Editorial — The New York Times — October 7, 2005
Yesterday, the same day New Yorkers were warned there was a “specific threat” of a bombing on their subways, President Bush delivered what the White House promoted as a major address on terrorism. It seemed, on the surface, like a perfect topic for the moment. But his talk was not about the nation’s current challenges. He delivered a reprise of his Sept. 11 rhetoric that suggested an avoidance of today’s reality that seemed downright frightening.
(more…)
[snip]
Here is an agency that is in charge of defending our national security and protecting our safety, but it has yet to prove it is capable of securing itself. The following incidents are glaring examples of the FBI’s failure to address its own security vulnerabilities and its unwillingness to hold its management accountable.
[snip]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, October 7, 2005
Contact: Sibel Edmonds, sedmonds@nswbc.org
FBI Penetrated; Again!
By Sibel Edmonds
(more…)
By REBECCA SANTANA –- Associated Press Writer — October 6, 2005
MONTCLAIR, N.J. — The dust and debris that billowed into the air when the World Trade Center towers collapsed after the 9/11 terror attacks has had long-reaching detrimental health effects, most notably on firefighters, experts said.
(more…)
http://www.newsday.com/mynews/ny-nyimam304448280sep30,0,5425472.story
Incoming FDNY chaplain doubts 9/11 story
The imam says collapse of Twin Towers may have been part of a broader, unknown conspiracy
BY CAROL EISENBERG – Newsday — September 30, 2005
An imam slated to be sworn in today as the second Muslim chaplain in Fire Department history said he questioned whether 19 hijackers were responsible for the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and suggested a broader conspiracy may have brought down the Twin Towers and killed more than 2,700 people.
In a telephone interview yesterday, Imam Intikab Habib, 30, a native of Guyana who studied Islam in Saudi Arabia, said he doubted the United States government’s official story blaming 19 hijackers associated with al-Quaida and Osama bin Laden.
(more…)
[snip]
Shaffer’s assertions on Able Danger have been supported by Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa. If correct, they would change the timeline as to when authorities first learned of some of the Sept. 11 hijackers.
[snip]
By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press Writer | September 30, 2005
WASHINGTON –An officer who has claimed that a classified military unit identified four Sept. 11 hijackers before the 2001 attacks is facing Pentagon accusations of breaking numerous rules, charges his lawyer suggests are aimed at undermining his credibility.
(more…)
[snip]
“It takes two or three weeks to demolish a building like that. But it was pulled down in a couple of hours,” Habib told the newspaper. “Was it 19 hijackers who brought it down, or was it a conspiracy?”
[snip]
http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_273114927.html
Sep 30, 2005 12:25 pm US/Eastern
The fire department’s Muslim chaplain abruptly resigned Friday after saying in a published interview that a conspiracy, not 19 al-Qaida hijackers, may have been responsible for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
“It became clear to him that he would have difficulty functioning as an FDNY chaplain,” Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta told reporters an hour before Imam Intikab Habib was to be officially sworn in. “There has been no prior indication that he held those views.”
(more…)