President Joe Biden, Vice president of Kamala Harris and erstwhile president Donald Trump took part in the celebrations of the 23rd anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, in which nearly 3,000 people were killed. The ceremony in fresh York was attended by erstwhile mayor of the city Michael Bloomberg.
The Associated Press points out that the joint speech of the rival Democrats and Republican candidates in this year's presidential election was all the more amazing that it took place the next day after their tv debate. Bloomberg, who is president of the National Council of the Monument and Museum on 11 September, led the candidates to shake hands and then stand between them during the ceremony," explains the agency.
The commemoration of the assassinations began with a bell ringing and a minute of silence, and then members of the victims' families, according to tradition, read their names out loud.
Following the ceremony, president Biden and Kamala will participate in further commemorations of the bombings—in the Pentagon and Pennsylvania, where close Shanksville, a United Airlines hijacked plane, Flight 93, collapsed. Trump and his candidate for Vice president J.D. Vance will join the ceremony in Pennsylvania.
The AP recalls that the 9/11 bombings were a disaster that changed U.S. abroad policy and national safety practices and, above all, influenced the sense of American safety that had never before feared specified attacks on their own territory.
The effects of this tragedy and the fresh Washington policy have been felt worldwide in the war in Afghanistan and Iraq; hundreds of thousands have died in these conflicts," the AP writes.
The paper "Washington Post" recalls that then president George W. Bush presented the Americans with the attack on Afghanistan as not only a fight against Al-Qaeda in her mate, but besides a war on "civilization values". “Women cannot attend schools. You can go to jail for having a TV. 1 can practice religion only according to the dictatorship of the leaders," Bush then stated, starting America's longest war.
‘But 23 years after 9/11 (Afghanistan) the Taliban rule. Their fundamentalist explanation of Islam's doctrines is the law of this land. (...) And Afghan women, like a generation back then, cannot go to school, there are restrictions on everything they do, they cannot uncover their faces, or even talk publicly," concludes “WP”.
The "New York Times" points out that 23 years after the tragedy, members of rescue teams who worked in a cloud of toxic smoke and suffered from cancer inactive did not get injured position and were not granted compensation.
On September 11, 2001, following the abduction of 4 passenger aircraft, the hijackers crashed the machines, attacking the duplicate towers of the planet Trade Center in fresh York City and the Pentagon building in Washington DC. The 4th bombing was thwarted by passengers.
2753 people were killed in attacks on the planet Trade Center. erstwhile the fresh York Towers collapsed, about 343 firefighters and 60 police officers were killed. 184 people were killed in the attack on the Pentagon. In a crashed plane in Pennsylvania – 40. 19 terrorists were killed during the attacks.
Flight United Airlines 93 took off from Newark Airport, fresh Jersey to San Francisco. 4 Saudi terrorists hijacked the plane after 3 quarters of a flight, flying over Ohio's territory, and changed course to Washington. Passengers learned about the earlier bombings in fresh York City by delaying their flight launch and conducted an effort to recapture the aircraft. Eventually, however, the device collapsed at 10.03, about half an hr after the abduction. (PAP)
