"Nigeria has extended heartfelt condolences to the United States of America over the terrorist attack on locations within the country on Tuesday September 11, 2001.
In a message to US President, George W. Bush yesterday, President Olusegun Obasanjo extended the condolences on behalf of the Government and people of Nigeria and on his own behalf over the ‘sadistic terrorist attack’ on the American people.
A statement from the office of the Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity said that President Obasanjo described the attack as ‘callous and dastardly’ adding that it must be condemned by all peace-loving people the world over.
‘The perpetrators of this heinous crime that has resulted in huge losses of lives and property must not go unpunished’, President Obasanjo stated in his message.
‘Terrorism and terrorists must never be given comfort. The spirit of democracy must never be downcast but must be buoyed up and made unconquerable’, the President stressed.
He added that Nigerian prayers and sympathy ‘also go to the families of those who have lost their beloved ones in this attack’.
From “Nigeria Condemns ‘Dastardly Attack’ on America” http://www.nigeria-consulate-ny.org/news/us_attack_press_release.htm on the official website of the Nigerian Consulate General in New York http://www.nigeria-consulate-ny.org/
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