Posted by: RAFAEL on: September 11, 2009
The rumors are true! “Slumdog Millionaire” stars Dev Patel and Freida Pinto are dating. The couple was photographed kissing on a lunch date in Israel April 26, 2009. Patel’s mother Anita has confirmed that the two are in fact an item. “Freida is really beautiful, and I am really happy for them. Yes, we knew [...]
Posted by: RAFAEL on: September 11, 2009
Kendra Wilkinson married Philadelphia Eagle NFL player Hank Baskett June 27, 2009, at the Playboy Mansion. The list of guests included Wilkinson’s former boyfriend Hugh Hefner and former roommates turned bridesmaids, Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt. Baskett proposed to Kendra Nov. 1, 2008, in the restaurant atop the Space Needle in Seattle.
Posted by: RAFAEL on: September 11, 2009
September 11, 2001 fundamentally changed the way Americans viewed their standing in the world. The day and it’s now iconic abbreviation, 9/11, have become shorthand for tragedy and bravery in the face of terror. The following slide show returns to the people and places whose names are forever linked with that fated day. Firefighters William [...]
Posted by: RAFAEL on: September 11, 2009
President George W. Bush first learned of the attacks while he was reading to a group of schoolchildren in Florida. That evening, he addressed the nation from the Oval Office and on Sept. 14, visited Ground Zero. The next year, in his State of the Union address, Bush turned his attention toward Iraq, a country [...]
Posted by: RAFAEL on: September 11, 2009
Despite a $50 million bounty, the largest in U.S. history, and millions more dollars spent looking for him, the man behind the attacks, Osama bin Laden, remains at large. Believed to be hiding in the mountains of Afghanistan or Pakistan, bin Laden has eluded an epic manhunt for eight years. Reports of his whereabouts, health [...]
Posted by: RAFAEL on: September 11, 2009
Some 3,000 people were killed when two hijacked airplanes were crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. On 9/11, New York City Mayor Giuliani declared, “The skyline will be made whole again,” but in the eight years since the attacks no significant building has taken place on the site, which remains a [...]
Posted by: RAFAEL on: September 11, 2009
As defense secretary with an office in the Pentagon on 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld had a closer perspective on the attacks than perhaps any other member of the administration. Soon after a plane struck the Pentagon, Rumsfeld raised the nation’s defenses to DEFCON 3, the highest level since 1973, and personally went to assist in rescue [...]
Posted by: RAFAEL on: September 11, 2009
Debra Burlingame is the sister of Charles F. “Chic” Burlingame III, the pilot of American Airlines flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon, Sept. 11, 2001, after being hijacked by terrorists. She has since become the director of the National September 11 Memorial Foundation and an occasional opinion columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where [...]
Posted by: RAFAEL on: September 11, 2009
A loyal lieutenant and disciple of Osama bin Laden, Khalid Sheik Mohammed was picked up by Pakistani intelligence officials in March 2003. In was revealed in 2006 that Mohammed was moved to the U.S. prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Mohammed has consistently admitted his guilt in the planning of the 9/11 attacks as well [...]
Posted by: RAFAEL on: September 11, 2009
This is an undated Metropolitan Police picture of Abdulla Ahmed Ali, who was convicted Monday, Sept. 7, 2009, of conspiring to kill thousands of civilians by blowing up trans-Atlantic flights in mid-air with liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks. A jury at a London courthouse found Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Assad Sarwar, 29, and Tanvir [...]
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