Given these factors, security analysts believe there may be two main reasons why the army has been putting off action against this destructive ground-zero of al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan.
Wisconsin is currently ground-zero for these intrastate stand-offs.
Freed believes that the lingering cloud of dust -- caused by the towers' collapse and the digging out of ground zero -- caused some of her long- and short-term medical problems, such as her "WTC cough" and other respiratory issues.
"It's a war that I feel we just won, " said one former New York firefighter -- who says he was forced to retire due to lung ailments suffered from dust at ground zero -- the site where the World Trade Center's twin towers once stood.
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Food is ground zero-the place where the economy meets the soil, where profitability meets fertility.
Perhaps Imam Rauf, the man behind the controversial Cordoba Mosque at Ground Zero--an enterprise directed, he says, at advancing a tolerant, peaceful, modern Islam--might instead produce a magazine that would be the alternative to Inspire.
He certainly has an obligation to figure out whether - as is true of, by some estimates, 80% of the mosques in America - the Ground Zero Mosque is going to fit the profile of a Wahhabi-associated facility.
Now the central deception - that the Ground Zero mosque was never really a mosque at all - has been fully revealed.
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To the contrary, it would be the height of irresponsibility not to take note of, and act upon, them - first by stopping the Ground Zero Mosque, then by ensuring that America remains Shariah-free.
The location is at the site where a mosque and community centre has been proposed, three streets away from "Ground Zero" - where the twin towers once stood.
The Discovery Channel will feature the Steven Spielberg-produced documentary "Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero, " and the Spanish network Telemundo will broadcast a five-hour show from that location.
As you're probably well aware, CES is ground zero for free stuff -- most of which is crappy swag.
Mr Bush gave his speech in the Texas House of Representatives, ground zero for bipartisan co-operation in his state.
Ten years on, the long-term shape of Ground Zero is coming into focus.
You have to understand, after spending 12-15 hours at ground zero, the air in this area is very heavy, it's almost suffocating.
But nearly 11 years later, the most indelible of the images for me are those that told a wider story: The ash-covered moonscape of ground zero.
In what has become an anniversary tradition, the names of the 2, 749 victims at Ground Zero were read out - this year, by parents and grandparents of the dead.
For years they were caught up in disputes over whether the air at ground zero was really toxic -- the Environmental Protection Agency long claimed it was safe -- and whether the illnesses could be linked to the attack site.
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But today, Virginia is for Killers as well as lovers because Virginia is ground zero of the military-industrial complex that carries on perpetual war around the world wrecking death and destruction wherever its shooters tread dragging it tail of ordinary people behind.
For months afterward he was at Ground Zero several times a day--every day--guiding and overseeing the heroic rescue and cleanup efforts.
No doubt KSM and his followers at Guantanamo take great satisfaction in such high-profile support of the Ground Zero mosque and have exclaimed, "God is great!"
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For Rauf's part, the would-be imam of the Ground Zero Mosque could not be more clear: His goal is to bring shariah to the United States and indeed, the entire world.
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Wearing hard-hat, paper mask, and gloves I walked around Ground Zero with ministry students giving bottles of water, Red Bull, and chewing gum to first-responders working the pile.
And let's not forget the fearsome Big Nuke -- get caught too close to ground zero and you're, well, nuked.
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In the months after the terrorist attacks, nobody could agree how -- or even whether -- to fill the hole at ground zero.
The piece was found in an 18-inch gap between two buildings near ground zero.
But he has appeared at several events since the September 11 terrorist attacks, including the star-studded "America: A Tribute to Heroes" fund-raising broadcast and a visit to Ground Zero in September.
On Memorial Day weekend, three Marines from the 24th Expeditionary Unit who had been wounded in Iraq were joined by 300 other service members for a wreath-laying ceremony at the empty pit of Ground Zero.
Thanks to the Ground Zero mosque controversy, Americans are also getting a crash-course on the preeminent perpetrator of the stealthy form of "civilization jihad, " the Muslim Brotherhood.
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As a result, it seems all-too-predictable that the megamosque he seeks to build at Ground Zero would be a beachhead for Shariah and a new, dangerous incubator of jihadism in the heart of New York.
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