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September 15, 2009
September is National Preparedness Month
Families of September 11 is proud to join with FEMA, Citizen Corps and the coalition of thosands of other organizations in supporting September 2009 as National Preparedness Month. Through the Ready Campaign, National Preparedness Month is designed to promote activities across the nation that will encourage individuals to have an emergency supply kit, make a family emergency plan, and be informed about the different threats that may affect them, and their businesses as well as take steps to get trained and engaged in community preparedness and response efforts. National Preparedness Month coalition members have agreed to distribute emergency preparedness information and sponsor activities across the country that will promote emergency preparedness. We urge all FOS11 members to take the time to visit the Ready.gov website at the link below. The site contains vital information which can help help individuals, families, and businesses survive disasters and emergencies.
http://www.ready.gov

September 10, 2009
Curriculum on 9/11 and Global Terrorism to be Tested in NJ Schools
The idea for the curriculum began with the Families of September 11 and the effort includes the Liberty Science Center, the state Commission on Holocaust Education and about 20 New Jersey teachers. With guidance from the Commission on Holocaust Education -- which has written not just the state's Holocaust curriculum but also lessons on other acts of genocide -- teachers from around the state gathered several times over the last year to write dozens of lessons about terrorism for all grades. The curriculum cuts across many subjects, including social studies, history, language arts, art and music. Click on link to learn more.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/new_jersey_is_part_of_plan_to.html

September 3, 2009
September 11, 2009: Commemoration Activities and Memorials
ARIZONA PHOENIX WORLD MEMORIAL - 9/11 Salute to Uniformed Public Service and the families OF 9/11. 8th Anniversary Ceremony September 11th 2009 12:00 Noon, Wesley Bolin Memorial Park Phoenix, Arizona http://www.publicsafety.net/911_memorial_phoenix.htm CALIFORNIA San Diego - Memorial Service Date: September 11, 2009 Time: 2:30 pm There will be a September 11th service held aboard the flight deck of the USS Midway in San Diego’s Navy Pier. This service will serve to remember those lost on September 11, 2001. Names of the United & American Airlines crewmembers lost on 9/11, along with Fire, Police, and Port Authority personnel lost will be read at the annual memorial tribute aboard the USS Midway at the San Diego Navy Pier. This event will take place on Friday, September 11, 2009. Please RSVP by sending an e-mail to Vicki at safety@unitedafa.org. Include in the e-mail your name, contact number and e-mail. Also indicate if you are willing to participate in reading the names of our heroes. All crewmembers are encouraged to attend in full uniform. FLORIDA BONITA SPRINGS - Bonita Springs Mayor Ben Nelson will proclaim Sept. 11 Patriot Day at a 9 a.m. public ceremony at Riverside Park on Old 41 Road. NAPLES - a ceremony by the Veterans of Foreign Wars will honor Patriot Day with a 9/11 Memorial Lowering of the Flag event from 5 to 6 p.m. Sept. 11, at Sugden Plaza. NEW JERSEY EMPTY SKY: the State of New Jersey’s September 11th Memorial As we approach the 8th anniversary of the attacks of September 11th, 2001, we would like to invite you to a reception at the site of the State of New Jersey’s September 11th Memorial in Liberty State Park, New Jersey. The event will begin at 1:30 pm inside the Railroad Terminal adjacent to the memorial site. There will be music, light refreshments and opening remarks. MONMOUTH COUNTY On Sept. 11 at 8:30 a.m., the Monmouth County Park System will host a brief remembrance ceremony at the site of Monmouth County's 9/11 memorial. The 20-minute ceremony will include the Naval Weapons Station Earle Funeral Honors, bagpipers, an invocation by local clergy and flowers placed at the memorial. The 9/11 memorial is at Mount Mitchill Scenic Overlook, Ocean Boulevard, Atlantic Highlands. All are welcome to attend. NEW YORK MANHATTAN WHERE: Zuccotti Park, on Liberty Street between Broadway and Church streets TICKETS: Family members who did not receive tickets can call the mayor's office 212-788-3000. VIEWING: At Liberty Street and Broadway. 8:40 a.m. Program begins with the introduction of citywide moment of silence. 8:46 Moment of silence observing the time first plane struck the North Tower, and houses of worship across the city will toll bells. Names of 2,752 people who died will be read by family members and volunteers. 8:47 Families begin entering the World Trade Center site 9:03 Moment of silence observing the time second plane struck the South Tower. Reading of names continues. 9:59Moment of silence observing the fall of the South Tower. Reading continues. 10:29 Moment of silence observing the time of fall of the North Tower. 9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance USO Care Package Stuffing Event In April, 2009 the anniversary of 9/11 was designated by US legislation as a National Day of Service and Remembrance. On September 10, 2009, to kick off the 1st National Day of Service and Remembrance, the Tribute WTC Visitor Center, My Good Deed, and the USO, will host an afternoon of volunteering. Volunteers will work together to stuff 5,000 USO care packages that will be sent to our military forces. The event will take place on 9/10/09 from 2pm to 4pm at 250 Greenwich Street, World Trade Center 7. Interested volunteers should contact Josie Chiles at the Tribute Center, 212 422 3520 x 125 Jchiles@Tributewtc.org. For security reasons all participants must register by 6pm on September 4th. LONG ISLAND ALBERTSON The Town of North Hempstead hosts a 9/11 memorial service, 8:30 a.m. Friday, Clark Botanic Garden. BABYLON A 15-match kickboxing exhibition to raise money for maintenance of the 9/11 memorial at Cedar Beach, 3 p.m. Sunday, Overlook Beach. EAST MEADOW Nassau County 9/11 Memorial Foundation hosts a sunset ceremony, 6 p.m. Friday, Eisenhower Park. EAST MEADOW The Long Island Volunteer Center and Nassau University Medical Center co-sponsor a blood drive in memory of 9/11 victims, 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Nassau University Medical Center. EAST NORTHPORT East Northport Fire Department pays tribute to 9/11 victims and sings "God Bless America," 9:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. Friday, East Northport Fire Department. EAST NORTHPORT Christian concert commemorating 9/11, 8 p.m. Friday, Samantha's Lil' Bit of Heaven, 287 Larkfield Road. FREEPORT Exhibit of 9/11 photos from various news outlets on display through Sept. 29, reception at 2 p.m. Saturday, Freeport Public Library. GREAT NECK AND ROCKVILLE CENTRE September Concert Foundation hosts a global day of music for peace, 1 p.m. Friday at Molloy College in Rockville Centre, and 3:30 p.m. Friday at Great Neck Plaza in Memorial Park. HOLTSVILLE Candlelight vigil hosted by Girl Scout Troop 3138, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Holtsville Fire Department. LONG BEACH - A tribute featuring kites made by students and veterans in memory of 9/11, 2:45 p.m. Sunday, Riverside Boulevard boardwalk. LONG BEACH - Writing workshop that includes poetry and prose about 9/11, 2 p.m. Friday, Long Beach Public Library. MASSAPEQUA 2,974 flags, planted by Boy Scout Troop 660, displayed on the lawn at Massapequa Park Village Hall through Saturday, in memory of each victim. MOUNT SINAI Ceremony to honor 9/11 victims and to announce an "Avenue of America" that will feature 80 state and national flags, 4:45 p.m. Friday, North Shore Heritage Park. POINT LOOKOUT The Town of Hempstead presents two 15-foot tall towers, a reflecting pool and a dove release, along with a speaker who lost two brothers on 9/11, 7:30 a.m. Friday, Town Park Point Lookout. RIVERHEAD Prayer service to promote friendship between Iran and the U.S. with the international prayer group Women in Black, 7 p.m. Thursday, First Parish Church Spiritual Renewal Center, corner of South Avenue and Church Lane. WANTAGH The Town of Oyster Bay hosts a candlelight ceremony to honor residents lost on 9/11, 7 p.m. Friday, Tobay Beach. PENNSYLVANIA SHANKSVILLE -The commemoration begins at 9:45 a.m. adjacent to the temporary memorial site in Shanksville. At 10:03 a.m. -- the moment Flight 93 crashed -- the name of each of the heroic passengers and crew members will be read. For additional information about the commemoration including directions to the site, go to ww.nps.gov/flni

June 18, 2009
Lower Manhattan Businesses Affected by 9/11 May Receive Additional Aid
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation has indicated that it will attempt to make it easier for businesses impacted by the WTC attacks to qualify for reconstruction funds set aside after 9/11.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/nyregion/13lmdc.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion

June 18, 2009
WTC Developers and Port Authority Still Unable to Reach Agreement on Financing
The Port Authority and WTC developer Larry Silverstein continue to disagree over construction financing for Silverstein’s three proposed office towers at the WTC site.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE55G0C020090617

April 30, 2009
A Reminder About Provocative Images and Events
On Monday April 27th the 747 back up plane to Air Force One, followed by an F-16 fighter, circled around lower Manhattan at low altitude, prompting evacuations in several buildings along the river in New Jersey and New York, including the New York Mercantile Exchange and Goldman Sachs in Jersey City. To view the Families of September 11 statement about this incident click on the link.
http://www.familiesofseptember11.org/actionalert.aspx?item_id=560&tid=1

April 2, 2009
Both Houses of CongressPass Bills to Create a National Day of Service on September 11th
With the passage of the Serve America Act the Senate followed suit with the House of Representatives' approval of the GIVE Act to designate 9/11 as a day of voluntary service. Efforts to promote this legislation were spearheaded by MyGoodDeed and a coalition of 9/11 and other organizations. To learn more, click on the link.
Read press release.

March 26, 2009
President Signs Spending Bill Containing $70 Million for 9/11 Health Care
President Obama signed into law an omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2009. The bill includes $70 million in new funding for the current medical monitoring and treatment programs administered by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health at FDNY and the Mount Sinai Consortium. The funds will also cover treatment for residents, area workers and others affected by 9/11. Click on the link below to read the bill.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h1105pcs.txt.pdf

March 6, 2009
Most 9/11 Lawsuits Settled Through Mediation
A mediator appointed to oversee the 95 personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits related to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks has announced this week that all but three have been settled.
http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20090306/UPDATES01/903060363

February 17, 2009
9/11 Commission Members Mourn Loss of Activist Beverly Eckert
Members of the Commission which investigated the 2001 terror attacks expressed their grief over the death of Beverly Eckert.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/02/13/2009-02-13_911_commission_members_mourn_loss_of_act.html

February 17, 2009
Leading Jurists Call for Urgent Steps to Restore Human Rights in Efforts to Counter Terrorism
The International Commission of Jurists is dedicated to the primacy, coherence and implementation of international law and principles that advance human rights. The commission has just issued a report on the conduct of the war on terrorism and its effect on international law and human rights.
http://www.icj.org/
Read the Report.

January 8, 2009
Representatives of 9/11 Families Meet With President Obama to Express Concerns Over Guantanamo Closing
Families who lost loved ones on 9/11 were invited to the White House to discuss their feelings about the president's decision to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
http://blog.nj.com/njv_bob_braun/2009/02/obama_provides_comfort_but_no.html

January 2, 2009
"Managing the Psychology of Fear and Terror", a Blueprint of Strategies for Governments, Service Providers and Individuals
Psychology Beyond Borders, a group of leading mental health practitioners committed to informed policy, research, education, and psychosocial service delivery in the prevention, preparedness and response to terror attacks, armed conflict or natural disaster, has released a white paper titled, "Managing the Psychology of Fear and Terror."
http://psychologybeyondborders.com/userfiles/file/PBB%20White%20Paper%20Revision.pdf

December 14, 2008
The Project on National Security Reform Releases Recommendations Urging Sweeping Changes to Improve U.S. National Security System
The national security system must be massively reorganized if federal agencies are to cooperate and collaborate more effectively to combat the multitude of threats facing the U.S. in the 21st century, according to recommendations released by the Project on National Security Reform (PNSR). Click on link to read the report.
http://pnsr.org/data/files/pnsr%20forging%20a%20new%20shield.pdf

December 12, 2008
Several 9/11 Families Criticize Military Tribunals at Guantanamo
Thirty-three relatives of people killed in the 9/11 attacks on the US have denounced the Guantanamo war crimes trials as illegitimate and unfair.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7776666.stm

December 12, 2008
Recession Will Slow Completion of WTC Reconstruction
The sluggish economy is slowing construction at the WTC site and could delay completion until 2013.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122929666634205133.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

December 11, 2008
WTC "Survivors' Stairs" Moved to Permanent Location at the World Trade Center Site
The stairs that led many World Trade Center workers to safety during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 moved to a new home on Thursday in the National September 11 Memorial & Museum that is now under construction.
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/united-states/survivor-stairs-wtc-8453.html

December 10, 2008
Five Detainees in Guantanamo Tribunal Offer to Plead Guilty
Five of the men accused of planning the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks said Monday that they wanted to plead guilty to murder and war crimes but withdrew the offer when a military judge raised questions about whether it would prevent them from fulfilling their desire to receive the death penalty.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/08/AR2008120801087.html

December 9, 2008
Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Holds Sevices at the Site of Its Destruction
In a tent that resembled the outline of a building, a memorial was also held to honor all of the victims of the September 11th attacks.
http://www.ny1.com/content/special_reports/wtc_coverage/90163/church-destroyed-on-9-11-holds-services-on-former-site/Default.aspx

