9/11 – 10th anniversary

Sunday, 11 September 2011 - 10:43 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination:
Category/Kategorie: General, Architecture, Living, Working, Building, Museums, Exhibitions, New York City, Events
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This image contains all of the names of those who perished in the World Trade Center on 9/11. The names are from the CNN September 11 archive. The names that are highlighted in orange are those of fire fighters and police who died in the line of duty. Photo: Dzeni

This image contains all of the names of those who perished in the World Trade Center on 9/11. The names are from the CNN September 11 archive. The names that are highlighted in orange are those of fire fighters and police who died in the line of duty. Photo: Dzeni

Meanwhile the re-building of the new Word Trade Center make great progress. The Twin Tower foot prints on Ground Zero together with a Cultural Centre will form the 9/11 Memorial Plaza / National September 11 Memorial & Museum, surrounded by the WTC Tower’s 1 to 7. The One World Trade Center Tower (Freedom Tower) will become the heart of the ensemble. After completition the tower will reach a height of 1776 feet (541.3 m – the hight is a reminder to the Declaration of Independence from 1776). At that time it will be the highest building in the Americas and will rank as the N° 3 of the tallest buildings in the world for a few years.

Here you can find the official website of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. You can find further information on Port Authority New York and New Jersey (with Live Webcam from the construction site), on the website of the developer and operator Silverstein Properties and Wikipedia One World Trade Center.





New WTC plan

New WTC plan

Comprehensive information and links about the attacks can be found here: Wikipedia September 11 attacks (PBS, 1 May 2011: Osama Bin Laden Killed in Pakistan, President Obama Says, NPR, 2 May 2011: Special Series: Osama Bin Laden Killed (Wikipedia Killing of Osama bin Laden), NBC News, 2 May 2011: US forces kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, The Guardian, 4 May 2011: The killing of Osama bin Laden: how the White House changed its story, The New Yorker, 1 August 2011: Getting Bin Laden, France24, 6 November 2014: I killed bin Laden, says former US Navy SEAL, The Hill, 1 August 2022: US strike kills Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri (Ayman al-Zawahiri – Congratulations on this great campaign. That was clearly overdue. The damn scumbag was primarily responsible for the September 11 terrorist attacks. May it give the survivors and relatives of 9/11 a little more inner peace. And that the Afghan terror regime is upset about it? Who cares? They gave the terrorists shelter and thus made them complicit), CNN, 1 August 2022: US kills al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in drone strike in Afghanistan, The New York Times, 1 August 2022: Ayman al-Zawahri Was Key Plotter of Sept. 11 Attacks, The Washington Post, 1 August 2022: U.S. kills al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in drone strike in Kabul, The Hill, 1 August 2022: Biden touts strike that killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri: ‘Justice has been delivered’, Foreign Policy, 1 August 2022: Ayman al-Zawahiri’s Legacy of Terror, NPR, 1 August 2022: Bin Laden was the face of al-Qaida, but Ayman al-Zawahiri was its hate-filled heart, The New Yorker, 1 August 2022: The Death of Ayman al-Zawahiri, The Hill, 1 August 2022: Who is al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri?, The Economist, 2 August 2022: The death of al-Qaeda’s leader may not halt a jihadist resurgence, The New York Times, 2 August 2022: How the C.I.A. Tracked the Leader of Al Qaeda, The New Yorker, 2 August 2022: Ayman al-Zawahiri and the Taliban, CNN, 2 August 2022: US kills al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in drone strike in Afghanistan, The Guardian, 2 August 2022: Ayman al-Zawahiri obituary, The Washiongton Post, 2 August 2022: US kills al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in drone strike in Kabul, France24, 2 August 2022: From Cairo doctor to al Qaeda’s chief ideologue: Who was Ayman al-Zawahiri?, The Wall Street Journal, 2 August 2022: Drone Strike That Killed al Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Raises Tactical Questions on Threat From Afghanistan, BBC, 2 August 2022: Ayman al-Zawahiri: Al-Qaeda leader killed in US drone strike, The New York Times, 2 August 2022: The Killing of Ayman al-Zawahri: What We Know, Reuters, 2 August 2022: How the CIA identified and killed Al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri, The Washiongton Post, 3 August 2022: The Taliban gave al-Qaeda a haven. Again., Financial Times, 3 August 2022: Drone strike killing of al-Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri deals setback to Taliban, BBC, 3 August 2022: Ayman al-Zawahiri: US warns of possible retaliation over al-Qaeda death, France24, 3 August 2022: Who could succeed slain Al Qaeda leader Al Zawahiri?, BBC, 3 August 2022: Ayman al-Zawahiri: How US strike could kill al-Qaeda leader – but not his family, The National, 3 August 2022: Even after death, Ayman Al Zawahiri’s influence will remain, The Atlantic, 3 August 2022: A Key 9/11 Plotter Is Dead. He Was Already Irrelevant., The National, 4 August 2022: Taliban say they were unaware of Al Zawahiri’s presence in Kabul (who in his right mind would ever beleave such a claim?), France24, 4 August 2022: Taliban claim ‘no knowledge’ of slain Al Qaeda leader Al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan, The Guardian, 4 August 2022: Ayman al-Zawahiri Taliban claim they did not know al-Qaida leader was living in central Kabul).

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