The U.S. president, the Pope, the Chancellor - they all remember the victims of the 11th September 2001. In New York there is a moving memorial service. Only one does not believe the terror of 9 / 11: Iran's President Ahmadinejad.
With moments of silence and mourning ceremonies, the U.S. and many other states on Sunday for victims of the terrorist attacks of 11September 2001 meant. Members were reading in New York at "Ground Zero" before the names of the 2977 people who died ten years ago in the attacks of radical Islamists in the United States. Back then two with passengers occupied, hijacked planes into the twin towers of the World Trade sped centers that collapsed shortly afterwards. A third aircraft hit the Pentagon near Washington, another crashed in Pennsylvania.
Names of the victims in New York readWith moments of silence and mourning ceremonies, the U.S. and many other states on Sunday for victims of the terrorist attacks of 11September 2001 meant. Members were reading in New York at "Ground Zero" before the names of the 2977 people who died ten years ago in the attacks of radical Islamists in the United States. Back then two with passengers occupied, hijacked planes into the twin towers of the World Trade sped centers that collapsed shortly afterwards. A third aircraft hit the Pentagon near Washington, another crashed in Pennsylvania.
A bagpipe band from joint fire and police opened the touching memorial service in New York . A youth choir sang the American anthem. As the names of the victims were read out, many guests who wiped tears from her face. Some held photos of their relatives killed in the air. main guests were U.S. President Barack Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush, accompanied by their wives. On political speech has been omitted. Obama recited a psalm: "Therefore will not we fear, though the earth is shaken, when mountains plunge into the depths of the sea." Before Bush was reading from a letter by former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln to a mother who during the civil war five sons had lost.
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) called for vigilance. Terrorism is more a "very real threat" for Germany, she told the "Tagesspiegel am Sonntag".Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (FDP) described the attacks as terrorist "attack against human dignity for all who want to live in freedom."He said: "We have to adjust that to those who grant us our freedom-life and not fight it, look in the future always a chance." Pope Benedict XVI.prayed in Ancona, Italy for the victims and their families. At the same time he called in a trade show to "reject violence as a solution to problems."100 000 before the head of the faithful urged Catholics to "resist the temptation to hate and to keep themselves in the society on principles of solidarity, justice and peace."
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the United States to have abused the attacks in 2001 as a pretext to start wars. The attack was a "complex game" was, "from the U.S. used as a pretext for the Iraq and Afghanistan to attack and thereby to shed the blood of innocent people."According to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the confrontation with terror still in full swing . "The fight is not over yet, we are still in his heart," he said in Jerusalem.
Russia also expressed its willingness to the international fight against terrorism. The world has witnessed an increasing radicalization in many regions, said the Foreign Ministry in Moscow. The assassin of New York would want to sow fear in particular. But her plan was not worked out.
