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A sign announces a section of road work funded by the American ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:37:55 GMT

(Reuters) - A sign announces a section of road work funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act U.S. economic stimulus plan in the Denver area September 10, 2009. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

A woman holds a sign refering to the people killed in the 9/11 ...

(AFP/File) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:04:18 GMT

(AFP/File) - A woman holds a sign refering to the people killed in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center during a rally in New York City, December 2009. President Barack Obama Sunday acknowledged fierce opposition to his plans to bring accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to justice in New York, but would not rule out such a trial.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)

Workers walk in the 'void' of the National September 11 Memorial, ...

(AP) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:07:58 GMT

(AP) - Workers walk in the 'void' of the National September 11 Memorial, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 in New York. The void marks the footprint of the North Tower of the World Trade Center that was destroyed in 2001. The structure of One World Trade Center rises in the background. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Work continues on the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, ...

(AP) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:05:25 GMT

(AP) - Work continues on the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, lower left, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 in New York. The structure of One World Trade Center rises in the background. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Workers walk in the 'void' of the National September 11 Memorial, ...

(AP) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:01:37 GMT

(AP) - Workers walk in the 'void' of the National September 11 Memorial, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2010 in New York. The void marks the footprint of the North Tower of the World Trade Center that was destroyed in 2001. The structure of One World Trade Center rises in the background. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

In this photo of a sketch by a courtroom artist, and reviewed ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:02:04 GMT

(Reuters) - In this photo of a sketch by a courtroom artist, and reviewed by the U.S. military, family members of victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks, (R) observe courtroom proceedings during hearings for the five alleged September 11 co-conspirators, inside the courthouse at the Camp Justice compound for the U.S. war crimes commission, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, July 16, 2009. REUTERSJanet Hamlin/Pool

The United States and European Union have put into effect agreements ...

(DoJ) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:54:50 GMT

(DoJ) - The United States and European Union have put into effect agreements on extradition and legal cooperation negotiated after the September 11 attacks, the Justice Department(DoJ) announced Monday.(DoJ)

Construction continues at a building site at Ground Zero in ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:25:21 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Construction continues at a building site at Ground Zero in New York City in 2009. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Sunday that the accused author of the 9/11 attacks would "meet his maker" after being convicted, and said the US administration still hopes the trial can be held on American soil.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)

This 2003 handout photo shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described ...

(AFP/HO/File) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:45:17 GMT

(AFP/HO/File) - This 2003 handout photo shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described chief organizer of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Closing Guantanamo is emerging as a never-ending nightmare for President Barack Obama after he bowed to pressure and backed down from plans to try the accused 9/11 plotters in the heart of New York City.(AFP/HO/File)

Iran's opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi (left) and ...

(AFP/File) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:22:57 GMT

(AFP/File) - Iran's opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi (left) and Mehdi Karroubi (R) shake hands in Tehran in 2009. The two leaders have implicitly called for demonstrations on the February 11 anniversary of Iran's Islamic revolution, as the Revolutionary Guards warned that any such protest will be crushed.(AFP/File/Mehdi Dehghan)

People sing during a rally in New York to protest plans to bring ...

(AFP/File) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:33:19 GMT

(AFP/File) - People sing during a rally in New York to protest plans to bring the conspirators in the September 11, 2001 attacks to trial in the city. The White House looked likely to reverse course on plans to bring the alleged plotters of the September 11 attacks to trial at a Manhattan courthouse, amid mounting and bipartisan opposition.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)

The first tower of the World Trade Center collapses after being ...

(AFP/File) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:33:19 GMT

(AFP/File) - The first tower of the World Trade Center collapses after being hit by a hijacked commercial aircraft in New York City on September 11, 2001. The White House looked likely to reverse course on plans to bring the alleged plotters of the September 11 attacks to trial at a Manhattan courthouse, amid mounting and bipartisan opposition.(AFP/File/Helene Seligman)

People sing during a rally across the street from Federal Court ...

(AFP/File) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:27:27 GMT

(AFP/File) - People sing during a rally across the street from Federal Court in New York to protest the plan to bring the conspirators in the September 11, 2001 attacks to trial in the city. Under intense political pressure, the White House is considering abandoning its cherished plans to try the alleged September 11 plotters near Ground Zero in Manhattan, an official said Friday.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)

A woman holds a sign refering to the number killed in the attack ...

