Americans remember to the 10th Anniversary of ‘September 11 Attacks’

Americans on Sunday memorized the shock of September 11, 2001, and the about 3,000 people who killed in the hijacked plane assaults as officials worked to make sure the open 10th anniversary was passive.

Law enforcement powers in New York and Washington were on high attentive against what was depicted as a "believable but unverified" threat of an al Qaeda plot to hit the United States once again a ten years after the falling over the World Trade Center's double towers by hijacked airliners.

Security was particularly tight in Manhattan, where police set up vehicle checks on city streets as well as bridges and tunnels coming into the city. There was an extraordinary show of power on New York streets, from roadblocks on Times Square in midtown to the area nearby Ground Zero more to the south.

Security in lower Manhattan included police barricades on every block near the World Trade Center place with police inquiring people for classifications. People congregated near the site, some grasping American flags, to look a big screen set up to show a commemoration ceremony here. Some wore T-shirts reading, "Never Forget," a slogan well-liked since the attacks.

"It was our Pearl Harbor," said John McGillicuddy, 33, a teacher from Yonkers, New York, receiving coffee and moving two US flags on his way to the World Trade Center, quoting to the Japanese assault that led America to enter World War Two.

"Each year, September is forever rough," he said, as he ready to mourn his uncle, Lieutenant Joseph Leavey, a New York firefighter who passed away in the south tower on September 11.

"Things have gotten improve, we are further known as a country about things going on in the world," he said.

President Barack Obama reached in New York on Sunday and will be united by earlier President George W. Bush, who was president at the time of the assaults, at the ceremony at Ground Zero.

They were set to join sufferer’s relatives to hear the reading of the names of those who killed on September 11. Bells will toll crosswise the city.

Pope Benedict prayed for September 11 sufferers and called to those with objections to "always denied hostility as a solution to problems and struggle the appeal to choice to hate."

In the September 11 attacks, 19 persons from the Islamic insurgent group al Qaeda hijacked airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon outside Washington and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Immediately weeks after the assaults, U.S. forces occupied Afghanistan to fall  that country's Taliban regimes who had harbored the al Qaeda chiefs accountable for the September 11 attacks.

In Afghanistan, NATO-led forces said on Sunday that on the occasion of the 10th anniversary a suicide bomber driving a truck of firewood targeted a NATO base in central Afghanistan in an action for which the Taliban later said responsibility.

NATO said the Saturday afternoon assault died two Afghan civilians and wounded 77 NATO military men, but did not assert the nationality of the troops. It said those hurts were not life-threatening.

To set the 10th anniversary, Obama was decided to call a visit at all three assault places.

"There should be no hesitation: today, America is more powerful and al Qaeda is on the track of destruction," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday.

American special-forces murdered al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May.

Sunday's Ground Zero ritual was set to include moments of silence marking when the planes targeted the twin towers also when they fell down. Other moments of silence will mark when a plane hit the Pentagon and another crashed in Shanksville after travellers struggled back against the hijackers.

Bush, who has kept a low profile since leaving office, was in Shanksville on Saturday. "The memory of that morning is fresh, and so is the pain," Bush told a crowd at the site.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie told on Saturday at the initiating of a memorial to the 746 nationals of his state died in the attacks. The "Empty Sky" monument in Liberty State Park, across the Hudson River from the World Trade Center, has the names of the dead engraved on two 30-foot tall walls, each 208 feet and 10 inches long -- the accurate width of the two towers.

"Their lives mattered," Christie said at the ceremony, which started late because security sluggish traffic. "That's why we established this memorial and that's why we come here today."

Security apprehensions were high in Washington, too. Officials closed down part of Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia outside the U.S. capital on Saturday due to a distrustful object but afterward said no volatiles were found.

New Yorkers, familiarized to sharp security and alerts that have become usual over the past ten years, appeared to take the enhanced police attendance in stride.

Ten years later, after a hesitating start, there are signs of transforming development at the World Trade Center. The new One World Trade Center moves up in excess of 80 stories above the ground as it inches to its planned 1,776 foot height – figurative of the year of America's independence from Britain.

The monument plaza is complete and the neighborhood has taken a pleasure from the revitalization, making it a trendy Manhattan place to live.

The 2001 assaults were pursued by U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the latter of which Obama divergent. The America still has a large numbers of troops positioned in both countries.