US remembers 9/11 still haunted by Bin Laden

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2007

NEW YORK (AFP) — The United States marked six years since the September 11 attacks Tuesday with solemn ceremonies but were still haunted by Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who used the anniversary to praise the hijackers.

In an overcast New York, families of the 2,749 people killed when two planes plowed into the World Trade Center paid their respects near the site as rescue workers read the names of the dead, in what has now become an annual ritual.

With heads bowed, holding photographs of the dead and fighting to hold back the tears, relatives listened as the grim roll call was read out to the haunting strains of a solo cello, flute and guitar.

"We come together again as New Yorkers and as Americans to share a loss that can't be measured and to remember...