December 4, 2008
Governor of Arizona Chosen as Candidate For Homeland Security
President elect Obama has nominated Governor Janet Napolitano to be his Secretary of Homeland Seurity. The Governor of Arizona was vice-chairwoman of the National Governors' Association (NGA) in 2006 when it instituted the Governors' Homeland Security Advisors Council as a forum to bring together the 55 advisors appointed by the governors of each state and territory to share common concerns and develop strategies for managing homeland security threats.
http://www.govtech.com/gt/567380?topic=117680

November 21, 2008
WTC Tribute Center Continues to Draw Visitors
Tribute WTC Visitor Center offers visitors to the World Trade Center site a place where they can connect with people from the September 11th community. Through walking tours, exhibits and programs, the Tribute WTC Visitor Center offers "Person to Person History," linking visitors who want to understand and appreciate these historic events with those who experienced them. To visit the website, clink on the link below.
http://www.tributewtc.org/aboutus/index.php

November 20, 2008
National Institute of Standards and Technology Releases Final Report on Collapse of 7 WTC
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued its final reort on the destruction of World Trade Center Building 7. The paper offers stronger evidence that the collapse was caused by fires which caused steel columns to fail.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081120144246.htm

November 3, 2008
Libya Makes Final Compensation Payments to U.S. Victims of Terror
Libya has paid $1.5 billion into a fund to compensate the families of American victims of Libyan-linked terror attacks in the 1980s, clearing the last hurdle in full normalization of ties between Washington and Tripoli.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-11-01-libya-payments_N.htm?csp=34

October 27, 2008
Many New York 9/11 Workers, Residents Still Sick
Nearly seven years after the terrorist attacks that demolished the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, many people exposed to the dust, smoke and chemical fumes released into the environment by the airplane strikes on the twin towers continue to experience illnesses.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/green/Many_New_York_9_11_Workers__Residents_Still_Sick.html

October 27, 2008
Flight Attendant Discusses Job Changes Since 9/11
The responsibilities of a flight attendants are drastically different today, especially when it comes to homeland security. At one time, flight attendants were required to wear nail polish. Now they recieve self defense training and carry restraint tape.
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-livoicc5899723oct27,0,7334544.story

October 27, 2008
9/11 Family Members to be Offered Opportunity to Attend Guantanamo Trials
With the war court's future uncertain, the Pentagon has made plans to bring victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- chosen by lottery -- to watch a hearing of reputed al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed's death penalty trial.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/742841.html

October 9, 2008
Ground Zero Visitors Will Have Clear Look
The new World Trade Center may be at least five years from completion, but the thousands of daily visitors to the site will get to see what the finished product will look like, thanks to a new fence around Ground Zero that will be covered with images of the buildings.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10092008/news/regionalnews/ground_zero_visitors_will_have_clear_loo_132799.htm

September 3, 2008
Objects and Memory Documentary to Air on PBS
The documentary Objects and Memory will be shown on PBS stations on Monday September 8, 2008. Objects and Memory, examines meaningful objects and the stories they convey. Beginning soon after September 11, 2001, the film follows, verité style, the efforts of museum curators and everyday folk who were driven to collect and preserve meaningful artifacts.
http://objectsandmemory.org/

August 18, 2008
9/11 Assistance Programs Close or Shrink Services as Funding Dries Up
Programs offering assistance to victims of 9/11 have long relied on funding from an American Red Cross long-term relief fund that distributed more than $1 billion in direct aid and recovery grants to over 100 organizations. On June 30, the Red Cross distributed its last $40 million to 26 groups it still funded. Most private foundations are no longer funding Sept. 11 programs.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gFU6k8ttfKFSoz4vS-DRaxfy_zfQD92JH4RG0

July 21, 2008
Governor Patterson and Mayor Bloomberg Announce That WTC Memorial Will be a Priority
Governor David Paterson sided recently with Mayor Michael Bloomberg that the September 11th Memorial should be the top priority at the World Trade Center site.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=203&aid=83952

July 21, 2008
WTC Site Will be Open Again to Families This 9/11
Sept. 11 victims' families will be allowed to return to ground zero to mourn their loved ones on the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks, officials said Friday.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jWUyIyWxUm8jIt3Ipxl97DbRImuwD920J6R00

July 15, 2008
August Deadline Nears for 9/11 Workers
If you aided in the rescue, recovery or cleanup efforts of the World Trade Center ruins, it is important that you register no later than Aug. 13 with the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board. By registering, you will preserve your right to file a Workers’ Compensation claim, in case you get sick in the future. Click on the link for more information.
http://www.dc37.net/news/pep/7_2008/9_11workerscomp.html

July 8, 2008
Florida is the Destination of Choice for New York-Area Families of Victims Killed in the Sept. 11 Terrorist Attacks
About 120 Sept. 11 families from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and the Boston area moved to the Sunshine State between early 2002 and late 2005.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/594405.html

July 8, 2008
Administration Lets WTC Health Czar Go
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's director, Julie Gerberding, met Thursday with Dr. John Howard and told him the administration would look for a new director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The CDC said Howard's six-year term will expire July 14.
http://www.silive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/news-35/121511938747160.xml&storylist=simetro

July 3, 2008
Former Gov. Kean talks with educators about teaching 9/11
Former Gov. Thomas Kean met today with New Jersey educators crafting a curriculum for teaching New Jersey's children about the attacks, sharing lessons learned from his experience as chairman of the national 9/11 commission. The setting was a conference kicking off a yearlong effort to develop curriculum and resources for teachers faced with a dual challenge of teaching the history and context of the terrorist attacks in communities that witnessed them.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/former_gov_kean_talks_with_edu.html

June 30, 2008
Audit of WTC Redevelopment Reveals Long Delays and Cost Overruns
Government-funded site studies have estimated that the deadlines are likely to be missed by 18 to 36 months and that the $8.4 billion earmarked for the Port Authority isn't enough.
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080627/FREE/807138954/1097/rss17&rssfeed=rss17

June 30, 2008
Families of September 11 Co-Sponsors Conference on Developing Curricula For Teaching 9/11 in Schools
On Tuesday July 1, 2008 more than 100 educators and leaders in fields such as trauma, Holocaust studies and childhood learning are set to gather at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City for a daylong symposium on how best to teach the lessons of 9/11 and terrorism. The symposium, which is by invitation and not open to the public is a collaborative effort of the science center, Families of September 11 and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education of the New Jersey State Department of Education.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-10/121471548749320.xml&coll=1&thispage=2

June 26, 2008
Funds Sought For New Project At 9/11 Park
New plans are in the works for the 9/11 Memorial Park, located on the grounds of the Setauket Fire Department's Nicolls Road station. The fire department, which has been maintaining the site, is looking to raise funds in order to put lighting around the monument and the walkways.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19802486&BRD=1776&PAG=461&dept_id=6363&rfi=6

June 23, 2008
9/11 Families Donate Mementos to September 11th Museum
The National September 11th Museum and Memorial has been receiving a steady stream of gifts and artifacts related to 9/11 which will be on display when the museum opens in 2011.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/06/21/2008-06-21_911_families_donate_mementos_to_septembe.html

June 16, 2008
Inaugural WTC Responders Day held at Ground Zero
Emergency responders and volunteers who are enduring lasting health effects from their work at Ground Zero after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center gathered there Saturday for an event billed as the "First Annual WTC Responder Day."
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nywtc0615,0,3814961.story

June 13, 2008
Long-term 9/11 stress in lower Manhattan
More than 12 percent of lower Manhattan residents exhibited signs of post-traumatic stress disorder as many as three years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror strikes on the World Trade Center, according to a study released Friday by the city Health Department.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=579462

June 13, 2008
NY Governor Asks for Update on WTC Construction
Governor David Paterson yesterday called on the Port Authority to provide updated timetables and price estimates for finishing the mammoth rebuilding of the former World Trade Center site.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1213245361321760.xml&coll=1

June 13, 2008
NY Gov. Wants to Expand Benefits for More 9/11 Workers
Gov. David Paterson on Thursday announced new legislation that would expand disability benefits to more than 1,000 workers who toiled at the World Trade Center site after Sept. 11.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/am-zero0613,0,5412139,print.story

June 12, 2008
Excavation Work at Ground Zero Site Behind Schedule
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said on Wednesday that it was running more than a month behind schedule in delivering the site of Tower 2 at the new World Trade Center to the developer, Silverstein Properties.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/nyregion/12wtc.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

June 5, 2008
Landmark Sept. 11 Trials Open at Guantanamo
MSNBC -- The accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and four alleged co-conspirators faced a military judge Thursday in their long-awaited first appearance before a war-crimes tribunal.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24980555

June 5, 2008
9/11 Takes its Place Alongside D-Day in French Museum
AFP -- A French history museum dedicated to the World War II D-Day landings is set to unveil the largest exhibit to date on another event that changed the world: the September 11, 2001 attacks.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hgtyFjXQJPIjHS92Nhm5GQk-qDuw

May 28, 2008
Pentagon 9/11 Memorial Expected to be Dedicated on Seventh Anniversary of Attacks
The memorial being built to remember and honor those who died in the September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon will be dedicated on September 11, 2008. The focus of the memorial is 184 cantilevered benches built over a pool of lighted water. Each bench is engraved on the end with the name of one of the 184 people who died on board Flight 77 or in the Pentagon that day.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/23/pentagon.memorial/

May 24, 2008
Sally Goodrich Gives Address To University of Maine - Farmington Graduates
Founder of the Peter M. Goodrich Foundation and Our Voices Together Advisory Board member urges grads to direct their lives "in ways that are good for you and the overlapping communities of this small world."
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/5071015.html
U Maine Commencement Address - Sally Goodrich

May 22, 2008
New Study Finds High Percentage of PTSD in Ground Zero Workers
A new study by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine suggests that the percentage of ground zero workers who suffered post-traumatic stress is roughly the same as for airline crash recovery workers and returning Afghanistan war veterans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/nyregion/21mental.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

May 6, 2008
9/11 Survivors' Fund Closes in D.C.
The largest charity established to help Washington-area victims and their families is closing, becoming the last major 9/11-related charity to shut down. The Survivor's fund has been cited as a model of victim assistance.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/03/AR2008050301105.html

May 6, 2008
Stanford Psychiatrist Shares Thoughts on Emotional Impact of 9/11
David Spiegel, MD a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine discusses the impacts the 9/11 attacks had and continue to have on people's mental health.
http://www.dentalplans.com/articles/Stanford%20Psychiatrist%20on/

April 25, 2008
Homeland Security To Assist Undocumented Relatives of 9/11 Victims
Federal officials on Thursday opened a path to temporary legal status for illegal immigrants whose spouses or parents died on 9/11, a step the families’ supporters called a breakthrough in the effort to allow them to remain permanently in the United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/nyregion/25legal.html

April 23, 2008
Judge Dismisses 9/11 Suit Against Former Head of E.P.A.
A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit against Christie Whitman on Tuesday, ruling that Mrs. Whitman, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, could not be held liable for telling residents, students and office workers that the air was safe to breathe after the terrorist attack in 2001.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/nyregion/23whitman.html?ref=nyregion

April 21, 2008
Congressional Panel Finds Risk of Nuclear Attack on Rise
Concerned that not enough attention is being paid to the risk of a nuclear attack, a Senate committee yesterday looked at the consequences of such a terrorist strike in Washington -- and said that more could be done to save lives. The committee summoned witnesses who said the risk of such an attack on U.S. cities has grown in the past five years because of the spread of nuclear technology and the growth of a global terrorist movement.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/15/AR2008041502969.html

April 21, 2008
Port Authority Head Submits Resignation
Port Authority Executive Director Anthony Shorris announced his resignation Thursday morning, a day after news broke that he was to be ousted from his job.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=80616

April 21, 2008
Pope Blesses Ground Zero in NYC, Prays For Peace
Pope Benedict XVI began the final day of his American journey by blessing the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and pleading with God to bring "peace to our violent world."
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j7CMHl_nRqEaAwSLE_odoujTS4FgD905KT480

April 18, 2008
U.S. To Televise Guantanamo Trials To 9-11 Families
The U.S. military will televise the Guantanamo trial of accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other suspects so relatives of those killed in the attacks can watch on the U.S. mainland. The trials will be beamed to closed-circuit television viewing sites on military bases at Fort Hamilton in New York, Fort Monmouth in New Jersey, Fort Meade in Maryland and Fort Devens in Massachusetts.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080418/ts_nm/guantanamo_television_dc

April 18, 2008
Mayor Bloomberg Cites Need For Federal Aid For 9/11 Health Care Among NYC Top Priorities Over Next Two Years
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday called on the U.S. government to pay $150 million a year to cover medical bills for workers and residents whose health suffered due to the September 11, 2001, attacks.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1732834620080417?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

April 18, 2008
Attempts To Change Arizona's 9/11 Memorial Fall Short
An effort to substantially alter Arizona’s official Sept. 11 memorial has failed, ending months of rancorous debate over statements on it that some deemed unpatriotic or irrelevant to the attacks seven years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/us/17memorial.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

