Donald Trump threatened potential terrorists with a devastating retaliation at a memorial service for the victims of the 9/11 attacks. "We do not seek conflict," said the US president in front of the Pentagon in Washington. "But if anyone dares to attack our country, we will respond with the full extent of American power and the iron will of the American spirit."
The attacks in New York and Washington 18 years ago had killed nearly 3,000 people. At that time, Islamists controlled three aircraft into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. A fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania after people on board resisted the kidnappers.
Trump announced massive attacks against Taliban
In his speech, Trump also referred to the canceled talks with the Taliban: "Over the past four days, we have been harassing our enemy harder than they were ever attacked, and that will continue, and if, for whatever reason, they return to our country, we'll go where they are and use forces that the United States has never used before. "
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New York and Washington: mourning for the victims of 9/11The US has been negotiating with the Taliban for months on an agreement to pave the way for US troops to withdraw and for peace in Afghanistan. Trump had declared the negotiations after the cancellation of the talks scheduled for Sunday for "dead".
Trump pointed out that he had canceled after a deadly attack in Kabul last Sunday in Camp David planned negotiations with Taliban representatives. Among the dead in Kabul was also a US soldier. After the 9/11 attacks, the Taliban refused to hand over the mastermind - al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. After the invasion of Afghanistan by a US-led coalition, the Taliban regime was overthrown in late 2001.
Before the commemoration ceremony at the Pentagon, Trump had also thought with his wife Melania in the White House of the victims. Also present at the ceremony were relatives of victims of the attacks as well as survivors. The US flags on the White House and other federal agencies in Washington were set at half-mast on Wednesday.