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Sat 08 Aug 2010Playing politics on sacred ground
President Obama’s comments on the planned building of an Islamic centre near Ground Zero have inflamed a row in which conservatives sense they have the emotional advantage, writes NIALL STANAGE,in New York
THE FORMER SITE of the World Trade Center looks more ordinary than it has for years. For most New Yorkers that’s a good thing. Ground Zero lay quiet for a long time after the terrorist attacks in 2001, in which 2,800 people died. Squabbles about an appropriate memorial delayed new construction time and time again. The site was an open wound, literally and metaphorically.
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