April 18, 2008
House panel makes May 'Resilience Month'
Resilience -- the ability to pick up and resume activities after an attack or disaster -- is a concept that many experts believe should be at the center of U.S. homeland security planning.
http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Briefing/2008/04/16/house_panel_makes_may_resilience_month/6359/

April 16, 2008
Port Authority States WTC Construction Will Not Be Affected by Slow Economy
The Port Authority chairman said Tuesday that construction at the World Trade Center site is progressing, and should not be slowed by current economic troubles.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=203&aid=80549

April 15, 2008
The New York State Museum to Open 9/11 Exhibit in Caen, France
Artifacts, films, and stories from The New York State Museum's permanent September 11th Exhibit will be on display at Le Caen Memorial, a museum of conflict and peace in France. The exhibit, titled "A Global Moment", is due to open on June 6, at the museum which was built to honor those who died on D-Day in 1944 and in the battle of Normandy which followed.
http://www.buffalonews.com/180/story/322793.html

April 8, 2008
Remains of More 9/11 Victims Identified
Associated Press - The city has identified the remains of four more victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, including one man whose DNA was found beneath a service road that was initially paved over, officials said Monday.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ilrvwWZJK5BHZzncU3lZInAdkHsQD8VTDCKG0

April 2, 2008
Former Chief Administrator of Victim's Fund Recommends Reopening Fund to Ill 9/11 Responders
Kenneth Feinberg the former Grand Master of the September 11 Victim's Compensation Fund, recommended to a congressional committee that the fund be reopened to assist rescue and recovery personnell who responded on 9/11 and are now ill as a result of their efforts.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=203&aid=80041

April 2, 2008
CDC Announces it Will Create National Program to Treat Ill 9/11 Resonders Throughout the Country
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it will issue a solicitation for sources to provide federally-funded medical monitoring and treatment to thousands of 9/11 responders who live outside metropolitan New York City. According to the federally-funded World Trade Center Health Registry, people from all 50 states and 431 of 435 Congressional districts nationwide were in lower Manhattan on or after 9/11 and now have serious concerns about their health. In all, more than 10,000 of the 71,000 people enrolled in the Registry live outside the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. In its announcement, the CDC noted that its request “represents an unusual and compelling urgency from the Government.” Indeed, existing funding for treatment programs outside metro New York, primarily provide by charitable donations from the American Red Cross, are expected to end in the next few months. The CDC is encouraging interested firms to respond to its announcement by April 2nd.

March 27, 2008
Federal Appeals Court Allows 9/11 Workers' Lawsuits to Proceed
Ruling allows thousands of WTC rescue, recovery, and clean-up personell to move forward with liability cases against New York City and the Port Authority.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/nyregion/27ground.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

March 27, 2008
City Proposes That NYPD Assume Responsibility For New WTC Site Security
Mayor Bloomberg is recommending that the New York Police Department take over managing security for and access to the new World Trade Center site. The proposal would releive the Port Authority of NY/NJ of its present responsibility for site security.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/nyregion/27wtc.html?ref=nyregion

March 19, 2008
Flight 93 Families Reach Agreement on Memorial Site in Pennsylvania
The Families of Flight 93 have reached an agreement with a coal mining company to buy 1.5 square miles of land for a national memorial to the people killed on one of the airliners hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001, the organization said Tuesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_re_us/flight93_memorial

March 18, 2008
US Attorney General Speaks Against the Death Penalty For Guantanamo Detainees
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday he hopes the men charged with participating in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are not executed if found guilty to avoid making martyrs of them.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ipy8IvxAeMp6MpJsHBlJgaq5sqLgD8VDG98G2

March 12, 2008
Pope Will View Ground Zero On NY Visit
The Archdiocese of New York is organizing a small group of family members of those who died on September 11th to participate in the private visit of His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI to the World Trade Center Site on Sunday, April 20, 2008. Family representatives will be selected by lottery. If you would like to recommend a family representative to be among those participating in this Apostolic event, please go to the website below and complete the form or call the Archdiocesan Office of the Papal Visit at (212) 371-1011 ext. 2958. All entries must be submitted by 5:00 p.m., Monday, March 24, 2008. In doing so, you will need to provide your name and telephone number; the name and contact information for the family member you are recommending; the name of the victim of September 11th that he or she will be representing; and the family relationship between the representative and the loved one who was lost.
http://www.archny.org/papalvisit/papal-visit-to-ground-zero---recommend-a-family/

March 5, 2008
Concerns Regarding Dust at WTC Construction Site
Local downtown residents are worried about substances that may be emanating from the World Trade Center construction site, particularly along Church Street, where trucks leave at the intersection with Vesey Street, near St. Paul’s Chapel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/nyregion/thecity/02dust.html?_r=1&ref=thecity&oref=slogin

March 5, 2008
WTC Memorial Beams Signed and Stored in Chatham County Georgia
The steel that will be used to build the World Trade Center memorial in New York City is being kept in a warehouse in Chatham County. Four pieces of that steel have some real sentimental value. They are now part of a living memorial, touched by so many people who were touched by the tragedy of 9-11.
http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7958517&nav=menu89_2

February 26, 2008
NYC Dept. of Health Conducting New Respiratory Study of Lower Manhattan Residents and Workers
Individuals who are chosen to take part in the study will be asked about their personal experiences during and after the WTC collapse. This will be followed by some basic medical tests and a more thorough examination of their lung function. Findings from this study may better inform efforts to prevent similar types of health problems following building demolitions or other large-scale environmental disasters in urban areas.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/wtc/html/news/02202008.shtml

February 26, 2008
First Responders Suffering From WTC Related Illness Rally in DC
Dozens of rescue and recovery workers who reponded to the attacks on the WTC on September 11, 2001 and are now suffering fron cancer, repiratory illnesses, and other diseases left today for Washington, DC to bring attention to the need for addition federal funding to address the growing medical crisis resulting from exposure to toxic materials released on 9/11.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/02/26/2008-02-26_sick_911_first_responders_on_trip_to_was.html

February 21, 2008
Research on Dreams Indicates the Deep Impact of 9/11 Trauma on the General Population
A recent study of dreams shows that most people "experienced some sort of trauma, or at least emotional arousal by these events [9/11]."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080219/hl_nm/terror_attacks_dreams_dc

February 21, 2008
9/11 Victims' Children Volunteer in New Orleans
More than a dozen young people who lost parents in the terrorist attacks are volunteering with a Habitat for Humanity project which is building homes in the Musicians' Village, a housing initiative launched by New Orleans natives Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis in the Upper 9th Ward to help displaced musicians.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gLqgrC8O_S8b0Sa6uTzHh7WNUu3AD8UULSR82

February 20, 2008
Illness-stricken 9/11 Workers, Families Planning Protest in Washington
Ground Zero first-responders and their families - will travel to Capitol Hill on February 26th to demand government not turn its back on them. Busloads of cancer victims and people crippled by breathing problems and horrific injuries will make the 250-mile trek to Washington to protest a planned slash in health care funding and to demand support from the next President.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/02/15/2008-02-15_illnessstricken_911_workers_families_pla.html

February 14, 2008
NYC Opposes Civil Service Exam Bonus for 9/11 Siblings
New York City is not supporting a bill passed by the state assembly which would grant a ten point bonus to fire and police academy applicants who lost siblings on 9/11.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E5D8113EF932A15756C0A9659C8B63&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

February 5, 2008
Study Finds Prior Trauma Raised Children’s 9/11 Risk
NY Times -- Preschoolers who witnessed the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center or saw its victims were at high risk of developing lingering emotional and behavior problems if — but only if — they had had a previous frightening experience, like seeing a parent fall ill, researchers are reporting Tuesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/research/05trau.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

January 28, 2008
Extremists Plotted Attacks Across Europe, Spanish Paper Says
CNN -- Suspected Islamic extremists arrested last week in Barcelona were planning al Qaeda-style attacks in Spain, Germany, France, Britain and Portugal, according to an informant who "infiltrated" the group, Spain's El Pais newspaper reports.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/27/spain.europe.terror.plot/

January 28, 2008
TSA Tester Slips Mock Bomb Past Airport Security
CNN -- Jason -- that's the name CNN was asked to call him -- slides a simulated explosive into an elastic back support. The mock bomb is as slim as a wallet; its fuse, the size of a cigarette. He wraps the support around his torso, and the bomb fits comfortably into the small of his back.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/28/tsa.bombtest/index.html

January 28, 2008
Don’t Dust Off 9/11 Artifacts, Museum Asks Residents
Downtownexpress.com -- The antique chair stood in Kathleen Gupta’s Gateway Plaza apartment for 19 years. It was a wedding present from her mother, made of cherry wood and inlaid with mother of pearl, a reminder of family and celebration.
http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_246/dontdustoff.html

January 28, 2008
Care for 9/11 Responders Is Piecemeal
Washington Post -- As President Bush gives his State of the Union speech Monday, there will be one man in the audience who plans to sit quietly and watch, his very presence a form of protest.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/27/AR2008012701629.html?hpid=moreheadlines

January 25, 2008
Flight Instructor Gets $5 Million for Catching '20th' Hijacker
CNN -- A Minnesota flight instructor who notified his bosses of student Zacarias Moussaoui's suspicious behavior received a $5 million reward Thursday from the State Department, two government officials told CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/24/moussaoui.reward/?iref=mpstoryview

January 17, 2008
Extracting Survivors’ Stairway for a Home at the 9/11 Museum
NY Times -- With the new World Trade Center rising clamorously around it, the last standing vestige of the old World Trade Center is about to be uprooted. In the last week, workers have cut openings into a concrete superstructure supporting 38 steps that once led from Vesey Street up to the north end of the sprawling Austin J. Tobin Plaza. Because hundreds of evacuees made their way down this route on Sept. 11, 2001, it is called the “survivors’ stairway.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/17/nyregion/17stairway.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

January 9, 2008
Toxic Air of 9/11 Takes Another Hero
EMS Lt. Brian Ellicott has become the first member of Uniformed Emergency Medical Service Officers Local 3621 to die due to an illness contracted by breathing toxic, asbestos-laden air as he risked his life to save fellow New Yorkers at Ground Zero at the World Trade Center.
http://www.dc37.net/news/pep/1_2008/9_11Ellicott.html

January 9, 2008
Head of WTC Captive Insurance Fund Resigns
Christine LaSala, president and CEO of the $1 billion World Trade Center Captive Insurance Co., submitted her resignation effective July 1 - or as soon as a replacement is found.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01092008/news/regionalnews/9_11_injury_fund_overseer_quits_922138.htm

January 9, 2008
Demolition to Resume at Deutsche Bank Site
New York Times -- After nearly five months of inactivity, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation is close to restarting the demolition of the former Deutsche Bank building, where work halted in August after two firefighters died fighting a blaze in the contaminated tower.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/nyregion/09deutsch.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

January 9, 2008
“The Forgotten Ones”: Adult Brothers and Sisters of 9-11 Victims
In the days and weeks following 9/11, many mental health professionals in the New York City area staffed crisis centers that provided counseling for first responders, as well as for spouses, children, or parents of those who had fallen. As the enormity of the tragedy became apparent, David Flomenhaft, LCSW, PhD, part of a Nassau County mental health team, saw that although resources were available to support surviving children and spouses, “I realized there was another group that hadn’t been served – sibling survivors.” Over time, the sibling counseling group his team established grew from five people to eighty. “They named themselves ‘the forgotten ones,’” said Flomenhaft, because in the months after 9/11 the public (and media) tended to rally around children and wives of the lost, while siblings’ grief seemed overlooked. Click here to read the abstract.
http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/alumni/alumni.news.flomenhaft.html

January 8, 2008
9/11 Stress Linked to Heart Trouble
University of California at Irvine researchers linked psychological stress responses to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to a 53% increase in heart problems -- including high blood pressure and stroke -- in the three years after Sept. 11, 2001. The study by Silver and E. Alison Holman followed about 1,800 adults who had filled out health surveys that were part of an ongoing database up to 15 months before Sept. 11. They were contacted again nine to 14 days after the attacks and asked if they had stress symptoms, such as flashbacks, constantly thinking about the terrorism or startling easily
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-me-911stress8jan08,1,2203128.story?track=crosspromo&coll=la-headlines-health&ctrack=2&cset=true

January 8, 2008
Mentors needed for children who lost parents on 9/11
A national nonprofit that offers services to 9/11 families is looking to recruit young and active men and women in Rockland County to serve as role models for children who lost a parent in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The Tuesday's Children Mentoring Program pairs these children with trained, adult mentors who offer opportunities, provide guidance, help with coping skills and, most of all, have fun together. Mentoring candidates are screened and trained by mentoring experts and matched with a child in their area. Contact Tuesday's Children at (516) 562-9000 or http://www.tuesdayschildren.org/
http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080106/NEWS03/801060358/1019/NEWS03

January 8, 2008
Severe Stress Post-9/11 Raises Heart Disease Risk
Reuters Health -- People who felt extremely stressed directly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were at increased risk of being diagnosed with cardiovascular problems in the following 3 years-even if they only saw the attacks on TV, a new study shows.
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSLAU87839920080108?sp=true

