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Unsealed NY Indictment Reveals Case Against 5 Men

NEW YORK -- The details of the criminal charges against the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four other defendants became moot for a civilian jury when they were finally made public Monday, just as Attorney General Eric Holder was announcing the men will be prosecuted at a military tribunal instead of...

NYPD Helicopter Video Shows 9/11 Aftermath [VIDEO]

"Holy crap!" a man shouts, watching the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. A new 17-minute video of the twin towers after they were hit on Sept. 11, 2001, taken from aboard a New York Police Department helicopter, shows thick, black smoke billowing out into the Lower Manhattan sky. The video was posted by the...

NYC Sept. 11 Museum Launches Interactive Timeline of Tragedy

Alice Hoagland knew what her son was capable of. So when she learned that his plane, United Airlines Flight 93, had likely been hijacked by terrorists, Hoagland did the only logical thing there was to do. She called him on his cell phone, told him she loved him and then gave him a final piece of motherly advice: Overpower...

Rumsfeld Files Reveal Pre-9/11 Focus on Iraq

Thousands of documents made available by Donald Rumsfeld to coincide with the publication of his memoir today reveal an early focus on Iraq, even before 9/11, and his willingness to consider a variety of options that critics might consider hypocritical but that the former defense secretary regarded as thoroughly...

WikiLeaks Cable Reveals More Suspected 9/11 Plotters

A classified U.S. diplomatic cable released by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks has revealed the existence of previously undisclosed suspects linked to the 9/11 plot. According to the document, three men from the Gulf Arab state of Qatar visited target sites in New York and Washington in the month leading up to the...