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It's 15:00 Universal Time and here is the news from the Voice of America.
I'm David Deforest from the VOA news center in Washington.

Americans are marking the 5th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks today by observing moments of silence and reading the names of the victims. President Bush joined firefighters and police officers in moments of silence in New York City at the exact time hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center, destroying the famous Twin Towers. Bagpipes played at Ground Zero, the site where the towers once stood. People in New York are still struggling to come to terms with the attacks.
"It's very tough, I was working, I was at work when I got the news that the towers were hit and it's just then found it just numb, and stayed up."
Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld observed the moment of silence at 9:37 this morning at the Pentagon the time when it was hit by a 3rd airliner. Later Monday Mr. Bush will participate in ceremonies at the Pentagon and also at an empty field near Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania where a 4th hijacked jet crashed after passengers tried to overpower their captors.

President Bush says he's thinking about the world, he's thinking about the world has changed dramatically since the attacks in an interview on US television. He said the events of that day 5 years ago made him realize his most important responsibility is to protect the American people.
"Er... we are safer? Before we are, but we are not yet safe one way from your view to understand this is that the enemy has to be right once, we have to be right 100% a time to protect us against people who are willing to kill in a variey of ways."

President Bush told NBC's Today Show that the United States is dealing with cold-blooded killers. He said he would stay on the offensive to protect the country.

Al-Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahri has...er...charged has warned that the Persian Gulf region and Israel will be terrorist group's next targets. The Egyptian born Zawahri made the threat in a videotaped message that aired today, the 5th anniversary of the attacks on the United States.

A report by an Israeli human rights group says police fail to bring charges in nearly all alleged cases of violence against Palestinians by Isreali settlers in the West Bank. VOA correspondent Jim Teeple reports from our Jerusalem bureau.
According to the report by the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din, Israeli police in the occupied West Bank failed to bring charges in 90% of alleged cases of violence by Jewish settelers against Palestinian in the area. Yesh Din which means "there is law" in Hebrew, says Israeli police failed to take testimony from witnesses do not carry out police lineups of Israeli suspects and do not check the alibis of settlers accused of assaults against Palestinians. Lior Yavne the author of the Yesh Din report says the problems start when the violence breaks out.
"If an IDF soldier, as these many times of the case, is present at the scene of that attack, they normally either are not aware or not willing to perform the duty and to protect the Palestinian civilian from settler attack."
Israeli police offcial say the they are studying the Yesh Din report and will amend their policies depending on what they / conclude from the report. Jim Teeple, VOA news Jerusalem.

Authorities in eastern Afghanistan say a suicide attacker has blown himseft up at the funeral of a slain provincial governor, killing at least 6 people and wounding about 30. The attack in Khost province comes as NATO and Afghan forces have stepped up anti-insurgent operations in the south of the country. Ayaz Gul reports from Islamabad.
Police officials in Khost province in Afghanistan southeast said that hundreds of people had gathered Monday for the funeral of governor of the neighboring Paktia province. A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up among the mourners. Dozens of people were injured including a top police official. However, several government ministers at the funeral of governor Abdul Hakim Taniwal escaped unhurt. Taniwal was killed Sunday along with 2 other people in a suicide attack outside his office. Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for attack at the funeral. The violence comes as NATO and Afghan military forces say they have killed almost 200 Taliban insurgents over the past few days in an ongoing offensive in southern provinc of Kandahar. Ayaz Gul for VOA news, Islamabad.

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