- Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden, most often mentioned as Osama bin Laden or Usama bin Laden, is a Saudi militant Islamist and is reported to be the founder of the organization called al-Qaeda. He is a member of the wealthy bin Laden family. In conjunction with several other Islamic militant leaders, …
- Bob Schieffer
Ambassador Schieffer grew up in Fort Worth attending the public schools. He graduated from Arlington Heights High School in 1966. He attended the University of Texas in Austin where he majored in government and minored in history. He received a B.A. degree in 1970. Ambassador Schieffer immediately entered graduate school where he studied international relations. He received an M.A. Degree in 1972. Ambassador Schieffer has had a life long fascination with politics.
- Tommy Franks
Tommy Franks, the allied commander, has since admitted this operation was designed to �degrade� Iraqi air defences in the same way as the air attacks that began the 1991 Gulf war.
- Pat Tillman
Patrick Daniel Tillman (November 6 1976 - April 22 2004) was an American football player who left his professional sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in May 2002, along with his brother Kevin Tillman. Tillman was the first professional football player to be killed in combat since the death of Bob Kalsu of the Buffalo Bills, who died in the Vietnam War in 1970. Tillman was posthumously promoted from Specialist to Corporal.
- Hani Hanjour
Hani Saleh Hanjour, (August 13 1972 - September 11 2001) was one of five men named by the FBI as hijackers of American Airlines flight 77 in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. The FBI believes that he piloted the plane and crashed it into The Pentagon. Hanjour is largely considered to have been among the most conservative and religiously observant of the hijackers.
- Karen Kwiatkowski
Karen U. Kwiatkowski (born 24 September 1960) is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and a variety of roles for the National Security Agency. Since retiring, she has become a noted critic of the U.S. government's involvement in Iraq.
- Bill Ayers
Bill Ayers (b. 1944) is a former member of the Weather Underground who is now a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Barbara Olson
Barbara Olson (December 27, 1955 - September 11, 2001) was a conservative American television commentator who worked for Fox News Channel, CNN and several other outlets. She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Olson was born Barbara Kay Bracher in Houston, Texas.
- Jim Miklaszewski
Jim Miklaszewski is chief Pentagon correspondent for NBC News. Since joining NBC in 1985, Miklaszewski was a White House correspondent during the Bush Sr. and Clinton administrations. Prior to joining NBC News, Miklaszewski was one of the CNN "Originals", serving as a National Correspondent and covering the Reagan White House. He was also a moderator for two CNN public affairs programs, "Election Watch" and "Newsmaker Sunday".
- Victoria Clarke
Victoria C. "Torie" Clarke (March 1959 in Pittsburgh) is an American public relations consultant who has served in the private sector and in three Republican presidential administrations, most notably as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under Donald Rumsfeld. Clarke is a graduate of George Washington University and began her career as a photographer for the now defunct Washington Star.
- Nawaf Al-Hazmi
Nawaf al-Hazmi was one of five terrorists named by FBI as hijackers of American Airlines flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon in the September 11, 2001 attack. His younger brother, Salem al-Hazmi, was another of the 9/11 terrorists and helped hijack the same flight.
- Lawrence di Rita
Lawrence Di Rita (born in Detroit, Michigan) was a close aide to United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and is currently a spokesmen for Bank of America Corp. Di Rita served as acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Pentagon spokesmen under Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Reportedly, he was slated to become Secretary of the Army but his nomination was scuttled due to opposition in the Senate.
- Khalid Al-Mihdhar
Khalid al-Mihdhar (May 16 1975 - September 11 2001) was one of five terrorists named by the FBI as hijackers of American Airlines flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon in the September 11, 2001 attacks. He was one of the six participants known as the organizers of the attacks. He has used the aliases Sannan al-Makki, Khalid bin Muhammad, Addallah al-Mihdhar, and Khalid Mohammad al-Saqaf.
- Tom Toles
Thomas Gregory Toles (born October 22, 1951) is a United States political cartoonist. He is the winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Similar to Oliphant's use of his character Punk, Toles also tends to include a small doodle, usually a small caricature of himself at his desk, in the margin of his strip. Toles left "The Buffalo News" in 2002, accepting an offer from "The Washington Post" to replace Herblock, their late, …
- Suzanne Malveaux
Suzanne M. Malveaux (born April 12, 1966), an American television news reporter.
