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Terrorism Works

Hamilton Nolan · 01/08/15 02:36PM

Terrorism persists because terrorism works. Terrorism works because we let it.

Three 9/11 Firemen Die of Cancer on the Same Day

Allie Jones · 09/26/14 11:37AM

On Monday, three firefighters who served on 9/11 died within hours of each other, according to the BBC. Lieutenant Howard Bischoff, 58, and firefighters Robert Leaver, 56, and Daniel Heglund, 58, all died of cancer, though it's unclear if their illnesses were linked to their service after the attacks.

Max Read · 09/11/14 12:03PM

As the country gathers in somber remembrance, Gawker takes part in its annual, ceremonial purification of the demons of cloying 9/11 memorial writing, in which a giant wicker statue—called by writers the "Ambler Man"—is burned in effigy.

Tom Scocca · 09/10/14 02:40PM

What's left of the late Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church pickets in the vicinity of Gawker Media on its God Hates the Media Dotcom tour of New York.

9/11 Museum Is Now Showing the Shirt Worn by a SEAL in Bin Laden Raid

Zara Golden · 09/07/14 05:11PM

Days ahead of the 13th anniversary of the attacks, the National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum has unveiled two additions to their collection: the dusty, tan shirt worn by a member of SEAL Team Six during the raid that took out Osama bin Laden and a commemorative coin given to "Maya," the CIA operative who served as the basis for Jessica Chastain's character in Zero Dark Thirty.

​President Obama: "We Tortured Some Folks" After 9/11

Taylor Berman · 08/01/14 03:00PM

At a press conference this afternoon, President Obama admitted that the U.S. tortured prisoners shortly after the 9/11 attacks. "In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong," Obama said, responding to a question about the recently declassified Senate study of the CIA's Rendition/Detention/Interrogation program. "We did a whole lot of things that were right. But we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values."