- 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, … - Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani (born May 28, 1944) is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from the state of New York. Formerly Mayor of New York City Giuliani is currently seeking the Republican nomination for President. A Democrat and Independent in the 1970s, and a Republican from the 1980s onward, Giuliani served in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, eventually becoming U.S. Attorney. - Karl Rove
Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush. He has headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. For most of his career prior to his employment at the White House, Rove was a political consultant. Rove's election campaign clients have included George W. Bush (2000 and 2004 presidential elections, 1994 and 1998 Texas gubernatorial elections), … - Larry Silverstein
Larry A. Silverstein (born 1932 in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York) is a Jewish American billionaire real estate investor and operator and the head of Silverstein Properties, a real estate development group. Silverstein is also a member of New York University's Board of Trustees. Silverstein is the developer and leaseholder of the World Trade Center towers that were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. - Mohamed Atta
Mohamed Atta ("') (September 1, 1968 - September 11, 2001) was named by the FBI as the head suicide pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks. Atta is suspected of using numerous aliases during his lifetime, including Mehan Atta, Mohammed Atta, Mohammad El Amir, Mohamed El Sayed, … - Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libsekind's architectural designs are endless juxtapositions. They honor the historical yet are unapologetically modern. Some view his work, such as the spiral addition to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as controversial - while others view it as a brilliant representation of modern-day architecture in all its glory. His work harmoniously combines materials, shapes, and structure in a way most thought impossible, improbable, and many would even say, questionable. - Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Ruth Gyllenhaal (born November 16, 1977) is an American actress. She is the older sister of Jake Gyllenhaal and the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner. Gyllenhaal began her acting career in a film directed by her father, and later achieved recognition in her own right playing her real-life brother's on-screen sister in the cult hit "Donnie Darko". Gyllenhaal made her breakthrough in the sadomasochistic romance, … - Steven E. Jones
Steven Earl Jones is an American physicist. For most of his career, Jones was known mainly for his work on muon-catalyzed cold fusion. In the fall of 2006, amid controversy surrounding his work on the collapse of the World Trade Center, he was relieved of his teaching duties and placed on paid leave from Brigham Young University. On October 20, 2006, he announced his retirement. - William Rodriguez
William Rodríguez is a former janitor who was at the North Tower of the World Trade Center who pulled several people to safety during the September 11, 2001 attacks. He was honored at the White House five times. He has since become involved with the 9/11 Truth Movement, and alleges governmental involvement and coverup during the attacks. - Minoru Yamasaki
Minoru Yamasaki (December 1 1912 - February 6 1986) was an American architect best known for his design of the World Trade Center which was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Yamasaki was one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century and his firm, Minoru Yamasaki & Associates, continues to live on. He and fellow architect Edward Durrell Stone are generally considered to be the two master practitioners of "romanticized modernism". - Tom Brokaw
Thomas John Brokaw (born February 6, 1940 in Webster, South Dakota) is a popular American television journalist, Previously working on regularly scheduled news documentaries for the NBC television network, and is the former NBC News anchorman and managing editor of the program "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw". His last broadcast as anchorman was on December 1, 2004, succeeded by Brian Williams in a carefully planned transition. - 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. - John McLoughlin
John McLoughlin (born ca. 1953) was one of two Port Authority Police survivors of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, and is the subject of an Oliver Stone film released in 2006. McLoughlin attended College at the State University of New York at Oswego, he was a member of the Sigma Tau Chi Fraternity. The film "World Trade Center" retells the story of McLoughlin (played by Nicolas Cage) and William Jimeno. - Jerrold Nadler
Jerrold Lewis Nadler, sometimes called Jerry Nadler (born June 13, 1947) is an American politician from New York City. A Democrat, Nadler represents New York's 8th congressional district which includes parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City. Nadler's district includes most of midtown Manhattan, including the site where the World Trade Center stood. It also includes the lower Manhattan neighborhoods of Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen, … - Will Jimeno
