Suspected Terrorist Attack on World Trade Center
Pentagon and World Trade Center Attacked
World Trade Center Tower Collapses
Previous WTC Attack Remembered (Feb 1993)
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Dead, injured buried by debris
NEW YORK -- After the initial horror, after the nightmarish scenes of people on fire jumping from buildings, the city braced itself for more pain: digging through the rubble for the dead and the injured. 09/12/01
Injuries
Hospitals overwhelmed with victims, blood donors
The plane slams into the second World Trade Center tower, creating a fireball. Both landmarks collapse. 09/12/01
Scene
N.Y. streets in chaos
NEW YORK -- The young man knelt under a spreading tree, head in hands, sobbing into a white T-shirt. Surrounded by chaos, he was a solitary figure. No one came near him, and he wanted it that way. 09/12/01
Timing key to deadly attacks
NEW YORK -- The nearly simultaneous attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon using commercial airliners point to a meticulously planned strike that may well have employed trained pilots, experts on terrorism said. 09/12/01
Terror experts point finger at bin Laden
By the time the second plane smashed dead into the World Trade Center Tuesday morning, national security experts in Washington and beyond were sure the brazen attack was the work of a skilled terrorist group. 09/11/01
Taliban rulers deny bin Laden's involvement
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's hardline Taliban rulers rejected suggestions that Osama bin Laden, whom they are sheltering, could be behind the devastating terrorist attacks in the United States on Tuesday. 09/11/01
World watches in horror as terror unfolds
LONDON -- Astonishing terrorist strikes in the United States quickly reached a global audience Tuesday, with many around the world watching live coverage as both World Trade Center towers collapsed. 09/11/01
Nation's transportation comes to a halt
WASHINGTON -- Planes will remain grounded until at least noon Wednesday after the country came under terrorist attack Tuesday from the skies. 09/11/01
At the Pentagon, fear and anger
WASHINGTON -- The plane that slammed into the Pentagon Tuesday also blasted America's sense of security. 09/11/01
Timeline of Tuesday's events
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Analysis
American culture faces huge change
WASHINGTON -- The worst nightmares of national security officials came true Tuesday, and the nation forever will be changed in terms of culture, society, politics, priorities and freedom of movement. 09/11/01
Another day of infamy evokes comparison to Pearl Harbor
WASHINGTON -- Stunned by devastating terrorist sneak attacks carried out by four suicide planes against New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, Americans found themselves in a state of undeclared war with an invisible enemy Tuesday. 09/11/01
Terrorism has roots as old as humanity itself
It is a notion as old as human history, a cold-eyed calculation made by zealots down the ages: that the taking of innocent lives, or the threat to do so, can serve as a brutally effective means of advancing a cause. 09/11/01
Engineering wonders, icons of America fall prey to terror
At dawn, they were two of the world's tallest buildings. By noon, they were a smoking ruin. 09/11/01
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