Sun Nov 15, 11:03 AM ET

Pedestrians walking off the Brooklyn Bridge watch as smoke billows from the World Trade Center after two planes crashed into the towers in New York, 2001. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended the decision to try five alleged plotters of the 9/11 attacks in a New York civilian court, saying it is "appropriate" they face justice there. (AFP/File/Stan Honda)

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