Police Officer Trapped on Sept. 11 Retires
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A Port Authority rookie detective who was among the last people pulled out alive from the rubble of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, retired from the force. "I was just a cop doing my job," he said during an emotional farewell Thursday.
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Private guards in SUVs helped Iraq's former electricity minister escape from a police station just outside the heavily fortified Green Zone where the dual U.S.-Iraqi citizen was being held on corruption charges, officials said Monday.
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An 11 September rescuer whose identity was only recently revealed describes the part he played that day.
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The abrupt withdrawal of Homeland Security nominee Bernard Kerik has left more questions than answers. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner who gained fame after 9/11, said he had an &quot;illegal
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By Warren Vieth and Edwin Chen WASHINGTON, Los Angeles Times. Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik on Friday abruptly withdrew himself from consideration as the United States&#39; next homeland security
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The city planned Wednesday to release hours of emergency calls from Sept. 11, 2001, after Fire Department officials said they had discovered hundreds of internal recordings made by firefighters who went to rescue people from the burning twin towers.
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The professional parachute jumper who tried to leap off the city's tallest building in 2006 released a video that shows him struggling with security guards and police officers on the observation deck.
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A New York City firefighter who had responded to the World Trade Center attack was killed in Iraq while serving with the Army National Guard, city officials said.
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In a country always in search of champions, especially in the uncertain post-Sept. 11 landscape, the firefighter has assumed the role of iconic American hero, embodying the courage, valor, honor
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Amit Yoran leaves the Department of Homeland Security a little over a year after joining.
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A former "Dateline NBC"  correspondent claims that in the aftermath of September 11, the  network diverted him from reporting on al Qaeda and instead  wanted him to ride along with the country's "forgotten heroes,"  firefighters.
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For many of the employees of the state and federal agencies, the memories of Sept. 11 were still too fresh to consider a return to ground zero.
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A New York police detective died of lung disease caused by injecting ground-up pills not exposure to toxic air from working in the rubble of the World Trade Center after the September 11 attacks, the city's medical examiner said on Thursday.
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New doubts about what killed a New York City police officer who worked in the ruins of the World Trade Center now threaten the yearslong effort to create a treatment program for other ailing Sept. 11 workers.
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An executive from the 80th floor is wracked with guilt knowing that as he fled the building to safety, his firefighter brother-in-law ran in - and never came out
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Officer Andrew Barnett of the Anne Arundel County police allegedly told his superiors last year that his nation needed him -- that his Army reserves unit had been activated and that he was headed to Iraq. With that, police say, Barnett was granted a leave from his job while continuing to collect his salary.
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The former C.I.A. official who authorized destruction of videotapes of harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects had apparently been directed to save them.