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Message: <blockquote data-quote="කිඹුලා බනිස්" data-source="post: 8255072" data-attributes="member: 286104"><img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/49063000/jpg/_49063632_010153723-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The US is preparing to mark the ninth  anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New York amid controversy over the  pastor who has threatened to burn the Koran.         US President Barack Obama has appealed for calm as the city prepares.         The pastor, Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida, has arrived in New York where he hopes to meet a leading imam.         His plan to burn the Muslim holy book has caused international outrage, but  Mr Jones says his plans have been put on hold.Mr Jones has instead travelled to New York  where he wants to meet the imam at the head of a project to build an  Islamic community centre and mosque near Ground Zero.         During the official commemoration ceremony at Ground Zero the  names of all the people who died when hijacked aeroplanes crashed into  the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001will be read  out.         The US Vice President, Joe Biden, will attend the anniversary ceremony in Lower Manhattan.          Houses of worship across the city have been asked to toll  their bells at 0846 (1336 GMT), the moment the first hijacked plane  struck the North Tower of the World Trade Centre.         Meanwhile, protests have are scheduled for when the commemoration ends. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11269681" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11269681</a></blockquote>

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