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Barack Obama on 9/11: Diversity one of America’s ‘greatest strengths’

US President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Americans on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to embrace the nation's diversity and not to allow "terrorists" to divide the country.

By: AFP
1 min readWashingtonSep 11, 2016 08:17 PM IST First published on: Sep 11, 2016 at 08:17 PM IST
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US President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Americans on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to embrace the nation’s diversity and not to allow “terrorists” to divide the country.

“Our diversity, our patchwork heritage, is not a weakness. It is still and always will be one of our greatest strengths,” Obama said at a remembrance service at the Pentagon, one of the sites attacked on 9/11.

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“This is the America that was attacked that September morning. This is the America that we must remain true to.”

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