Law & Society

Thousands of bikers from throughout America converged in DC in a show of support for the victims of September 11 attacks, and also to counter a controversial Muslim rally at the Washington Mall, which had been planned for the past few months.

Americans marked the 12th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on Wednesday, highlighted by somber reading of names of the almost 3000 lives lost when two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan in 2001.

President Barack Obama said Tuesday night that while he wants to punish Bashar al Assad's use of chemical weapons, he said in a primetime speech that he would put off a military strike and work with Russia, China to coax the Syrian dictator to relinquish its chemical weapons,