9/11: Biden Pays Tribute To Victims After 20 Years, Calls For Unity

As 9/11 victims were remembered today (Saturday, September 11, 2021), 20 years after their unfortunate death, US President Joe Biden said unity is crucial for the country’s citizens.

US President Joe Biden has urged unity as his country remembers the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks by terrorists.

While paying tribute to the 2,977 people who lost their lives to the incident, Biden stated: “We honour all those who risked and gave their lives in the minutes, hours, months and years afterwards.”

Commemoration events are due to take place today, and for Biden, the 9/11 attacks are still devastating.

“No matter how much time has passed, these commemorations bring everything painfully back as if you just got the news a few seconds ago,” the president said.

He acknowledged the “darker forces of human nature – fear and anger, resentment and violence against Muslim Americans” which followed the attacks, but said that unity had remained the US’ “greatest strength”.

“We learned that unity is the one thing that must never break,” he added.

EkoHotBlog understands that the September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the militant Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda against the USA in the early hours of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

The attacks, which were planned by al-Qaeda from Afghanistan, saw four US passenger jets seized by suicide attackers – two of which were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York.

Another plane crashed into the Pentagon, just outside the US capital, Washington DC, and a fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers fought back.

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