Sunday,  May 6, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 297 • 15 of 26 •  Other Editions

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Anger, frustration as 9/11 victims' families watch terror defendants try to undermine hearing

• NEW YORK (AP) -- Lee Hanson became deeply angry as the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and co-defendants tried to undermine their arraignment on 3,000 counts of murder at a military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
• Hanson's son, daughter-in-law and 2-year-old granddaughter, the youngest 9/11 victim, were killed in the terror attacks over a decade ago. All were aboard United Flight 175, the second plane to crash into the twin towers.
• "They praise Allah. I say, 'Damn you!'" said the silver-haired retiree from Eaton,

Conn.
• When it comes to justice, "it seems like it's an afterthought," said his wife, Eunice Hanson.
• Moans, sighs and exclamations erupted Saturday as Hanson and other relatives of Sept. 11 victims watched the closed-circuit TV feed of the court hearing from a movie theater at Fort Hamilton in New York City. It was one of four U.S. military bases where the arraignment was broadcast live for victims' family members, survivors and emergency person

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