Al Qaeda Training Manual Complete


In the year since the September 11 attacks, few more chilling documents have emerged than "Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants," a how-to terrorism manual that investigators believe has been used by followers of Osama bin Laden.

The 180-page volume, seized from the Manchester, England home of a bin Laden disciple, offers jihad members guidance on subjects such as assassination, forging documents, and preparing poisons in its 18 chapters.

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Die Sichtweise der Täter


Neue Details über die Planung der Terroranschläge vom 11. September lassen aufhorchen. Den Verhörspezialisten der USA ist es laut "Spiegel" gelungen die Planer der Flugzeugattacken zum Reden zu bringen. Nun lässt sich die Vorgeschichte beinahe lückenlos rekonstruieren.

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Bin Laden ruft Iraker zum heiligen Krieg gegen die USA auf


Der arabische Nachrichtensender al-Dschasira hat eine neue Tonbandaufnahme mit der Stimme von Osama bin Laden veröffentlicht. Darin wird allen Ländern mit Anschlägen gedroht wird, die den Irak-Krieg unterstützt haben. Zugleich werden die Iraker zum Widerstand gegen die amerikanischen Truppen aufgerufen.

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Zwei Jahre nach den New Yorker Anschlägen: Zwischen Kunst und Terrorismus gibt es eine tiefe Wahlverwandtschaft

Als ob in jenen vier Flugzeugen nicht Terroristen, sondern avantgardistische Künstler das Steuer übernommen hätten, kam es nach den Anschlägen in den USA zu einer Debatte, die sich um das Verhältnis von Kunst und Terror drehte. Den Anfang machte der Direktor des Musée Picasso Jean Clair, der manche Künstler als Wegbereiter des Terrors vom 11. September bezeichnete. Bereits die Surrealisten der zwanziger Jahre, so Clair, hätten die Zerstörung zu ihrer Lebensaufgabe erklärt und wollten alles vernichten, was die westliche Überlegenheit ausmacht.

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Spain links suspect in 9/11 plot to Baghdad


An alleged terrorist accused of helping the 11 September conspirators was invited to a party by the Iraqi ambassador to Spain under his al-Qaeda nom de guerre, according to documents seized by Spanish investigators.

Yusuf Galan, who was photographed being trained at a camp run by Osama bin Laden, is now in jail, awaiting trial in Madrid. The indictment against him, drawn up by investigating judge Baltasar Garzon, claims he was 'directly involved with the preparation and carrying out of the attacks ... by the suicide pilots on 11 September'.

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Is NY bank hacking linked to 9/11?


I think Andrey is not alive already. The stakes were too high in the game in which the computer genius mixed up because of his avarice. The team with whom he worked is probably also liquidated. And this is the reason why I decided to publish this mysterious and strange article. And I would like to emphasize that I don’t assert anything, I just tell facts and enumerate strange coincidences that developed into the awful chronology. God save the soul of Andrey and the souls of victims perished in the WTC disaster...

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Alleged 9/11 mastermind in custody


Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, was handed over to the United States and taken to an undisclosed location following his arrest in Pakistan, a senior government official said Sunday.

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World Trade Center Design Finalists to Be Whittled Down to Two


Officials overseeing the effort to rebuild ground zero met privately Monday to pick the final two designs to replace the World Trade Center. A design that evokes the original trade center with twin latticework towers, and another that exposes the foundation walls of the old towers emerged as leading contenders in recent discussions. The finalists were expected to be announced Tuesday, with a final choice to be made later this month.

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Germany allows irony on the web


A German court has cleared a man over the nature of comments about the 11 September attacks he posted on the internet. Holger Voss was accused of "glorification of a criminal act" after appearing to praise the hijackers in comments he has insisted were meant sarcastically.

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Pentagon's design saved lives


The use of reinforced structural steel and other elements engineered into the building more than 60 years ago paid off on September 11, 2001, said an analysis Thursday by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

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Gaudi design proposed for WTC


Architectural plans by the late Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi are to be submitted to an international memorial competition for redesigns of New York's former World Trade Center site. Gaudi's 95-year-old plans, which were originally designs for a futuristic hotel about the same size as the Empire State building, will be entered into the competition this spring by a group of art historians, architects and enthusiasts of his work.

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World Trade Center designs questioned


Ideas for redevelopment of the World Trade Center site, presented last December amid a blaze of publicity, are being questioned by specialists.

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