- Stew Albert
Steward Edward Albert was a co-founder of the Yippies, an anti-Vietnam War political activist, and an important figure in the New Left movement of the 1960's. Born in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, NY to a New York City employee, he had a relatively conventional political life in his youth, though he was among those who protested the execution of Caryl Chessman. He graduated from Pace University and worked for a while for the City of New York welfare department.
- Pete Williams
Pete Williams is an NBC News correspondent based in Washington, D.C. He has been covering the Justice Department and the U.S. Supreme Court since March 1993. Williams was also a key reporter on the Microsoft anti-trust trial and Judge Jackson's decision. Prior to joining NBC, Williams served as a press official on Capitol Hill for many years. In 1986 he joined the Washington, DC staff of then Congressman Dick Cheney as press secretary and a legislative assistant.
- Leslie Gelb
Leslie (Les) Howard Gelb is a former correspondent for "The New York Times" and is currently President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica that was re-established in 2005 after a 10-year hiatus.
- Raymond T. Odierno
Lieutenant General Raymond T. Odierno is assigned as the Commanding General of U.S. III Corps and Fort Hood on 15 May 2006. In December 2006, as III Corps uncased its colors at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Odierno is also the Commanding General of the Multi-National corps in Baghdad. His previous assignment brought him to the Pentagon in Washington D.C. as the Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 3 November 2004 to 1 May 2006.
- Abdul Salam Zaeef
Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, born 1968 in Kandahar, was the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan before the US invasion of Afghanistan. He was crippled during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. He was detained in Pakistan somewhere in the winter or spring of 2001/2002 as an "unlawful combatant" in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps and was kept there as of June 2004. Zaeef was a minister of transportation until he became the Taliban's envoy to Pakistan.
- Thomas McInerney
Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney, USAF (Ret.), is director of NetStar Systems, and a Fox News pundit. He advocates military-led regime change in Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea and Syria, and is a member of the Iran Policy Committee. NetStar Systems is a supplier of secure intranet and knowledge base systems to the Defense and Intelligence sectors.
- David S. C. Chu
David S. C. Chu is the United States Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) responsible as the senior policy advisor on recruitment, career development, pay and benefits, and overseeing the state of military readiness. Appointed on June 1, 2001, Chu is one of the least publicly recognized of the civilians appointed to The Pentagon under President George W. Bush. Dr. Chu received a Bachelor of Arts Degree, magna cum laude, …
- Scott Speicher
Michael Scott Speicher was a U.S. Navy pilot whose F/A-18 Hornet fighter was reportedly shot down by an air-to-air missile fired from an Iraqi MiG-25 the first night of Operation Desert Storm on January 17, 1991; since then there has been no evidence of his death, nor any evidence that he is still alive. There is much controversy over the possibility that he might have survived and been taken prisoner by the Iraqis.
- Lotfi Raissi
Algerian pilot Lotfi Raissi, was the first person charged in connection with the September 11, 2001 attacks. However, in 2003 a British court ruled that the charges against Raissi were without evidence, and that he had no association with the attacks. Raissi was born and grew up in Bab el Oued, a suburb of Algiers. In November 1996 he moved to Phoenix, Arizona, to attend flight school, including a 1998 stint at Sawyer School of Aviation a month after Hani Hanjour quit.
- Charles Burlingame
Charles Frank "Chic" Burlingame III (September 12, 1949 - September 11, 2001) was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, the aircraft that was crashed by terrorists into the Pentagon during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- L. Fletcher Prouty
Leroy Fletcher Prouty (January 24, 1917 - June 5, 2001) was a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force, author, banker, and critic of US foreign policy, especially as regarded the activities of the CIA. His books include "The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World" and "JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy". He had a 23-year military career rising to the rank of Colonel, …
- Leslie Groves
Leslie Richard Groves (August 17, 1896 - July 13, 1970) was a United States Army officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and was the primary military leader in charge of the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb during World War II. Descended from French Huguenots who came to America in the 17th century, Leslie Groves was the son of a U.S. Army chaplain.
