Monday, September 11, 2006 @6:15 pm
NEWS:
US remembers 9/11 five years on
President Bush said he would "not forget the lessons "of 9/11Ceremonies are being held in the US to mark the fifth anniversary of the 11 September attacks.
President George W Bush began the commemorations on Sunday by laying a wreath at Ground Zero, the site of New York's Twin Towers.
Flags will fly at half-mast and bells will toll in New York at the time the North Tower was struck. Relatives will read the names of the victims.
A total of 2,973 people died in the four al-Qaeda-led attacks.
As the US began the anniversary, an apparently new video has been aired from al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri, who urged Muslims to increase resistance against the US.
Relatives those who died in the attacks will gather in New York to read out the names of the 2,749 victims of the World Trade Center attacks, punctuated by four silences.
They will be at 0846 local time (1246 GMT) - when the first plane struck the North Tower - then at 0903 (1303 GMT), 0959 (1359 GMT) and 1029 (1429 GMT), the times of the second strike and the falling of the two towers.
Silences will also be observed at the Boston airport where the planes that hit the Twin Towers took off.
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