is your privilege, but DON'T undermine our military and deny them the funds rt that is vital to winning against terrorist that would kill us if aren't vigilant. " Pat Illinois wrote on Apr 20, 2007 12:52 PM:" I agree with you Larry, you have been there is atituation. (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)
Meet 'FOX & Friends' Nov 3, 2008
Prior to joining FNC, Carlson worked at CBS News where she served as a news correspondent and co-anchored the "CBS Saturday Early Show." While at CBS, Carlson covered breaking news events including the Columbia space shuttle disaster, the capture of the Washington D.C. sniper, the World Trade Center attack on September 11th and the execution of Timothy McVeigh. Internationally, Carlson reported from the G-8 Summit in Genoa, Italy. (Fox News -- Politics)
Signing of Freedom Tower beams set for Sunday Nov 3, 2008
When the 1,776-foot-high Freedom Tower rises over the former site of the World Trade Center, it will be inscribed with the signatures of first responders and relatives of those who died on Sept. 11, 2001. Three steel columns that eventually will be used in the tower's construction already have been delivered to the trade center site. (Yahoo News -- World Trade Center)
A MODEL OF COURAGE Nov 2, 2008
Long, a former triathlete who rushed to the World Trade Center to help on 9/11, was all but crushed by a bus while biking to work the week before Christmas 2005. Doctors at the time put his chances of survival at next to nothing. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Soprano family values Nov 2, 2008
Latest News, Sports, Entertainment, Politics, Opinions and Gossip - NY Daily News. NY Daily News Home Delivery. (Yahoo News -- The Sopranos)
President's first year most perilous Nov 1, 2008
McConnell cited 1993 World Trade Center attack shortly after Bill Clinton took office ... McConnell cited the attack on the World Trade Center shortly after Bill Clinton took over the presidency in 1993 and the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, which occurred less than eight months after George W. Bush took the oath of office. (CNN -- International)
How eloquence shrank to election buzzwords Nov 1, 2008
After the destruction of the World Trade Center, Vowell says that, as a New Yorker, she felt the strong relevance of those words as the city around her pulled together. And Winthrop's message easily slides into a speech given by any presidential hopeful in recent memory: One electoral body. (Globe and Mail)
Anand: Mind and method Oct 31, 2008
The venue was at the World Trade Center, on a specially built deck on the 107th floor. Six years later, when the WTC came crashing down, we recalled that meeting because I had interviewed him on 9/11 1995. (India Times, India)
ABC will not air Obama ad... Oct 28, 2008
ABC will not air half-hour Obama ad--The Live Feed. ABC will not air half-hour Obama ad. (The Drudge Report)
What's more alarming than tracking the Dow? Seeing what the insiders see. Oct 26, 2008
In the face of truly dramatic events - Russia's 1998 economic collapse, the World Trade Center attacks - the VIX has occasionally hit 40. During the trading day on Friday, the VIX crossed 89. (Boston Globe)
Film: Man On Wire Oct 25, 2008
A look at Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine at World Trade Center in 1974. Genre. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The Citizen's Cinema Oct 24, 2008
TheCitizensCinema wrote on Oct 23, 2008 11:42 AM:" The role of proper chronological distance in non-fiction cinema has received heavy attention in the critical response to Oliver Stone's "W." Like Stone's last high-profile film, "World Trade Center" - and virtually every movie about the current Iraq war and the war on terror - a vocal chunk of the popular reception to "W." can be summed up in two words: too soon.I chose not to discuss this facet of "W." in my original review because the... (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Out of the Will Oct 24, 2008
11 attack on the World Trade Center. I asked Howard Lutnick, who lost his brother that day, how he s doing. (Fox News)
DAVE'S DUBIOUS GUIDE Oct 24, 2008
IN a Sept. 25 column, I raised the impolite question: "Does Gov. Paterson have any idea what he's talking about when it comes to Ground Zero?" Prompting that worry were Paterson's statements indicating he didn't know that the Freedom Tower was already under construction - among other odd remarks he made about the World Trade Center site. Yesterday's Post editorial on "Non-Filer's Syndrome"-afflicted gubernatorial counselor Charles O'Byrne asked: "Can O'Byrne be trusted to serve as Paterson's... (New York Post -- Opinions)
103rd Assembly District Oct 24, 2008
4) Move expeditiously to rebuild the World Trade Center complex in line with proposed redevelopment plans. Every day construction is delayed sends a message to the domestic and international business community that New York is not serious about repositioning itself as the world's preeminent financial powerhouse. (MIllbrook Voice Ledger, NY)
Dear Editor: Voting public like lemmings? Oct 24, 2008
We recovered from the destruction of the World Trade Center and damage to our Pentagon. We will need to be much, much stronger to recover from the financial ruins of misguided Republican leadership. (Heber Springs Sun-Times, AR)
Lebanon I: From Beirut to 9/11 Oct 24, 2008
To me the most telling was the one reached by Middle Eastern terrorists, that the United States had neither the will nor the means to respond effectively to a terrorist attack, a conclusion seemingly borne out by our fecklessness toward terrorist attacks in the 1990s: in 1993 on the World Trade Center; on Air Force troops at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996; on our embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998; on the destroyer Cole in 2000. There was no effective response from the United States... (International Herald Tribune)
New York allows Bloomberg to seek third term Oct 24, 2008
The former CEO was first elected as a Republican in 2001, while smoke was still rising from the ruins of the World Trade Center; he later became an independent. The vote dramatically alters the city's political landscape. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Slowing Fast Company? Oct 24, 2008
com sat down with Koten in his office on the 29th floor of Seven World Trade Center to ask. Here's an edited version of what he had to say. (Forbes -- Business)