- Montgomery Meigs
Montgomery Meigs (b. January 11, 1945 in Annapolis, Maryland) is a retired United States General. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1967. He served as a cavalry troop commander in the Vietnam War. After study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a year at the Army's Command and General Staff College, …
- George Joulwan
George Alfred Joulwan (born November 16, 1939, Pottsville, Pennsylvania) was a United States Army general, and is now a businessman. Joulwan, of Lebanese origin, studied at the United States Military Academy and Loyola University. He served from June 1966 to November 1967 and from June 1971 to January 1972 in Vietnam. He attended the Army War College, and served on the Staff and Faculty until 1979. He commanded the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized), …
- Nadia McCaffrey
Nadia McCaffrey is the founder of Angelstaff.org, a group of volunteers who bring a caring presence to terminally ill patients and their families. When her son, Sergeant Patrick McCaffrey , died on June 22, 2004 in Iraq, Nadia began to focus much of her work on promoting peace and justice and reaching out to parents that have lost loved ones in the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.
- Eric Alva
Staff Sergeant Eric Fidelis Alva (born 1971-04-01) was the first U.S. military service member injured in the Iraq War. He was in charge of 11 marines in a supply unit when, on March 21, 2003, he stepped on a land mine, losing his right leg. He joined the United States Marine Corps in 1990 at the age of 19.
- Bret Baier
Bret Baier is the Fox News Channel's chief White House correspondent, based in Washington, D.C. He previously was the network's Pentagon correspondent. Joining Fox News in 1998, Baier has covered a number of stories including the September 11th attacks, the beginning of the War on Terror, the Kosovo War, and the latest about the current War in Iraq and War on Terror.
- Norman Morrison
Norman Morrison (December 29, 1933 - November 2, 1965), born in Erie, Pennsylvania, was a Quaker best known for committing suicide by self-immolation at age 31 to protest the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. On November 2 1965, Morrison set himself on fire in front of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's Pentagon office, after dousing himself in gasoline. He left his wife Anne Welsh and three children; Ben, …
- Theodore Postol
Theodore A. Postol (1946 -) is a Professor of Science, Technology, and International Security at MIT and a prominent critic of the effectiveness of missile defense. He received both his undergraduate degree in physics as well as his PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT. Postol worked at Argonne National Laboratory, where he studied the microscopic dynamics and structure of liquids and disordered solids using neutron, x-ray and light scattering, …
- David Charlebois
David Charlebois (August 29, 1962 - September 11, 2001) was the first officer on American Airlines Flight 77, which was destroyed in the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks. The flight was hijacked around 08:51 EDT by terrorists, and crashed into The Pentagon. Charlebois attended Yorktown High School in Arlington County, Virginia. He was a member of the Class of '80. He later graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1984.
- Kirk Lippold
Commander Kirk Lippold, USN, was Captain of the USS "Cole" on October 12, 2000 when the ship was attacked and bombed by Al-Qaeda terrorists. Lippold assumed command of the "Cole" on June 25, 1999 and served until he was relieved on March 9, 2001. Lippold is a 1981 graduate of the United States Naval Academy.
- Josh Rushing
Josh Rushing was a United States Marine Captain who was a press officer for United States Central Command (CENTCOM) during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. He became famous for his appearance in the documentary "Control Room", which documented his conversations with Al Jazeera correspondent Hassan Ibrahim. After the Pentagon ordered him not to comment on the movie, he left the Marine Corps and is now working for Al Jazeera English.
- Jeff Latas
Jeff Latas (born January 10, 1958) was a 2006 Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Arizona Congressional District 8. Latas worked as a construction carpenter and attended Pima Community College. He was then accepted into the Air Force ROTC program and Aerospace Engineering program at the University of Arizona, and upon graduation, he was commissioned into the United States Air Force. He flew the F-111D and served as a flight instructor in T-38s.
- Ronald T. Kadish
Lt. Gen. Ronald T. Kadish, Ret. (born April 6, 1948) is a United States Air Force officer who rose to head the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and the Missile Defense Agency within the United States Department of Defense. Born in Kingston, Pennsylvania, Kadish attended the Cardinal O'Hara High School and earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1970 from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia and joined the Air Force through the OTS program.
- Richard Berthold
Dr. Richard Berthold (b. 1946) was a tenured professor of classical history at the University of New Mexico. On the morning of September 11, 2001, while the terrorist attacks were still going on, he told two large freshman classes that "Anybody who blows up the Pentagon gets my vote." Under pressure from the administration, he retired two years later. Dr. Berthold's courses on the Ancient Near East, Hellenistic Greece, and others were extremely popular with UNM students.