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FDNY cites confusion, lapses in fatal WTC fire (AP)

AP - Blocked stairwells, radio confusion and misinformation about the water supply thwarted efforts to put out a blaze at a condemned ground zero skyscraper that killed two firefighters last year, an internal report said Thursday.
Feds: Fires took down building next to twin towers (AP)

In this Sept. 18, 2001 file photo, a red crane looms over the smoldering wreckage of World Trade Center Building 7 in New York. Federal investigators said Thursday they have solved one of the undying mysteries of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks: the collapse of World Trade Center building 7, a source of long-running conspiracy theories.(AP Photo/Roberto Borea, File)AP - Federal investigators said Thursday they have solved a mystery of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks: the collapse of World Trade Center building 7, a source of long-running conspiracy theories.
Today on the presidential campaign trail (AP)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during a town hall meeting at the Patrick Henry Community College Motorsports facility in Martinsville, Va., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - McCain says he questions Obama's judgment, not his patriotism, on how to deal with Iraq war ... Former NY Mayor Giuliani to keynote GOP convention; other former McCain rivals also to speak ... Traveling by bus in Virginia, Obama pushes for more union jobs ... AFL-CIO jabs McCain on his economic record in new mailer
McCain, Obama to silence critical ads on Sept. 11 (AP)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. speaks at a town hall meeting, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008, at North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)AP - Presidential contenders Barack Obama and John McCain plan to pull ads on Sept. 11 that criticize each other, a respite from the political fray to honor the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Group asks McCain, Obama not to campaign on 9/11 (Reuters)

Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) waves to the veterans gathered at the 109th Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Orlando, Florida, August 18, 2008. (Scott Audette/Reuters)Reuters - A group of September 11 victims' families appealed to White House hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama on Wednesday to suspend all campaigning on the anniversary of the 2001 attacks as a show of respect.
Australia's Virgin Blue says oil prices hurt more than 9/11 (AFP)

File photo shows Virgin Blue aircraft line up at Sydney Airport. Australia's second largest airline has said soaring oil prices were hurting the industry more than the September 11 attacks on the US, as it reported a 55 percent fall in net profit(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Australia's second largest airline Virgin Blue said Tuesday soaring oil prices were hurting the industry more than the September 11 attacks on the US, as it reported a 55 percent fall in net profit.
Bush, Musharraf: An uneasy alliance (AP)

In this Sept. 22, 2006, file photo, President Bush walks with Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to the East Room at the White House to hold a press conference. Running for president, Bush couldn't name the new leader of Pakistan. But after the Sept. 11 attacks, Musharraf became a crucial but ultimately frustrating ally in the war against Islamic extremists. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Running for president, George W. Bush couldn't name the new leader of Pakistan. But after the Sept. 11 attacks, Pervez Musharraf became a crucial but ultimately frustrating ally in the war against Islamic extremists.
Pakistan likely to stay on course on war on terror (AP)

Outgoing Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf inspects a guard on honor before leaving the presidential house in Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. Musharraf announced his resignation Monday, ending a nearly nine-year tenure that opponents said was hampering the country's shaky return to democracy. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP - Despite the massive shifts in Pakistan's political landscape, the new government's approach to dealing with Islamic extremists likely will follow the same lines it has since Pervez Musharraf sided with the U.S. after the 9/11 attacks.
9/11 aid groups close or adapt as money wanes (AP)

Cynthia Gonzales, 16, and Peter Negron, 18, of Tuesday's Children, a group of children who lost a parent during the Sept. 11 attacks, are among 23 teenagers volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008. Tuesday's Children is one of hundreds of groups that sprang up after Sept. 11, offering everything from counseling to music lessons to families of the victims. The charity, and others like it, are struggling to stay afloat as donations dry up. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)AP - Terry Grace Sears knows she has still has work to do helping the families of Sept. 11 victims, seeing the proof last week on the faces of kids just beginning to open up about their parents' deaths in the terror attack.
Immigrant relatives of 9/11 dead gain legal status (AP)

AP - Fifteen illegal immigrants who lost a spouse or child in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were granted temporary legal status Friday, a potential move toward legal residency for people who have lived in limbo since losing their loved ones.
US court rules Saudis not liable for Sept 11 attacks (AFP)

