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# September 11

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# Al Qaeda
Newly released FBI memo hints at Saudi involvement with 9/11 hijackers
Three successive US administrations have refused to declassify and release documents related to the case.
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Sep 12th 2021, 11:18 AM
# Twin Towers
Here's how the US is marking 20 years since the September 11 attacks
The US and other countries, including Ireland, are remembering the victims of 9/11 on its 20th anniversary.
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Sep 11th 2021, 6:30 AM
# September 11
Ground zero rebuilding in New York still unfinished, 20 years later
Two planned skyscrapers, a performing arts centre and a church are still unfinished at the site.
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Sep 9th 2021, 2:38 PM
# Itinerary
Biden to mark 20th anniversary of 9/11 at three memorial sites
Next Saturday’s anniversary falls less than two weeks after the end of the nearly two decade-long US war in Afghanistan.
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Sep 5th 2021, 12:53 PM
# bush era
Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dies aged 88
Rumsfeld led the US into war in Afghanistan and Iraq during the presidency of George W Bush.
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Jun 30th 2021, 9:25 PM
# September 11
US pays tribute to 9/11 victims as pandemic forces socially distanced commemorations
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will pay their respects at the same memorial today.
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Sep 11th 2020, 3:21 PM
# September 11
Trump vows to hit Taliban 'harder' than ever on 9/11 anniversary
It has been 18 years since Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four US commercial airliners.
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Sep 11th 2019, 3:41 PM
# Guantánamo Bay
Trial date set for alleged mastermind of 9/11 terror attacks
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in Guantanamo Bay prison camp will go on trial in January 2021.
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Aug 31st 2019, 2:02 PM
# ilhan omar
US Congresswoman says she's received more death threats since Trump tweeted 9/11 video
The video on Trump’s Twitter feed has been viewed more than nine million times.
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Apr 15th 2019, 7:36 AM
# Manhattan
New York City attacker charged with terrorism offences
Eight people were killed in New York’s worst attack since 11 September 2001.
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Nov 1st 2017, 9:39 PM
# New York
9/11 victim's remains identified nearly 16 years later
Remains of 40% of the people who died in the attacks have yet to be identified.
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Aug 8th 2017, 8:27 AM
# raising the flag
Fifteen years on, the flag raised over Ground Zero has found its way home
After plucking the flag from a nearby boat, three firefighters hoisted it amid the ashen destruction.
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Sep 11th 2016, 8:00 AM
# Al Qaeda
The accused '9/11 Five' remain in Guantanamo and probably won't ever get a real trial
Attempts to put them on trial in New York for the terrorist attacks backfired.
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Dec 7th 2015, 6:10 PM
# New York
9/11 victim identified nearly 14 years on from attack
Matthew David Yarnell was aged 26 when he died.
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Mar 19th 2015, 9:54 PM
Voices
Opinion: The Irish handprints on the world's most symbolic site – One World Trade Centre
Many Irish and Kerry men spent more than five years working at the resurrected World Trade Centre site.
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Nov 23rd 2014, 8:45 AM
# zero dark shirty
"I shot him two times in the forehead" - Two Navy Seals row over who killed Bin Laden
Robert O’Neill is the latest former Seal to claim he shot the Al-Qaeda leader.
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Nov 7th 2014, 8:10 AM
# Torture
Obama: US "tortured some folks" after 9/11, but critics should not be "too sanctimonious"
President Obama said “a lot of those folks were working hard and under enormous pressure, and are real patriots”.
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Aug 1st 2014, 9:46 PM
# Terrorism
FBI "may have created terrorists out of law-abiding individuals", says rights report
HRW and Columbia Law School report says US law enforcement effectively participated in developing terrorism plots for prosecution.
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Jul 21st 2014, 5:02 PM
# 9/11
Pics: Have a glimpse inside the new September 11 Memorial Museum
Barack and Michelle Obama visited the $700 million museum today ahead of next week’s opening.
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May 15th 2014, 4:02 PM
# World Trade Centre
Unidentified 9/11 remains returned to Ground Zero
Families of those who died on the day criticised the move.
