# september-11 - Friday 11 September, 2020
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will pay their respects at the same memorial today.
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# september-11 - Wednesday 11 September, 2019
It has been 18 years since Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four US commercial airliners.
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# september-11 - Saturday 31 August, 2019
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in Guantanamo Bay prison camp will go on trial in January 2021.
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# september-11 - Monday 15 April, 2019
The video on Trump’s Twitter feed has been viewed more than nine million times.
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# september-11 - Wednesday 1 November, 2017
Eight people were killed in New York’s worst attack since 11 September 2001.
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# september-11 - Tuesday 8 August, 2017
Remains of 40% of the people who died in the attacks have yet to be identified.
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# september-11 - Sunday 11 September, 2016
After plucking the flag from a nearby boat, three firefighters hoisted it amid the ashen destruction.
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# september-11 - Monday 7 December, 2015
Attempts to put them on trial in New York for the terrorist attacks backfired.
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# september-11 - Thursday 19 March, 2015
Matthew David Yarnell was aged 26 when he died.
# september-11 - Sunday 23 November, 2014
Many Irish and Kerry men spent more than five years working at the resurrected World Trade Centre site.
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# september-11 - Friday 7 November, 2014
Robert O’Neill is the latest former Seal to claim he shot the Al-Qaeda leader.
# september-11 - Friday 1 August, 2014
President Obama said “a lot of those folks were working hard and under enormous pressure, and are real patriots”.
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# september-11 - Monday 21 July, 2014
HRW and Columbia Law School report says US law enforcement effectively participated in developing terrorism plots for prosecution.
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# september-11 - Thursday 15 May, 2014
Barack and Michelle Obama visited the $700 million museum today ahead of next week’s opening.
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# september-11 - Saturday 10 May, 2014
Families of those who died on the day criticised the move.
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# september-11 - Monday 3 February, 2014
The intruder grabbed the microphone from MVP Malcom Smith.
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# september-11 - Wednesday 8 January, 2014
More than 100 people were arrested, including 72 city police officers.
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# september-11 - Wednesday 11 September, 2013
A number of memorials took place today to mark the twelfth anniversary of the attacks that struck America on 11 September 2001.
The owner said he received death threats over the offer of nine holes for $9.11.
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See: the newspapers from 12 September 2001.
# september-11 - Friday 10 May, 2013
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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# september-11 - Monday 29 April, 2013
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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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# september-11 - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
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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# september-11 - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
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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# september-11 - Thursday 31 January, 2013
Judge James Pohl says the government cannot remotely censor pre-trial hearings for the suspects of the 9/11 attacks.
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# september-11 - Wednesday 12 September, 2012
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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# september-11 - Friday 3 August, 2012
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.
# september-11 - Friday 11 May, 2012
Kerry O’Shea describes the experience of her father and brother, working dozens of storeys up on the new towers.
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# september-11 - Saturday 5 May, 2012
Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators appeared in public for the first time in more than three years today.
# september-11 - Friday 4 May, 2012
Five men are accused of orchestrating the attacks which killed almost 3,000 people on 11 September, 2001.
# september-11 - Monday 30 April, 2012
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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# september-11 - Thursday 5 April, 2012
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could face the death penalty along with four others if convicted.
# september-11 - Tuesday 7 February, 2012
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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# september-11 - Sunday 11 September, 2011
2996 people died in the attacks on September 11 , 2001. Here, in numbers, is the story of the actions that took place that day.
“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.
As commemorative services take place across the US, we take a look at the rest of the world’s take on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America.
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# september-11 - Saturday 10 September, 2011
THE NEW YORK fire department is dealing with a fire on the upper floors of a skyscraper in Manhattan this evening. It is understood that the fire was caused by an exploded electrical transformer in the upper floors of the Credit Suisse building, at 1 Madison Avenue in central Manhattan, about one mile uptown from the site of the World Trade Centre. Foul play is not suspected.
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All of the day’s main news, plus the little bits and pieces you may have missed…
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The fall of the WTC left many TV and film producers with difficult decisions: should they remove any images of them, or leave them intact?
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In his weekly address, a day before the 9/11 anniversary, Barack Obama pays tribute to how a “resilient nation” reacted.
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