TIRANA, September 11 – Americans remembered 9/11 on Sunday with tear-choked tributes, and pleas to “never forget,” 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on US soil. It is unclear that no matter how many years have passed, nobody can actually understand what happened that very day.
More than two decades later, September 11 remains a point for reflection on the hijacked-plane attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, reconfigured national security policy and spurred a U.S. “war on terror” worldwide. Sunday’s observances, which followed a fraught milestone anniversary last year, came a little more than a month after a US drone strike killed a key al-Qaida figure who helped carry out the 9/11 attacks, Ayman al-Zawahri.
In the meantime Albanian authorities marked 9/11 in posts on social networks.
“Today we honor the unforgettable memory of the innocent lives lost in the terrorist attacks of September 11 and stand in solidarity with their families and all the American people!” said the chairman of the Freedom Party (FP), Ilir Meta.
Further he said that Albania and the US are always together in defense of the values of freedom, democracy and coexistence, strategic alliance and excellent friendship between our nations.
“Side by side, as members of NATO, in every engagement against international terrorism, violent extremism and every threat that endangers peace and stability in the world,” concluded the message conveyed on Sunday by Meta, a former president of Albania. /Argumentum.al
