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Wednesday, September 12, 2001
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Suspected Terrorist Attack on World Trade Center
Pentagon and World Trade Center Attacked
Capitol Evacuation
World Trade Center Tower Collapses
Both Towers Are Destroyed
2nd Plane Hits Towers
Pentagon Attacked
Previous WTC Attack Remembered (Feb 1993)

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Terror Sweeps U.S.

New York, D.C. dig out of 'devastating, unspeakable' carnage
NEW YORK -- The most devastating terrorist attack ever waged against the United States struck at the heart of government and financial capitals Tuesday as hijacked commercial jets plowed into the twin World Trade Center towers in New York and the Pentagon outside Washington.
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Government probe focuses on bin Laden
WASHINGTON -- Federal authorities are investigating whether four separate cells of terrorists were involved in Tuesday's devastating attacks. At least one set of hijackers is believed to have crossed from Canada and had ties to Osama bin Laden, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
 09/12/01

FBI teams converge on Boston hotel
BOSTON -- A heavily armed FBI team searching for suspects in the terrorism attacks in New York and Washington stormed a Boston hotel Wednesday, and a witness said someone was seen being put in a van.
 09/12/01

Bush says nation will fight back, recover from 'acts of war'
WASHINGTON -- President Bush condemned terrorist attacks in New York and Washington as "acts of war" on Wednesday and won pledges of funding from Congress to aid in recovery and protect the nation's security. European allies gave their backing to an anticipated military response.
 09/12/01

Hopes dim for more Pentagon survivors as fire is put out
WASHINGTON -- More than 24 hours after a hijacked airliner hit the Pentagon, a fire that tore at the Defense Department headquarters finally was put out. Hopes of finding more survivors in the rubble were all but extinguished, too.
 09/12/01

Only flights diverted Tuesday are allowed to resume
WASHINGTON -- Airline flights diverted after Tuesday's attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were authorized to finish their journeys Wednesday but all other planes remain grounded.
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Essay
Nation reels in new face of war
More than the New York skyline changed Tuesday.
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The scene
N.Y. awakens in shock
NEW YORK -- New Yorkers awoke today to a different city.
 09/12/01

At ground zero, an otherworldly scene
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The search
Dead and injured buried by debris
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Injuries
Hospitals overwhelmed with victims, blood donors
 09/12/01

Nation's capital returns to work
 09/12/01

Bin Laden congratulates terrorists but denies role
 09/12/01

Fighting terrorism
U.S. had no warning of attack
 09/12/01

Response
Lawmakers agree: United we stand
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Perceptions abroad
Foreign enemies see America as threat to values
 09/12/01

The Pentagon
Pentagon hit destroys U.S. sense of security
 09/12/01

Safety precautions
Government shutdown is a matter of security
 09/12/01

Strategy
Hijackers left nothing to chance
 09/12/01

Heroic effort by passengers may have spare other lives
 09/12/01

Passengers on the doomed planes talked to loved ones
 09/12/01

Partial list of people killed
 09/12/01

Europe
Europeans share in U.S. grief
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Voices across the world
 09/12/01

Americans stunned
Attack evokes Pearl Harbor
 09/12/01

Entire nation put on alert
 09/11/01

Timeline of Tuesday's events
 09/11/01