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To: LaVerne E. Olney who wrote (8508)	9/11/2001 3:27:34 PM
From: J.T.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19219

Hijacked Planes Destroy World Trade Center Towers By Charles Babington washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Tuesday, September 11, 2001; 2:26 p.m. In the nation’s most devastating terrorist attack, commercial airliners were hijacked today and destroyed New York’s World Trade Center towers and badly damaged the Pentagon. There were numerous injuries at the Pentagon, but reports of explosions at the State Department and the Capitol were unfounded, law enforcement officials said. At least four commercial airliners -- one traveling from Washington Dulles to Los Angeles, two others departing from Boston and one from Newark, N.J. -- apparently were hijacked and used in the attacks. Officials said all those aboard were feared dead. President Bush, who was in Florida when the attacks began, was temporarily flown to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. From there he announced that the U.S. military was on “high-alert status,” adding: “Freedom itself was attacked this morning and I assure you freedom will be defended. Make no mistake. The United States will hunt down and pursue those responsible for these cowardly actions.” The stunning events brought the nation to a virtual standstill. Officials evacuated all federal buildings in Washington, creating a late-morning downtown scene of chaos and gridlock. Takeoffs at all of the nation’s major airports were canceled. American Airlines said Flight 77 from Dulles to Los Angeles, a Boeing 757 with 58 passengers, four flight attendants and two pilots, was “lost.” American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 from Boston to Los Angeles, with 81 passengers, nine flight attendants and two pilots, also was lost. United Airlines confirmed the crashes of two planes: UA 93, a Boeing 757 bound from Newark to San Francisco, with 38 passengers on board, two pilots and five flight attendants. And UA 175, a Boeing 767 bound from Boston to Los Angeles, with 56 passengers on board, two pilots and seven flight attendants. United plane Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania just north of the Somerset County Airport, at about 10 a.m. The plane crashed about eight miles east of Jennerstown, according to county 911 dispatchers. The airport is about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The number of people killed in Manhattan was not immediately known, but officials feared devastating casualty counts from the collapse of the twin 110-story towers, where about 50,000 people normally work. People began evacuating the towers soon after the first airplane crashed into the upper floors at about 8:50 a.m. EDT. But many were feared still inside later in the morning when first one tower, and then the other, crumbled into horrific heaps of smoke and dust. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said he feared “a horrendous number” of people were killed. According to the Associated Press, the Pentagon took a direct, devastating hit from an aircraft. It burst into flames and a portion of one side of the five-sided structure collapsed. Secondary explosions were reported in the aftermath of the attack and great billows of smoke drifted skyward toward the Potomac River. Authorities immediately began deploying troops, including a regiment of light infantry. President Bush in Florida this morning pledged to use “the full resources of the federal government to help the victims and their families” and “to hunt down and find those folks who committed these acts....Terrorism against our nation will not stand.” “This is the second Pearl Harbor. I don’t think that I overstate it,” said Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.). Although officials had no direct information this morning linking him to the attacks, fugitive terrorist Osama bin Laden is automatically considered the leading suspect behind the bombings, a senior government official said. The Pentagon explosion and fire was caused when a plane crashed into the building’s helicopter landing pad. Early reports of an explosion at the Capitol building proved unfounded, but by then officials had ordered all federal workers home. The federal government took the additional step of shutting down national landmarks across the country, including the Washington Monument, the Statue of Liberty and the St. Louis Gateway Arch, among other locations, according to the National Park Service. According to Washington Post reporters the FBI deployed all personnel under the assumption that the United States has suffered a coordinated terrorist attack. All FBI offices have been put on full alert, and offices near the outside windows of the J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown Washington were evacuated with all personnel moving to interior locations safer from the effects of an outside attack. Dave Kansas, who lives on Broadway just north of the World Trade Center, said that after the first explosion he ran down to see what happened just in time to see the second plane hit the building and explode. “It was gruesome,” Kansas said. “People were falling out of the building from very high up.” After that, crowds started streaming up Broadway to get away from the area. © 2001 The Washington Post Company Best Regards, J.T.