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Katie Favazza sends word of a massive blogger initiative to memorialize those murdered on 9/11.
DC Roe explains:
On September 11, 2006, 2,996 volunteer bloggers will join together for a tribute to the victims of 9/11. Each person will pay tribute to a single victim.
I just registered and will be paying tribute to Giovanna Porras, age [...]

I was in NY on 9/11/01. I had just moved into a new apartment, and was working at my first political job–for a mayoral candidate in the Republican primary. It was primary election day, and I went to go vote in my new neighborhood. By the time I gave up on finding [...]

These stills are from a BBC comedy called “Time Trumpet” (big hat tip - Steve J). The show features a satirical “Terrorism Awards” show with nominees including a “lone gunman” who shoots Tony Blair in the head as he sleeps with his wife; a 9/11-style video of terrorists crashing an airliner into the Houses of [...]

This is not a joke: Saudis Offered Scholarships for Aviation Courses in US.
The Ministry of Higher Education and the General Authority of Civil Aviation are offering scholarships to Saudi men and women to study various majors related to civil aviation in the United States.
The forms are available online at the ministry’s website until July 12 [...]

At 1pm today.
Allah has everything you need to know. *Updated with video*
From Judicial Watch, which filed a FOIA request that is resulting in the video release:
“We fought hard to obtain this video because we felt that it was very important to complete the public record with respect to the terrorist attacks of September 11,” [...]

Kudos to the NY Daily News for its investigative series, launched Sunday, on how billions in 9/11 funds have been misspent (hat tip: BizzyBlog):
…a four-month Daily News investigation of the $21.4 billion disaster recovery package reveals that major elements of the aid process were procedurally flawed — from the determination of how much money was [...]

Filming has begun in NYC. I know I’m not the only one who has a queasy feeling about this.
Background here.

AP reports that former members of the Sept. 11 commission are dismissing assertions that the DoD intelligence unit known as Able Danger identified Mohammed Atta as a potential terrorist long before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Earlier this month, AP reported the results of a Pentagon investigation which concluded that five people involved with Able [...]

Read the post at Shrink Wrapped, who has coined the best new nickname for the Danger Enablers on the 9/11 Commission who neglected to inform the American public about Operation Able Danger:
The 9/11 Omission.
Excerpt from Shrink Wrapped’s analysis:
There are really only a few possible explanations for the Able Danger story.
One possibility is that it could [...]

The 9/11 Commission was supposed to give the America people a complete, unbiased story of the government failures that led up to the September 11 terrorist attacks. But the Commission now admits its acclaimed Final Report ignored key information provided by a U.S. Army data mining project, Able Danger, which identified Mohammed Atta and several [...]

The Newark Star Ledger has a devastating investigative piece on crass exploitation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that the Democrat Party doesn’t want you to know about. In “Governor’s office steered terror aid: Records contradict official claims over how Democratic towns got lion’s share of grants,” Rick Hepp reports:
Despite its public statements, the office of [...]

Joe Gandelman blows the whistle on another 9/11 hijacking…by conspiracy-monger Oliver Stone.

Mickey Kaus has more (via Instapundit).
Maybe Oliver Stone will hire these French textbook writers to help out with the screenplay.
Meanwhile, Captain Ed (who I had the great pleasure of hosting for dinner last night, along with the First Mate!) raises questions about Steven Spielberg’s [...]

Ugh. The 9/11 Commission is back for another round of self-aggrandizement, armchair general-ing, and Bush-bashing. Winfield Myers at The Democracy Project has predictions and some advice:
If you were worried about a dull season ahead, the media feeding frenzy that would result from the reconstitution of this committee should relieve you of those worries, albeit at [...]

My good friend and fellow Philadelphia Daily News columnist Michael Smerconish has an important and incredible column today about the airline worker in Maine who encountered Mohammed Atta on 9/11:
MICHAEL Tuohey “stared the devil in the eyes and didn’t recognize him.”
Now he kicks himself for not having acted, although if he had, our government probably [...]

It was another sad milestone for 9/11 families today. The medical examiner’s office in New York has announced it will halt efforts to try and identify the remains of the 2,749 people who were killed in New York on Sept. 11, 2001:
Speaking in the Bronx yesterday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the remains would stay at [...]

