UK PM: September 11 attacks failed to divide those who believe in freedom and democracy
September 11, 2021, 5:46 am

UK PM: September 11 attacks failed to divide those who believe in freedom and democracy

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The Todayonline reported according to Reuters, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a video message marking the 20th anniversary of that day, the Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks in the United States failed to divide those who believe in freedom and democracy.

The Todayonline said, nearly 3,000 people were killed, including more than 2,600 at the World Trade Center in New York, after hijackers seized control of airplanes and used them to attack the World Trade Center's twin towers and the Pentagon just outside Washington. Sixty-seven British nationals were among the dead.

Johnson said in the video message: "While the terrorists imposed their burden of grief and suffering, and while the threat persists today, we can now say with the perspective of 20 years that they failed to shake our belief in freedom and democracy."

"They failed to drive our nations apart, or cause us to abandon our values, or to live in permanent fear."

The message will be played at an event held in London's Olympic Park, where there is a memorial sculpture created from steel salvaged from the collapsed World Trade Center towers.

Al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden plotted the 9/11 attacks from within Afghanistan. That sparked a U.S-led invasion that swiftly toppled the Taliban government there in 2001, but Western forces remained in the country for another two decades.

Johnson linked the 9/11 anniversary with the recent return of Taliban rule in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of American, British and other NATO forces.

He said: "Recent events in Afghanistan only strengthen our determination to remember those who were taken from us, cherish the survivors and those who still grieve, and hold fast to our belief in liberty and democracy, which will always prevail over every foe.".

Source: todayonline

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