VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-29
“I watched terrorists with names like mine attack my country in the name of my faith. Three thousand of my fellow Americans were killed in the craven terrorist attacks in New York, Washington DC and Pennsylvania. The attack devastated me.”
Abdul El-Sayed · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29
El-Sayed wrote this in a 2021 recollection of the September 11 attacks.
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