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May 10th 2014, 5:03 PM
# Truther
9/11 conspiracy theorist arrested after interrupting Super Bowl conference
The intruder grabbed the microphone from MVP Malcom Smith.
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Feb 3rd 2014, 9:53 AM
# USA
Ex-New York police officers charged in 9/11 disability scam
More than 100 people were arrested, including 72 city police officers.
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Jan 8th 2014, 8:19 AM
# in remembrance
In Pictures: US marks 9/11 anniversary
A number of memorials took place today to mark the twelfth anniversary of the attacks that struck America on 11 September 2001.
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Sep 11th 2013, 8:00 PM
# played a bogey
This 9/11 'special offer' almost closed down a golf club
The owner said he received death threats over the offer of nine holes for $9.11.
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Sep 11th 2013, 9:32 AM
# Anniversary
12 years on: America remembers a day of terror
See: the newspapers from 12 September 2001.
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Sep 11th 2013, 6:00 AM
# One World Trade Centre
In pics: Final piece of spire added to One World Trade Centre
Its total height is now 541 metres, or 1,776 feet – a symbolic height chosen to echo the year 1776, when America declared independence from Britain.
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May 10th 2013, 6:29 PM
# 9/11
NYPD confirms piece of wreckage comes from hijacked 9/11 plane
The twisted piece of wreckage, believed to be part of a wing flap, was discovered in a narrow space between two buildings.
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Apr 29th 2013, 7:45 PM
# September 11
Authorities resume search for human remains in New York's 9/11 debris
Eleven years after the 2001 attacks, about 60 truckloads of debris are again being searched for the remains of missing victims.
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Apr 2nd 2013, 2:30 PM
# Your Say
Poll: Do you think flight restrictions should be relaxed?
From next month, pocket knives with blades of up to six centimetres are to be allowed on flights in the US.
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Mar 6th 2013, 9:33 AM
# September 11
Guantanamo judge orders US to stop censoring 9/11 hearings
Judge James Pohl says the government cannot remotely censor pre-trial hearings for the suspects of the 9/11 attacks.
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Jan 31st 2013, 3:55 PM
# September 11
Minister speaks of 'very moving' memorial on 9/11 anniversary
Junior minister Joe Costello was given a guided tour of the 9/11 memorial in New York on the 11th anniversary of the attacks.
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Sep 12th 2012, 8:41 AM
# World Trade Center
Barack Obama message, signature hoisted to top of One World Trade Center
In photos: steel beam signed by the Obamas and police and construction workers at the WTC site has been lifted onto the 104th floor of the new skyscraper.
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Aug 3rd 2012, 9:39 AM
Voices
Column: Here's Irish pride - my family are rebuilding the World Trade Center
Kerry O’Shea describes the experience of her father and brother, working dozens of storeys up on the new towers.
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May 11th 2012, 8:24 PM
# 9/11
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed appears on 2,976 murder charges over 9/11
Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators appeared in public for the first time in more than three years today.
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May 5th 2012, 3:19 PM
# 9/11
9/11 suspects set for Guantanamo trial
Five men are accused of orchestrating the attacks which killed almost 3,000 people on 11 September, 2001.
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May 4th 2012, 1:18 PM
# Skyscrapers
World Trade Center is now New York's tallest building again
The new tower is reclaiming the title held by its predecessors destroyed on 9/11 – check out this time-lapse video of its eight-year construction…
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Apr 30th 2012, 6:54 PM
# 9/11 Attacks
Accused 9/11 mastermind to face trial over attacks
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could face the death penalty along with four others if convicted.
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Apr 5th 2012, 7:14 AM
Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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Feb 7th 2012, 4:45 PM
# September 11
In numbers: the September 11 terrorist attacks
2996 people died in the attacks on September 11, 2001. Here, in numbers, is the story of the actions that took place that day.
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Sep 11th 2011, 5:00 PM
# 9/11
“I was due in the Pentagon”: High-profile Irish figures recall 9/11
“Where were you when you heard?” Some well-known Irish figures with a link to the US remember the moment they realised what had happened in New York – and what it meant to them.
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