USA : President Biden To Visit Three 9/11 Attack Sites On 20th Anniversary

 

On September 11, the president and First Lady Jill Biden will “honor and memorialize the lives lost 20 years ago,” according to the White House statement.

They will take part in commemorations in New York, where the twin towers of the World Trade Center destroyed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania and the site of a crash of a plane hijacked by four jihadists as well as  Arlington, Virginia, where the Pentagon was attacked.

The 20-year anniversary of the fatal attacks that claimed about 3,000 lives on U.S. soil comes less than two weeks after the end of the War in Afghanistan, which lasted for almost two decades. The United States invaded the country weeks after the 2001 terrorist attacks to retaliate against the extremist group al Qaeda, which plotted the commercial plane hijackings, leader Osama bin Laden later admitted.

"We must never forget the enduring pain of the families and loved ones of the 2,977 innocent people who were killed during the worst terrorist attack on America in our history," Biden said in a statement Friday afternoon.