New York City commemorated the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Wednesday night, powering on nearly 100 7,000-watt xenon bulbs to illuminate into the sky two beams indicating where the Twin Towers once stood.
The long-awaited national memorial-cum-museum will open on Thursday on 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks for families of victims. The public and the first responders will be able to visit the museum for the first time following the traditional reading of names of the 2,983 victims at Memorial Plaza.
The structure is finally complete after years of construction delays and cost overruns, said a report.
The place today dons a new world trade center that rises 1,776 feet in the air and is set to open this fall. Across the plaza, Four World Trade Center is scheduled to begin welcoming tenants in a few weeks.
The reading of the names will proceed with pauses to mark the plane attacks at different intervals.
In the years after 9/11, much of Al Qaeda’s infrastructure was destroyed by the US and its allies, and the organiSation’s founder Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces in 2011.
Al Qaeda, however, is still the No. 1 threat that the US is concerned with.
Last week, Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had announced that the group plans to extend its reach to the Indian subcontinent, including Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Even before 2001, Al Qaeda’s reach was global, making headlines for attacks in Kenya, Tanzania, UK, Spain and Indonesia.
Source: The Blaze
