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Obama Honors September 11 Victims

   VOA News  May 05, 2011
   President Barack Obama and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani,
   right, meet with firefighters and first responders at Engine 54, Ladder
   4, Battalion 9 before visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground
   Zero in New York, May 5, 2011

Photo: AP

   President Barack Obama and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani,
   right, meet with firefighters and first responders at Engine 54, Ladder
   4, Battalion 9 before visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground
   Zero in New York, May 5, 2011

   U.S. President Barack Obama has arrived in New York to honor the
   victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, days after U.S.
   forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

   Obama is laying a wreath at the site of the destroyed World Trade
   Center buildings Thursday and meeting privately with relatives of those
   killed in the 2001 al-Qaida attacks. The White House says the president
   is not expected to make public remarks.
   Presidential spokesman Jay Carney said Wednesday Obama wants to meet
   with the families to share with them the important and significant, yet
   "bittersweet" moment following the death of bin Laden.
   Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday pays tribute to the September 11
   victims by laying a wreath at a memorial at the Pentagon.
   On Friday, Obama will travel to Kentucky to honor soldiers at Fort
   Campbell who supported the Navy SEALs in their attack on bin Laden's
   compound early Monday in the Pakistani military garrison town of
   Abbottabad.
   Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
   Obama decided Wednesday he will not release death photos of the
   al-Qaida leader, saying the graphic images would create a national
   security risk and could incite violence.
   Obama told U.S. television network CBS that he has no doubt that U.S.
   forces killed bin Laden, and that the man behind the September 11
   terrorist attacks received the justice he deserved.
   The Obama administration says the secret operation inside Pakistan was
   lawful. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday the raid was
   an act of national self-defense. He said the U.S. special forces would
   have taken the world's most wanted terrorist into custody if he had
   surrendered.
   He warned of possible retaliatory attacks, and said the fight against
   terrorist threats is far from over.

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