National Security News
July 18, 2006
US has no idea of 'war on terror' cost: watchdog (AFP)
AFP - The US government has lost track of the cost of the "war on terror" unleashed after the September 11 attacks and which is now taking up tens of billions of dollars a year in Iraq and Afghanistan, a Congress watchdog warned.
US has no idea of 'war on terror' cost: watchdog (AFP)
AFP - The US government has lost track of the cost of the "war on terror" unleashed after the September 11 attacks and which is now taking up tens of billions of dollars a year in Iraq and Afghanistan, a Congress watchdog warned.
July 17, 2006
N.Y. ferry to settle Sept. 11 claims (AP)
July 15, 2006
9/11 families want more thorough search (AP)
AP - Scores of people rallied at ground zero Saturday to remember the fallen, and call for a more thorough search for the bone fragments still being found at the World Trade Center site.
July 13, 2006
SBA official blasts 9/11 loan program (AP)
AP - A post-Sept. 11 loan program was a disaster in the making because the government could not verify that most loans actually went to businesses affected by the attacks, a federal official told Congress on Thursday.
Official: SBA failed on Sept. 11 loans (AP)
Alleged terrorist held years in US without charges (Reuters)
July 12, 2006
People to read names at 9/11 anniversary (AP)
AP - Those who lost husbands, wives and significant others in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will recite their loved ones' names at the five-year anniversary ceremony.
EU court upholds 9/11 terror asset freezes (Reuters)
Reuters - A top European court on Wednesday threw out challenges by two terror suspects to freezes on their assets imposed in a global clampdown on people linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
July 11, 2006
New vets get hiring preference for jobs (AP)
Global outrage, New York jitters after India bombs (Reuters)
Reuters - World powers condemned the bombs that killed over 160 people in the Indian city of Mumbai on Tuesday, and September 11-scarred New York tightened security on its subways.
July 10, 2006
Wis. school lets radical instructor teach (AP)
July 8, 2006
Al-Qaida suspect arrested in Hamburg (AP)
Pair seek credit for Flight 93 memorial (AP)
AP - Two college professors who submitted a design for a memorial to those who died aboard United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001, say changes made to the winning submission include elements of their entry, and they want credit for them.
July 6, 2006
WTC site owner taking over 9/11 memorial (AP)
AP - The government agency that owns the World Trade Center site is taking over construction of the Sept. 11 memorial, following recommendations that the move could trim spiraling costs.
WTC site owner taking over 9/11 memorial (AP)
AP - The government agency that owns the World Trade Center site is taking over construction of the Sept. 11 memorial, following recommendations that the move could trim spiraling costs.
Embattled professor fights to keep job (AP)
June 30, 2006
State agency goes ahead with 9/11 memorial (AP)
AP - The state's redevelopment agency signed off Friday on a scaled-back Sept. 11 memorial that would display victims' names at street level and have less underground museum space.

