The self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, still awaits a long-postponed military tribunal. "Now that al-Zawahri is gone, at least we're continuing to get that justice," Roldan said. Pierre Roldan, who lost his cousin Carlos Lillo, a paramedic, said "we had some form of justice" when a U.S. drone strike killed a key al-Qaida figure who helped plot 9/11, Ayman al-Zawahri. Sunday's observances came little more than a month after a U.S. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people, reconfigured national security policy and spurred a U.S. The fourth plane was headed for Washington but crashed near Shanksville after crew members and passengers tried to storm the cockpit. 11, 2001, conspirators from the al-Qaida Muslim militant group seized control of jets to use them as passenger-filled missiles, hitting the trade center's twin towers and the Pentagon. The 9/11 Attacks They don't remember their parents dying on 9/11. would continue working to root out terrorist plots and called on Americans to stand up for "the very democracy that guarantees the right to freedom that those terrorists on 9/11 sought to bury in the burning fire, smoke and ash." First lady Jill Biden spoke at the third attack site, a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It seems like just yesterday," she said before reading victims' names at the World Trade Center to a crowd that included Vice President Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff.Īt the Pentagon, which also was targeted on 9/11, President Joe Biden vowed that the U.S. "It's been 21 years, but it's not 21 years for us. The loss still felt immediate to Bonita Mentis, who wore a necklace with a photo of her slain sister, Shevonne Mentis. NEW YORK - Americans remembered 9/11 on Sunday with tear-choked tributes and pleas to "never forget," 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. flag is unfurled at the Pentagon on Sunday, the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. First responders salute in a driving rain as a U.S.
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