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25 years since 9/11 with first Muslim mayor  Americas   New York on Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, with President Donald Trump set to attend a ceremony at the Pentagon while Vice President JD Vance and four former presidents join commemorations at Ground Zero, where victims’ relatives will read the names of those killed.   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Trump will pay his respects at the (https://www.france24.com/en/tag/pentagon/) Pentagon , not New York, where hijacked planes destroyed the World Trade Center and killed most of the 2,977 total victims on that world-altering day. Vice President (https://www.france24.com/en/tag/jd-vance/) JD Vance and Trump's four living predecessors – Republican (https://www.france24.com/en/tag/george-w-bush/) George W. Bush , who was in office during the attacks, and Democrats (https://www.france24.com/en/tag/joe-biden/) Joe Biden , (https://www.france24.com/en/tag/barack-obama/) Barack Obama and (https://www.france24.com/en/tag/bill-clinton/) Bill Clinton – are all expected at the "Ground Zero" site in lower Manhattan. No one will give speeches at the ceremony, while bereaved family members will read out the names of all of those killed and a bell rung to mark major moments during the attack. "Memorials like this and discussions about those events are an important part of keeping it alive and understanding how we prevent tragedies like this from ever happening again," said Robert Kafka, a Chicagoan in his 60s visiting the 9/11 Memorial. To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept (/build/images/svg/sprite.68b43361c11f23b39049016b32e6ae31.svg#icon-check)    Manage my choices (/build/images/svg/sprite.68b43361c11f23b39049016b32e6ae31.svg#icon-edit)      One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again   (En esta foto de archivo tomada el 11 de septiembre de 2001, los escombros de las torres gemelas del World Trade Center arden después de un ataque terrorista en el bajo Manhattan, Nueva York.)  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"It's concerning to me that the mayor is being treated differently simply because he is Muslim," city council member Shahana Hanif told (https://www.france24.com/en/tag/cnn/) CNN . Mamdani won plaudits however for recently (https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260909-key-post-9-11-air-toxicity-information-was-kept-secret-for-25-years) revealing thousands of documents showing what city officials knew about toxicity levels of the air in Lower Manhattan following the attacks. After the initial dust cloud that followed the collapse of the World Trade Center, months of pollution and lingering dust ensued, causing cancers from which thousands of New Yorkers still suffer today. Read more (https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20260910-9-11-then-and-now-do-september-2001-attacks-still-shape-our-world) 9/11 then and now: Do September 2001 attacks still shape our world?  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Some 100 million Americans were not even born or are too young to remember the tragic events. Logan Miller, 32, lost his uncle during the attacks, and his grandfather to 9/11-related illness in the aftermath. "I think the next generation just can't fathom what actually transpired and how someone could be impacted by that, and so I actually find them asking more questions," he told AFP. Huge crowds are expected to gather in Lower Manhattan for the memorial service. The Secret Service has erected a security ring of steel around the site of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. Police commissioner Jessica Tisch said an anti-drone team would be deployed as a precaution, but stressed there was no intelligence of a specific threat to the gathering. Al Qaeda meanwhile has marked the anniversary by releasing a video showing images of late leader (https://www.france24.com/en/tag/osama-bin-laden/) Osama bin Laden and his son Hamza, who Trump said in 2019 had also been killed. 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