This is the first I've heard of this and I wondered why our network news wasn't talking about this at all. Has everyone in the U.S. forgotten what happened that day and the people that did this to us?

Since these kinds of trials will be done in secret here in the US this may be the only real news you'll get about the ones that planned and carried it out.


Closing arguments made in Germany 9/11 trial
Mounir el Mostassadeq, 28, is the first suspect to go on trial in connection with the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Prosecutors have accused el Mostassadeq of organizing lodging and arranging bank transfers for the Hamburg cell. He faces possible life in prison on charges of being an accessory to some 3,000 counts of murder and belonging to a terror organization.

Good question, Danya. I had actually heard this story on one of the cable news channels, but it is highly doubtful that you're going to hear very much in this area on any of the networks. Nowdays, it not only has to be important news to make the network, it also has to be "good TV", and that's not likely to happen in any of the 9/11 trials here. Even the ones that are public trials are going to be held in Federal Court, and Federal Court is loathe to allow cameras in the courtroom. That means no good video = not good TV = Not gonna make the network news. I think we'll have to rely more on print journalism for the news in this area, and that's not necessarily a bad thing in my opinion. I generally trust the print folks more anyway.

Another reason for the lack of coverage by the networks is that it doesn't fit their agenda. Their anti-Bush bias precludes them from reporting anything that might feed the general feeling among the American public that our country is not as safe as it once was and thus we must take pre-emptive meaasures to protect it.

Another reason for the lack of coverage by the networks is that it doesn't fit their agenda. Their pro-Bush bias precludes them from reporting anything that might feed the general feeling among the American public that our country is the world's last and only hope to conquer evil in all its guises - and the thought that another country (especially such a suspect country as Germany which didn't leap immediately onto our disappointingly uncrowded UN badwagon) might actually be making real progress in terms of combatting terrorism is anathema.