9/11 attacks 12th anniversary Sep 9,2013

The US has remembered the victims of the 9/11 attacks in a series of memorials marking the 12th anniversary.

US President Barack Obama honoured the dead at a memorial ceremony outside the Pentagon.
"We pray for the memory of all those taken from us... Our hearts still ache for the futures snatched away, the lives that might have been," he said.

The White House marked the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a memorial service

A separate memorial service was held outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, honouring the passengers and crew of United Flight 93.

More than 1,000 people gathered on Wednesday at the National September 11 Memorial Plaza in New York City to read the names of all those killed in the 2001 and 1993 attacks on the building

The twin beams of the annual Tribute in Light commemorating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks shine above the city's skyline Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, in New York, on the 12th anniversary of the attacks.

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The Sep 11, 2001 attacks killed almost 3,000 people in New York, the Washington DC area and Pennsylvania.

Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the 9/11 attacks, in which 19 hijackers also died when they seized control of four planes, crashing three of them into their intended targets

Passengers and Crew of United Flight 93 struggled with the hijackers of the plane, preventing it from hitting its intended target, believed to be the White House or the US Capitol building.
All 33 passengers and seven crew members on the flight were killed after the plane crashed into a field about 75 miles (120km) south-east of Pittsburgh.