Ward Churchill was bad enough. Now we have the Democrat mayor of Baltimore likening President Bush to the Sept. 11 terrorists over the issue of budget cuts. From the Washington Post:
Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley yesterday compared President Bush’s proposed budget cuts to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying that Bush, like the al Qaeda [...]

The Library of Congress has put an incredible online exhibit up on its site called the September 11, 2001, Documentary Project. Organized by the American Folklife Center, the project is modeled after a similar oral history compiled after Pearl Harbor called After the Day of Infamy.
Both sites are must-read, bookmark-and-revisit-often.
Among the drawings included in the [...]

Eugueni Kniazev (Dec. 11, 1954-Sept. 11, 2001)
My latest column, which is also a special news feature in today’s New York Post, is dedicated to the memory of the man pictured above. The story exposes how our behemoth, $34 billion Department of Homeland Security sent a green card approval notice on Jan. 15, 2005 to [...]

Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has a great column in National Review Online defending the Justice Department’s actions in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He concludes:
The post-9/11 detentions were lawful, ethical, strategically appropriate, and involved an infinitesimal portion of the Muslim population in the United States. To have conducted the investigation [...]

Here’s the story of a con artist who thought he could rip off 9/11 charity funds with perhaps the most politically correct of ploys–claiming that his gay lover died at Ground Zero:
A man who collected $68,000 from a charity by falsely claiming his boyfriend died in the World Trade Center attacks has pleaded guilty to [...]

During his DHS confirmation hearing, Michael Chertoff will likely receive heavy criticism for his role in the DOJ round-up of Middle Eastern illegal aliens in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News has launched the first volley in what is likely to become a meme:
[W]hile Chertoff may [...]

Don Rumsfeld’s remarks regarding Flight 93 having been “shot down” over Pennsylvania caused a bit of buzz over the weekend. Here’s what he said:
And I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people [...]

Lyz Glick, wife of Flight 93 Hero Jeremy Glick, has published a book of letters to her husband and 3-year-old daughter. Unlike the hyperpartisan “Jersey Girls,” a group of shameless Bush-bashing 9/11 widows, Glick avoids politics and refuses to discuss policy and legal matters:
Glick has resumed teaching anthropology classes online from her home for Berkeley [...]

Yet another public school has allowed a teacher to show Michael Moore’s crockumentary to students. From the Seattle Times:
MILL CREEK � A high-school teacher’s classroom showing of the controversial film “Fahrenheit 9/11″ has some local Republicans fired up.
Judy Baker, a teacher at Henry M. Jackson High School, showed the anti-Bush documentary last week to [...]

Robert Weisberg, a professor at Stanford Law School, and his colleague David Mills, a lecturer at Stanford Law School, write in a Slate op-ed (”The Case Against John Ashcroft: Why don’t Democrats condemn the disastrous attorney general?“):
We have seen major terrorist prosecutions brought with much political publicity fail with hardly a whimper. The major jury [...]

A reader sends along the tragic obituary of an Army civilian analyst whose wife died at the Pentagon on 9/11:
Kenneth Edelle Foster, 51, a retired Army sergeant whose wife lost her life at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, died Oct. 10 at his home in Arlington, Tex., of pulmonary fibrosis and congestive heart failure. [...]

This is Jonathan Borofsky’s “Walking to the Sky,” on exhibit at Rockefeller Center until Oct. 18. Several figures, including a businesswoman, a grandmother, and a child, ascend the 80-foot-pole. The artist says he didn’t have Sept. 11 in mind when he created it, but rather childhood memories of stories his father told him about walking [...]

Today, libraries in King County, Wash, will commemorate the third anniversary of September 11, 2001, by sharing touchy-feely “ideas about democracy, citizenship and patriotism” as part of “The September Project.”
Here’s what some of the participating libraries are doing:
* At Bellevue and Federal Way libraries, a theater group called Book-It All Over! will present a production [...]

Being caught up in my book tour, I neglected to post a link to this week’s column. An excerpt:
The third anniversary of Sept. 11 is upon us. We remain at war — and the media remain in denial.
How many times have you picked up a newspaper and read about terrorist attacks perpetrated not by [...]

Don’t let the Labor Day holiday be an excuse to slack off and neglect the ongoing horror and suffering of Russian parents and children at the hands of Islamic terrorists.
Read about this Sophie’s Choice nightmare.
Take in the heart-wrenching photos and heart-stopping live-blogging at Logic & Sanity. (Hat tip: Jeff Quinton.)
Read more about the female suicide [...]