U.S. to mark 17th anniversary of 9/11 attacks

Record ID: 1355628

  • Title: U.S. to mark 17th anniversary of 9/11 attacks
  • Date: 10th September 2018
  • Summary: ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES (FILE - SEPTEMBER 12, 2001) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) FIREFIGHTERS UNFURLING FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES FROM ROOF OF THE PENTAGON NEAR CRASH SITE NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FILE) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER VARIOUS OF WORLD TRADE CENTER MEMORIAL
  • Embargoed: 24th September 2018 16:19
  • Keywords: September 11 memorial hijackers flew planes Twin Towers Osama bin Laden
  • Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK; ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA; AND SHANKSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES
  • City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK; ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA; AND SHANKSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,International/National Security
  • Reuters ID: LVA0098X1OMDJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS MATERIAL WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3
    Thousands of people will gather in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania on Tuesday (September 11) to remember the nearly 3,000 people killed when hijacked jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.
    In New York City, a ceremony will take place at the 9/11 Memorial, where mourners gather as they have every year since the attack, for the annual reading of victims' names from both the 1993 and 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
    They will also observe a citywide moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. EDT (1246 GMT), the time American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower, with a second pause at 9:03 a.m. when United Airlines Flight 175 struck the South Tower.
    Further moments of silence will be observed at 9:37 a.m., when American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon; at 9:59 a.m. when the South Tower fell; at 10:03 a.m. when United Flight 93 hit the ground near Shanksville, Pennsylvania; and at 10:28 a.m., when the North Tower collapsed.
    Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the suicide attacks and a U.S.-led war in Afghanistan followed.
    U.S. forces killed bin Laden in May 2011 in a surprise raid on his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, ending a nearly 10-year hunt for the al Qaeda leader.
  • Copyright Holder: FILE REUTERS (CAN SELL)
  • Copyright Notice: (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2018. Open For Restrictions - http://about.reuters.com/fulllegal.asp
  • Usage Terms/Restrictions: None
Register