The commemorations of the September 11 attacks are looming.
In this context, Joe Biden will visit the three emblematic places of the attacks that took place twenty years ago on Saturday September 11: in New York, Pennsylvania and on the Pentagon site, the White House announced on Saturday.
The American president and his wife Jill Biden want according to a statement "to pay homage and to commemorate the lost lives" by going to New York, where fell the twin towers of the World Trade Center, in Shanksville in Pennsylvania where a plane crashed hijacked by four jihadists, and in Arlington, Virginia, not far from Washington, where the US Department of Defense was attacked.
A declassification of documents from the investigation of the attacks
At the same time, the Head of State issued a decree with a view to the forthcoming declassification of documents from the investigation of the attacks, a sensitive subject for some families of victims.
The Minister of Justice will have to publish the declassified documents "within the next six months".
Families of 9/11 victims have launched a legal battle against Saudi Arabia and other states they accuse of complicity.
During these proceedings, successive American governments have invoked state secrecy in order not to publish certain documents.
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Joe Biden had wished to symbolically mark this twentieth anniversary of the attacks by the orderly withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, where they had been sent following the attacks.
But the war in Afghanistan ended in chaos, with the United States taken aback by the rapid advance of the Taliban and 13 American servicemen victims of an attack in Kabul.