New York (US): Before and after satellite images showing the sites attacked on 9/11 have been released by Maxar, a satellite imaging company. Smoke is seen rising from the images taken on Sept. 12, 2001, one day after the attacks that saw two hijacked airplanes crash into the twin towers. A rebuilt Word Trade Center site is shown in images from 2020 and 2021.
Damage to the Pentagon is clearly visible on images shot 4 days after the attack in 2001, followed by a rebuilt Pentagon in July of 2020. Scattered debris can be seen in the image above Shanksville, Pennsylvania where United Flight 93 crashed after passengers overpowered the hijackers. The Flight 93 national memorial can then be seen in the image captured in June of 2019.
The U.S. marks the 20th anniversary of the attacks Saturday under the shadow of a frantic withdrawal from Afghanistan, fallen to the same militants whom Americans invaded in order to oust for harboring the al-Qaida extremists who plotted the 9/11 terror attacks.
(AP)
