9/11 Topics

Democracy Now!’s coverage of the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the development of the "war on terror," Guantanamo Bay and the USA PATRIOT Act.

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  • Two FBI Whistleblowers Accuse Bureau of Ignoring Warnings Before 9/11

    We speak with FBI agent Coleen Rowley, who accused FBI headquarters in 2002 of hampering the investigation into alleged 20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui and former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds who was hired shortly after 9/11 to translate intelligence related to the attacks and says the FBI had information that an attack using airplanes was being planned before Sept. 11, 2001. Rowley reveals one of her fellow FBI agents contacted FBI HQ before...
    Apr 09, 2004 | Story

  • 9/11 Widow Blames White House for Mishandling 9/11 Threat and Hampering Investigation

    Monica Gabrielle, who lost her husband Richard in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, criticizes the Bush administration for mishandling intelligence prior to 9/11 and hampering the 9/11 investigation. [includes rush transcript]
    Apr 09, 2004 | Story

  • As Rice Testifies, Death Toll Rises In Iraq

    As the nation watches Condoleezza Rice testify before the 9/11 Commission, resistance against the U.S. occupation of Iraq has spread across the country from as north as Kirkuk down to southern Iraq. We go to Baghdad to get a report from the ground from independent reporter May Ying Welsh. [includes rush transcript]
    Apr 08, 2004 | Story

  • The Other War: Pentagon's Own Report On Afghanistan Invasion Blasts U.S. War Strategy

    A report commissioned by the Pentagon on the invasion of Afghanistan was turned away after it concluded there was a wide gap between how the White House represented the war and what was actually taking place. We speak with the New Yorker’s Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh who says, "It’s a great trifecta for this administration. In three-and-a-half years of office, we have destroyed Afghanistan, destroyed Iraq and...
    Apr 07, 2004 | Story

  • Ex-Bush National Security Council Member: How Bush Bungled The War on Terror

    A year after resigning from the National Security Council, Flynt Leverett talks about how Bush pulled U.S. special forces from the hunt for Osama in March 2002 to focus on Iraq, how the U.S. lost Syria as a source on intelligence on Al Qaeda and the role of Elliot Abrams in shaping the country’s Middle East policy. We also talk to Col. Patrick Long (Ret.), former head of the Middle East section of the Defense Intelligence Agency. [includes...
    Apr 02, 2004 | Story

  • Fmr. FBI Translator: White House Had Intel On Possible Airplane Attack Pre-9/11

    We speak with former FBI translator, Sibel Edmonds, who was hired shortly after Sept. 11 to translate intelligence gathered over the previous year related to the 9/11 attacks. She says the FBI had information that an attack using airplanes was being planned before Sept. 11 and calls Condoleezza Rice’s claim the White House had no specific information on a domestic threat or one involving planes "an outrageous lie." [includes rush...
    Mar 31, 2004 | Story

  • EXCLUSIVE: Brother of USS Cole Victim Speaks Out

    In a Democracy Now! exclusive we speak with Anton Gunn, brother of Cherone Louis Gunn, one of the 17 US servicemen killed in the Oct. 12, 2000 attack on the USS Cole. In his first extensive interview, Anton Gunn says, "There’s no doubt in my mind that 9/11 could have been fully thwarted." He discusses the investigation of the Cole attack and his frustrating dealings with FBI. [includes rush transcript]
    Mar 30, 2004 | Story

  • Crossing Lines: Peace Activist Kathy Kelly Faces Two Prison Sentences For Antiwar Actions

    We speak with veteran antiwar activist, Nobel Peace prize nominee and Voices in the Wilderness founder Kathy Kelly as she heads to court where she faces a one-month prison sentence for refusing to pay a fine from an antiwar protest last May. Kelly is also preparing to begin serving a 3-month sentence next week for her non-violent civil disobedience at the US Army’s School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia last November. [includes...
    Mar 29, 2004 | Story

  • "Hope is the Fuel of Progress" - Former British MP and Leading Antiwar Voice Tony Benn On Imperialism and Resistance

    As the 9/11 investigation continues to dominate the news with former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke reiterating his claim that the Iraq invasion was a diversion form the war on terror, we hear from former British MP and leading antiwar voice, Tony Benn. After serving in the British Parliament for over half a century, Benn is now president of the Stop the War Coalition in Britain. [includes rush transcript]
    Mar 29, 2004 | Story

  • 9/11 Hearings: Fmr Counterterror Chief Clarke Blasts Bush on 9/11 Saying "Your Government Failed You"

    President Bush’s former counterterrorism chief, Richard Clarke, blasted the Bush administration Wednesday during the 9/11 hearings for not considering terrorism to be an urgent issue before the Sept. 11 attacks. Clarke also accused Bush of undermining the war on terror by invading Iraq. We play extended excerpts of his testimony. [Includes transcript]
    Mar 25, 2004 | Story