US marks 9/11 anniversary amid Islam tensions
09/12/2010
NEW YORK — Remembrance ceremonies, marred by global tensions over a Florida pastor’s threat to burn the Koran, were to take place Saturday in New York and at the Pentagon on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
The rituals honoring the nearly 3,000 persons killed on Sept. 11, 2001, when Islamist terrorists flew hijacked planes into the US defense headquarters and New York’s World Trade Center towers, unfold almost unchanged each year.
In New York at Ground Zero the names of the 2,752 victims who died there are read out against a background of somber music, with moments of silence marking the times when the two airliners slammed into the Twin Towers — and again when the towers collapsed.
President Barack Obama was to attend the memorial service at the Pentagon, while Vice President Joseph Biden would be in New York.
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100912hed5.html
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