9/11 Commission: FAA Was Alerted to Potential Attacks
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Federal Aviation Administration officials received 52 warnings prior to Sept. 11, 2001, from their own security experts about potential al Qaeda attacks, including some that mentioned airline hijackings or suicide attacks, The New York Times reported.
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New details have emerged about the attack over the weekend; some speculate it was automated.
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Federal regulators' narrow approach to solving one of the United States' biggest post-Sept. 11 fears -- a terrorist flying a plane into a nuclear power plant -- is under attack for adding to public safety concerns.
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US lawmakers have introduced legislation that would implement recommendations of a bipartisan federal commission aimed at preventing another terrorist attack on the United States.
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The 9/11 commission has released new details about how 19 hijackers and suspected conspirators in the attacks of September 11, 2001, were financed.
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The FBI knew about specific  suspected al Qaeda fundraisers before the Sept. 11 attacks but  failed to tackle the problem, the Sept. 11 Commission said in a  staff report released on Saturday.
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MOSCOW -- A top Russian official acknowledged yesterday what many citizens already suspected -- that terrorism was the most likely cause of two jetliners crashing minutes apart, a feeling reflected in a newspaper headline warning that &quot;Russia now has a Sept. 11.&quot;
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Nearly three years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, US officials are uncertain whether efforts to combat terrorism are reducing the pool of
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Federal aviation officials received dozens of warnings before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida, including some that mentioned airline hijackings or suicide attacks, The New York Times reported.
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U.S. officials have been wrestling with how to get airport screeners to think more creatively about detecting possible terrorism threats.
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Some pilots see 'suspicious' activity, but say there's no direct way to report it.
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British security services believe they have thwarted Sept. 11-style attacks on targets including London's Heathrow Airport and financial center Canary Wharf, Britain's independent ITV News network reported on ...
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The U.S. Transportation Department's   inspector general has urged the FAA to consider disciplining   two executives who failed to correct false information provided   to the commission that investigated the September 11 attacks,   the New York Times reported on Saturday.
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An American Airlines flight was diverted to New York early on Thursday after the crew reported a suspicious passenger in what the FBI said was a misunderstanding.
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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 member of the 9/11 commission told House lawmakers Wednesday that the risk of an airline passenger detonating a suicide bomb has increased as a result of security precautions to prevent hijackings.
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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.