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Iranian President Ahmadinejad: Homophobe, Anti-Semite, 9/11 Truther

By David KnowlesSep 23rd 2010 – 9:03PM

(Sept. 23) -- Taking on one of his favorite world stages today, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continued his tradition of serving up incendiary rhetoric while addressing world leaders at the United Nations. As one has come to expect from the Iranian leader, Ahmadinejad used the occasion to challenge conventional...

Michelle Obama: Flight 93 Crash Site Shows Healing

Sep 11th 2010 – 3:09PM
Gene J. Puskar, AP

Gene J. Puskar, AP

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (Sept. 11) -- The victims of Flight 93 are an inspiration and all who visit the rural field where they died on Sept. 11, 2001, will now "see how a scar in the earth has healed," first lady Michelle Obama said Saturday at a memorial service at the crash site honoring the 40 passengers and crew who...

Evangelist Bill Keller: Glenn Beck and Gandhi 'Going to Hell'

By Carl FranzenSep 5th 2010 – 10:23PM
Chris O'Meara, AP

Chris O'Meara, AP

NEW YORK (Sept. 5) -- During the the inaugural worship service of a proposed "9/11 Christian Center at Ground Zero" on Sunday, evangelist minister Bill Keller slammed Islam and Mormonism as "lies from Satan." At the same time, Keller maintained that his project was not in opposition to the proposed construction of an...

Congress: US Repeated 9/11 Failures in Xmas Plot

May 18th 2010 – 6:19PM
Robert Giroux, Getty Images

Robert Giroux, Getty Images

WASHINGTON (May 18) - Despite a top-to-bottom overhaul of the intelligence community after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the nation's security system showed some of the same failures nearly a decade later and allowed a would-be bomber to slip aboard an airliner, congressional investigators said Tuesday. The Senate...

Background on 911 attacks

The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th or 9/11) were a series of four suicide attacks that were committed in the United States on September 11, 2001, coordinated to strike the areas of New York City and Washington, D.C.

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