The announcement that six detainees in Guantanamo would be charged and tried for the September 11, 2001 attacks was welcomed by a number of parties, including the families of people who died on September 11. However, some would like to see a trial in New York and not in Gitmo. more ›

The Pentagon has charged six men accused of planning the September 11, 2001 attacks and will seek the death penalty (the Pentagon's terse press release was titled "Defense Department Seeks Death Penalty for Six Guantanamo Bay Detainees"). These would be "the first trials under the terrorism-era military tribunal system." more ›

Freedom Tower's redesign is apparently something the NYPD can okay. The NYPD's counterterrorism head told the City Council, "We have positioned ourselves exactly where we should be to ensure that the Freedom Tower is the beautiful, elegant, secure, safe, robustly designed project that we all want it to be." Somehow, Gothamist doubts that it'll be a beautiful and elegant building that *we* all want it to be, but after reading yesterday's NY Times story about the rebuilding, we're okay with "secure, safe, robustly designed." Mainly, because of this quote:

In publicly available reports, [Defense Department, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the American Institute of Architects] advise that attention-getting architectural symbols are prime targets and should be located far from potential vehicle-borne bombs; glass facades can be lethal in a blast; train stations and underground garages are especially vulnerable to attack; and spacious, column-free interiors under other structures may be liable to collapse.