(AFP/File) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:27:27 GMT

(AFP/File) - A woman holds a sign refering to the number killed in the attack on the World Trade Center during a rally in December 2009 to protest the plan to bring the conspirators in the September 11, 2001 attacks to trial in New York City. Under intense political pressure, the White House is considering abandoning its cherished plans to try the alleged September 11 plotters near Ground Zero in Manhattan.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)

Manhattan Federal court, center and Metropolitan Correctional ...

(AP) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:29:30 GMT

(AP) - Manhattan Federal court, center and Metropolitan Correctional Center are photographed, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 in New York. Facing growing opposition to its plans to hold the Sept. 11 terrorist trial in New York City, the Obama administration is considering moving the proceedings elsewhere. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Map locates sites being considered for Sept. 11 terrorist trial ...

(AP) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:30:19 GMT

(AP) - Map locates sites being considered for Sept. 11 terrorist trial

Stephen Shallash has lunch framed by the reflection of the court ...

(AP) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:28:02 GMT

(AP) - Stephen Shallash has lunch framed by the reflection of the court houses on Foley Square in the window of Corte Cafe at the corner of Duane and Lafayette Streets, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 in New York. Facing growing opposition to its plans to hold the Sept. 11 terrorist trial in New York City, the Obama administration is considering moving the proceedings elsewhere. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

FILE - In this March 6, 2008 file photo, cadets prepare to line ...

(AP) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:58:53 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this March 6, 2008 file photo, cadets prepare to line up for lunch time formation at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. West Point is being considered as an alternative to lower Manhattan for the Sept. 11 terrorist trial. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

FILE - In this May 21, 2009 photo shows the the Unites States ...

(AP) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:58:18 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this May 21, 2009 photo shows the the Unites States Courthouse in White Plains, N.Y. The courthouse is a possible alternative to lower Manhattan for the Sept. 11 terrorist trial. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

FILE- In this May 21, 2009 file photo, John Nolcox, left, and ...

(AP) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:57:48 GMT

(AP) - FILE- In this May 21, 2009 file photo, John Nolcox, left, and Jason Nordlund of the New York Air National Guard, put on safety equipment as they prepare to do aircraft maintenance at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, N.Y. The base is being considered as an alternative to lower Manhattan for the Sept. 11 terrorist trial. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Pedestrians are framed by Manhattan Federal court in the background ...

(AP) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:57:06 GMT

(AP) - Pedestrians are framed by Manhattan Federal court in the background as they walk on Canal Street in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 in New York. Facing growing opposition to its plans to hold the Sept. 11 terrorist trial in New York City, the Obama administration is considering moving the proceedings elsewhere. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Men play board games in Columbus Park across the street from ...

(AP) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:55:35 GMT

(AP) - Men play board games in Columbus Park across the street from Manhattan Federal court, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 in New York. Facing growing opposition to its plans to hold the Sept. 11 terrorist trial in New York City, the Obama administration is considering moving the proceedings elsewhere. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

A hot dog vendor is set up on Lafayette Street across the street ...

(AP) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:55:17 GMT

(AP) - A hot dog vendor is set up on Lafayette Street across the street from the court houses on Foley Square, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 in New York. Facing growing opposition to its plans to hold the Sept. 11 terrorist trial in New York City, the Obama administration is considering moving the proceedings elsewhere. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Manhattan Federal court, center, and Metropolitan Correctional ...

(AP) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:48:54 GMT

(AP) - Manhattan Federal court, center, and Metropolitan Correctional Center are photographed, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 in New York. Facing growing opposition to its plans to hold the Sept. 11 terrorist trial in New York City, the Obama administration is considering moving the proceedings elsewhere. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

A group of eight New York lawmakers have written to US Attorney ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:29:53 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - A group of eight New York lawmakers have written to US Attorney General Eric Holder, pictured, expressing concern about plans to prosecute the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks in Manhattan.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)

FILE - This July 2009 photo downloaded from the Arabic language ...

(AP) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:58:06 GMT

(AP) - FILE - This July 2009 photo downloaded from the Arabic language web site www.muslm.net shows a man identified by the site as Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, in detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo/www.muslm.net, File)

Red Cross workers hand water to people pretending to be victims ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:13:41 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Red Cross workers hand water to people pretending to be victims during a drill at the Pentagon. The United States has not done enough to protect the country against the threat of weapons of mass destruction even as Al-Qaeda appears intent on staging a large-scale attack, reports said.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)

This photo taken Jan. 20, 2010 shows the Minoru Yamasaki-designed ...

