Washington, United States.
U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia next Saturday, September 11, to attend events to commemorate the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the White House announced. .
Biden will move alongside First Lady Jill Biden to New York City, Shanksville, Pennsylvania and Arlington, Virginia, where “they will honor and remember the lives lost 20 years ago,” the note said today. .
Also on that day, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, will travel to a separate event in Shanksville and later join the presidential couple for the event at the Pentagon, located in Arlington.
The September 2001 attacks, in which nearly 3,000 people were killed, were the largest terrorist attack in the country’s history.
This Friday, Biden ordered the declassification of hitherto secret documents on the investigation conducted by the FBI to clarify these attacks.
The president signed an executive order ordering the Justice Department and other government agencies to review the documents with the goal that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland will release them over the next six months, the White House said Friday.
In early August, hundreds of survivors and relatives of the victims of the attacks asked Biden not to attend the commemorations of the attacks, unless his government released new files on what happened, especially on whether Arabia Saudi played some role in the attacks.
The U.S. Congressional Commission that investigated the attacks concluded that there was no evidence that the Saudi government or senior officials in that country had provided funds to the terrorists involved in the attacks, including 15 of them. of Saudi origin.