UK PM Boris Johnson: 9/11 assaults didn’t divide us

The Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaeda assaults within the United States didn’t divide those that consider in freedom and democracy, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson mentioned in a video message marking the twentieth anniversary of that day.
Nearly 3,000 folks had been killed, together with greater than 2,600 on the World Trade Center in New York, after hijackers seized management of airplanes and used them to assault the World Trade Center’s twin towers and the Pentagon simply exterior Washington.
Sixty-seven British nationals had been among the many useless.”While the terrorists imposed their burden of grief and struggling, and whereas the menace persists at this time, we will now say with the attitude of 20 years that they didn’t shake ourbelief in freedom and democracy,” Johnson mentioned within the video message.
“They failed to drive our nations apart, or cause us to abandon our values, or to live in permanent fear.”The message shall be performed at an occasion held in London’s Olympic Park, the place there’s a memorial sculpture created fromsteel salvaged from the collapsed World Trade Center towers.
Al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden plotted the 9/11 assaults from inside Afghanistan. That sparked a U.S-led invasion that swiftly toppled the Taliban authorities there in 2001, however Western forces remained within the nation for an additional 20 years.

Johnson linked the 9/11 anniversary with the current return of Taliban rule in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of American, British and different NATO forces.
“Recent events in Afghanistan only strengthen our determination to remember those who were taken from us, cherish the survivors and those who still grieve, and hold fast to our belief in liberty and democracy, which will always prevail over every foe,” he mentioned.