Throughout the weekend, there were memorial services in New York and across the globe commemorating the anniversary of September 11. A number of groups across the country also had vigils calling for an end to the occupation of Iraq. Meanwhile, a new US government study shows that the environmental devastation in New York may result in more deaths than the attacks themselves. An official US government report released on Friday says that up to 400,000 New Yorkers breathed in the most toxic polluting cloud ever recorded after the twin towers were brought down on September 11, 2001, but no proper effort has been made to find out how their health has been affected. The report says the Bush administration suppressed evidence of increasing danger and officially announced that the air around the felled buildings was “safe to breathe”. Another report reveals that it has since failed at least a dozen times to correct its assurances, even when it became clear that people were becoming sick.