President Obama to mark Sept. 11 anniversary at Fort Meade

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Obama to mark Sept. 11 anniversary at Fort Meade
The Associated Press 4:11 p.m. EDT September 9, 2015

President Obama waves as he board Air Force One on Sept. 9 before departing from Andrews Air Force Base, Md.(Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP)

FORT MEADE, Md. — President Obama will travel to Fort Meade to mark the 14th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

White House spokesman Eric Schultz says Obama will visit the Army installation on Friday.

Schultz says the president will talk with service members who work every day to keep the country safe.

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Last Updated: Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 09:09
Elderly Sikh-American brutally assaulted in US, called 'terrorist', 'Bin Laden' | Zee News

New York: An elderly Sikh-American man was brutally injured and called "terrorist" and "Bin Laden" in an apparent hate crime case in Chicago, just days before the US commemorates the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Inderjit Singh Mukker was assaulted on Tuesday when the assailant pulled up to his car yelling racial slurs, including, "Terrorist, go back to your country, Bin Laden!"

Mukker, a US citizen and father of two, was on his way to a grocery store and was repeatedly cut off by a driver. He pulled over to the side of the road to let him pass but the driver instead pulled in front of his car and aggressively approached Mukker's vehicle, according to information by the Sikh Coalition, a community-based organisation said.

The assailant then reached into the car and repeatedly punched Mukker in the face, causing him to lose consciousness, bleed profusely and suffer a fractured cheekbone and a laceration to his cheek.

He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he received six stitches, treatment for lacerations, bruising and swelling. The suspect is in custody.

"No American should be afraid to practise their faith in our country," Mukker said.

"I'm thankful for the authorities' swift response to apprehend the individual but without this being fully investigated as a hate crime, we risk ignoring the horrific pattern of intolerance, abuse and violence that Sikhs and other minority communities in this country continue to face."

The Sikh Coalition's Legal Director Harsimran Kaur said the group believes that Mukker was "targeted and assaulted because of his Sikh religious appearance, race or national origin."

"We request an immediate investigation and call on local and federal agencies to investigate this attack as a hate crime," Kaur said.

Sikh Coalition said the attack, on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary, is just the latest in a line of violent attacks on Sikhs in America.

Last August, Sandeep Singh, a Sikh father in New York City, was run over and dragged 30 feet after being called a "terrorist."

In 2012, a gunman walked into a Sikh house of worship and shot and killed six innocent Sikh victims in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

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President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, and others, pause on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington as they observe a moment of silence to mark the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

 

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Washington: US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle on Friday stood on the White House lawn to observe a moment of silence to mark the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

The moment of silence was observed at 8:46 am (1246 GMT) -- the time when the first jet smashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York, where a ceremony of remembrance also took place.

Victims' relatives gather 14 years after Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. - The Hindu
Updated: September 11, 2015 16:42 IST
Relatives of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks are due to gather in New York, Pennsylvania and outside Washington on Friday to mark the 14th anniversary of the hijacked airliner strikes carried out by al-Qaeda militants.

The ceremony in New York will follow a familiar pattern. The names of those killed will be read aloud at the empty footprint of the World Trade Center Twin Towers toppled by two hijacked airliners on the sunny morning in 2001.

Hijackers crashed two other commercial jets into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The New York ceremony will be punctuated by moments of silence to mark the times when each of the four planes crashed and the towers fell.

In Washington, President Barack Obama is set to observe a moment of silence to mark the anniversary at the White House. Mr. Obama also will hold a town hall-style meeting with military service members at Fort Meade, an army base in Maryland.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter is due to host a private remembrance for relatives of those killed at the Pentagon.

Relatives of the 40 passengers and crew members who died aboard United Airlines Flight 93 are set to gather at the newly dedicated Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville.

The passengers are believed to have fought back against the hijackers, who crashed the plane upside down at nearly 600 mph (965 kph).

In New York, the buzz of increased commerce from new residential and business towers has returned a large degree of normalcy to the area known after the attacks as Ground Zero. Next to the 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site where the Twin Towers stood is the newly opened 1 World Trade Center, the tallest skyscraper in the Western hemisphere.

"We are not going to deviate from how it was done in the past. We'll start at 8:46 a.m. and the reading of names by family members won't likely be done for a few hours," Michael Frazier, a spokesman for the 9/11 Memorial in New York, said of Friday's ceremony.

The first plane slammed into the North tower at 8:46 a.m., followed by a second plane hitting the South tower at 9:03 a.m.

The Justice Department said on Thursday a 20-year-old Florida man had been arrested and accused of plotting to detonate a pressure-cooker bomb at a memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, to commemorate the Sept. 11 attacks.

 

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The Tribute in Light rises above the New York skyline and One World Trade Center, in a view from Bayonne, N.J. It was the 14th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

A woman walks past thousands of flags placed to honor of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in front of Hankins & Whittington Funeral Home in Charlotte, N.C.