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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden attends the 19th September 11 commemoration ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, 11 September 2020. Picture: AFP

September 11 attacks

Trump, Biden make rival appearances on 9/11 anniversary

By AFP

Friday marks the 19th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks on the United States.

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    739 days ago
  • FILE: US President Donald Trump. Picture: AFP.

    Trump in Pennsylvania on 9/11 to honour Flight 93 heroes

    President Donald Trump will be accompanied by his wife Melania on a day that has come to symbolise national unity.

    955 days ago
  • In this file photo taken on 11 September 2001, a man stands in the rubble after the collapse of the first World Trade Center Tower in New York. Picture: AFP.

    17 years on, workers still search for 9/11 remains

    So far, only 1,642 of the 2,753 people who died in the attacks in New York have been formally identified.

    956 days ago
  • FILE: A US flag is flown at sunrise at the Pentagon crash site near the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial on September 11, 2015, on the 14th anniversary of the 911 attacks. AFP

    Saudi Arabia must face US lawsuits over Sept. 11 attacks

    Saudi Arabia had long had broad immunity from 11 September lawsuits in the United States.

    1121 days ago
  • High school students draw the Twin Towers and write messages on the sidewalk in front of their school on 11 September 2017 in New York, in observance of the 16th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks. Picture: AFP

    Afghanistan will never again be militant sanctuary - US ambassador

    A US led intervention sparked by the 11 September attacks toppled the Taliban government in 2001.

    1319 days ago
  • An image of a fake South African passport belonging to British national Samantha Lewthwaite aka the White Widow was released by Kenyan police in 2011. Picture: AFP

    In the wrong hands, your passport is a weapon of mass destruction

    In 1993, when Ramzi Yousef carried out the first World Trade Centre bombing, he did so after entering the United States on a stolen Iraqi passport.

    1475 days ago
  • US President Barack Obama speaks during an interfaith memorial service for the victims of the Dallas police shooting at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on July 12, 2016 in Dallas, Texas. President Barack Obama attended a somber memorial Tuesday to five police officers slain in a sniper ambush in Dallas, as he seeks to unify a country divided by race and politics. Picture: AFP

    Congress rejects Obama veto, Saudi 11 Sept bill becomes law

    The House of Representatives voted 348-77 against the veto, hours after the Senate rejected it 97-1.

    1667 days ago
  • A US flag is flown at sunrise at the Pentagon crash site near the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial on September 11, 2015, on the 14th anniversary of the 911 attacks. AFP

    Pages of US 9/11 report detailing possible Saudi ties made public

    The report focus on potential Saudi government ties to the 2001 aircraft attacks on the United States.

    1742 days ago
  • FILE: A man walks amongst the rubble at the site of the World Trade Centre shortly after the 9/11 attack. Picture: AFP.

    CIA chief expects release of 9/11 documents to clear Saudi Arabia

    The US Senate passed a bill on 17 May allowing the families of 11 September victims to sue Saudi government.

    1776 days ago
  • FILE: A screengrab shows the last known surviving search and rescue dog deployed to New York after the 11 September, 2001 attacks.

    Last known surviving rescue dog from 9/11 dies at 16

    Bretagne was given a final tribute by about two dozen members of the Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department.

    1780 days ago
  • FILE: A man demonstrates against the US Guantanamo prison ahead of the Peoples Summit to be held in parallel with the VII Americas Summit, in Panama City on 9 April, 2015. Picture: AFP.

    Sept. 11 suspects' treatment a focus in Guantanamo hearing

    The case against the 5 suspects has been plagued by repeated delays & is likely years from going to trial.

    1788 days ago
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    How US raided Osama bin Laden's compound in Bilal Town

    1819 days ago
  • FILE. A US flag is flown at sunrise at the Pentagon crash site near the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial on September 11, 2015, on the 14th anniversary of the 911 attacks. AFP

    White House to make decision on 9/11 report by June

    Former Senator Bob Graham, a Florida Democrat, has been pressing for the release of the information.

    1824 days ago
  • A US flag is flown at sunrise at the Pentagon crash site near the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial on September 11, 2015 - the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Picture: AFP.

    Victims' relatives gather 14 years after 9/11 attacks on US

    The names of those killed will be read out at the empty footprint of the World Trade Centre Twin Towers.

    2051 days ago
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    ‘We had the information to stop 9/11’

    Former US NSA technical director William Binney says the agency had the information needed to stop 9/11 but didn’t have the processes in place to act on it.

    2160 days ago
  • FILE: This is a still image from a video titled 'Message to the American People' from Osama Bin Laden. Picture: AFP

    'Bin Laden was fixated on attacking US interests'

    A July 2010 letter showed that bin Laden pressed al-Qaeda in Yemen to focus on America.

    2164 days ago
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