Will Jimeno (born November 26, 1967) is a Port Authority Police officer of Colombian origin who survived the World Trade Center attack on September 11th. He was buried under the rubble for nearly 12 hours, but survived miraculously, along with fellow Port Authority officer John McLoughlin. His entombment and rescue are portrayed in the 2006 Oliver Stone film "World Trade Center". Jimeno, a rookie cop assigned to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, … - Marvin Bush
Marvin Pierce Bush (born October 22, 1956) is the youngest son of George H. W. Bush and Barbara Pierce, and brother of George W., John (Jeb), Neil and Dorothy. He is named for his maternal grandfather. He and wife Margaret have two adopted children from the Gladney Center in Ft. Worth, Texas: a daughter, Marshall, and a son, Walker. - Philippe Petit
Philippe Petit (born August 13, 1949) is a French high wire artist who gained fame for his illegal walk between the former Twin Towers in New York City on August 7 1974. He used a 450 pound cable to do so and also a custom made 26 foot long, 55 pound balancing pole. Tight-rope walker, unicyclist, magician and pantomime artist, Philippe Petit was also one of the earliest modern day street jugglers in Paris in 1968. - David Childs
David M. Childs (born 1941 Princeton, New Jersey) is the Consulting Design Partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill who has projects all over the world and now is designing the Freedom Tower in New York. - Ali Mohamed
Ali Abdul Saoud Mohamed, also known as Ali Mohammed (b. 1952) is an acknowledged Al Qaeda operative who was charged with the August 7, 1998 bombings of the United States' embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In October 2000, he pleaded guilty to five counts of conspiracy to kill nationals of the United States and officers or employees of the U.S. government on account of their official duties, to murder and kidnap, … - Michael Arad
Michael Arad is an Israeli citizen and architect who was selected to design the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City. - Waleed Al-Shehri
Waleed M. al-Shehri was named by the FBI as a hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles that crashed into the World Trade Center as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks. His brother, Wail al-Shehri, is also a suspected 9/11 hijacker. The following birthdates have been associated with al-Shehri: September 13, 1974; November 5, 1975, January 1, 1976; March 3, 1976; July 8, 1977; December 20, 1978; and May 11, 1979. - Michael Peña
Michael Anthony Peña is an American actor. Peña, a Mexican American, was born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father worked at a button factory and his mother was an assistant to a social worker, although both of Peña's parents were originally farmers. Peña attended Marist High School in Chicago. Though Peña has been a regular in independent productions since 1994, his breakthrough performances came in 2004 in two Best Picture Oscar-winning Paul Haggis penned films, … - Lorie van Auken
Lorie Van Auken is a 9/11 widow, one of the "Jersey Girls". Her husband, Kenneth Van Auken, was a bond trader at Cantor Fitzgerald L.P., and worked on the 105th floor of WTC Tower One. Along with three other 9/11 New Jersey widows (Kristen Breitweiser, Mindy Kleinberg and Patty Casazza), Lorie worked to form the 9/11 Commission, despite attempts by The White House to block it. After the release of the 9/11 Commission Report, … - Jay Hernandez
Jay Hernandez (born February 20, 1978) is an American actor. Hernandez was born Javier Manuel Hernandez, Jr. in Montebello, California to Isis (Maldonado), a secretary, and Javier Hernandez, Sr., a mechanic. He has a younger sister, Amelia, and two older brothers, Michael and Gabriel. Hernandez is a third-generation Mexican American. He attended Don Bosco Technical Institute in Rosemead, California, but transferred to Schurr High School in Montebello, … - Jim Dwyer
Jim Dwyer is an American journalist who is a reporter and columnist with "The New York Times". A native New Yorker, Dwyer wrote columns for "New York Newsday" and the "New York Daily News" before joining the "Times". He earned a bachelor’s degree in general science from Fordham University in 1979 and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1980. - Juan Gonzalez
Juan Gonzalez is an American investigative journalist. He has been a columnist for the "New York Daily News" since 1987. He co-hosts the radio and television program Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. He was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and was raised in East Harlem and Brooklyn. After a stint as editor of his high school newspaper, the "Lane Reporter", Gonzalez enrolled in Columbia University, … - Michael Shannon
Michael Shannon (born 1974) is an American stage and film actor. Shannon began his career as a stage actor in Chicago, where he helped found A Red Orchid Theatre. He has since worked with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre, and other groups. Shannon originated the role of Peter Evans in "Bug" in 2004 and also starred in the 2007 film adaptation with Ashley Judd and Harry Connick, Jr, directed by William Friedkin. - Andrea Berloff