December 28, 2007
NYC Health Dept. Urges WTC Health Registry Enrollees to Complete Follow Up Survey by 12/31.
The Health Department encouraged adult enrollees in the World Trade Center Health Registry who have not yet completed their follow-up surveys to do so by the December 31 deadline. The Health Department's follow-up survey is the best way to learn more about people's status six years after they were exposed to the World Trade Center disaster. By comparing the second survey to the first one, which ended in 2004, researchers will answer important questions about the persistence of physical and mental health symptoms and determine whether any new health problems have emerged among the registrants. The follow-up survey takes about 30 minutes to complete and is available in English, Spanish and Chinese. Other languages are available through an interpretation hotline
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/92451.php

December 28, 2007
New Report on Public Health in New York City
The Health Department’s new report - Public Health in New York City, 2004-2006 - is off the press and available now for free download. The booklet recounts some of the agency’s major initiatives since 2004, and it provides up-to-date facts and figures on a range of important health issues - from flu vaccination to smoking rates and HIV-related deaths.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/public/triennial_report.pdf

December 27, 2007
Benazir Bhutto Assassinated
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday after addressing a large gathering of her supporters
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/pakistan.bhutto/index.html

December 19, 2007
Opening of Memorial for Sept. 11 Is Postponed
New York Times -- For years, under Gov. George E. Pataki, state officials told the public that the World Trade Center memorial would open Sept. 11, 2009, the eighth anniversary of the attack. On Tuesday, however, bowing to the realities of an ever-more-complex project, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said construction of the memorial plaza would not be finished until 2010. This is the street-level expanse where groves of white oaks and sweet gum trees will rise around two square voids — marking where the twin towers stood — bordered by the names of the dead and filled with waterfalls and pools.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/nyregion/19rebuild.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

December 18, 2007
Aid to World Trade Center Rescue Workers Put on Hold by CDC
World Trade Center rescue workers living outside New York state might not be able to get the healthcare they need, due to a decision by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to halt plans for a national 9/11 health program. The results of the CDC decision could be devastating to the thousands of World Trade Center first responders who left New York state for warmer regions of the country because of health concerns.
http://www.amny.com/news/local/ny-bc-ny--attacks-health1214dec14,0,7166570.story

December 12, 2007
Mass on Christmas Eve May Be Ground Zero's Last
Outdoor midnight Mass on Christmas Eve has become a fixture at Ground Zero since the Sept. 11 attacks. But this year marks the end of a tradition born from one of the nation's most horrific tragedies: Construction plans will prevent future celebrations on what the architect of the event calls "sacred ground." The Rev. Brian J. Jordan, a priest at St. Francis of Assisi Church, said he learned in October from Port Authority officials that he could no longer hold the Mass on the site.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/transportation/ny-nymass125496962dec12,0,2138704.story

December 12, 2007
Ground Zero Hunt for Remains Is Mostly Done
New York Times -- An expanded search for human remains begun last year at ground zero is largely completed, according to a memorandum sent to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Tuesday and ushering in a new phase of operations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/nyregion/12remains.html?_r=2&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

December 12, 2007
Chertoff Seeks Unified DHS, Sets 2008 Priorities
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff highlighted the department's 2007 achievements Wednesday, also naming four key areas that he plans to focus on in the coming year: border security and immigration, secure identity, cybersecurity, and operations.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1207/121207e1.htm

December 11, 2007
House Passes Terror Insurance Bill
Associated Press - The House passed a second bill to aid the insurance industry in the event of a terrorist attack, hoping to prompt Senate action before the post-Sept. 11 program expires.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071212/ap_on_go_co/terrorism_insurance

December 6, 2007
Mayor Bloomberg Launches Notify NYC
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced the launch of Notify NYC, a pilot program to deliver emergency public information by email, text messages and reverse-911 alerts in four City community districts.
http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2007b%2Fpr441-07.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1

December 6, 2007
Homeland Security Inspector General to Launch Investigation of Captive Insurance Coompany
Probe to examine why 8,000 Claims are currently in litigation.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=203&aid=76182

December 2, 2007
City Begins Major 9/11 Cancer Study
NY Post - The city Health Department has launched a sweeping study - the first of its kind - of cancers among 9/11 responders and thousands of others who lived or worked near the World Trade Center.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12022007/news/regionalnews/city_begins_major_9_11_cancer_study_193657.htm

December 2, 2007
September 11 Responders Rally
ABC News - Some ground zero recovery workers gathered outside the medical examiner's office today to protest his criteria for deciding who was killed by the September 11th attacks.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=5808683

November 28, 2007
Health Department Releases New Findings on Children Exposed to the WTC Disaster
Findings released by the Health Department today provide the first broad snapshot of physical and mental health effects among children exposed to the World Trade Center disaster. The survey found that children under five had an increased likelihood of being diagnosed with asthma in the two to three years following the event, though not as sharp an increase as rescue workers. The survey did not find evidence of elevated levels of post-traumatic stress in children.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2007/pr096-07.shtml

November 27, 2007
Death Ruled Not Homicide for Officer at Ground Zero
New York City’s chief medical examiner has decided not to reclassify the death of a police officer who worked at ground zero as a homicide linked to the attack on the twin towers because the officer did not arrive at the site until Sept. 13, 2001.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/nyregion/27dust.html?ref=nyregion

November 20, 2007
Mayor Bloomberg Signs Legislation That Could Expedite Processing of WTC-Related Disability Applications for FDNY Members
Mayor Bloomberg has signed New York City Council legislation that increases the number of FDNY Pension Fund Medical Boards that can be convened to review disability retirement applications filed by firefighters.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/wtc/html/news/11092007.shtml

November 20, 2007
Follow-up Surveys for WTC Health Registry Enrollees Due by the End of the Year
Beginning in November 2006 the Health Department sent follow-up surveys to all 71,000 individuals enrolled in the WTC Health Registry to learn more about their health status six years after the disaster.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/wtc/html/news/11162007-3.shtml

November 16, 2007
Congress Fails to Override Presidential Veto of Appropriations Bill That Would Provide Treatment for Residents
NYC.gov - The House of Representatives failed to override President Bush’s veto of a labor and health appropriations bill that included a provision of $52.5 million in federal funding for World Trade Center (WTC)-related health services. This money would, for the first time, have funded medical monitoring and treatment for residents, office workers, students and others who were exposed to the WTC disaster. Both houses of Congress must now rework the bill to reach a compromise with the White House.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/wtc/html/news/11162007-1.shtml

Nov 16, 2007
NYC Identifies 9/11 Victim From WTC Road
A second Sept. 11 victim was identified from human remains found underneath a service road at the World Trade Center site in the past year, officials said Friday.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ilrvwWZJK5BHZzncU3lZInAdkHsQD8SV6IT00

November 15, 2007
Island to Get $468,000 for 9/11 Memorial
Staten Island Advance - New York Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer announced today that they have secured $468,000 in funding for a living memorial for 9/11 victims on the grounds of Sea View hospital.
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2007/11/island_to_get_468000_for_911_m.html

November 15, 2007
LMDC Announces More Than $37 Million in Grants
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced today that it is awarding more than $37 million in Community Enhancement Fund grants to support a variety of community improvements. The grants will fund crucial programs, services and facilities in neighborhoods throughout Lower Manhattan.
http://www.renewnyc.com/displaynews.aspx?newsid=3a002039-985b-4b5c-bb57-3b275521615c

November 10, 2007
New Study Released On Respiratory Problems For 9/11 Workers
NY1.com - A new study released this month shows state employees who worked at the World Trade Center site after the toxic dust cloud cleared are suffering from the same respiratory problems as workers who were there during the actual September 11th terrorist attacks – just to a lower degree.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=203&aid=75491

November 7, 2007
Reps. Maloney, Nadler and Fossella Urge Independent Standards for Adding Names to 9/11 Victims List
New York, NY – Following Mayor Bloomberg’s meeting Monday with the family of the late NYPD Detective James Zadroga, Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Vito Fossella (R-NY) wrote to the Mayor and urged him to empower a panel of independent public health experts to help the city put in place clear standards and procedures to determine whether deaths should be linked to 9/11.
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny08_nadler/Independent_Standards_For_Adding_911_Victims_Names_110707.html

November 6, 2007
New Program at Gouverner Health Center Offers Treatment to Downtown Residents
With City funding, the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation has expanded the Bellevue WTC Environmental Health Center to Gouverneur Healthcare Services downtown and to Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. WTC-related treatment in the new program is provided for downtown residents at no cost, regardless of the patient’s ability to pay.
http://grandstreetnews.com/scripts/grand/paper/Article.asp?ArticleID=647

October 31, 2007
Mixed Verdicts Issued in Madrid Terror Trial
MSNBC - An Egyptian who allegedly bragged that he masterminded the 2004 Madrid terror bombings that killed 191 people was acquitted of all charges along with six other lesser suspects Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12250580/

October 30, 2007
Senate Approves Extention of 9/11 Health Aid
The Senate has approved a $55 million fund to help care for people exposed to toxins from the Sept. 11 attacks.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/10/25/2007-10-25_senate_votes_to_extend_911_health_aid.html

October 27, 2007
Senate Votes to Extend 9/11 Health Aid
Daily News - The Senate has approved a $55 million fund to help care for people exposed to toxins from the Sept. 11 attacks.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/10/25/2007-10-25_senate_votes_to_extend_911_health_aid.html

October 26, 2007
City Says Prescription Misuse Caused Death of Detective Who Worked at 9/11 Site
NY Times - New York City’s medical examiner has concluded that it was the misuse of prescription drugs, and not toxic ground zero dust, that killed James Zadroga, a retired detective, but other experts strongly disagree.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/nyregion/26autopsy.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

October 25, 2007
Private Workers to Get 9/11 Benefits
Newsday - Emergency medical technicians and paramedics at private voluntary hospitals who responded to the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 will receive the same worker's compensation benefits as public employees under legislation passed in the Assembly yesterday.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-stalba245429854oct24,0,1483233.story

October 25, 2007
Inhalers’ Use Found to Help 9/11 Workers
NY Times - New York City firefighters who used steroid inhalers while they worked at ground zero during the early days of the rescue and recovery operations in 2001 suffered less severe respiratory problems than others, even though they were not wearing protective gear, according to a new study released yesterday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/nyregion/25dust.html?_r=1&ex=1351051200&en=f3a07dade6171a19&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

October 24, 2007
Official in NYC Medical Examiner's Office Pleads Guilty to Theft of 9/11 Funds
The former director of records at the city’s chief medical examiner’s office pleaded guilty yesterday in Federal District Court to stealing millions of dollars in federal aid that was sent to the city after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack to help identify the remains gathered from ground zero.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/nyregion/24mbrfs-THEFT.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

October 24, 2007
Airport Screeners Fail to Identify Bomb Materials in Tests Conducted by TSA
Security screeners at two of the nation's busiest airports failed to find fake bombs hidden on undercover agents posing as passengers in more than 60% of tests last year, according to a classified report obtained by USA TODAY.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-10-17-airport-security_N.htm

October 19, 2007
STATEMENT BY MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG ON MEDICAL EXAMINER'S DETERMINATION IN CASE OF DETECTIVE JAMES ZADROGA
"The Office of Chief Medical Examiner is an independent office whose staff make their judgments based on the medical evidence. Their determination in this case does nothing to change New York City's commitment to make sure that all who were affected by 9/11 get the health care they need.
http://nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fnyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2007b%2Fpr380-07.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1

October 18, 2007
WTC Site Owner Hires Broker to Sign Tenants for Freedom Tower
Newsday - The owner of the World Trade Center site hired a broker Thursday to rent out office space in the signature skyscraper being built to replace the destroyed towers.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--attacks-redevelop1018oct18,0,5663860.story

October 17, 2007
City Talking Billion-Dollar Settlement with Sick 9/11 Workers
Daily News - The city wants to cut a billion-dollar deal with 9,000 Ground Zero workers who blame their lingering illnesses on toxins they inhaled at The Pile, the Daily News has learned.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/10/16/2007-10-16_city_talking_billiondollar_settlement_wi-2.html?ref=rss

October 16, 2007
Developer Plans Luxury Community Near Trade Center
Newsday - World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein has a new project near Ground Zero. Silverstein is planning to build luxury condominiums, a five-star hotel and restaurant just a block from the trade center site, he announced yesterday.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nywtc165414490oct16,0,5251043.story?track=rss

October 12, 2007
Construction Booms Across the WTC's 16 Acres
From the Freedom Tower and National 9/11 Memorial to the WTC Transportation Hub and east bathtub -- across all four corners the World Trade Center (WTC) site is buzzing with activity.
http://www.lowermanhattan.info/news/construction_booms_across_the_20898.aspx

October 12, 2007
Manhattan: Bank Dismantling to Resume
NY Times - By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The state agency that owns the former Deutsche Bank building hopes to resume work dismantling it next month, and the delays after a deadly fire should not affect the rebuilding schedule at the World Trade Center site, an agency official said yesterday. Avi Schick, the chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, would not estimate the completion date for dismantling the tower, which now stands at 26 stories.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/nyregion/12mbrfs-deutsche.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

