11 September 2011, 7:06 AM
NEW YORK — A jittery, embattled United States comes together in grief on Sunday’s 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks which killed almost 3,000 people and plunged it into an era of war and bitter internal division.
President Barack Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush will attend ceremonies at the site of the destroyed Twin Towers in New York, with Obama also flying to ’s other crash sites in Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon.
With federal officials warning of a new terrorism scare, security in major cities was extraordinarily tight, and Obama has called for a “heightened state of vigilance and preparedness.”
Heavily armed police squads and bomb sniffing dogs deployed across New York, while motorists in some neighborhoods were forced to go through checkpoints.
As every year since the horrific events of September 11, 2001, remembrance ceremonies will center on Ground Zero, where 2,753 of the day’s 2,977 victims died in the inferno of the collapsing skyscrapers. Khaleej Times
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