The Nation | Leading up to the anniversary, the most prominently featured 9/11 figure was Dick Cheney.”

Gothamist | “It’s time to end the War on Terror,” was the main topic of debate Wednesday night at NYU’s Skirball center, much to the audience’s befuddlement.

Daily Mirror | The 200-strong Libyan special forces group – trained by NATO forces – was unleashed as Interpol issued a warrant for his arrest.

Jason Mattera | Said Obama’s decision to keep many of the tools and tactics President Bush implemented to fight terrorism is reassuring.

Independent | A culture of lying and deceit has become pervasive in modern military

Guardian | The post 9/11 crackdown is said to have cost airlines and airports billions of dollars

CNN | As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, Council of Europe urges host countries to come clean.

CBC News | Said home-grown Islamic radicals in Canada are “also something that we keep an eye on.”

Reuters | Panetta was asked on the Charlie Rose television show whether the Arab Spring might spread to non-Arab Iran.

The New American | With no charges, trial, or legal recourse, the list of victims from CIA extrajudicial killings grows by the day

Press TV | IAEA can completely supervise Tehran’s nuclear activities for five years if the sanctions imposed against the Islamic Republic are lifted.

AFP | “Hundreds” of former Blackwater employees, barred from Iraq over a deadly 2007 shooting, later worked with firms guarding US diplomats.

Washington Post | Rare glimpse of the costs and operations of the controversial rendition program.

TheAlexJonesChannel | The new military commander of the city of Tripoli is a notorious al Qaeda butcher.

Guardian| Former British intelligence head rejects classic western terror mythologies

John Walsh | Cole is anxious to promote himself as a man of the left as he spins out his rationale for the war on Libya.

Conor Friedersdorf | Why did Colin Powell allow himself to be complicit in the rhetorical tying of Iraq to Al Qaeda?

Alex Newman | NATO may well be planning further “regime change” missions for other Middle Eastern nations.

Fox News | U.S. State Department refuses to release documents about al-Awlaki.

Independent | Rahman never had the worldwide recognition of Bin Laden or Bin Laden’s successor.

Sherwood Ross | Led by the CIA the U.S. is stepping up its war in Somalia.

Philly.com | Maryland teenager secretly arrested by the FBI for allegedly conspiring with the woman from the Philadelphia suburbs known as Jihad Jane.

Guardian | 372 cars torched in 2011, 155 were being treated as “politically motivated” crimes.

AFP | An American surveillance drone crashed in southwestern Pakistan on Thursday.

Zack Whittaker | Homeland Security has invoked the Patriot Act on Wikileaks’ domain registrar.

RT | The FBI has recently used informants not just to snitch, but to set up suspected terrorists from the get-go.

MyFox DC | Police said Neff told them he wanted to draw attention to issues he had with the banking industry.

The Nation | Intelligence forecaster STRATFOR has rejected the claim that Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad.

London Guardian | Two vehicles laden with explosives made short work of the walls and booms meant to keep the outside world away.

AFP | “Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism in 2010.”

Press TV | Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah says the US and Israel are trying to cause a civil war in Lebanon by destroying people’s coexistence.

RT | Around $360 million U.S. went to enemy insurgents in Afghanistan, according to a new report.

DNA | Obama has said that a “lone wolf” terror attack similar to the one in Norway posed the greatest threat to the US security.

Reuters | U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld a decision by a federal judge in Illinois to allow the lawsuit to proceed.

Infowars.com | Modifications are reported without comment by lapdog corporate media.

Mail Online | Rep. Peter King has called for a probe into the access allowed to filmmakers for a movie about SEAL Team 6.

Fox News Latino | A mail bomb that exploded in a Mexican campus injured two professors.

Huffington Post | That agenda: to secure the removal of the Mujahedin el-Khalq (MEK) from the U.S. government’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

AP | The convicted ringleader of detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib was released Saturday.

AFP | Defense Secretary launched a pre-emptive strike as a special committee prepares to slash spending.

Joshua Hersh | The political process there may be getting even worse.

London Telegraph | A federal judge’s ruling paves the way for former Defense Secretary to be sued personally.

Peter Dale Scott | Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now Libya: The Human Costs of Washington’s On-Going Collusion with Terrorists

London Guardian | Survivors and relatives have abandoned their attempt to force the government to hold a public inquiry.

Nancy A. Youssef | Pentagon to get $50 billion more than it had been expecting over next decade.

Madison Ruppert | Those pushing for an escalation against Assad presented nothing that can be independently verified.

Global Security Newswire | Lute would not specify which al-Qaeda leaders were being targeted other than Ayman al-Zawahiri.

ThirdAge.com | Next generation of militants to keep the terrorism threat high for a decade to come.

Stephen Morgan | Officer in the security service of the February 17 Martyr’s Brigade confessed to murdering General Younes.

AFP | U.S. announced sanctions on six men accused of operating a network which moves al-Qaeda operatives and money through Iran.