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Kristen Armstrong / sungazette.net:
Arlingtonians Remember 9/11 in Their Own Ways — The fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was commemorated Monday in a ceremony that not only honored those who died, but saluted those whose actions on 9/11 made a difference. — "Arlington remembers all responders," …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: 9/11, as it happened Update: Amateur video added — I culled about 27 minutes of footage from the first six and a half hours of CNN's coverage that day. I'll post them here in three parts. The actual attacks themselves end about halfway through part two, but watch them all.
New York Times:
9/11/06 — The feelings of sadness and loss with which we look back on Sept. 11, 2001, have shifted focus over the last five years. The attacks themselves have begun to acquire the aura of inevitability that comes with being part of history. We can argue about what one president …
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instapunk.com:
Luxury — RESPONSIBILITY. So it's been exactly five years since we all turned on the TV to watch that second plane strike the second tower and begin the 21st century in earnest. Where were you at that moment? And what were your immediate thoughts? — I know there have been a lot …
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Spencer Ackerman / The New Republic:
NEW YORK ON 9/11: — Greetings from New York City.
NEW YORK ON 9/11: — Greetings from New York City.
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Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
9/11 AND THE LAW, FIVE YEARS LATER: Today marks five years since …
9/11 AND THE LAW, FIVE YEARS LATER: Today marks five years since …
Redstate:
My 9/11 — AND WHY I WAS ABLE TO ACT ON THE RAGE AND FRUSTRATION THAT EVERYBODY FELT.
My 9/11 — AND WHY I WAS ABLE TO ACT ON THE RAGE AND FRUSTRATION THAT EVERYBODY FELT.
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9/11 pledge: "I will not submit" — The above phrase in Arabic is "lan astaslem."
9/11 pledge: "I will not submit" — The above phrase in Arabic is "lan astaslem."
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Little Green Footballs:
September 11, 2001: What We Saw — A previously unreleased video …
September 11, 2001: What We Saw — A previously unreleased video …
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David Sirota / Sirotablog:
Even on 9/11, neocon chickenhawks can't refrain from straw men attacks
Even on 9/11, neocon chickenhawks can't refrain from straw men attacks
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Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on Bush: Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have. May this country forgive you — Keith Olbermann blasts President Bush in his latest "Special Comment" section on Countdown tonight. He leaves no stone unturned...
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
John Yoo summarizes the last 5 years in two short sentences — Bob Egelko has an interesting article in The San Francisco Chronicle today examining how U.S. law has changed over the last five years as a result of the 9/11 attack. He includes this truly revealing quote from John Yoo:
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Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
9/11: FIVE YEARS LATER BUSH CONTINUES TO WIELD POWER — The story of U.S. law since Sept. 11, 2001, is a story about power — who wields it, who contests it and who has the last word. — There are subplots — debates about secrecy, the treatment of noncitizens and the shifting balance between liberty and security.
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Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Matt Lauer goes after Bush over secret prisons and torture — Matt Lauer went after Bush over his secret prisons and the use of torture on the captured terrorists via The Today Show this morning. He was uncommonly strong and didn't back down when Bush gave his pet answer.
White House:
President's Address to the Nation — THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Five years ago, this date — September the 11th — was seared into America's memory. Nineteen men attacked us with a barbarity unequaled in our history. They murdered people of all colors, creeds, and nationalities — and made war upon the entire free world.
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Reported Captured — The commander of Hezb-i-Islami and al-Qaeda ally detained during a raid in eastern Afghanistan — On the day of the fifth anniversary of the 9-11 attack, Coalition forces score a high value target in Afghanistan. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar …
CNN:
Poll: More Americans blame Bush for 9/11 — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The percentage of Americans who blame the Bush administration for the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington has risen from almost a third to almost half over the past four years, a CNN poll released Monday found.
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Omri / Mere Rhetoric:
BREAKING: Blasts in Damascus Around Embassies (US Embassy?) US Embassy — UPDATE 15 (6:10 EST): YNet declares Four gunmen... killed; no diplomats hurt and bumps the story down below the arrest of a West Bank rabbi and an editorial more or less suggesting Israel should give back the Golan to Syria.
John Mueller / Cato Unbound:
SOME REFLECTIONS ON WHAT, IF ANYTHING, "ARE WE SAFER?" MIGHT MEAN — With the fifth anniversary of 9/11, a central question repeatedly asked is whether that country has become safer from international terrorism or not. I have never quite understood precisely what this question means, but let me explore six possibilities.
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Little Green Footballs:
9/11 Conspiracists Defile WTC Site — LGF reader Zach was at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan today, and he reports that the Truthers were out in force. … Indeed.
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Reuters:
Pakistan gives in to conservatives on rape law — ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's ruling party has given in to the demands of religious conservatives opposed to the amendment of Islamic laws that would have taken rape out of the sphere of religious law. — A bill to amend the Islamic laws …
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Max Blumenthal / The Nation:
The ABC 9/11 Docudrama's Right-Wing Roots — On Friday, September 8, just forty-eight hours before ABC planned to air its so-called "docudrama," The Path to 9/11, Robert Iger, CEO of ABC's corporate parent, the Walt Disney Company, was presented with incontrovertible evidence outlining …
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