Security Expert: 'Lone Wolf' Terrorists The Next Big Fear
With heightened security on the streets, a visible police presence, detection dogs walking the beat, New York City is on alert for a possible post-Osama bin Laden retaliatory attack.
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With heightened security on the streets, a visible police presence, detection dogs walking the beat, New York City is on alert for a possible post-Osama bin Laden retaliatory attack.
The White House says Obama will visit ground zero, the site of al-Qaida's attack on the World Trade Center, and meet with the families of those killed nearly 10 years ago.
The message on the door of the Masjid el Ber of Astoria is not a violent one. It prays that peace be upon the messenger of Allah. It's through that lens that people here viewed the life and death of bin Laden.
There is no specific threat to security but with terrorists vowing revenge after U.S. forces killed jihadi terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, authorities are taking no chances.
Robbie Zampieri was just 30 years old when he was killed. He was on the 92nd floor of Tower One when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says Americans have kept their promise after Sept. 11 to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.
The President and CEO of the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum said the bravery exhibited by the U.S. military will be remembered by those coming to the site for generations.
It was news New Yorkers had been waiting almost 10 long years for: Osama bin Laden is dead.
Nearly one-fourth of those killed in the Sept. 11 attacks were New Jersey residents. Middletown lost 37 residents that day, the second highest 9/11 toll among New Jersey towns.
Rauf, the man behind the Park 51 Islamic cultural center, said bin Laden's death can bring "closure and healing around 9/11.''
Terry Sears, executive director of Tuesday's Children – an organization formed to help children deal with the loss of a parent, said the death of Osama bin Laden could be good for the children.
Over 100 families, friends and local resiednts will gather in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow at 8 p.m. Monday to honor the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The helpless anguish of September 11, 2001 hits home for Giants head coach Tom Coughlin. His son, Tim, was on the 60th floor of the South Tower when NYC was attacked. Tim was one of the fortunate survivors, though Coughlin wouldn't know the fate of his son for hours.
During the 9th inning of New York's 2-1 win over the Phillies, with chants of "USA!" roaring from the crowd at Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park, WFAN's Howie Rose broke what he described as the "globally huge story" of Osama bin Laden's death.
In a strange way, it seemed fitting I received news of the death of Osama Bin Laden while the Mets were playing a baseball game. The Mets were front and center in the healing process 10 years ago...
Howie Rose thought he'd seen and heard it all in his years as half of WFAN's Mets broadcast team. Sunday night's broadcast was something entirely new as news broke of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden's death.
The Mets couldn't have been prouder as a team. And it had absolutely nothing to do with finally landing on the right side of a 1-run game. No, this was much more than that. This was payback of a different sort, on a different level.
Word of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden's death spread like wildfire early Monday. Many media outlets ran photographs of bin Laden's bloody, shot face. It's not yet clear if these photos are authentic or doctored.
The news came in late last night during the Mets-Phillies game that after nearly 10 years on the run, Osama bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind responsible for the 9/11 attacks, was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan.
While many were jubilant that the mastermind of the worst terror attack in New York City history was dead, that excitement was tempered by the possibility for retaliation.
As word of the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden swept through Citizens Bank Park during Sunday night's game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Mets, excited fans erupted in thunderous chants of "USA" during the top of the ninth inning.
The American-born cleric behind the attempted Times Square bombing has now eclipsed Osama bin Laden as the biggest threat to American security.
Prosecutors in New York say the first Guantanamo detainee to be convicted in a civilian court is evil and deserves a life sentence for helping al-Qaida bomb two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 and open the door to more terrorism.
Judge Kaplan said he will delay the trial a few days if he excludes the witness and prosecutors appeal.
"Current information suggests that al-Qaida and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks," the warning said.
