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Washington - Americans mourned the dead of Sept. 11 on Thursday to the strains of violins, harps and bagpipes with heaps of flowers, ribbons, new memorials and moments of reflective silence. And they wondered, two years later, is the U.S. any safer than it was? A child's voice trembled with grief as he read aloud names of those who died when two hijacked planes toppled New York's World Trade Center. Sunlight helped Pentagon workers inaugurate their painstaking creation of four stained glass windows in the spot where a jet ripped through on that gruesome day. And a bell tolled at a solemn ceremony in Shanksville, Penn., where another plane crashed in a nearby field, likely on its way to the capital. Across the land, Americans marked what has become their ultimate defining moment with prayers and tears for the 3,016 who died, while pundits and politicians debated the risks of another horrific attack. London - British Defence Minister Geoff Hoon's political future came under intense scrutiny Thursday as a parliamentary committee found that he had withheld information about a dispute in his department over Iraq's weapons program. The committee said it was "disturbed" that Hoon had failed to inform them of reservations officials in his department had about a claim Saddam Hussein could launch chemical or biological weapons within 45 minutes.