October 5, 2007
City Hires 9/11 Pediatrician; W.T.C. Work Hours Expand
Downtown Express - Community Board 1’s monthly World Trade Center Committee meeting once again highlighted a mix of problems and progress in the rebuilding effort. On the positive side, the city’s new W.T.C. Health “czar,” Jeffrey Hon, announced that the city has just hired a pediatrician to focus on 9/11 health issues and will soon be funding more studies on residents’ post-9/11 health.
http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_230/reportersnotebook.html

October 4, 2007
9/11 Memorial Evokes Emotions
Kentucky.com - For Ron Oer, the memories are vivid after more than six years.
http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/193513.html

September 23, 2007
WTC Vets Launch HEART 911 Group to Help Disaster Victims
NY Daily News - Other than the Pile at Ground Zero, there's no reason the two NYPD cops, Port Authority lieutenant and financial honcho would know each other.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/23/2007-09-23_wtc_vets_launch_heart_911_group_to_help_.html

September 22, 2007
Nuclear Insecurity: Russia, U.S. Must Push Effort to Stop Terrorists Seeking Atomic Bombs
The Columbus Dispatch - The sixth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States just passed, yet in some ways the nation remains nearly as vulnerable as it was before that vicious assault
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/editorials/stories/2007/09/22/THREAT.ART_ART_09-22-07_A6_EN7VARH.html?sid=101

September 21, 2007
More Able to Get Free Care for 9/11 Illnesses
NY Times - The city is expanding its treatment facilities to care for people sickened by ground zero dust in the aftermath of the World Trade Center collapse, city officials said yesterday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/nyregion/21health.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=nyregion&adxnnlx=1190384367-5bKidivye7I1tjn+iXhS+Q

September 20, 2007
Iran President Asks to Visit WTC Site
ABC News - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked permission to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site when he comes to New York City next week, but the request was denied, a police official said Wednesday.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/WireStory?id=3626510&page=1

September 20, 2007
Teaching 9/11 in the Schools
There is no standard national curriculum for teaching 9/11 leaving wide latitude for school districts and teachers. A new study cites a vast range of educational approaches.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_6856814

September 19, 2007
Settlements Do Not Deter 9/11 Plaintiffs Seeking Trial
NY Times - Families of 14 of the people killed in the planes hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001, have settled their lawsuits, but relatives of other victims said yesterday that they would continue fighting in court to address their questions about how Islamic terrorists bypassed airport security, commandeered four jets and killed thousands of people.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/nyregion/19settle.html?ref=nyregion

September 19, 2007
Mayor Backs Bill to Help Sick 9/11 Responders
Newsday - In testimony before Congress, the Bloomberg administration announced its support yesterday for a 9/11 health bill that would require the federal government to pay for health care for first responders and other environmental victims of the attack that crumbled the World Trade Center.
http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/wednesday/health/ny-nywtc195381127sep19,0,5412820.story

September 18, 2007
City Aims To Launch Program To Improve Crisis Communication
NY Sun - The Bloomberg administration is aiming to adopt a host of new ways to communicate with New Yorkers during a crisis.
http://www.nysun.com/article/63041

September 18, 2007
New York City Congresspersons Introduce Comprehensive 9/11 Health Care and Compensation Legislation to Aid Those Suffering from 9/11 Related Illnesses
The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2007 would extend long-term medical monitoring to everyone exposed to Ground Zero toxins and federally-funded health care to anyone who is sick as a result. Additionally, the bill would reopen the federal Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) for sick and injured 9/11 responders and lower Manhattan residents, workers and schoolchildren. Click on the link to read the proposed bill.
http://maloney.house.gov/documents/911recovery/20070321_911Health&CompensationAct.pdf

September 17, 2007
Six Years after September 11: A 9-11 Commission Progress Report
Washington Institute - Six years after September 11, terrorist attacks still threaten Americans. Although Washington has carried out major reforms to improve its counterterrorism measures, there is a critical lack of urgency on several fronts.
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2663

September 14, 2007
Sadako Crane Donated to 9/11 Center
Yomiuri - An origami crane made by Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, was donated Wednesday to the tribute center commemorating the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070914TDY04006.htm

September 13, 2007
6 Years Later, 9/11 Health Questions Linger
AP - No one doubts the impact of the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center disaster on rescue and cleanup workers' hearts, lungs and minds.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070912/hl_hsn/6yearslater911healthquestionslinger

September 13, 2007
Flight 93 Recording to Be Played in Court
NorthJersey.com - The dramatic final moments of United Airlines Flight 93 captured on a cockpit voice recorder can be played for a jury later this month at the first trial to result from lawsuits filed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a judge ruled Wednesday.
http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk1JmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3MTk0MzIyJnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mg

September 12, 2007
Marking Sixth Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks
NY Times - For the first time in six years, Sept. 11 fell on a Tuesday, the same day the planes flew into the buildings and changed everything.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/nyregion/12service.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=2000327f58bc0e65&ex=1347249600&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

September 12, 2007
9/11 Survivors Celebrate Life
Tallahassee.com - Donna Gabrielle wants to make September fun again. Tightness in her stomach was a foreign feeling before the terrorist attacks of 2001 killed her uncle, Richard, who worked on the 102nd floor of the World Trade Center's South Tower.
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070911/NEWS01/709110320

September 11, 2007
Galloping Toward Recovery
Star Ledger - Anna Salamone mounted her pony, Trixie, and entered the ring where horses and riders were practicing riding and jumping before the big competition at the New Jersey Professional Horsemen's Fall Finale in Titusville Saturday.
http://www.nj.com/living/ledger/index.ssf?/base/living-1/1189485683230770.xml&coll=1&thispage=1

September 11, 2007
Politics, Health of Ground Zero Workers, Hover Over 9/11 Ceremony
Newsday - Presidential politics, the health of ground zero workers and the construction of new buildings at the site of the former World Trade Center loom over this Sept. 11 more than any other anniversary of the attacks.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--sept11anniversary0911sep10,0,7718462.story

September 9, 2007
Are We Safer Today?
Washington Post - Six Years After 9/11 and Three Years After the 9/11 Report, Is the U.S. Ready to Get Serious About Terrorism? By Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/07/AR2007090702050.html

September 9, 2007
In 9/11 Remembrance, A Turning to Good Deeds
Yahoo News - On Sept. 11, Jacob Sundberg of San Antonio has pledged to make eye contact and smile at everyone he meets.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070910/ts_csm/adogood_1

September 7, 2007
Progress Being Made On Construction At World Trade Center Site
NY1.com - As the controversy over the fatal fire at the Deutsche Bank building continues, progress is being made on other construction projects at the World Trade Center site.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=203&aid=73306

September 7, 2007
Accuracy of 9/11 Health Reports Is Questioned
NY Times - Much of what is known about the health problems of ground zero workers comes from a small clinic in Manhattan that at the time of the trade center collapse had only six full-time doctors and a tiny budget.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/nyregion/07sinai.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

September 6, 2007
Members of 9/11 Commission to Speak about Nation's Safety
BellevueLeader.com - Two members of the 9/11 Commission will be returning to Bellevue University on Friday to give an update on the war on terror regarding current threats, the future of terrorism, and the status of the commission's recommendations to Congress.
http://www.bellevueleader.com/site/tab3.cfm?newsid=18780507&BRD=2712&PAG=461&dept_id=559850&rfi=6

September 5, 2007
On Display, the Agonized Objects and Photos of 9/11
NY Times - A rust-red I-beam from the World Trade Center. A battered landing gear. A melted ribbon of aluminum skin from the twin towers. Hour by hour, working through the night in his studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to forge elegant black steel mounts for these and other tortured artifacts from Sept. 11, 2001, the sculptor Richard Webber started “communing with them,” he recalled. In their presence, “you could almost hear what happened that day.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/nyregion/05exhibit.html?ref=nyregion

September 4, 2007
WTC Steel to Rise Inside 9/11 Memorial
Newsday - Visitors to the Sept. 11 memorial will see two huge pieces of the World Trade Center's original steel facade inside a glass-walled pavilion that leads them to the museum devoted to the terrorist attacks.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--attacks-memorial0904sep04,0,3094154.story

September 2007
World Trade Center Health Impacts on FDNY Rescue Workers
In the years that have passed since the attack, the FDNY's Bureau of Health Services has kept close track of how work at the site affected rescue workers, physically and emotionally. This report is the result of their painstaking efforts to study the long-term effects of the rescue and recovery effort on the people who carried it out.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/pdf/publications/wtc_assessments/2007/wtc_book_6yr_assessment.pdf

August 30, 2007
New Study Reveals One-in-Eight WTC Rescue and Recovery Workers Showed Symptoms of PTSD
New findings released from the World Trade Center Health Registry show that one in eight rescue and recovery workers (12.4%) likely had post-traumatic stress disorder when they were interviewed in 2003 and 2004. The findings were published today in the American Journal of Psychiatry. To read the Study click on the link below.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2007/pr076-07.shtml

August 30, 2007
High Susceptibility to Asthma Found in 9/11 Workers
Study done by the NYC Health Dept. finds that WTC workers are twelve times more likely to develop respiratory ailments.
http://www.themoneytimes.com/articles/20070828/9_11_workers_highly_vulnerable_to_asthma-id-108752.html

August 23, 2007
Homeland Security to Broaden Sharing of Visitor Data
Govexec.com - The Homeland Security Department on Wednesday announced broad changes for using a database that collects and stores information on foreign travelers to the United States.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=37843&dcn=e_hsw

August 23, 2007
Obscure Company Is Behind 9/11 Demolition Work
NY Times - The John Galt Corporation of the Bronx, hired last year for the dangerous and complex job of demolishing the former Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty Street, where two firefighters died last Saturday, has apparently never done any work like it. Indeed, Galt does not seem to have done much of anything since it was incorporated in 1983.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/nyregion/23company.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=dbef38778cd7f7ca&ex=1345521600&adxnnl=0&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1187888778-WVJimfL88ELNm0Hanv8kNA

August 23, 2007
Foreign Aid Groups Face Terror Screens
Washington Post - The Bush administration plans to screen thousands of people who work with charities and nonprofit organizations that receive U.S. Agency for International Development funds to ensure they are not connected with individuals or groups associated with terrorism, according to a recent Federal Register notice.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/22/AR2007082202847.html

August 23, 2007
9/11 Panel to Offer Progress Report on Recommendations
Baltimore Sun - The leaders of the 9/11 commission are preparing a progress report on their recommendations for improving the nation's anti-terror defenses, with plans to release it around the sixth anniversary of the 2001 attacks.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.commission23aug23,0,6559596.story

August 22, 2007
Lawmakers Propose Nuclear Plant No-Fly Zones
Govexec.com - Lawmakers representing New York have introduced a bill that would permit the head of homeland security to declare no-fly zones around certain nuclear power plants, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission sees little need for such a measure.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=37839&dcn=todaysnews

August 22, 2007
CIA Finds Holes in Pre-9/11 Work
Washingtonpost.com - Former central intelligence director George J. Tenet and his top lieutenants failed to marshal sufficient resources and provide the strategic planning needed to counter the threat of terrorism in the years before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to a summary released yesterday of a long-secret CIA report.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082101104.html?hpid=topnews

August 21, 2007
CIA Bungled Qaeda Watch
NY Daily News - Up to 60 CIA spies saw secret reports about two "Bin Laden associates" arriving in Los Angeles in early 2000 but didn't alert the FBI about the pair, who were among the 9/11 hijackers, a blistering government report said yesterday.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/08/22/2007-08-22_cia_bungled_qaeda_watch.html

August 19, 2007
2 Firefighters Are Killed in Blaze at Ground Zero
New York Times - Two firefighters were killed yesterday battling a blaze in the Deutsche Bank skyscraper, a vacant relic of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack that was in the process of being dismantled.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/nyregion/19fire.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087%0A&em&en=ce252962dc091782&ex=1187668800

August 16, 2007
Jury Finds Padilla Guilty on Terror Charges
CNN.com - The jury in the Jose Padilla terror trial has found the American guilty of conspiracy to support Islamic terrorism overseas.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/16/padilla.verdict/index.html

August 14, 2007
9/11 Memorial to Start National Tour on Eve of 6th Anniversary
Newsday - The Sept. 11 memorial is taking a new name, survivors' stories and artifacts from its planned museum on a national tour that begins in South Carolina on the eve of the terrorist attacks' sixth anniversary.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--sept11memorial0814aug13,0,2040942.story

August 13, 2007
NYPD Program To Track Health of September 11 Officers
NY Sun - In the nearly six years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the city's conflict and grief over the health problems faced by those who cleaned up ground zero have often centered on the police officers who stood guard at the site and toiled on the pile.
http://www.nysun.com/article/60395?page_no=1

August 12, 2007
9/11 Families to Enter Pit for the Last Time This Year
WNYC.com - This year's September 11th anniversary commemoration will be the final time that victims' families will be able to descend into the ground zero pit, according to Mayor Bloomberg.
http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/83755

August 9, 2007
WTC Memorial Steel Beams Arrive in Ga.
Forbes.com - The steel beams shipped from overseas for use in construction of the Sept. 11 memorial in New York are so massive that a flatbed tractor-trailer can carry only one at a time.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/09/ap4004515.html

