9/11 commission details lax US controls
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WASHINGTON -- A new report from the now-defunct Sept. 11 commission details the lax controls on immigration and customs that the hijackers exploited to carry out their plot.
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Two top senators offered a bipartisan plan on Monday to remedy what the Sept. 11 commission called &quot;dysfunctional&quot; congressional oversight of US anti-terror efforts.
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THE government agency that owns the World Trade Center site has joined a US$7 billion (S$11.9 billion) suit against Saudi Arabia and Al-Qaeda for the Sept 11 terrorist attacks.
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New findings from the September 11th commission say immigration and customs apparently failed to see or act on warning signs in the hijackers&#39; passports and visa applications.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday it has given the Bush administration a confidential report critical of US treatment of terror suspects detained at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Nearly three decades before the Sept. 11 attacks, a high-level government panel developed plans to protect the nation against terrorist acts ranging from radiological "dirty bombs" to airline missile attacks, according to declassified documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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The White House has requested that the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon study whether the Defense Department should take over CIA paramilitary operations, as recommended by the Sept. 11 commission.
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US President George W Bush says his Government is heeding the September 11 commission&#39;s call to reform US intelligence and will take measures to improve its ability &quot;to find, track and stop dangerous terrorists&quot;.
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Leaders of the Sept. 11 commission warned lawmakers Monday that the nation will hold them partly responsible if another terrorist attack occurs before Congress restructures the government's intelligence community.
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The Sept. 11 commission's executive director had closer ties with the White House than publicly disclosed and tried to influence the final report in ways that the staff often perceived as limiting the Bush administration's responsibility, a new book says.
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US government efforts to prevent further terrorist attacks on the nation&#39;s planes and trains are increasingly incorporating smart technologies that can sniff out bomb residue on a passport or see through clothes to detect weapons taped to a would-be
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Chapter 13 of the 9/11 Commission Report is being cited almost every day in some part of Washington. Yesterday, Sen. George V. Voinovich (R-Ohio) opened a Senate subcommittee hearing by reading
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Corrects paragraph two to show Chertoff playing down reports al Qaeda as threatening as pre-Sept. 11.
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The commission, formally known as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, was set up in late 2002 to examine security-related issues before the attacks and response afterward and to make recommendations on guarding against ...
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A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutionally vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.
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Aviation officials in the US had many warnings that airlines might be hijacked in the months before 11 September.
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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- The historic opening last week of U.S. military commissions that  have not been used since World War II was marked by twists and turns and a carefully crafted defense strategy designed to bring the cases against suspected terrorists into the American court system.