The president of the United States, Joe Biden, extended the state of national emergency against terrorism for one year, after the attacks of September 11, 2001, which occurred almost 22 years ago.
Biden explained, in a statement, that the attacks that targeted New York, Pennsylvania and the Pentagon caused a crisis that continues to constitute a “continuous and immediate” threat against the country.
“I maintain the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001 in the face of the terrorist threat for another year,” Biden said in the statement, according to the Spanish agency Europa Press.
The attacks of September 11, 2001 caused around three thousand deaths and more than six thousand injuries.
They were perpetrated by 19 agents of the Al-Qaida terrorist network, headed by Osama bin Laden.
The terrorists used four commercial passenger planes to attack the Twin Towers of Manhattan, in New York, and the Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense located in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington.
The fourth plane, which was bound for the Capitol, the seat of Congress, crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
After the attacks, the United States invaded Afghanistan because the Taliban government refused to hand over bin Laden.
The invasion resulted in the overthrow of the regime and an occupation of the country by an international force that ended 20 years later, in 2021, with the return of the Taliban to power.
In the context of the global war on terrorism declared by the United States, Iraq was invaded in 2003, resulting in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime and a war that lasted until 2011.
Hundreds of suspects were detained in dozens of countries and transferred to the US naval base at Guantánamo, in Cuba, which was transformed into a prison, with reports of cases of torture of prisoners.
Bin Laden, who acknowledged his personal and al Qaeda involvement in the attacks, was killed by US special forces in Pakistan in May 2011.
Source: TSF
