One week after the city's announcement that 9/11 first responders will not be invited to the 10th anniversary ceremony, firefighters, paramedics, and other volunteers continued to voice their anger, disappointment.
Ten years after the September 11 attacks of 2001, the US has altered the balance between freedom and security, turning an open and casual society into an ever-vigilant one.
US President Barack Obama honored the legacy of Sept. 11 victims on Sunday by personally tracing the trail of the terrorist attacks, proudly declaring that the decade since has proven "America does not give in to fear."
The world urgently needs to establish joint standards to fight terror, experts have said.
Americans on Sunday remembered the horror of Sept 11, 2001, and the nearly 3,000 people who died in the attacks as authorities worked to ensure the emotional 10th anniversary was peaceful. Special
On the morning of Sept 11, 2001, America fell victim to one of the deadliest attacks in the nation’s history. Nineteen al-Qaida terrorists hijacked four passenger planes and crashed them into the Twin Towers of World Trade Center in New York, and Pentagon in Virginia. One plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to retake the control of the plane.
The attacks, blamed on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda extremist network, killed nearly 3,000 people. 3,000 Children lost a parent, including more than 100 who were not yet born. For every person killed on September 11, another 73 have been killed since. Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are dead, but Iraq and Afghanistan are far from stable.
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