President Barack Obama on Thursday warned Americans "do not give in to fear" as he marked the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, hours after summoning his weary nation to a new war on Islamic extremism.

Obama and his wife Michelle solemnly observed a moment of silence at the White House, and then traveled to the Pentagon -- where a hijacked passenger jet plowed into the US military headquarters as Al-Qaeda brought horror to the US homeland in 2001.

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