On the occasion of the 21st anniversary of the attacks of 11 September 2001, the US today commemorated the approximately 3,000 victims. In New York, a bell rang at 8:46 am in 2001, when an Islamist terrorist flew the first of a total of four hijacked planes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The relatives then read the names of the victims.
In addition to Mayor Eric Adams and his predecessors Bill de Blasio and Michael Bloomberg, US Vice President Kamala Harris also attended the memorial event in New York. This year, one of her relatives used the event for a special message. Addressing the politicians present, the cousin of the two victims said in a moving appeal: “It took a tragedy to unite our country. I want to remind you all: it shouldn’t take another tragedy to unite our nation.”
Already in the night until today, two pillars of light protruded from the ground where the World Trade Center once stood. The famous Empire State Building was also lit up in blue to commemorate it.
Thousands of deaths even the next day
The terrorist attacks continued to kill thousands even after 11 September 2001. Many of the first responders and survivors fell ill from exposure to a variety of toxins in the Twin Towers debris field. Researchers have identified more than 60 types of cancer and about two dozen other disease-related attacks over the past two decades, according to Scientific American journal.
Al Qaeda publishes a book
The al-Qaeda terror network has published a book on the path that led to the large-scale attack. The author is Egyptian Abu Mohammed al-Masri, a high-ranking member of al-Qaeda who is said to have been killed in Iran in 2020. The 250-page book claims that al-Qaeda had prepared attacks on US targets. since the mid-90s. The goal was to drag the United States into a war of attrition that lasted years.
