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A plaque is displayed at the firehouse at 66th and Amsterdam at a garden honoring the firefighters who gave their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, NY, on Thursday September 1, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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The firehouse at 66th and Amsterdam has a small garden honoring the firefighters who gave their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, NY, on Thursday September 1, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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The firehouse at 66th and Amsterdam has a small garden honoring the firefighters who gave their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, NY, on Thursday September 1, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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The firehouse at 66th and Amsterdam has a small garden honoring the firefighters who gave their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, NY, on Thursday September 1, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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The firehouse at 66th and Amsterdam has a small garden honoring the firefighters who gave their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, NY, on Thursday September 1, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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The firehouse at 66th and Amsterdam has a small garden honoring the firefighters who gave their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, NY, on Thursday September 1, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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The firehouse at 66th and Amsterdam has a small garden honoring the firefighters who gave their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, NY, on Thursday September 1, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS An Army sergeant talks to high school students in North Carolina about a career in the Army. While visits and calls to military recruiting offices increased after the terrorism attacks, the legend of a wave of enlistments rolling in after Sept. 11 isn't true.
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President Bush embraces New York City firefighter Bob Beckwith while standing in front of the collapsed World Trade Center buildings in New York on Sept. 14, 2001. Mr. Bush famously used a bullhorn to reassure ground zero rescue workers, the American public and the world that the terrorists would soon be hearing from the U.S. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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DON'T USE THIS CAPTION XXXXX DON'T USE THIS CAPTION President Barack Obama returns a salute to Navy Adm. Eric T. Olson, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, as he steps off Air Force One at Campbell Army Airfield in Fort Campbell, Ky., Friday, May 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano: Sept. 11 "was the signal of a change in the environment that we have to deal with, I think, throughout the foreseeable future."
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Richard A. Clarke, the country's top bureaucrat on counterterrorism before the attacks, says arguments for more security spending aren't necessarily tied to effectiveness.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Protesters wear Guy Fawkes masks as they march through downtown Hong Kong on Sept. 3 because they believe Hong Kong police ratcheted up security and tightened restrictions on the media and protesters during a recent visit by China's vice premier. "People are very concerned that their freedoms are being undermined," pro-democracy legislator Emily Lau said. "The whole city is angry."
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry (left), former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (center) and Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Republican, talk Sept. 7, 2011, during a break at the Republican presidential candidate debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. (Associated Press)
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John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, speaks to reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, in Washington. (Michael Bonfigli/Christian Science Monitor)
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Rep. Jeb Hensarling (center), Texas Republican, and Rep. Xavier Becerra (left), California Democrat, open the first meeting of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction — often called the "supercommittee" — on Capitol Hill on Sept. 8, 2011. (Associated Press)
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FBI agents stand guard outside the headquarters of Solyndra, a solar firm in Fremont, Calif., on Sept. 8, 2011. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, speaks at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance conference in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry (left) and Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Republican, talk Sept. 7, 2011, during a break at a Republican presidential candidates debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. (Associated Press)
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Former rebel fighters chat at the checkpoint between Tarhouna and Bani Walid on Sept. 8, 2011. Libya's former rebels have surrounded the ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and it is only a matter of time until he is captured or killed, a spokesman for Tripoli's new military council said Wednesday. (Associated Press)