August 9, 2007
Alleged 9/11 Mastermind, 13 Others Closer to U.S. Military Trial
CNN.com - Fourteen suspected terrorists listed as "high-value detainees" at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been designated as enemy combatants, placing them in line to be charged and put on trial by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/09/enemy.combatants/index.html

August 9, 2007
DHS Taking Over Checking Passenger Info Against Watch Lists
CNN.com - The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday it is changing the way aviation security is handled, which will allow it to take over the role of checking passenger information from airlines.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/09/dhs.security/index.html

August 7, 2007
'Plot Would Have Killed Thousands'
ABC News - Airports in the United States and the United Kingdom were put on red alert — meaning a potential attack could be imminent — and liquids were banned from carry-on luggage as suspects were picked up, including 24 British-born Muslims and seven Pakistanis.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Story?id=3451976&page=2

August 3, 2007
Bush Signs Bill Enacting 9/11 Recommendations
MSNBC.com - President Bush signed legislation Friday that intensifies the anti-terrorism effort at home, shifting money to high-risk states and cities and expanding scrutiny of air and sea cargo.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20109312/

August 2, 2007
9/11 Health Problems Linger; Government Response Called Inadequate
Dotmed.com - Ground zero workers still lack adequate healthcare, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), an arm of Congress.
http://www.dotmed.com/news/story/4468

August 2007
Continuing Effects of 9/11
Scientific American - Six years after the events of September 11, researchers are beginning to understand the attacks’ enduring toll on mental health. Recent studies at New York–Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College and New York University have shown long-term psychological and neurological repercussions in adult witnesses who were near the World Trade Center and in children who lost a parent in the tragedy.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleid=1878E90B-E7F2-99DF-3F4B426F6533D13A&chanId=sa017

July 28, 2007
Congress Approves Homeland Security Bill in 2 Strong Votes
Washington Post - Congress gave final approval yesterday to legislation that requires tighter screening of air and sea cargo, and shifts more federal anti-terrorism grants to high-risk areas such as New York and Washington, delivering on a pledge by Democrats last fall to implement additional recommendations of the commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/27/AR2007072702130.html

July 27, 2007
Senate Approves National Security Bill
ABC News - The Senate on Thursday night approved a package of security measures recommended by the 9/11 Commission, shifting more federal money to high-risk states and cities and requiring more stringent screening of air and sea cargo.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/WireStory?id=3419900&page=1

July 26, 2007
Some Who Covered 9/11 Now Experiencing Health Woes, Group Says
EditorandPublisher.com - The New York Press Photographers Association is asking members of the media to come forward if they are suffering from long-term health effects of covering the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003617442

July 25, 2007
9/11 Workers Not Getting Enough Care, Report Says
New York Times - Almost six years after the terrorist attack on New York, the federal government still does not have an adequate array of health programs for ground zero workers — or a reliable estimate of how much treating their illnesses will cost — according to a federal report released yesterday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/nyregion/25report.html

July 25, 2007
TSA: Terrorists May Be Conducting Dry Runs
MSNBC - Airport security officers around the nation have been alerted by federal officials to look out for terrorists practicing to carry explosive components onto aircraft, based on four curious seizures at airports since last September.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19943138

July 25, 2007
Another Sept. 11 Victim Is Identified, While 35 New Bone Fragments Are Found
International Herald Tribune - DNA experts identified another New York City victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and the city medical examiner's office announced the discovery of 35 new bone fragments in an area near ground zero.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/25/america/NA-GEN-US-Attacks-Remains.php

July 24, 2007
Ailing WTC Workers Sue Captive Insurance Company
Ground zero workers suffering from illnesses, have filed court papers to demand that the company overseeing a $1 billion Sept. 11 insurance fund spend the money to pay for their healthcare.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/07/18/ailing_workers_sue_for_9_11_aid/

July 19, 2007
New York City Expects Federal Funds to Improve Emergency Radio Use
NY Times - New York City public safety agencies hope to make their two-way radios work better in the subways and in high-rise buildings, in part through grants that the Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security announced on Wednesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/nyregion/19radios.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

July 18, 2007
DHS Announces $1.7 Billion in Homeland Security Grants
DHS -The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today final Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) awards totaling $1.7 billion, including a total of almost $411 million to the nation’s six urban areas at highest risk of a terrorist attack: New York City/Northern New Jersey; the National Capital Region; Los Angeles/Long Beach; the California Bay Area; Houston; and Chicago.
http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1184781799950.shtm

July 18, 2007
NYC Granted $168M in Anti-Terror Funds
Newsday - The New York City region was a big winner in the competition for new federal anti-terrorism funding, as the Department of Homeland Security announced it will send a combined $168 million to the area next year to purchase anti-terror equipment and pay for training.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-ushome0718,0,1253522.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines

July 18, 2007
Big Cost Increase Is Predicted to Treat Ground Zero Workers
NY Times - New federal planning documents suggest that the money needed to treat ailing ground zero workers could soar to $20 million a month by the end of this year, up from about $6 million a month now.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/nyregion/18treatment.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

July 17, 2007
HHS Announces $896.7 Million in Funding to States for Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Response
PRNewswire - HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced that the department has provided another $896.7 million to the states, territories, and four metropolitan areas to improve and sustain their ability to respond to public health emergencies.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=ind_focus.story&STORY=/www/story/07-17-2007/0004627510&EDATE=TUE+Jul+17+2007,+05:17+PM

July 16, 2007
Most of 9-11 License Plate Fund Still Unspent by State
The Modesta Bee - Nearly six years after the deadly attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, millions of dollars contributed by Californians to combat terrorism lie unused in a special memorial fund.
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/13793967p-14372780c.html

July 16, 2007
House To Merge 9/11, Transit Bills and Name Conferees
GovExec.com - The House Tuesday will appoint conferees on a massive bill implementing unfulfilled recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, but not before the measure is combined with rail and mass transit security legislation.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=37487&dcn=e_gvet

July 16, 2007
Senate Begins Override of Spitzer Veto
Newsday - Emergency "first responders" employed by private hospitals and companies who worked at ground zero and in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks may yet get enhanced workers' compensation benefits.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--vetooverride0716jul16,0,6449286.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

July 15, 2007
Parrots Used in PTSD Therapy for War Veterans
In Los Angeles, some recovering war veterans are getting therapeutic help for post-traumatic stress disorder from an unlikely source: rescued and abused parrots. Physicians say it's an exercise in mutual healing for both parrot and patient.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11989027

Jul 14, 2007
New Sept. 11 Memorial Could Be Built Here
Staten Island Advance - Staten Islanders could have a new place to go to share their memories of those killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1184401868250760.xml&coll=1

July 14, 2007
Firefighters Still Paying Price for 9/11
The Jerusalem Post - A lung specialist from Israel who went to examine firefighters who had been at the World Trade Center on 9/11 found that as many as eight in 10 had some respiratory disorder.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1184168563087&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

July 13, 2007
Paradise Is Not Lost, W.T.C. Architect Tells C.B. 1
Downtown Express - Liberty Park will be a paradise after all, architect A. Eugene Kohn has decided. Kohn’s optimism — and some reassuring shadow studies — have assuaged some of the community’s fears about a proposed cantilever that would jut out over the park from World Trade Center Tower 5.
http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_218/paradisisnot.html

July 13, 2007
Naming a Price in 9/11 Cases
Newsday - In a bid to speed compensation to victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a judge has taken the unusual step of scheduling trials to determine damages - usually the second phase of a trial - before a jury even determines who can be blamed.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nywtc135291311jul13,0,2236381.story?coll=ny-nynews-print

July 12, 2007
Report: 9/11 Firefighters Battling Thyroid Cancer
A staggering number of FDNY firefighters are now reportedly suffering from a cancer that may be linked to their work at the World Trade Center site.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=71482

July 12, 2007
Spitzer Signs Disability Bill: Mechanics Entitled To WTC Pensions
Governor Spitzer June 3 signed a bill including the city's auto mechanics in World Trade Center disability and pension laws.
http://www.thechief-leader.com/news/2007/0713/News/008.html

July 12, 2007
Deadline Extended for World Trade Center Responders and Volunteers to Register for Workers' Compensation Benefits
World Trade Center responders now have until August 2008 to file the paperwork needed to claim workers' compensation benefits if they become ill in the future.
http://www.wcb.state.ny.us/content/main/PressRe/2007/DeadlineExtforWTCResponders.jsp

July 12, 2007
U.S. Warns of Stronger Al-Qaeda
Washington Post - Six years after the Bush administration declared war on al-Qaeda, the terrorist network is gaining strength and has established a safe haven in remote tribal areas of western Pakistan for training and planning attacks, according to a new Bush administration intelligence report to be discussed today at a White House meeting.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/11/AR2007071102443.html?sub=AR

July 11, 2007
FBI Plans Initiative To Profile Terrorists
Washington Post - The Federal Bureau of Investigations is developing a computer-profiling system that would enable investigators to target possible terror suspects, according to a Justice Department report submitted to Congress yesterday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071001871.html

July 10, 2007
Manhattan: Ground Zero Respirators
A New York City health official repeatedly asked the federal government to strictly enforce rules requiring workers to wear respirators during recovery operations at ground zero in 2001 and 2002, according to recently released documents.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/nyregion/10mbrfs-respirators.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

July 9, 2007
Lawmakers Drop Union Provision in 9/11 Bill
U.S. lawmakers agreed on Monday to drop efforts to extend union protection to about 45,000 federal airport security workers as part of stalled legislation to guard against another September 11-type attack.
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0931323520070709

July 8, 2007
D.C., N.Y. Say Expected Increase In Anti-Terror Funding Isn't Enough
Washington and New York are both likely to get a boost in key anti-terrorism grants from the Department of Homeland Security this year, although the two cities will still receive far less than they have in some other years, officials said yesterday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/07/AR2007070701401.html

July 7, 2007
9/11 Panel Member: U.S Could Be Safer
Al-Qaida is gaining strength and the United States is still not as safe as it should be, former Indiana congressman Tim Roemer said Saturday.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/07/ap3891462.html

July 5, 2007
Congress Looks to Boost Tourism to US
The United States has lost billions of dollars and an immeasurable amount of good will since Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism attacks nearly six years ago because of a decline in foreign tourists. Several senators are now trying to get the government involved in bringing those visitors back.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070705/ap_on_go_co/promoting_tourism

July 5, 2007
Anti-Terrorism Measure Would Require Changes to Alert System
Pending legislation to implement anti-terrorism recommendations would require changes in how the Homeland Security Department collects and disseminates information, notably by overhauling the color-coded alert system, according to a Congressional Research Service report.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=37387&dcn=e_gvet

July 4, 2007
Group Raises $421G for Flight 93 Memorial
The Flight 93 National Memorial received more than $421,000 from the Loyal Order of the Moose and Women of the Moose, which collected donations from their lodges and chapters, as well as the profits from the sale of special neckties and scarves.
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070704/NEWS03/707040320/1007/rss03

July 4, 2007
FBI Counterterrorism Chief Says Suicide Bombs Are a Big Concern
Suicide bombers have not hit the United States since the 2001 terrorist hijacking attacks, but they remain a constant concern because of their prevalence around the globe and determination to die for their causes, according to the FBI's chief of counterterrorism.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/05/america/NA-GEN-US-Suicide-Bombs.php

July 3, 2007
JPMorgan Chase to Build 1.3MSF Headquarters at WTC Site
The tower, to be developed on Site Five of the complex, will rise 40 stories above the street and will measure some 1.3 million square feet. Seven thousand JPMorgan employees will be housed in the building, which will include six trading floors of up to 60,000 square feet each. Completion is expected in 2012.
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/VNU-0012-17903505.htm

July 3, 2007
European Govts Make Passenger Data Deal with US
European Union members have backed a deal to supply US authorities with data from transatlantic air passengers for use in terrorism investigations. The deal still needs to be ratified by some national parliaments, but diplomats in Brussels say that is just a formality.
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/29/1966364.htm?section=justin

July 2, 2007
U.S. Extra Vigilant After British Terror Scares, Chertoff Says
Foiled terror attacks in Britain and a history of summertime terrorism have U.S. authorities practicing extra vigilance, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Monday.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/02/chertoff/index.html?iref=newssearch#cnnSTCText

June 29, 2007
British Police Defuse Car Bomb in London
A Mercedes packed with canisters of gas and nails and apparently rigged to explode was discovered in London's bustling nightclub and theater district early Friday morning, British police said, and could have caused "significant injury or loss of life" if it had been detonated.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/29/AR2007062900160.html?hpid=topnews

June 28, 2007
$2B WTC Insurance Battle Comes to End
Governor Spitzer and State Insurance Superintendent Eric R. Dinallo announced that Silverstein Properties and seven insurance companies have reached a $2 billion settlement of all outstanding insurance claims arising from the destruction of the World Trade Center.
http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.asp?a=top_pc&q=0&id=81495