Bloomberg Wins Term-Limits Vote Oct 24, 2008
The former CEO was first elected as a Republican in 2001, while smoke was still rising from the ruins of the World Trade Center; he later became an independent. Bloomberg's announcement three weeks ago that he would try to rewrite the term-limits law led to a bruising debate and a politically damaging one for the mayor, who had previously backed the term limits law and even vetoed a 2002 bill to amend it, saying it was an attempt by politicians to change the rules for personal gain. (Newsmax)
Attack of the Green Tech Geeks Oct 23, 2008
Fast Company, 7 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007-2195. 00000000. (FastCompany)
Business Travel Gets an Upgrade at the Airport Oct 23, 2008
Connect with Fast Company. 0Reader Recommendations. (FastCompany)
'Max Payne' beats out 'W.' at box office Oct 23, 2008
7 million debut of Stone's last movie, 2006's September 11 saga "World Trade Center." That movie opened in nearly 3,000 theaters, about 900 more than "W.," however. Playing in 2,030 cinemas, "W." averaged a solid but unremarkable $5,197 a theater, compared with a $6,334 average for "World Trade Center." "W." was shot on a modest budget of $25 million. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Mass. City Gives Cops Holiday Pay On 9/11 Oct 22, 2008
A police officer during a 2006 ceremony at New York's World Trade Center site, marking the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks. (CBS). (CBS News -- US)
The Chanel Pavilion: Clear folly in lean times Oct 22, 2008
When Rem Koolhaas's Prada shop opened in SoHo three months after the World Trade Center attacks, it was immediately lampooned as a symbol of the fashion world's clueless self-absorption. The shop was dominated by a swooping stage that was conceived as a great communal theater, a kind of melding of shopping and civic life. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
World Trade Center buildings sold Oct 21, 2008
Transwestern Investment Co. of Chicago has sold downtown Denver s two-building World Trade Center office property for undisclosed terms ... Transwestern put the World Trade Center up for sale in the fall of 2007 ... The Chicago company, along with Broadreach Capital Partners LLC, purchased the World Trade Center in early 2006 for $116 million. (Denver Business Journal, CO)
Filmmakers documentary about Needham woman's journey reveals strength that can arise from devastation Oct 21, 2008
They have traveled to Afghanistan because it harbored the men who boarded two planes on Sept. 11, 2001, at Logan Airport in Boston, overpowered the pilots, and crashed the planes into the World Trade Center in Manhattan, taking with them Retik s and Quigley s husbands. The American women s mission was to meet their counterparts in this war-torn land, fellow victims of the same kind of zealotry and cruelty that brought down those planes. (Needham Tab, MA)
Oliver Stone’s “W.” more of a curiosity than a potent piece of filmmaking Oct 21, 2008
" Bullets and shrapnel are not predictable and may even seem magical if you are a hell bent wacko. It's like the idiots that think the WTC couldn't be toppled by jet liners full of fuel. If you watch JFK, be sure to put on your waiters first. ". If anyone wrote on Oct 20, 2008 8:56 PM:" really believes 95% of us are going to get a tax cut from Obama, I have that proverbial bridge to sell you. Call me. ". (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
TISHMAN TO HIRO: 'SAYONARA' Oct 21, 2008
After HSBC's abrupt departure from advanced talks at 7 World Trade Center, Larry Silverstein is understandably wary about publicizing lease discussions with another financial firm over the tower's upper floors. But we've learned that German bank West LB is in "real" discussions with Silverstein about three floors (HSBC would have taken five). (New York Post -- Business)
Oakland's Fight Vs. Hillside Fires Oct 18, 2008
It was a problem that hindered mutual-aid efforts in the East Bay hills fire nearly two decades ago and again on Sept. 11, 2001, when thousands of New York City firefighters and police officers responded to emergency calls from the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Without standardized systems between radio manufacturers, coordinating mutual aid in large disasters can be difficult and confusing, said Lt. David Brue, a spokesman for the Oakland Fire Department. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
ERAU strives to create top homeland security program Oct 17, 2008
That day, when Jensen was in seventh grade, several of her neighbors in upstate New York were in the World Trade Center but survived. Another neighbor was one of the pilots killed during the hijacking of commercial airplanes. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Feds race to implement airport slot auction plan Oct 17, 2008
The failed Bobby Sturgell FAA regime is responsible for the loss of more human life than that which occurred at The World Trade Center in Manhattan on September 11, 2001. Quiet Rockland invites anyone else similarly-concerned, to carry out their own careful count of the Bobby Sturgell and FAA fatality statistics since 2003. (Queens Chronicle, NY)
Bombing in Beirut still resonates Oct 16, 2008
But on Sept. 11, he was last seen running up into the south tower of the burning World Trade Center. Stephen Russell, who now lives in Bellingham, Mass. (USA Today)
East Coast Irish Rock Scene Meets the Big Screen: New York City's own Jig-Punk Sensation 'The Prodigals' Featured in 'Pride and Glory' Movie Oct 16, 2008
They played at the World Trade Center; headlined Lincoln Center, the Bowery Ballroom and Webster Hall; twice played the Guinness Fleadh; and have maintained a residency at Paddy Reilly's for over 10 years. This is in addition to touring nationally, headlining venues ranging from the House of Blues in Cleveland, to Navy Pier in Chicago, to the Lincoln Theater in the Napa Valley. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The Psychology of "The War on Terror" and Other Terms for Counterterrorism Oct 15, 2008
Since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001, the Bush administration has used a battle metaphor: the global war on terrorism and the war on terror. Such descriptive terms simplify complex realities, making them more mentally manageable. (Scientific American)