(AP) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:04:32 GMT

(AP) - This photo taken Jan. 20, 2010 shows the Minoru Yamasaki-designed McGregor Memorial Conference Center at Wayne State University in Detroit. The center and its halls are open for a stroll through what's considered a from the World Trade Center architect. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Lawyers of Malika El Aroud, the widow of one of the two men ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:33:07 GMT

(Reuters) - Lawyers of Malika El Aroud, the widow of one of the two men who assassinated anti-Taliban Afghan rebel leader Ahmad Shah Masood two days before the September 11 attacks in 2001, wait in a courtroom in Brussels January 26, 2010. A decision on when her trial, as well as that of eight other suspects, will start will be taken by Belgian judge Pierre Hendrickx (C) today. REUTERS/Yves Herman (BELGIUM - Tags: CRIME LAW)

RLawyers of Malika El Aroud, the widow of one of the two men ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:27:33 GMT

(Reuters) - RLawyers of Malika El Aroud, the widow of one of the two men who assassinated anti-Taliban Afghan rebel leader Ahmad Shah Masood two days before the September 11 attacks in 2001, wait in a courtroom in Brussels January 26, 2010. A decision on when her trial, as well as that of eight other suspects, will start will be taken by Belgian judge Pierre Hendrickx (R) today. REUTERS/Yves Herman (BELGIUM - Tags: CRIME LAW)

Lawyers of Malika El Aroud, the widow of one of the two men ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:24:05 GMT

People attend a rally by the 9/11 Never Forget Coalition on ...

(AFP/File) — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:28:31 GMT

(AFP/File) - People attend a rally by the 9/11 Never Forget Coalition on in 2009 across the street from Federal Court (rear) in New York to protest the plan to bring the conspirators in the September 11, 2001 attacks to trial in the city. The United States on Friday moved a step closer to prosecuting five men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks before a civilian court in New York.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)

Ribbons of water flow off a mock-up waterfall designed for the ...

(AP) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:57:00 GMT

(AP) - Ribbons of water flow off a mock-up waterfall designed for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. The 30-foot waterfall will cascade down the sides of the footprints of the destroyed World Trade Center towers, forming reflecting pools surrounded by the terrorist attack victims' names. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Architect Michael Arad visits a mock-up waterfall he designed ...

(AP) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:55:27 GMT

(AP) - Architect Michael Arad visits a mock-up waterfall he designed for World Trade Center Memorial, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. The 30-foot waterfalls will cascade down the sides of the footprints of the destroyed World Trade Center towers, forming reflecting pools surrounded by the terrorist attack victims' names. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Ribbons of water flow off a mock-up waterfall designed for the ...

(AP) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:55:09 GMT

(AP) - Ribbons of water flow off a mock-up waterfall designed for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. The 30-foot waterfall will cascade down the sides of the footprints of the destroyed World Trade Center towers, forming reflecting pools surrounded by the terrorist attack victims' names. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Ribbons of water flow off a mock-up waterfall designed for the ...

(AP) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:53:09 GMT

A commercial jet flies above a mock-up waterfall designed for ...

(AP) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:52:12 GMT

(AP) - A commercial jet flies above a mock-up waterfall designed for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. The 30-foot waterfall will cascade down the sides of the footprints of the destroyed World Trade Center towers, forming reflecting pools surrounded by the terrorist attack victims' names. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Ribbons of water flow off a mock-up waterfall designed for the ...

(AP) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:51:50 GMT

Two Malaysians walk in front of St Anthony's church in downtown ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:35:24 GMT

(AFP/File) - Two Malaysians walk in front of St Anthony's church in downtown Kuala Lumpur on January 11. The attacks on churches across predominantly Muslim Malaysia were triggered by a court ruling on December 31 that overturned a ban on non-Muslims using "Allah" as a translation for "God."(AFP/File/Saeed Khan)

This Dec. 2009 file photo released by the U.S. Marshal's Service ...

(AP) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:02:22 GMT

(AP) - This Dec. 2009 file photo released by the U.S. Marshal's Service shows Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in Milan, Mich. A grand jury indicted Abdulmutallab on charges of attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day by using a weapon of mass destruction. U.S. federal prosecutors filed or unsealed federal terrorism-related charges against 54 defendents in 2009, more suspects than in any year since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshal's Service, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo Najibullah Zazi arrives ...