June 28, 2007
Leaders of the Business Community Ask Congress to Provide More Medical Aid to 9/11 Dust Victims
Top chief executives and business leaders have written a letter asking Congress to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to treat people sickened by World Trade Center dust. The letter asks Congress to appropriate $283 million for the 2008 fiscal year to treat thousands of people suffering from respiratory and psychological ailments. It cited the mayor's recommendations earlier this year to create a federal fund to compensate sick workers. Thousands of the workers are suing the city, alleging that the city's failure to protect them while working at the site caused or exacerbated their illnesses.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nywtc285272528jun28,0,3804667.story?coll=ny-nynews-print

June 26, 2007
Ex-EPA Chief Rejects Criticism Over 9/11 Workers' Illnesses
The former chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fought off fierce criticism Monday that the agency did not do enough to protect September 11, 2001, rescue workers from toxic pollutants.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/25/ground.zero/

June 25, 2007
Report Blasts U.S. for Failures in Fighting Terrorism
A just-released report slams the federal government for failing to coordinate the work of U.S. law enforcement agencies overseas to fight terrorism.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/25/terror.report/index.html?eref=rss_politics

June 21, 2007
NYPD Reports Large Increase in Respiratory Ailments Since 9/11 Reponse
The number of police responders who suffered from respiratory illnesses more than doubled a year and half after initial post-9/11 medical checkups. To read the article click on the link above.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04162007/news/regionalnews/9_11_is_still_taking_cops_breath_away_regionalnews_carl_campanile.htm

June 18, 2007
Congress Seeks New Direction for Nuclear Strategy
Congress is moving to change the direction of the Bush administration's nuclear weapons program by demanding the development of a comprehensive post-Sept. 11, 2001, nuclear strategy before it approves funding a new generation of warheads.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/17/AR2007061700969.html

June 18, 2007
Committee Draft of Terrorism Coverage Bill Divides Industry
The House Financial Services Committee is poised to unveil legislation that would reauthorize the federal government's terrorism risk insurance program with a provision that would require carriers to make available coverage of a nuclear, biological, chemical or radiological attack.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=37236&sid=60

June 17, 2007
Father's Day Tribute - Hero's Memories Alive at Museum
Lee Ielpi and his son Jonathan were both firefighters. When 9/11 took the life of one, it became the life of the other.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06172007/news/regionalnews/fathers_day_tribute_regionalnews_.htm

June 17, 2007
FDNY'S 9/11-Toll Shocker
About 5,000 active and retired FDNY employees are receiving medical treatment for injuries and illnesses connected to the World Trade Center attacks, according to a Fire Department document.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06172007/news/regionalnews/fdnys_9_11_toll_shocker_regionalnews_angela_montefinise_______and_susan_edelman.htm

June 14, 2007
House Science Panel Backs Increase in Airport Security Funding
The House Science and Technology Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics approved a bill Thursday calling for increased funds for research and development of the next generation of airport surveillance and security systems.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=37212&dcn=e_gvet

June 13, 2007
M.T.A. Falls Further Behind on Antiterrorism Projects
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has dropped further behind schedule on a series of projects that are intended to make the region’s bus, subway and commuter rail systems less vulnerable to terrorist attacks, according to a report released yesterday by the state comptroller’s office.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/nyregion/13mta.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

June 13, 2007
Only Fifty Percent Respond to WTC Health Registry Follow Up Survey
Half of the original registrants have failed to respond to a subsequent survey update. Officials are expressing concern that the lack of response may jeapodize full understanding of 9/11 health issues.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--attacks-health0611jun11,0,2607796.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

June 12, 2007
State Steps into Security Flap at Flight 93 Site
Pennsylvania will pay for security at the Flight 93 crash site to end a dispute over a donation box at the temporary memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19075989/

June 12, 2007
Proposed Bill in Congress earmarks $50 Million to continue Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program at Mt. Sinai
$50 million has been included in the 2008 House Labor-HHS Appropriations bill for the World Trade Center Monitoring and Treatment Program. The full House is expected to consider the funding bill in the coming weeks.
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny08_nadler/Laud50mil911healthbill060707.html

June 12, 2007
New Jersey 9/11 Responders Fear Consequences Of Registering For Workers Comp
Some 9/11 responders express concerns that they may face higher life insurance premiums or possible cancelations of policies if they reveal they served at WTC.
http://www.nj1015.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=6934&z=1

June 11, 2007
9/11 Health Czar Named
Mayor Bloomberg has tapped veteran publicist Jeffrey Hon as his pointman on World Trade Center illnesses - "the go-to person in city government for people who have issues related to health care," Hon confirmed to the Daily News yesterday.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/06/11/2007-06-11_911_health_czar_named.html

June 7, 2007
DOE Says Nuclear Warhead Dismantlement Far Ahead of Schedule
Technicians have been dismantling nuclear warheads much faster than had been expected, taking apart 50 percent more warheads during the last eight months than in all of the previous year, the Energy Department says . "It's good news from a global nuclear safety standpoint. There will be fewer nuclear weapons in the world," said Thomas D'Agostino, head of the department's nuclear weapons program.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=37127&sid=60

June 7, 2007
A New Parrot Sanctuary Aids in Recovery for Patients at the West L.A. Veterans Hospital
LA City Beat - Matthew H. Simons isn’t the kind of guy you would imagine spoon-feeding warm oatmeal to a middle-age cockatoo. The burly six-foot Desert Storm and Desert Shield veteran seems more like a big-dog guy and six months ago he would have agreed. But Simons has changed. Since being assigned to the Serenity Park Sanctuary, a non-profit parrot refuge on the grounds of the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Westwood, Simons has acquired a new appreciation for birds.
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=5632&IssueNum=209

June 7, 2007
A New Parrot Sanctuary Aids in Recovery for Patients at the West L.A. Veterans Hospital
LA City Beat - Matthew H. Simons isn’t the kind of guy you would imagine spoon-feeding warm oatmeal to a middle-age cockatoo. The burly six-foot Desert Storm and Desert Shield veteran seems more like a big-dog guy and six months ago he would have agreed. But Simons has changed. Since being assigned to the Serenity Park Sanctuary, a non-profit parrot refuge on the grounds of the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Westwood, Simons has acquired a new appreciation for birds.
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=5632&IssueNum=209

June 2, 2007
JFK Arrests Raise Issue of Pipeline Vulnerability
A foiled plot to blow up a jet fuel pipeline under John F. Kennedy International Airport drew attention to what counterterrorism experts have warned could be a key target.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19004393/

June 2, 2007
Medical Examiner's Ruling Sparks Debate on 9/11-Related Deaths
Long before the city medical examiner amended Felicia Dunn-Jones' death certificate, Kenneth Feinberg decided that the 42-year-old attorney caught in the choking, toxic dust of the fallen World Trade Center was dead because of Sept. 11.
http://www.silive.com/newsflash/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-26/118082756655570.xml&storylist=simetro&thispage=1

May 31, 2007
9/11 Related Worker's Compensation Claims by Non-Uniformed NYC Workers Rising
Thirty-five workers who aren't uniformed police or firefighters are currently receiving workers' compensation for 9/11 claims. The recent ruling by the city Medical Examiner is expected to bolster other's claims.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05282007/news/regionalnews/civilians_a_new_wrinkle_in_ground_zero_claims_regionalnews_maggie_haberman.htm

May 31, 2007
Mount Sinai Docs Fear New Cancers
Responders to the 9/11 terror attacks could face a devastating "third wave" of illnesses - blood and lymphatic cancers - related to their exposure to Ground Zero air, says the director of the largest treatment program for those workers.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/05/31/2007-05-31_3rd_wave_of_ills_from_wtc_seen-2.html

May 29, 2007
9-11 Memorial Takes Shape at Pentagon
More than five years after their loved ones were killed at the Pentagon during the Sept. 11 attacks, relatives of the victims got a chance Friday to tour the construction site of a memorial park being built in their honor.
http://www.amtonline.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=4084

May 24, 2007
WTC Insurance Settlement Totals $4 Billion
Added to the $2.4 billion already paid out by insurers, the New York Governor's Office announced that a final settlement brings the total payout for insurance claims relating to the destruction of the trade center in Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to $4.55 billion.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nywtc245227768may24,0,593395.story?coll=ny-nynews-print

May 24, 2007
New York: 9/11 Toxins Caused Death
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A woman who died of lung disease five months after the September 11, 2001 attacks has been added to the medical examiner's list of attack victims.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/24/wtc.dust/index.html

May 19, 2007
Former EPA Chief to Testify on 9/11 Response
Christine Todd Whitman, the former chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, has agreed to testify before Congress about the government's handling of air quality and health issues following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/18/AR2007051802232.html

May 18, 2007
Senators Want to Make CIA Release 9/11 R eport
A bipartisan group of senators is pushing legislation that would force the CIA to release an inspector general’s report on the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18728335/

May 18, 2007
Panel Backs Security Grants, Cuts Modernization Aid
House appropriators on Friday approved a measure to fund the Homeland Security Department next fiscal year, voting to boost spending for state and local grant programs and cut funds for the Coast Guard's troubled fleet-modernization program.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=36972&dcn=e_gvet

May 17, 2007
U.S Database of Terror Suspects Has Mushroomed
Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment list has quadupled in the last four years, but encouters many complexities and problems.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/24/AR2007032400944.html

May 16, 2007
Sept. 11 Victim IDed; Remains Retested with New DNA Technology
The city has identified another Sept. 11 victim from years-old remains that have been retested with new DNA technology over the past year.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--attacks-remains0516may16,0,4980906.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

May 15, 2007
Health Issues Linked to 9/11 Affect People in All Fifty States
A new report finds that thousands of Americans from throughout the country who were in the immediate vicinity of Ground Zero in the months following 9/11 may be at risk.
http://www.qgazette.com/news/2007/0509/features/005.html

May 15, 2007
Federal Reserve Details Post-9/11 Effort
Federal Reserve officials were uncertain about the long-term economic impact from the 2001 terrorist attacks but they were united in a belief that they had to act decisively to restore confidence, according to transcripts of their discussions released Tuesday.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/05/15/ap3725129.html

May 15, 2007
Devices to Detect Radiation in Cargo Face Scrutiny
A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants the Government Accountability Office to audit the Homeland Security Department's plan to spend more than $1 billion on new radiation-detection technology for scanning cargo and containers entering the United States.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=36933&dcn=e_hsw

May 14, 2007
Many Lessons in Disaster Drill
"Okay, roll him over," a National Guard rescue worker tells his team, treating a bloodied, unconscious role-player pulled from the dust and rubble of a collapsed building in southern Indiana.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/13/AR2007051301134.html

May 14, 2007
Workers’ Comp and Pension Deadlines Loom for 9/11 Workers
Two deadlines loom for city employees who participated in the rescue, recovery and cleanup after the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
http://www.dc37.net/news/pep/5_2007/workerscomp9_11.html

May 14, 2007
Poll Shows Lack of Confidence in Federal Disaster Response
Most people say their families and local emergency agencies are ready for the next natural disaster, but the federal government is not. Women and minorities are less confident on both counts.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=36911&sid=60

May 8, 2007
Traumas Like Sept. 11 Make Brains More Reactive To Fear
According to a new brain study, even people who seemed resilient but were close to the World Trade Center when the twin towers toppled on Sept. 11, 2001, have brains that are more reactive to emotional stimuli than those who were more than 200 miles away.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070506213646.htm

May 8, 2007
Study Links Rescuers’ Lung Ailment to Trade Center Collapse
In the first clinical study to clearly link World Trade Center dust to serious and sometimes fatal diseases, doctors have found that the number of New York City rescue and recovery workers with a rare type of lung-scarring condition soared in the year after the trade center collapsed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/nyregion/08lung.html?ref=health

May 4, 2007
WTC's Window to the World
Here's the first look at the dramatic three-story lobby slated for World Trade Center Tower 3, with its glass-walled atrium overlooking a new section of Greenwich Street and the Santiago Calatrava- designed rail station just to the north.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05042007/news/regionalnews/wtcs_window_to_the_world_regionalnews_tom_topousis.htm

May 4, 2007
DHS May Close N.Y. Radiation-Detection Lab Despite Objections
New York authorities and other advocates of a specialized government radiation-detection lab complained yesterday that the facility, which is only a mile from the World Trade Center site, is being shut down because Department of Homeland Security officials in Washington failed to understand its work.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050302217.html

May 3, 2007
Bipartisan Panel Will Review Nuclear Posture
A House Armed Services subcommittee voted yesterday to establish a year-long, bipartisan commission to reevaluate the U.S. nuclear strategic posture for the post-9/11 world.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/02/AR2007050202434.html

May 2, 2007
9/11 Families Eager for Completion of Security Bill
Family members of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and former members of the commission that investigated those attacks called on Congress on Wednesday to quickly finish a major bill to improve the nation's security.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0507/050207tdpm1.htm

May 1, 2007
Trusted Traveler Programs Grow
The slow-developing program to give expedited passage at airport security to trusted travelers who pay a fee is finally gaining traction.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2007-04-30-registered-traveler-usat_N.htm

April 30, 2007
Chemical Industry Prepares for Another Fight Over Security Language
Lawmakers and lobbyists are gearing up for the second round of fighting over legislation that would allow states to enforce laws that are stricter than federal rules when it comes to regulating security at chemical facilities.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=36767&dcn=e_gvet

