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9/11 Survivors At Risk Of Long-Term Health Problems
The study analysed 8,701 survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attack at the World Trade Centre to find out the association between dust exposure and long term risks of heart attack and lung problems
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World's Costliest Train Station Opens Today At Site Of 9/11 Attacks
The most expensive train station in the world opens today at the site of the World Trade Center destroyed 14 years ago in the 9/11 attacks.
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Barack Obama Leads US in Moment of Silence on 9/11
US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle on Friday stood on the White House lawn to observe a moment of silence to mark the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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Victims' Relatives Gather 14 Years After 9/11 Attacks on US
An overcast today greeted relatives who gathered to commemorate nearly 3,000 people killed in the September 11 attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and outside Washington 14 years ago, when airliners hijacked by Al-Qaeda militants brought death, mayhem and destruction.
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Imam to tour US to garner support for Ground Zero mosque
The preacher who hoped to use his unsought fame as imam of the mosque near ground zero to start a dialogue about Muslims in America said he's taking a reduced role in the project so he can travel the country building "understanding among all people of faith."Feisal Abdul Rauf, who co-led the effort to build an Islamic community center near the Worl...
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US celebrates Eid under the shadow of 9/11
Nine years ago a deadly act of terrorism, brought the world's most powerful country to its knees. In the weeks and months that followed, many Muslim Americans found themselves on the defensive-having to prove to their non-Muslim neighbours and friends, that Islam was a peaceful religion and that they did not subscribe, at any level, to the ideology...
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Remembering the 9/11 attacks
A date in the history that changed the way the world looked at the United States of America. The 9/11 attacks shook the very bases of a nation that believed it could be stopped by nothing.Here is a look at what happened on that fateful day.At 8:45 am on a clear Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel ...
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Obama backs mosque on 9/11 anniversary
On the eve of the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, US President Barack Obama once again came out in defense of the construction of a mosque just two blocks away from the Ground Zero.Addressing a press conference at the White House, on a day magnified by heightened tensions due to the Florida pastor's threat to burn Quran, Obama reiterated tha...
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American Muslims ask, will we ever belong?
For nine years after the attacks of Sept. 11, many American Muslims made concerted efforts to build relationships with non-Muslims, to make it clear they abhor terrorism, to educate people about Islam and to participate in interfaith service projects. They took satisfaction in the observations by many scholars that Muslims in America were more succ...
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What Muslim New Yorkers feel about Ground Zero Mosque
In the storm of anger and accusation over an Islamic center and mosque planned near ground zero, one thing seems clear to Laique Khan: His fellow Muslims have a right to build the project."If this really is a free country," said Mr Khan, 56, the manager of a trucking company in Brooklyn, "then, by all rights you must, you must, allow it."The same h...
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Mosque near Ground Zero will spread hatred: Ex-NY Mayor
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who led New Yorkers during the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, has spoken out against the proposed mosque near 'Ground Zero' and described the move as "divisive".Giuliani, who was the Mayor during the September 11 attacks, said the organisers' plans are breeding of hatered rather than healing wounds."This project...
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Obama's 'the right' for ground zero mosque; White House clarifies
Weighing his words carefully on a fiery political issue, President Barack Obama said on Saturday that Muslims have the right to build a mosque near New York's ground zero, but he did not say whether he believes it is a good idea to do so.Obama commented during a trip to Florida, where he expanded on a Friday night White House speech asserting that ...
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Obama backs mosque near ground zero
Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed allowing a mosque near ground zero, saying the country's founding principles demanded no less."As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country," Obama said, weighing in for the first time on a controversy that has riven ...
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Dramatic new stills of 9/11 attack released
A trove of aerial photographs of the collapsing World Trade Center was widely released this week, offering a rare and chilling view from the heavens of the burning twin towers.
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Plans to try 9/11 plotter in New York dropped
The Obama Administration has abandoned its plan to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of 9/11 attacks, in New York.
