9/11: New photos show George W Bush's response to September 11 attacks

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Following 11 September 2001, Mr Bush launched the “war on terror” and invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, vowing to “hunt down” those terrorist networks that had committed the attacks and killed more than 2,000 people. Everyone did their job that day and I knew my job was to have a crystal clear focus to document what was in front of me, for others to place it into history.” The photos are courtesy of the George W Bush Presidential Library and Museum, and is the third batch of images to be released since the attacks. open image in gallery “I’ve directed the full resources for our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and bring them to justice,” the president said at 8.30pm from the White House. “We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.” Later that evening, following a speech to the nation where he claimed that “our fellow citizens – our way of life – our very freedom came under attack”, he met with secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld, vice president Dick Cheney, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and White House chief of staff Andrew Card, among others.