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Washington (AFP) - A proposal to allow alleged perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks to plead guilty and avoid the death penalty poses a powerful dilemma for victims' families, some of whom still want to seek the ultimate retribution after two decades of legal limbo. The proposal detailed by prosecutors in a letter this month could offer families of the nearly 3,000 victims the best path to a resolution of a case bogged down in pre-trial maneuverings in the Guantanamo military commissions for years -- and with no end in sight. For some families of those killed in New York's World Trade Center, the ...
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New York (AFP) - The United States on Sunday observed the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, with President Joe Biden recalling Americans' sacrifice and honoring the nearly 3,000 people killed when hijacked planes hit the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. Relatives of victims, police officers, firefighters and city leaders gathered at the National September 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan, where the names of those who died there were read aloud in an hours-long ritual that has occurred annually since the deadliest single attack on US soil. They rang bells and held moments o...
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Bedminster (United States) (AFP) - For Brett Eagleson, this week's Saudi-backed golf event at Trump National is an affront: it's happening just miles from where hijackers murdered his father on 9/11. "It's extremely disrespectful, it's hurtful, it's painful," Eagleson, who was 15 when his dad died in the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, told AFP. The 36-year-old heads 9/11 Justice, a group that accuses Saudi Arabia of complicity in the atrocity -- allegations the Saudi government has denied. Ex-president Donald Trump's course in Bedminster, New Jersey, less than 50 miles...
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Washington (AFP) - Five men charged in the September 11, 2001 attacks, including alleged "mastermind" Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, are in plea negotiations to resolve the longstanding capital case, defense attorneys confirmed Tuesday. Lawyers for the five, each held for more than 15 years at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have entered into talks with prosecutors in the high-security military court "over proposed dispositions of the case," said attorneys for one defendant, Ammar al Baluchi. "I can confirm that plea negotiations are ongoing and that the scheduled hearing this month was ca...
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New York (AFP) - America marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11 Saturday with pleas for unity at solemn ceremonies given added resonance by the messy withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and return to power of the Taliban. At the 9/11 memorial in New York, relatives wiped away tears, their voices breaking as they read out the names of the almost 3,000 people killed in the Al-Qaeda attacks. "We love you and we miss you," they said as somber violin music played at the official ceremony, attended by President Joe Biden and former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. The service at Ground Ze...
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Washington (AFP) - The Biden administration declassified an FBI memo Saturday that fortified suspicions of official Saudi involvement with the hijackers in the September 11, 2001 attacks, but it fell well short of proof that victims' families suing Saudi Arabia had hoped for. The memo from April 4, 2016, which had been classified until now, showed links between Omar Bayoumi, at the time a student but suspected to have been a Saudi intelligence operative, and two of the Al-Qaeda operatives who took part in the plot to hijack and crash four airliners into targets in New York and Washington. Base...
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New York (AFP) - America marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11 Saturday with pleas for unity at solemn ceremonies given added resonance by the messy withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and return to power of the Taliban. At the 9/11 memorial in New York, relatives wiped away tears, their voices breaking as they read out the names of the almost 3,000 people killed in the Al-Qaeda attacks, the deadliest in history. "We love you and we miss you," they said as somber violin music played at the official ceremony, attended by President Joe Biden and former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton...
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New York (AFP) - America marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11 Saturday with pleas for unity at solemn ceremonies given added resonance by the messy withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and return to power of the Taliban. At the 9/11 memorial in New York, relatives wiped away tears, their voices breaking as they read out the names of the almost 3,000 people killed in the Al-Qaeda attacks, the deadliest in history. "We love you and we miss you," they said as somber violin music played at the official ceremony, attended by President Joe Biden and former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton...
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Shanksville (United States) (AFP) - President Joe Biden, speaking unexpectedly during a visit to the Pennsylvania site of one of the 9/11 plane crashes, again defended the widely criticized withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying the US could not "invade" every country where Al-Qaeda is present. "Could Al-Qaeda come back (in Afghanistan)?" he asked in an exchange with reporters outside a Shanksville fire station. "Yeah. But guess what, it’s already back other places. "What’s the strategy? Every place where Al-Qaeda is, we’re going to invade and have troops stay in? C'mon." Biden said it had alw...
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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba) (AFP) - Under clear Caribbean skies, family members of victims of the September 11 attacks gathered Saturday for a flag-raising ceremony at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, acutely aware that the attacks' accused mastermind sat in a prison cell not far away. "On this naval installation, more than any other place in the world, we remember this every day," base commander Captain Samuel White said at a chapel service for the attacks' 20th anniversary after the flag ceremony. Guantanamo is where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others have faced prosecutio...
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