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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)

AP - The nation's largest privately held ferry service will pay about $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defrauding the government after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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)

AP - The Small Business Administration failed to ensure that businesses receiving government-backed terrorism relief loans were actually hurt by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the agency's internal watchdog told Congress on Thursday.

Alleged terrorist held years in US without charges (Reuters)

Reuters - To the government, he is an al Qaeda "sleeper" agent sent to the United States by Osama bin Laden to help sow more terror after the September 11 attacks.

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)

AP - Veterans honorably discharged after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks started getting a hiring preference Tuesday for jobs in the federal government.

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)

AP - An instructor at the University of Wisconsin who has said he believes U.S. officials orchestrated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, will be allowed to teach a course on Islam, the school said Monday.

July 8, 2006

Al-Qaida suspect arrested in Hamburg (AP)

AP - A German of Moroccan descent has been arrested in Hamburg on suspicion that he is a member of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network with contacts to a man close to the Sept. 11 hijackers, federal prosecutors said Saturday.

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)

AP - The University of Colorado professor who likened some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi official has appealed to keep his job as school officials move to fire him for what they say is research misconduct.

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.


Former NYPD chief Kerik pleads guilty (AP)

AP - Former police commissioner Bernard Kerik, whose rise from beat cop to nominee for Homeland Security head was derailed by ethics questions, dodged prison Friday in a plea bargain by admitting he took $165,000 in gifts from a company attempting to do business with the city.

June 29, 2006

Audio, videotapes from Osama bin Laden (AP)

AP - Audio and videotapes from Osama bin Laden since Sept. 11, 2001:


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