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| US marks sixth 9/11 anniversary |
| Americans have held a series of solemn ceremonies to mark six years since the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US.
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 12-September-2007
3:34:42 AM |
| Nearly 3,000 people were killed when four planes were hijacked and flown into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
Church bells tolled at 0846 local time to mark the moment when the first Trade Center tower was hit.
A message purportedly from al-Qaeda head Osama Bin Laden has been released, praising one of the hijackers.
'Loss shared'
For the first time, much of the New York ceremony took place away from the World Trade Center site - known as Ground Zero - because of construction there
Those taking part gathered instead at a nearby park, under overcast skies.
The names of the New York victims were read out as in previous years but for the first time by the surviving firefighters and other emergency workers on duty at the time.
Some of those reading out the names were overcome with emotion as they came to list fallen colleagues.
The ceremony included two pauses to mark the moments when the two planes crashed into the twin towers, and two more to mark the moments when the buildings collapsed.
Relatives of the 2,749 people killed in New York by 10 of the hijackers filed down a ramp into the World Trade Center site to lay flowers.
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