Five years after the September 11 attacks and into the war against Islamist extremists, the US finds itself bogged down in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and engaged in a desperate military, police and intelligence struggle with an adversary that appears to be growing. Sympathy for the US - evident in the aftermath of 9/11 - is evaporating. On Monday, however, world leaders paid their respects and Americans paused to remember the nearly 3,000 victims of the co-ordinated attacks on the US.
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