(AP) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:05:40 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo Najibullah Zazi arrives at the federal building for questioning by the FBI in Denver. Zazi, an Afghan immigrant, is charged with getting explosives training from al-Qaida and later hatching a foiled scheme to attack targets in New York with homemade bombs. U.S. Federal prosecutors charged more suspects with terrorism in 2009 than in any year since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2009, file photo Assistant Attorney ...

(AP) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:59:18 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2009, file photo Assistant Attorney General David Kris, the top terrorism official in the Obama administration's Justice Department, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on the reauthorization of the Patriot Act. When he spoke at a conference of lawyers in November 2009, Kris marveled at the volume of terrorism cases in the U.S. in 2009, more suspects charged than in any year since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2009, file photo FBI Director Robert ...

(AP) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:45:16 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2009, file photo FBI Director Robert Mueller, center, flanked by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, left, and Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Michael Leiter, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing on terrorist threats to the United States. A review of major national security cases by The Associated Press found federal prosecutors filed or unsealed federal terrorism-related charges against 54 defendents in 2009, more suspects than in any year since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Nidal Hasan, pictured in 2000, the US soldier who killed 13 ...

(AFP/HO/File) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:54:08 GMT

(AFP/HO/File) - Nidal Hasan, pictured in 2000, the US soldier who killed 13 people at an attack on Fort Hood military base. The US military must do a better job of uncovering soldiers with violent Islamist leanings for fear they could attack fellow troops, two key senators urged the Pentagon Wednesday.(AFP/HO/File)

In this file photo, Physics Nobel Prize winner Dr. Leon M. Lederman, ...

(AP) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:05:28 GMT

(AP) - In this file photo, Physics Nobel Prize winner Dr. Leon M. Lederman, director of the Fermi National Accelarator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., speaks before moving the hands of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 'Doomsday Clock' two minutes closer to midnight at the University of Chicago, Feb. 27, 2002. The symbolic clock, kept by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, had been set at 11:51 since 1998. It was moved to 11:53 p.m. The attacks of Sept. 11 combined with evidence that terrorists were attempting to obtain the materials for a crude nuclear weapon should have served as a wake-up call to the world, George A. Lopez, the publication's chairman of the board, said. (AP Photo/Aynsley Floyd)

EDITORIAL ROUNDUP - President Bush, right, and Florida Lt. Gov. ...

(AP) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:11:52 GMT

(AP) - EDITORIAL ROUNDUP - President Bush, right, and Florida Lt. Gov. Frank Brogan, left, observe a moment of silence Tuesday morning Sept. 11, 2001, in Sarasota, Fla., for victims of the terrorist attack at the World Trade Center in New York. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Tribute Center volunteer tour guide John Henderson gives a ...

(AP) — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:50:30 GMT

(AP) - Tribute Center volunteer tour guide John Henderson gives a tour at the World Financial Center in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006. The Tribute Center which is under construction will serve as the central place for information and provide tours to help people understand the World Trade Center terrorist attack in 1993 and 2001. It will also give families and friends of the people lost a place to visit to grieve their loss and remember until the World Trade Center Memorial is constructed. (AP Photo/Shiho Fukada)

Tribute Center volunteer tour guide John Henderson gives tours ...

(AP) — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:50:30 GMT

(AP) - Tribute Center volunteer tour guide John Henderson gives tours at the World Trade Center site in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006. The Tribute Center which is under construction will serve as the central place for information and provide tours to help people understand the World Trade Center terrorist attack in 1993 and 2001. It will also give families and friends of the people lost a place to visit to grieve their loss and remember until the World Trade Center Memorial is constructed. (AP Photo/Shiho Fukada)

People listen to Tribute Center volunteer tour guide John Henderson ...

(AP) — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:50:27 GMT

(AP) - People listen to Tribute Center volunteer tour guide John Henderson (not shown) at the World Financial Center in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006. The Tribute Center which is under construction will serve as the central place for information and provide tours to help people understand the World Trade Center terrorist attack in 1993 and 2001. It will also give families and friends of the people lost a place to visit to grieve their loss and remember until the World Trade Center Memorial is constructed. (AP Photo/Shiho Fukada)

Tribute Center volunteer tour guide John Henderson, right, gives ...

(AP) — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:50:05 GMT

(AP) - Tribute Center volunteer tour guide John Henderson, right, gives tours at the World Trade Center site in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006. The Tribute Center which is under construction will serve as the central place for information and provide tours to help people understand the World Trade Center terrorist attack in 1993 and 2001. It will also give families and friends of the people lost a place to visit to grieve their loss and remember until the World Trade Center Memorial is constructed. (AP Photo/Shiho Fukada)