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9/11 Survivors At Risk Of Long-Term Health Problems
The study analysed 8,701 survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attack at the World Trade Centre to find out the association between dust exposure and long term risks of heart attack and lung problems
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World's Costliest Train Station Opens Today At Site Of 9/11 Attacks
The most expensive train station in the world opens today at the site of the World Trade Center destroyed 14 years ago in the 9/11 attacks.
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Barack Obama Leads US in Moment of Silence on 9/11
US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle on Friday stood on the White House lawn to observe a moment of silence to mark the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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Victims' Relatives Gather 14 Years After 9/11 Attacks on US
An overcast today greeted relatives who gathered to commemorate nearly 3,000 people killed in the September 11 attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and outside Washington 14 years ago, when airliners hijacked by Al-Qaeda militants brought death, mayhem and destruction.
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Imam to tour US to garner support for Ground Zero mosque
The preacher who hoped to use his unsought fame as imam of the mosque near ground zero to start a dialogue about Muslims in America said he's taking a reduced role in the project so he can travel the country building "understanding among all people of faith."Feisal Abdul Rauf, who co-led the effort to build an Islamic community center near the Worl...
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US celebrates Eid under the shadow of 9/11
Nine years ago a deadly act of terrorism, brought the world's most powerful country to its knees. In the weeks and months that followed, many Muslim Americans found themselves on the defensive-having to prove to their non-Muslim neighbours and friends, that Islam was a peaceful religion and that they did not subscribe, at any level, to the ideology...
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Remembering the 9/11 attacks
A date in the history that changed the way the world looked at the United States of America. The 9/11 attacks shook the very bases of a nation that believed it could be stopped by nothing.Here is a look at what happened on that fateful day.At 8:45 am on a clear Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel ...
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Obama backs mosque on 9/11 anniversary
On the eve of the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, US President Barack Obama once again came out in defense of the construction of a mosque just two blocks away from the Ground Zero.Addressing a press conference at the White House, on a day magnified by heightened tensions due to the Florida pastor's threat to burn Quran, Obama reiterated tha...
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American Muslims ask, will we ever belong?
For nine years after the attacks of Sept. 11, many American Muslims made concerted efforts to build relationships with non-Muslims, to make it clear they abhor terrorism, to educate people about Islam and to participate in interfaith service projects. They took satisfaction in the observations by many scholars that Muslims in America were more succ...
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What Muslim New Yorkers feel about Ground Zero Mosque
In the storm of anger and accusation over an Islamic center and mosque planned near ground zero, one thing seems clear to Laique Khan: His fellow Muslims have a right to build the project."If this really is a free country," said Mr Khan, 56, the manager of a trucking company in Brooklyn, "then, by all rights you must, you must, allow it."The same h...
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Mosque near Ground Zero will spread hatred: Ex-NY Mayor
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who led New Yorkers during the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, has spoken out against the proposed mosque near 'Ground Zero' and described the move as "divisive".Giuliani, who was the Mayor during the September 11 attacks, said the organisers' plans are breeding of hatered rather than healing wounds."This project...
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Obama's 'the right' for ground zero mosque; White House clarifies
Weighing his words carefully on a fiery political issue, President Barack Obama said on Saturday that Muslims have the right to build a mosque near New York's ground zero, but he did not say whether he believes it is a good idea to do so.Obama commented during a trip to Florida, where he expanded on a Friday night White House speech asserting that ...
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Obama backs mosque near ground zero
Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed allowing a mosque near ground zero, saying the country's founding principles demanded no less."As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country," Obama said, weighing in for the first time on a controversy that has riven ...
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Dramatic new stills of 9/11 attack released
A trove of aerial photographs of the collapsing World Trade Center was widely released this week, offering a rare and chilling view from the heavens of the burning twin towers.
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Plans to try 9/11 plotter in New York dropped
The Obama Administration has abandoned its plan to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of 9/11 attacks, in New York.
