Terror Watch: Revisiting 9/11 Failures
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Democrats are renewing calls for the declassification of a CIA report documenting the agencyâs mistakes in preventing the 2001 attacks.
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WHAT HAPPENED &#151; Four al-Qaida-inspired bomb plotters were sentenced to life in prison for the failed attack on the London transit system July 21, 2005.
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Failed state plus expertise plus insurgency equals... As soon as 63-year old Russell Defreitas was arrested in early June for an alleged plot to destroy JFK through fuel explosions, terror beat journalists couldn't resist their favorite hobby: telling stories about how everything in the US is at risk. The description "elderly patsy" immediately came to mind when eyeballing Defreitas, but AP described him, with no apparent sense of humor, as an "accused mastermind." "Unthinkable devastation" would have resulted, had his plan not been nipped in the bud.â¦
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Memories of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 are burned deeply into the nation's consciousness, and Americans today are as fearful of becoming a victim of terrorism as they are of losing their job or having their home burglarized.
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The 11 September 2001  attacks on America are to be recalled at ceremonies in New York and across the US.
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PARIS -- Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks forced the West to take a collective crash course on Islamic terrorism, the myths endure: The militants are impoverished and uneducated. Lifelong religious fervor drives them to embrace jihad. Al Qaeda aggressively recruits and brainwashes the men.
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In the three years since the attacks on America, has the world become less safe? Send us your views.
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Ron Suskind's book, excerpted in TIME this week, reveals scary new details about al-Qaeda's plans -- and the Bush administration's missteps
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Following the September 11, 2001, attacks, the US Central Intelligence Agency set up 12 bogus companies in Europe and other parts of the world in the hope of penetrating Islamic organizations, The Los Angeles Times reported on its website late Saturday.
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In dramatizing how our government's mistakes and negligence helped pave the way for disaster five years ago, "The Path to 9/11" was meant to be a wake-up call for viewers.
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Not worth a tin full of beans Analysis A significant and noticeable part of the US and European academy of terrorism studies is like a shark. If it stops swimming forward, it dies. This has two consequences: a drive to publish or perish which, in turn, motivates it to creep onto past battlefields, assessing which bodies can be ignored for the sake of renewing mythologies; or new terror analyses that purport to show Byzantine networks and capabilities.â¦
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The climax of the Russian school siege reveals some disturbing failures in contingency planning, writes the BBC's Jonathan Marcus.
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Six years after the September 11 attacks, a few cautious voices are beginning to suggest the unthinkable -- maybe it is time to consider talking to al Qaeda.
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Five years after the 9/11 terror attacks killed almost 3,000 people, the country's mood is awash in emotions, balancing resolve with vulnerability, a need to remember with a desire to move on. While there is disagreement over how to combat terrorist threats, there is wide agreement of the trauma the attacks caused. As one New York cabbie explains: "There's a hole in my soul."
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The blueprint for success against the terrorists is there; it needs only to be followed.
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A glance at terror attacks believed linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network.
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Bush is losing hopelessly in the war of ideas. What the terrorists can teach him about strategy, propaganda and ideology.