ISIS celebrates 9/11 attacks as ‘pivotal moment’ for Islam in first-ever statement on Twin Towers anniversary
ISIS has celebrated the 9/11 attacks that killed 2,977 people and injured 25,000 more as a "pivotal moment" in Islamic history.
The death cult’s propaganda arm made the comments as part of a rant on the anniversary of the 2001 Al Qaeda mass murder attack on New York
SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors and analyses the the terror group, tweeted: "For the first time ISIS has published a statement for the anniversary of 9/11 in its Naba newspaper, celebrating the day as a ‘pivotal moment’ in contemporary Islamic history, while lamenting what Al Qaeda has become: short-sighted in viewing the US as its sole enemy."
ISIS was also said to view itself as the inheritors of the "9/11 mission” although Al Qaeda was "myopic traitors of the jihadi cause".
At the height of its power in mid-2014, ISIS had seized control of large parts of Syria and Iraq, declaring an Islamic "caliphate" and committing widespread atrocities.
Followers of the terror group also are urging their comrades to "weaponize" the virus by purposefully spreading it to "disbelievers".
Trump is speaking at the morning ceremony, the White House said.
Biden plans to pay respects there in the afternoon after attending the observance at the 9/11 memorial in New York.
Thousands of family members are still invited.
But they will hear a recording of the names from speakers spread around the vast plaza, a plan that memorial leaders felt would avoid close contact at a stage but still allow families to remember their loved ones at the place where they died.
But some victims' relatives felt the change robbed the observance of its emotional impact.
A different 9/11-related group, the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, set up its own, simultaneous ceremony a few blocks away, saying there was no reason that people can't recite names while keeping a safe distance.