It is proper for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to urge people on Tuesday to call the place known as Ground Zero by its new name: The World Trade Center and the National September 11th Memorial and Museum.
With the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks fading into some people's distant memories, public anxiety over Washington's fiscal pressure has been mounting over the past decade.
Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of one of the greatest tragedies ever to happen on US soil.Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, here's a selection of comments from Chinese experts on the events that changed the world.
As the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, Tom Ridge, the first US Secretary of Homeland Security, talked about the battle against terrorism worldwide and the changes that happened after the attacks.
US intelligence agencies will forever be scarred by their failure to connect the dots and detect the September 11 plot, but a decade later efforts to break down barriers to information-sharing are taking root.
Though the death of Osama bin Laden and the leaders of terrorist organizations greatly weakened, the US will not withdraw from their actions against terrorism.
Ten years after the September 11 attacks of 2001, the US has altered the balance between freedom and security, turning an open and casual society into an ever-vigilant one.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said a key lesson of the Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is that the greatest threats to the US can come from “failed states” that cannot control their territory.
The United States is safer, but not safe enough.
Terrorist attacks similar to those that struck New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, are "probably no longer possible," European Union (EU) counter-terrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove said on Monday.
For every person killed on September 11, another 73 have been killed since. Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are dead, but Iraq and Afghanistan are far from stable democracies.
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