US to mark 16th anniversary of 9/11 attacks

Record ID: 909576

  • Title: US to mark 16th anniversary of 9/11 attacks
  • Date: 8th September 2017
  • Summary: DAMAGED CARS AND FIRE TRUCKS AT GROUND ZERO AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF BOTH TOWERS VARIOUS OF FIREFIGHTERS AND OTHER RESPONDERS AT SITE OF COLLAPSED TOWERS
  • Embargoed: 22nd September 2017 15:43
  • 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: LVA0056XQMB7R
  • 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 Monday (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 (1246GMT), 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.
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