A red-letter day for the US

Kandahar 'surrender' due on 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor bombing

Thursday 06 December 2001 01:00 GMT

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If Kandahar is surrendered tomorrow, 7 December, the date would have huge significance to Americans: it is the 60th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor bombing - the last time before 11 September that America suffered an act of war on home territory.

President George W. Bush will commemorate the anniversary aboard the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier at Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia. The focus of his speech will be the war in Afghanistan, said White House press secretary Ari Fleischer.

Next Tuesday, Bush will deliver an address marking the three-month anniversary of the 11 September suicide hijackings over Washington, New York and Pennsylvania, Fleischer said.

On 7 December, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, killing 2,390 and plunging America into World War II.

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