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Wednesday, September 13, 2001
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
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"Make no mistake, the United States will hunt down and
punish those responsible for these cowardly acts."
President George Bush, on the terrorist attacks yesterday.
http://nytimes.com/2001/09/11/national/11WIRE-PLAN.html
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Hijacked Jets Destroy Twin Towers and Hit Pentagon
Hijackers rammed jetliners into each of New York's World
Trade Center towers on Tuesday, toppling both in a hellish
storm of ash, glass, smoke and leaping victims, while a
third jetliner crashed into the Pentagon in Virginia.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/nyregion/12PLAN.html
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The Attack on the Military: A Hijacked Boeing 757 Slams
Into the Pentagon
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/national/12PENT.html
Pennsylvania Crash: Passenger Reported Hijacking Shortly
Before a Crash
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/national/12PENN.html
The President: A Somber Bush Says Terrorism Cannot Prevail
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/national/12BUSH.html
The Buildings: Believed to Be Safe, the Towers Proved
Vulnerable to Jet Fuel Fire
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/nyregion/12CENT.html
The Government: Trying to Command an Emergency When the
Emergency Command Center Is Gone
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/nyregion/12EMER.html
A Creeping Horror: Buildings Burn and Fall as Onlookers
Search for Elusive Safety
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/nyregion/12SCEN.html
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News Analysis: Nation Plunges Into Fight With Enemy Hard
to Identify
Today's devastating and astonishingly well-coordinated
attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York and
on the Pentagon outside of Washington plunged the nation
into a warlike struggle against an enemy that will be hard
to identify with certainty and hard to punish with
precision.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/national/12ASSE.html
The Reaction: A Tough City Is Swept by Anger, Despair and
Helplessness
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/nyregion/12REAC.html
The Background: A Trend Toward Attacks That Emphasize
Deaths
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/international/12HIST.html
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New York: With City Transit Shut Down, New Yorkers Take to
Eerily Empty Streets
Officials said Tuesday was largest shutdown of
transportation services ever seen in the New York area,
one that left only overcrowded buses, ferries, the
occasional taxi or gypsy van to help hundreds of thousands
of people make their way out of Manhattan or around much
of the rest of the region.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/nyregion/12SUBW.html
The Reaction: A Tough City Is Swept by Anger, Despair and
Helplessness
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/nyregion/12REAC.html
The Response: Firefighters Dash Into Towers; Many Do Not
Return
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/nyregion/12RESC.html
The Need: Health Officials Are Not Worried About Meeting
Blood Demand
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/nyregion/12BLOO.html
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The Afghans: Condemning Attacks, Taliban Says bin Laden
Not Involved
The Taliban rulers, hosts to the terrorism suspect Osama
bin Laden, condemned the attacks on America and said that
their notorious guest was not involved.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/international/12AFGH.html
The World's Reaction: European Nations Stand With U.S.,
Ready to Respond
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/international/europe/12WORL.html
The Militant: America the Vulnerable Meets a Ruthless
Enemy
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/international/12OSAM.html
The Ties: In U.S., Echoes of Rift Of Muslims and Jews
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/nyregion/12RELA.html
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Lower Manhattan to Stay Closed
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/nyregion/12CLOS.html
The Markets: Stocks Tumble Abroad; Exchanges in New York
Never Opened for the Day
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/national/12STOX.html
The Airports: Security Long a Concern at U.S. Airports
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/national/12AVIA.html
The Elections: Pataki Orders Postponement of Primaries
Across State
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/nyregion/12ELEC.html
OP-ED
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A Different World
By ANTHONY LEWIS
The world's cooperation is essential if the authors of
this attack are to be found and destroyed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/opinion/12LEWI.html
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New Day of Infamy
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
What well-financed terrorist organization, under what
country's secret protection, slaughtered so many
Americans?
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/opinion/12SAFI.html
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Grave Silence
By MAUREEN DOWD
Manhattan had the noise of the grave. Washington had the
silence of the grave.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/opinion/12DOWD.html
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America's Emergency Line: 9/11
By BILL KELLER
America has moved into the very exclusive club of
democracies for which terrorism is not peripheral, remote
or episodic, but a horrible routine.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/opinion/12KELL.html
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An Unfathomable Attack
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/opinion/12WED1.html
The National Defense
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/opinion/12WED2.html
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A Chronology of Tuesday's Events
7:55 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 leaves Boston
bound for Los Angeles
8:00 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 departs Newark
bound for San Francisco
8:10 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77 departs
Washington bound for Los Angeles
8:15 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 departs Boston
bound for Los Angeles
8:46 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 strikes the
north tower of the World Trade Center.
8:55 a.m. According to wire reports, President Bush,
who is in Sarasota, Fla., is informed of the attacks
9:03 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 strikes the
south tower of the World Trade Center.
9:15 a.m. President Bush makes statement condemning
terrorist attack.
9:25 a.m. FAA shuts down all New York City area
airports.
9:35 a.m. All bridges and tunnels in the Manhattan
area closed.
9:40 a.m. FAA halts all flight operations at U.S.
airports.
9:55 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77 hits Pentagon.
10:05 a.m. The south tower of the World Trade Center
collapses.
10:05 a.m. President Bush leaves Sarasota; White
House evacuated.
10:15 a.m. A portion of the Pentagon collapses.
10:24 a.m. The FAA reports all inbound transatlantic
aircraft are being diverted to Canada.
10:25 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in
Somerset County, 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh
10:27 a.m. The World Trade Center's north tower
collapses.
10.46 a.m. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell cuts
short his trip to Latin America to return to the
United States.
10:53 a.m. New York's primary elections scheduled
for today are postponed.
10:55 a.m. Financial Markets closed in New York
11:02 a.m. New York Mayor Rudy W. Giuliani urges
citizens to stay at home or work and orders an
evacuation of the area south of Canal Street.
11:15 a.m. U.N. headquarters in New York is fully
evacuated
12:04 p.m. Los Angeles International Airport, the
destination of three of the hijacked American
Airlines flights, is evacuated.
12:25 p.m. San Francisco International Airport is
evacuated and shut down.
1:04 p.m. President Bush speaks from Barksdale
Airforce Base in Louisiana.
1:45 p.m. Pentagon announces that warships and
aircraft carriers will take up positions in the New
York and Washington areas.
8:30 p.m. President Bush addresses nation from White
House
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