The United States is commemorating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the cities of New York and Washington.
In a rare show of unity White House rivals John McCain and Barack Obama are making a joint visit to Ground Zero to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Live television footage showed the two presidential rivals entering the site of the former World Trade Center together with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Earlier Bloomberg led the first of two separate minutes of silence to mark the moment when two hijacked passenger planes flew into the city's Twin Towers. Around 3,000 people were killed in the co-ordinated series of attacks, which used passenger planes to ram the World Trade Centre and Pentagon. A fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
(Deutsche Welle)
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