Andrea Berloff is a screenwriter. Her first produced script is "World Trade Center", a drama about the September 11, 2001 attacks, starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Oliver Stone. - Betty Ong
Betty Ann Ong (5 February 1956 - 11 September 2001), born in San Francisco to Harry Ong Senior and Yee-gum Oy. She was a Chinese American flight attendant on board American Airlines Flight 11 when it was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. Ong grew up in San Francisco's Chinatown and graduated from George Washington High School. - Tom Burnett
Thomas Edward Burnett (May 29, 1963 - September 11, 2001), was the vice president and COO of a Pleasanton, California, medical devices company, Thoratec Corporation. At the time of his death, Mr. Burnett resided in San Ramon, California. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson Senior High School in Bloomington, Minnesota in 1981 after leading the football team to the state semi-finals as their starting quarterback. - Scott Horton
Scott Horton is an assistant editor at Antiwar.com and is the host of "Antiwar Radio". Previously, Horton was host of The Weekend Interview Show on the Republic Broadcasting Network in the United States. Since 1999, he has hosted six shows in Austin, Texas, beginning with "Say it Ain't So" on the infamous underground station Free Radio Austin – twice the target of FCC raids. - Cass Gilbert
Cass Gilbert (November 29, 1859 - May 17, 1934) was a pioneering American architect. An early proponent of skyscrapers in works like the Woolworth Building, Gilbert was also responsible for numerous museums and libraries (Saint Louis Art Museum), state capitol buildings (the Minnesota and West Virginia State Capitols, for example) as well as public architectural icons like the United States Supreme Court building. - James Glanz
James Glanz is an American journalist who was recently named to be the next Baghdad bureau chief of "The New York Times". Glanz joined the Times in 1999. Articles he wrote with Eric Lipton and others on the World Trade Center were chosen as a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism in 2002. Articles Lipton and Glanz wrote were also a part of the Nation Challenged package that won a Pulitzer for Public Service in 2002. - John Ogonowski
John A. Ogonowski was a pilot and an agricultural activist. A resident of Dracut, Massachusetts, Ogonowski was a leading figure on behalf of farming in Massachusetts, particularly for immigrant farmers from Cambodia, whom he assisted as part of the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project. For part of his life, Ogonowski flew airplanes for American Airlines. He died on September 11, 2001, when the airplane he was flying, … - Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 - March 6, 2007) was a French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism. - Stanley Hilton
Stanley G. Hilton is a San Francisco, California, based attorney, political scientist, and former chief of staff for Bob Dole. Hilton gained notoriety and condemnation as a conspiracy theorist for filing a $7 billion class action lawsuit, in 2002, against United States President George W. Bush, members of his administration (including Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld) and others. The lawsuit supposedly had 400 plaintiffs including 14 families of 9/11 victims, … - Michael B. Mukasey
Michael Mukasey , who prepped for the job in the federal judiciary while Gonzales was the president's lapdog, is a rocket scientist by comparison. After hoodwinking the Senate into confirming him because he promised that he'd have to look into this torture stuff, Mukasey has gone to great lengths to defend its use while approving an "independent" investigation into the darkest of all the dark aspects of the Bush administration that is anything but. - Wail Al-Shehri
Wail al-Shehri was named by the FBI as one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles that crashed into the World Trade Center as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks. His brother, Waleed al-Shehri, is also a suspected 9/11 hijacker. - Ben Sliney
Ben Sliney was the FAA Director of Operations on Sept. 11, 2001, which was his first day on the job. After evaluating the situation and after two planes had crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, he ordered the full landing of the roughly 4,200 airplanes in the air at the time, an unprecedented judgment call which the 9/11 Commission later denoted as an important and decisive act in the chaos of that morning. - Rod Paige
Roderick Raynor "Rod" Paige (born June 17, 1933), served as the 7th United States Secretary of Education from 2001 to 2005. Paige, who grew up in Mississippi, built a career on a belief that education equalizes opportunity, moving from college dean and school superintendent to be the first African American to serve as the nation's education chief. Paige was sitting with George W. Bush at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, …
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