Ground Zero rebirth masks new tensions
September 9, 2010
NEW YORK ‘ New towers are finally rising from Ground Zero, but disputes over plans for a nearby mosque and a Florida pastor’s vow to burn the Holy Quran ensure this Saturday’s 9/11 anniversary will be unusually bitter. If rebuilding the World Trade Centre was all that mattered, Americans might be able to move on from the trauma of September 11, 2001, when Islamist terrorists used hijacked airliners as guided missiles to kill almost 3,000 people. After nine years of embarrassing delays, the lower Manhattan site no longer resembles a vast bomb crater in the middle of some of the world’s most expensive real estate. The first 36 floors of the 106-story One World Trade Centre…
