Below The Beltway

On September 21, 2001, President Bush delivered a joint address to Congress and delivered the following message to the government of Afghanistan:
[T]onight, the United States of America makes the following demands on the Taliban: Deliver to United States authorities all the leaders of al Qaeda who hide in your land. (Applause.) Release all [...]

From the firefighters:

According to a report in the New York Times, the Bush Administration passed on an opportunity to strike at the senior leadership of al Qaeda because they considered the mission “too risky”:
WASHINGTON, July 7 — A secret military operation in early 2005 to capture senior members of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas was [...]

Several times since 9/11, the Federal Government has issued warnings about terrorist “chatter” and indications that a major attack was in the planning stages. Without fail, these warnings have proven to be much less than meets the eye when subjected to scrutiny.
Which is why the latest report about threats of a summer of “spectacular” attacks [...]

If nothing else, one would think that this would finally convince the wingnuts who think that 9/11 was a government conspiracy:
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 [...]

It’s getting almost no coverage from the media but it was fourteen years ago today that a group of Muslim terrorists set off a truck bomb inside the parking garage below Tower One of the World Trade Center. Though there were a few deaths, they didn’t succeed in bringing down the towers, which was apparently [...]

Mail continues to arrive for people who died at the World Trade Center on September 11th.
Hundreds of pieces of mail destined for the former World Trade Center still arrive every day at a post office facing ground zero — the relics of the unfinished lives of the victims of Sept. 11, 2001.
Telephone bills, insurance statements, [...]

I posted this one year ago, and I still can’t come up with better words to describe what September 11th means to me. Again, the words are not mine but they are eloquent:
Today is my mothers birthday, she turns 67. I love my mother very much, and hope and pray she has a wonderful day! [...]

The 2996 Project, which I wrote about in June, was created by blogger Dale Roe to remember the victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11th. Bloggers have volunteered to remember the victims in a simple way — by posting something about each person who died that day so that they are never forgotten. I [...]

In his petition for divorce from the Democratic Party, Brendan Loy pinpoints when his own disillusionment began:
[T]he Democratic Party and I have been drifting apart for some time now. I believe it began on a Tuesday morning in the fall of 2001; I can?t exactly remember the date, but let?s just say a certain catastrophic [...]