Trump uses 9/11 memorial speech to justify Iran war as families commemorate victims of attack – live

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President appears to tie Iran war to ‘sacred oath’ to victims killed in September 11 attacks as memorials are held across the US On 11 September, 25 years ago, Osama bin Laden drove with a small number of al-Qaida retainers and aides to a remote location in eastern Afghanistan.
His convoy of SUVs was accompanied by a minivan converted into a makeshift communications centre.
The van’s rudimentary equipment did not allow Bin Laden to watch the 19 men he had started sending to the US more than a year before fly planes

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