President Joe Biden marked the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by laying a wreath at the Pentagon in a somber commemoration held in steady rain and paying tribute to the “extraordinary Americans” who gave their lives in one of the darkest days of the nation.
Sunday’s ceremony came just over a year after Biden ended the long and costly war in Afghanistan that the United States and its allies launched in response to terror attacks.
Biden noted that even after the United States left Afghanistan, his administration continues to go after those responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Last month, Biden announced that the United States had killed Ayman al-Zawahri, the al-Qaeda leader who helped plan the 9/11 attacks, in a clandestine operation.
“We will never forget, we will never give up,” Biden said. “Our commitment to prevent another attack on the United States is endless.”
Sunday’s ceremony came just over a year after Biden ended the long and costly war in Afghanistan that the United States and its allies launched in response to terror attacks.
By ending the war in Afghanistan, the Democratic president fulfilled a campaign promise to bring home US troops from the country’s longest conflict. But the war ended chaotically in August 2021, when the US-backed Afghan government collapsed before a Taliban advance across the country that returned the fundamentalist group to power. A bombing raid claimed by an Afghanistan-based extremist group killed 170 Afghans and 13 US troops at Kabul airport, where thousands of desperate Afghans gathered in hopes of escape before the last US cargo planes departed over the Hindu kush.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Biden in his remarks on Sunday will acknowledge the impact the 2001 attacks had on the United States and the world and honor the nearly 3,000 people who died that day when Al Qaeda hijackers took control of commercial airliners and crashed them. at the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
[Con información de The Associated Press]
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