April 29, 2007
Non-profit to Lead Flight 93 Fundraising
A Washington-based non-profit group will take over efforts to raise funds for a permanent memorial for Flight 93 victims after a two-year campaign led by a consulting firm fell short of its goal.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-29-flight93_N.htm

April 27, 2007
Feds to Enforce Chemical Security
Six years ago, anyone in a boat could have gone up the murky Brazos River, hopped ashore and walked up to a tank holding one of the world's deadliest chemicals here at the nation's largest petrochemical complex. Today, that intruder wouldn't stand much of a chance of getting close to the round, five-story storage sphere that holds a key ingredient needed to make plastic.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-26-chemical-security_N.htm

April 24, 2007
The Rand Center for Terrorism Risk Management Policy Report on 9/11 Groups
This paper focuses on the organized groups of families and friends that have emerged since September 11, 2001, to become a powerful voice in U.S. counterterrorist policy and legislation.
Rand Report on 9/11 Groups

April 24, 2007
E.P.A. Is Urged to Widen Focus on 9/11 Health Effects
Health experts, environmental advocates and politicians called on the federal Environmental Protection Agency yesterday to address contamination and medical problems in Brooklyn and other areas outside Lower Manhattan resulting from the Sept. 11 attack.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/nyregion/24air.html?ref=nyregion

April 23, 2007
High-Priority Security Bill Remains Stalled
Although it was touted by Democrats as one of their highest priorities when the new Congress began, legislation to implement unfulfilled recommendations of the 9/11 Commission remains in limbo with no indication when the House and Senate will complete the bill and send it to the White House.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=36692&dcn=e_gvet

April 23, 2007
Coalition Sets Goals for Federal Terrorism Insurance Backstop
The insurance industry and major policyholders have agreed on an outline for legislation reauthorizing the federal government's terrorism risk insurance backstop, recommending the inclusion of a provision that would provide coverage for nuclear, biological, chemical and radiological attacks.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=36701&dcn=e_gvet

April 21, 2007
Suits banned over touting of 9/11 air
An appeals court ruling could spell trouble for New Yorkers suing the Environmental Protection Agency and its former chief for saying that sooty lower Manhattan air was safe to breathe after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-nywtc215180705apr21,0,749537.story?coll=ny-health-print

April 20, 2007
9/11 Dreams Study Suggests TV Coverage Boosted Stress
A study of Americans' dreams in the weeks before and after Sept. 11, 2001, suggests that TV coverage of the terror attacks actually increased viewers' stress levels.
http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2007/04/20/hscout603835.html

April 19, 2007
House Panel Mulls Stalled Progress on Biodefense Program
A House Homeland Security panel Wednesday voiced bipartisan concern that legislation intended to accelerate the production of defenses against chemical, biological or radiological terrorist attacks has done little to make the nation safer, six years after anthrax-laced letters killed five people and paralyzed the U.S. Capitol.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=36669&sid=28

April 16, 2007
9/11 is Still Taking Cops' Breath Away
The environmental disaster caused by 9/11 hit New York's Finest especially hard, a shocking new health study shows.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04162007/news/regionalnews/9_11_is_still_taking_cops_breath_away_regionalnews_carl_campanile.htm

April 13, 2007
Nephew of 9/11 Mastermind Denies Involvement in the Attacks
An alleged high-level al-Qaeda operative who is the nephew of the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States told a military tribunal that he had no ties to the plot and is being held because of his family connection, according to a transcript released yesterday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041202149.html

April 13, 2007
Combatant Status Review Tribunal Hearings
As you are probably aware from media reports, the United States Department of Defense is conducting Combatant Status Review Tribunal Hearings at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The purpose of these hearings is to determine whether high value detainees meet criteria to be designated as enemy combatants. The hearings include the presentation of evidence that relates to the detainee's enemy combatant status. The evidence presented may relate to a crime with known American Citizens as victims. The Department of Defense, the Department of Justice and the FBI are meeting to establish a process in which victims and families can be updated on these proceedings and any criminal charges and prosecutions involving these detainees. The process is still in development. In the meantime, these agencies are making efforts to keep victims and families informed. The Department of Defense is posting the transcripts of the Combatant Status Review Tribunal Hearings on their Defense Link website. The direct web address to access the transcripts is http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Combatant_Tribunals.html. . Click on the links below to view attachments.
Click here to read the Transcript of Combatant Status Review Tribunal Hearing for ISN 10018
Click here to read the Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal

April 12, 2007
10,000 Paper Cranes Added to 9/11 N.Y. Visitor Center
Ten thousand paper cranes folded by the Japanese families and friends of Fuji Bank employees killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center were hung Tuesday at a visitor center near ground zero.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070412a6.html

April 12, 2007
Compatibility Dictates Rollout of Emergency Responder, Port IDs
Compatibility issues are dictating the rollout speed of ongoing, large-scale deployments of biometric identification cards for emergency responders and port workers, according to panelists who spoke Thursday at a government credentialing conference.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=36607&dcn=e_tcmg

April 12, 2007
Nuke Detector at Island Port Failed U.S. Tests
New radiation detectors, now being tested at Staten Island's massive container terminal, are being billed as the next generation in port security that will reduce false alarms and speed commerce with no compromise in the capacity for flagging the ingredients for a dirty bomb.
http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1176377403177810.xml&coll=1

April 11, 2007
Pathway to WTC Unveiled
Here's the first look at a new entrance to the World Trade Center's PATH terminal, due to be up and running by the end of the year.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04112007/news/regionalnews/pathway_to_wtc_unveiled_regionalnews_tom_topousis.htm

April 11, 2007
Retaining Wall at Ground Zero Will Get Its Own Wall
A section of the legendary slurry wall at ground zero — the sturdy concrete “bathtub” that kept the waters of the Hudson River from inundating the World Trade Center site before and after the twin towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001 — will be getting its own $10 million bathtub.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/nyregion/11memorial.html

April 11, 2007
More Remains Identified at Ground Zero
The remains of an Australian man who died in the World Trade Center attack on Sept. 11, 2001, have been identified through DNA analysis, the city medical examiner’s office said yesterday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/nyregion/11mbrfs-remains.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

April 10, 2007
NYS Senate Passes 9/11 Counseling Bill
If signed by Governor, bill would allow traumatized victims of 9/11 to receive reimbursement for counseling.
http://www.queenscourier.com/articles/2007/04/05/news/headline_stories/news04.txt

April 10, 2007
Help For 9/11 Workers, Volunteers, and Residents
If you were involved in 9/11 rescue and recovery work, or you live or work downtown and are concerned about 9/11 health effects, there are several programs that may be helpful to you.
http://www.dc37.net/news/pep/4_2007/9_11help.html

April 9, 2007
$4.7 Million Raised to Treat Those Who Fell Ill After 9/11
The 9/11 Neediest Medical Campaign to help those who developed serious illnesses after the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center has collected $300,000 since February for a total of nearly $4.7 million, fund officials announced.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/nyregion/09fund.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

April 9, 2007
Baggage Screening Could Get Upgrade
The nation's major airports would be beneficiaries of one of the biggest aviation security upgrades since 9/11 — as much as $7 billion for state-of-the-art baggage screening — under legislation recently approved by the House and Senate.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-09-airport-baggage_N.htm?csp=34

April 9, 2007
Portion Of West Street Closed To Search For Remains Of 9/11 Victims
Workers rebuilt this stretch of West Street within months after the 9/11 attacks, but Monday they began digging it up again to see what might be underneath.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=203&aid=68521

April 5, 2007
New 9/11 ID was Bravest
One of two newly identified 9/11 victims was a firefighter whose remains were recovered from the World Trade Center site in 2001, the FDNY said in a letter.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04052007/news/regionalnews/new_9_11_id__was_bravest_regionalnews_.htm

April 3, 2007
Improved DNA Tests ID Two 9/11 Victims
Improved DNA testing technology has produced two new identifications of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, officials revealed yesterday.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/04/03/2007-04-03_improved_dna_tests_id_two_911_victims-3.html

April 2, 2007
Maryland Donates 31 Sweet Gum Trees for Sept. 11 WTC Memorial
Horticulturists on Monday began digging up dozens of sweet gum trees that will be planted in two years with hundreds of others at the World Trade Center Memorial plaza in New York.
http://www.silive.com/newsflash/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-24/1175544572144740.xml&storylist=simetro

April 2, 2007
Taxis Get Painted Flowers to Remember 9/11
A red bandana was the only thing Tania Head remembered about the man who rescued her from the 78th floor of the World Trade Center's south tower on 9/11. He wore it over his nose as he led her and 12 others down a stairwell to safety before he died. Sunday, in honor of that man, volunteer firefighter Welles Crowther, Head painted a red flower, one of an estimated 33,000 floral decorations that by the end of the year will adorn the roofs, hoods and trunks of New York City yellow taxi cabs.
http://www.amny.com/news/local/groundzero/am-flowers0402,0,2894226.story?coll=am-topheadlines

March 31, 2007
No Resolution as WTC Staircase Marched to New Site
The Survivors Staircase will be moved intact from Ground Zero to a temporary home at the southern end of Battery Park City, the Daily News has learned.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/03/31/2007-03-31_no_resolution_as_wtc_staircase_marched_t.html

March 29, 2007
Chapel Chucking WTC Worker Pews
The pews that weary firefighters, cops and volunteers slept on during the 9/11 recovery operation will be hauled out of St. Paul's Chapel. To the dismay of some responders, the pews - which show nicks and scrapes left by boots and hardhats - will be replaced by wooden chairs that can be rearranged for different activities.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/03/29/2007-03-29_chapel_chucking_wtc_worker_pews.html

March 27, 2007
Heavy WTC Skyscraper Work Begins While Remains are Still Found
Construction workers have begun removing the steel skeleton of a contaminated skyscraper next to ground zero, the most visible sign yet that the heavily damaged building is coming down.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--toxictower0327mar27,0,4812025.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

March 27, 2007
TSA Boosts Checks on Airport Workers
The Transportation Security Administration is stepping up screening of airport workers nationwide amid growing concern that nearly 1 million employees can get into airplanes or other restricted areas without going through security.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2007-03-27-tsa-airport-workers_N.htm

March 26, 2007
DHS Seeks Help Investigating Nuclear Detection Gaps
The Homeland Security Department plans to enlist experts both inside and outside the government to launch a program probing the vulnerabilities of the nation's nuclear detection network.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=36456&sid=28

March 24, 2007
Landfill Has 9/11 Remains, Medical Examiner Wrote
Papers filed yesterday by family members of 9/11 victims who want the city to separate tons of debris on Staten Island to search for human remains include a letter in which the city medical examiner says he is almost certain some remains are present in the landfill, and an affidavit from a recycling supervisor who recalls watching debris being carted away to pave roads and fill potholes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/24/nyregion/24remains.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

March 23, 2007
Senators Add $2 Billion to Spending Bill for Security Programs
The $121.6 billion emergency supplemental spending bill approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee Thursday includes more than $2 billion for domestic homeland security programs.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=36439&dcn=e_gvet

March 22, 2007
Indecision on Survivors' Staircase Threatens WTC Construction
A prolonged debate over whether to preserve or demolish a 175-ton staircase that still stands at the World Trade Center site is threatening construction schedules for new office towers, rebuilding officials say.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--survivorsstaircas0322mar22,0,5759359.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

March 22, 2007
Bloomberg Seeks U.S. Aid for Treatment of 9/11 Illnesses
Testifying at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg pleaded for at least $150 million in annual federal aid to monitor and treat thousands of people who became ill after being exposed to dust and debris at ground zero.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/nyregion/22bloomberg.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

March 20, 2007
High Rate of Psychiatric Woes in Children Bereaved by 9/11
In the years after the 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attack, the rate of psychiatric illness among children who lost a parent in that event more than doubled -- from about 32 percent before the attacks to almost 73 percent after, a new study finds.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/20/AR2007032000445.html

March 15, 2007
Alleged 9/11 Mastermind Confesses to Attacks
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, confessed at a Guantanamo Bay military hearing that he planned and funded that al-Qaeda operation and said he was involved in more than two dozen other terrorist acts around the world, according to documents released by the Pentagon yesterday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/15/AR2007031500865.html

March 14, 2007
Senate Passes Bill Containing Proposals of 9/11 Panel
The Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation yesterday to implement many of the remaining reforms suggested by the Sept. 11 commission, answering its three-year-old call for better emergency communications; more money for cities at high risk of terrorist attacks; and tighter security for air cargo, ports, chemical plants and rail systems.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/13/AR2007031301550.html?referrer=emailarticle

March 13, 2007
Senate Passes Bill on Steps Advised by Sept. 11 Panel
The Senate passed legislation on Tuesday that would enact more recommendations made by the Sept. 11 commission, but the bill faces the threat of a White House veto because it offers expanded union rights to airport screeners.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/washington/14homeland.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

March 12, 2007
Pentagon: Key 9/11 Suspects Face Judges at Gitmo
Three suspected terrorists connected with the September 11, 2001, attacks have gone before judicial panels charged with determining whether they can be detained indefinitely, the Pentagon said Monday.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/12/gitmo.hearings/index.html