By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Thirteen years ago today, I was walking down Connecticut Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., on my way to work, about to get on the subway, when I ran into a friend who asked if I had heard about a plane crashing into the World Trade Center. I hadn’t. By the time…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Defense attorneys for five defendants accused of helping orchestrate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks warned of “staggering” implications after divulging that the FBI tried to recruit a member of the defense team. The Associated Press reports that the defense team is urging the war crimes tribunal to aggressively pursue allegations of what…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Outgoing FBI Director Robert S Mueller III never imagined that his bureau would be consumed with the fight on terror. After all, Mueller started his job as director a week before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “I love prosecuting cases, and I love doing investigations, particularly homicide investigations and the like,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New FBI records suggest that Saudis who had lived in Florida before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks helped the hijackers, prompting revived calls for an investigation into co-conspirators, BrowardBulldog.org reports. “One question that has gone unanswered through the investigation of 9/11 is ‘Did the hijackers operate alone or did they have accomplices…
By John Avlon Daily Beast Ali Soufan, former FBI agent, security consultant and author of “Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against Al Qaeda” talks to the Daily Beast about terrorism. How’s the Obama administration doing? “Total elimination of Al Qaeda.” Soufan said. “They are hitting leaders of al Qaeda, and…
By ALYSSA CHOINIERE Daily American Staff Writer Even the most tragic of stories needs a hero so that the listeners can eventually make sense of its ending. The passengers of Flight 93 were those heroes for Americans on Sept. 11. For the FBI investigators, the actions of the Flight 93 passengers made sense of the…
