SOUTH AFRICA: U.S. embassy hosts a remembrance concert in Johannesburg marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11 attacks

Record ID: 454512

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: U.S. embassy hosts a remembrance concert in Johannesburg marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11 attacks
  • Date: 12th September 2011
  • Summary: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA (SEPTEMBER 11, 2011) (REUTERS) MUSICIANS FROM DIAMOND QUARTET COMING UP TO STAGE VARIOUS AMERICAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN GUESTS IN THE AUDIENCE MUSICIANS PLAYING VARIOUS PEOPLE LISTENING MUSICIANS PLAYING U.S. AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH AFRICA DONALD GIPS (IN WHITE SHIRT) LISTENING MUSICIANS PLAYING PEOPLE LISTENING CONCERT PROGRAMME
  • Embargoed: 27th September 2011 13:00
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  • Location: South Africa, South Africa
  • Country: South Africa
  • Topics: Crime,History
  • Reuters ID: LVA1295N9D040LVH8L4N2DNN3CA8
  • Story Text: Americans around the world on Sunday (September 11) remembered the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001, and the nearly 3,000 people who died in the hijacked plane attacks.
    The U.S. mission to South Africa invited about a hundred American expatriates and South African intellectuals to a popular Johannesburg music club for a 9/11 remembrance concert.
    Musicians from the South African Diamond quartet played music by African American classical composer Henry "Harry" Burleigh, Samuel Barber and Antonin Dvorak.
    "The acts on 9/11 and terrorism have touched people around the world. On 9/11 people from 90 different countries were killed in the actual event, and I think what we are trying to take this, and President Obama is trying to take this, how do we unite this people all around the world to built a more safe and prosperous future for everyone," said U.S. ambassador to South Africa Donald Gips.
    "I think we all need to unite to bring security to the world. Part of the response to that is fighting the terrorists. Part of that is our development efforts all around the world - not just ours but the U.N., everyone coming together to root out the causes of terrorism," he added.
    In the Sept. 11 attacks, 19 men from the Islamic militant group al Qaeda hijacked airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon outside Washington and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Just weeks after the attacks, U.S. forces invaded Afghanistan to topple that country's Taliban rulers who had harboured the al Qaeda leaders responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks.
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