Britain’s Queen Elizabeth said on Saturday that her prayers remained with victims and survivors of the Sep 11, 2001 attacks on the u. s. and paid tribute to the communities that joined together to rebuild after the devastation.
“My thoughts and prayers – and people of my family and therefore the entire nation – remain with the victims, survivors and families affected, further because the first responders and rescue workers called to duty,” she said in a very message to US President Joe Biden.
“My visit to the positioning of the planet Trade Center in 2010 is held fast in my memory,” Elizabeth said.
“It strikes a chord in my memory 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 Sept. 11, 2001, 19 terrorists related to al Qaeda hijacked four commercial airplanes to hold out devastating suicide attacks against the us.
Two planes were flown into the dual Towers of recent York’s World Trade Center which then collapsed, a 3rd plane was flown into the Pentagon just outside Washington, DC, while crew members and passengers on a fourth plane forced hijackers to crash in Pennsylvania.
The 9/11 attacks killed 2,977 people, the one largest loss of life resulting from a distant attack on American soil, consistent with the 9/11 Memorial Museum.
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 uproot al Qaeda and its leader, Osama terrorist, who was killed in 2011 by US Special Forces in Pakistan.
