El-Sayed’s 2021 September 11 anniversary remarks
Host of America Dissected and former Detroit health director
“The people who carried it out were a group of people driven by hate who attacked my country.”
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About this source
This official America Dissected transcript preserves Abdul El-Sayed’s 2021 remarks on the twentieth anniversary of September 11. In the opening context, he calls the attacks devastating, honors the nearly 3,000 victims, and describes the attackers as driven by hate who attacked “my country.” He later criticizes post-9/11 U.S. actions. It predates the 2026 Rogers allegation and is contextual historical evidence, not a response to that allegation.
Before the quotation
At the beginning of a September 7, 2021 episode marking the twentieth anniversary, El-Sayed calls the attacks devastating and says the nearly 3,000 people who died should be remembered and honored.
After the quotation
He says that September 11 scarred the country but that what the United States did after the attacks scarred millions of other people. The episode later turns to Afghanistan and postwar consequences.
How this statement is classified
The recorded statement directly conflicts with the characterization that El-Sayed endorsed the September 11 attacks, while its broader discussion also criticizes the U.S. response after the attacks. It is classified only as a challenge to that characterization, not as a 2026 response.
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