A general view shows the Saudi capital Riyadh. A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled Saudi Arabia could not be held liable for the September 11 attacks against the United States despite charitable donations that ended up in the hands of Al-Qaeda.(AFP/File/Hassan Ammar)AFP - A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled Saudi Arabia could not be held liable for the September 11 attacks against the United States despite charitable donations that ended up in the hands of Al-Qaeda.
Nation - Thursday (Investor's Business Daily)

Investor's Business Daily - A federal appeals court ruled that Saudi Arabia and its princes cannot be held liable for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed more than 2,700. The appeals court said the Saudi defendants are protected by sovereign immunity. Victims of the attacks alleged that Saudi leaders provided financial and logistical support. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers involved in 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia.
Court: Saudi Arabia not liable in Sept. 11 attacks (AP)

In this Sept. 18, 2001 file photo, a red crane looms over the smoldering wreckage of World Trade Center Building 7 in New York. Federal investigators said Thursday they have solved one of the undying mysteries of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks: the collapse of World Trade Center building 7, a source of long-running conspiracy theories.(AP Photo/Roberto Borea, File)AP - A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Saudi Arabia and four of its princes cannot be held liable in the Sept. 11 attacks even if they were aware that charitable donations to Muslim groups would be funneled to al-Qaida.
U.S. court rules Saudi Arabia immune in 9/11 case (Reuters)

A view of the World Trade Center site in New York City, August 17, 2006. (Peter Foley/Reuters)Reuters - The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, four princes and other Saudi entities are immune from a lawsuit filed by victims of the September 11 attacks and their families alleging they gave material support to al Qaeda, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday.
Russia compares conflict to US response to 9/11 (AP)

AP - Russia's deputy prime minister said Wednesday that his country's military actions in Georgia were comparable to the U.S. response to the Sept. 11 attack on America.
India to join Air Force training exercises in Nev. (AP)

AP - India's military pilots are expected to participate for the first time in Air Force training exercises above the Nevada desert, marking another step in steadily improving U.S. relations with the Asian subcontinent nation since the Sept 11 terrorist attacks.
Guantanamo jury gives bin Laden driver 5 1/2 years (AP)

In this Thursday, July 24, 2008 file photograph of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed by the U.S. Military, defendant Salim Ahmed Hamdan, left, watches as FBI agent Craig Donnachie testifies about his interrogations of Hamdan, while a picture of disguised U.S. agents is displayed on a screen, during Hamdan's trial inside the war crimes courthouse at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, in Cuba. A jury of six military officers reached a split verdict on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008, in the war crimes trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, clearing him of some charges but convicting him of others that could send him to prison for life. The judge scheduled a sentencing hearing for later Wednesday.(AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)AP - A U.S. military jury gave Osama bin Laden's driver a surprisingly light sentence Thursday, making him eligible for release in just five months despite the prosecutors' request for at least a 30-year sentence to deter would-be terrorists.
U.S. shifts 'hearts and minds' fight (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - Nearly seven years after the 9/11 attacks spawned the question, "Why do they hate us?" and made the repair of America's poor international image a top foreign-policy pursuit, the Bush administration is taking a new tack in the "war of ideas."
McCain to give Stevens money to Pa. 9/11 memorial (AP)

AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain will give $5,000 that his campaign received from indicted Sen. Ted Stevens' political action committee to the Flight 93 National Memorial, a campaign spokesman said Wednesday.
US: Ivins solely responsible for anthrax attacks (AP)

Joseph Persichini Jr., Assistant Director in charge of the the FBI Washington Field Office, speaks at a press conference at the Justice Department in Washington following the release of documents in the case against US Army scientist Bruce Ivins. US authorities expressed confidence that Ivins was the lone culprit behind the 2001 anthrax attacks that terrorized the United States.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm)AP - The murder weapon was a flask. Army scientist Bruce Ivins was the anthrax killer whose mailings took five lives and rattled the nation in 2001, prosecutors asserted Wednesday, alleging he had in his lab a container of the lethal, highly purified spores involved and access to the distinctive envelopes used to mail them.
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