A Saudi tourist shops for gold in Damascus September 17, 2001. Gold
jumped nearly three percent to an 18-month high on Monday in a European
market bracing for a possible rapid retaliation by the United States
and its allies to last week's terror attacks. Gold was buoyed by
growing perceptions that a U.S.-led military retaliation to the aerial
attacks on New York and Washington could be fast and devastating.
REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri

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