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President Donald Trump used 9/11 remembrance commemorations Wednesday to announce an unprecedented escalation of the US military assault on Afghanistan's Taliban -- just days after he wanted to hold peace talks with the insurgents.

Speaking at a Pentagon ceremony marking the 18th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, Trump said that over "the last four days" US forces have "hit our enemy harder than they have ever been hit before and that will continue."

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"We had peace talks scheduled a few days ago. I called them off when I learned that they had killed a great American soldier from Puerto Rico, and 11 other innocent people. They thought they would use this attack to show strength, but actually what they showed was unrelenting weakness. The last four days we have hit our enemy harder than they have ever been hit before, and that will continue."

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