USA commemorates the 22nd anniversary of the 11 September attacks

 Today, Monday, the United States commemorates the 22nd anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and flattened what was known as the World Trade Center in New York City.

US President Joe Biden is set to participate in events organized to commemorate the event and to attend a ceremony at a military base in Alaska.

Americans recall the memory of the attacks that changed “the course of the country’s history,” according to President Biden’s description, by gathering at the places targeted by the attacks, fire stations, memorials for the victims, the site of the World Trade Center in New York City, which were destroyed in the attacks, and the September 11 Museum in the southern part. Also from Manhattan, New York.

Unusually, the commemoration activities this year will not include official speeches at the ceremony that will be held at the memorial to the victims of the attacks, in which Kamala Harris, the US Vice President, will participate. The main speakers at the ceremony will be relatives of the victims.

More than two decades after the bloody attacks, the US authorities announced yesterday, Sunday, the identification of two victims of those attacks, based on advanced DNA analysis technology.

The authorities indicated that the two victims - a man and a woman - fell as a result of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers in New York, but declined to reveal their identities at the request of their families.

Thus, the number of identified victims rose to 1,649 out of 2,753 people killed in the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York.

2,977 people were killed in those attacks, which were claimed by al-Qaeda, as two planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, and a third plane struck the Pentagon, while the fourth - which appears to have been targeting the Congressional Building or the White House - crashed in a wooded area in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after a counterattack. Of the passengers, none of the four plane passengers survived.

Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had justified at the time those attacks as a response to the continuous injustice being practiced "on our sons in Palestine, Iraq, Somalia, South Sudan and elsewhere, as well as in Kashmir and Assam."

The September 11 attacks are still fresh in the minds of Americans, and almost every American remembers what he was doing that day, the clear blue sky of Manhattan, and the Twin Towers that collapsed in a flood of flame, dust, and metal.

It is noteworthy that the United States launched two wars on Afghanistan and Iraq after the September 11 attacks, which caused the death of more than 500,000 civilians, left more than 6,200 American soldiers dead, and cost the United States 4,000 billion dollars.

Source: Agencies