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The September 11 attacks and their influence on the creation of ICE and its authorities
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency was created as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, a landmark reorganization passed by Congress in the wake of the September 11 attacks...
Conspiracy theorists seized on ’s “new world order” phrasing from his September 11, 1990 address and reframed a diplomatic, coalition-building line of statecraft as proof of a secretive global takeove...
There is clear and repeated historical evidence that has contained bomb shelters and reinforced subterranean spaces since World War II, initially built under and later modernized into what is publicly...
Western fears of a supposed Muslim global dominance are rooted in a long chain of historical encounters—from medieval military clashes and the memory of Islamic polities in Europe, through colonial-er...
The claim that was an — meaning officials planned, executed, or knowingly facilitated the attacks — is not supported by the body of mainstream investigations, engineering analyses, or the best-documen...
The legal authorities now exercised by ) are the product of centuries of customs and immigration law, consolidated through mid‑20th century statutes like the and finally reorganized under the post‑9/1...
Multiple concrete warnings about an impending attack—ranging from a high‑level presidential daily brief to internal memos about suspicious flight‑school attenders and repeated alerts from allied intel...
has a well‑documented history of claiming and directing major terrorist attacks worldwide — including the embassy bombings, the attack, and the that killed nearly 3,000 people — and operates through n...
The September 11, 2001 attacks were a coordinated terrorist operation by al‑Qaeda that struck New York City, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 people and transforming U.S....
The claim that Able Danger—a classified military data‑mining effort—identified Mohamed Atta before September 11, 2001 rests primarily on the sworn recollections of a handful of Able Danger participant...
On September 11, 2001, 19 al‑Qaeda militants hijacked four U.S. airliners, flying two into the World Trade Center towers in New York, one into the Pentagon, and one that crashed in Pennsylvania after ...
Frank Siller founded the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation in the months after his younger brother, FDNY firefighter Stephen Siller, was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks; Frank serves...