QUEEN ELIZABETH SAYS PRAYERS FOR VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS OF 9/11 ATTACKS

Sat 11 September 2021:

On Saturday, Queen Elizabeth expressed her condolences to the victims and survivors of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, and paid respect to the communities that joined together to rebuild after the tragedy.

“My thoughts and prayers – and those of my family and the entire nation – remain with the victims, survivors and families affected, as well as the first responders and rescue workers called to duty,” she said in a message to US President Joe Biden.

“My visit to the site of the World Trade Center in 2010 is held fast in my memory,” Elizabeth said.

“It reminds me that as we honour those from many nations, faiths and backgrounds who lost their lives, we also pay tribute to the resilience and determination of the communities who joined together to rebuild.”

On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists associated with al Qaeda hijacked four commercial airplanes to carry out devastating suicide attacks against the United States.

Two planes were flown into the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York, which then collapsed, a third plane was flown into the Pentagon just outside Washington, DC, and a fourth plane’s crew and passengers forced hijackers to crash in Pennsylvania.

According to the 9/11 Memorial Museum, the assaults killed 2,977 people, making it the single deadliest foreign strike on American soil.

Sixty-seven British nationals were among the dead.

Biden will commemorate the 20th anniversary attacks by visiting each of the sites where hijacked planes crashed, seeking to honour the victims.

The anniversary comes shortly after the chaotic end of the US-led war in Afghanistan, launched 20 years ago to root out al Qaeda and its leader, Osama bin Laden, who was killed in 2011 by US special forces in Pakistan.

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