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9/12/2001
Rescuers pull third person from rubble; another sought
NEW YORK - After a surreal day where the world watched as the World Trade Center crumbled, rescue workers burrowed through a smoking mix of soot and rubble Wednesday in a hunt for thousands of bodies from the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
 
Officials say no more survivors expected to be found in Pentagon wreckage
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon said Wednesday no more survivors are expected to be pulled from the rubble following the terrorist attack that sent a jetliner into the side of the building. Search-and-rescue officials said 80 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage.
 
Some of those killed on flights commandeered by terrorists Tuesday
Here are the names of some of those killed on the airline flights commandeered by terrorists Tuesday.
 
Feds investigating possible terrorist-attack links in Florida
MIAMI – FBI agents investigating the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington told a southwest Florida man that two men who stayed with him while getting flight training last year were involved in Tuesday's attacks on the World Trade Center, the man said.
 
FAA keeps most airplanes grounded
WASHINGTON - Airline flights diverted after Tuesday's attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were authorized to finish their journeys Wednesday afternoon but all other planes remained grounded overnight.
 
Bush says nation will fight back, recover from 'acts of war'
WASHINGTON – President Bush on Wednesday condemned terrorist attacks in New York and Washington as "acts of war," and said he would ask Congress for money to help in the recovery and protect the nation's security.
 
U.S. probe focuses on bin Laden
WASHINGTON — From broken bits of hijacked airplanes to intelligence intercepts, the FBI is collecting evidence in its search for those responsible for Tuesday's twin terrorist attacks. Officials said early evidence pointed to Saudi exile Osama bin Laden.
 
Source: Bin Laden happy over deadly strikes in U.S., but denies his involvement
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden congratulated the people who carried out the deadly terrorist strikes in the United States, but denied today that he was involved, a Palestinian journalist said.
 
9/13/2001
Thousands flood armory, hospitals, streets, looking for the missing
NEW YORK – They stood with heads bowed, holding hands, praying and waiting. They waited in line for a chance to speak into a television camera, clutching fliers and crying.
 
Powell says Osama bin Laden a prime suspect in Tuesday's terrorist attack
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell identified Osama bin Laden as a prime suspect in the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and was promised by the president of Pakistan information on bin Laden's operations.
 
Workers find `black boxes' from two hijacked planes; collaborators may still be at large
WASHINGTON – U.S. investigators pressed Thursday to identify terrorist collaborators who may still be in a position to strike more Americans, and agents located critical "black boxes" from two of Tuesday's hijacked planes.
 
Officials believe White House, Air Force One were terrorist targets
WASHINGTON – Hopscotching across half the country while America was under attack, President Bush vented his frustration with Secret Service officials telling him Air Force One was at risk of a terrorist assault.
 
9/14/2001
Americans hold prayer services after Bush proclaims national day of remembrance
With somber prayers and patriotic hymns, the nation began its day of remembrance Friday led by President Bush and four former presidents who worshipped together at the National Cathedral in Washington.
 
In wake of attacks, some Arab-Americans feel like strangers in America
DEARBORN, Mich. – Ramzi Chammout fled to the United States from Lebanon nearly 12 years ago, escaping a war that took the lives of his parents. He never felt so free as he did in America – until Tuesday.
 
Bush visits New York scene of terror
NEW YORK – Amid extraordinary security, President George W. Bush visited the smoldering mountain of rubble Friday that once was the World Trade Center, cheering the thousands of workers desperately searching for survivors.
 
Hijackers came from U.S.-friendly Arab states
WASHINGTON – Most came from Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates, two of the Arab countries most friendly to the United States.
 
Thumbnail looks at suspected hijackers
Details emerging on the 19 men identified by the FBI as suspected hijackers aboard the four planes that crashed Tuesday, culled from government sources, public records and news reports.
 
Taliban vows revenge if US strikes
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia warned Friday of ``revenge'' if the United States attacks it for harboring Osama bin Laden, the main suspect in the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
 
9/15/2001
Family members create makeshift memorial near site where hijacked plane crashed into Pentagon
WASHINGTON – Holding hands and each other, relatives and friends of those killed in the terrorist attack at the Pentagon created a makeshift memorial Saturday near the site of the devastation.
 
In big cities, small towns, start of the sad wave of services for victims of terror attacks
In the heart of Manhattan, in Washington's suburbs, in saddened towns elsewhere, mourners grieved and reminisced Saturday at the first wave of services for the terror attacks' victims – a fearless priest, a feisty TV commentator, parents and their preschool daughters.
 
Workers at Pentagon report finding many bodies
WASHINGTON - Recovery workers at the Pentagon reported Saturday finding many bodies of those killed when a hijacked jetliner crashed into the building.
 
9/16/2001
Picture of bravery emerges from final moments of Flight 93
Eight of every 10 seats were empty on United Flight 93, so the hijackers, brandishing their razor-sharp box cutters and knives, wouldn't have had much trouble coercing the other 33 passengers to the rear of the Boeing 757.
 
9/17/2001
Memorial Mass held for Massachusetts pilot killed in World Trade Center crash
DRACUT, Mass. – An airline pilot killed in the terrorist attacks was remembered Monday as a dedicated aviator and avid farmer by thousands who attended his memorial.
 
New York's mayor shines during adversity, wins praise from critics
NEW YORK – Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has been quoting Winston Churchill to help New York get through its darkest hour.
 
Dow falls record 684 points; airline stocks hard hit; Fed cuts interest rate half percent
NEW YORK — The losers included airline, insurance and entertainment stocks while defense issues were among the few winners when prices tumbled on Wall Street Monday, the first day of trading after last week's terrorist attacks.
 
America gets back to business
WASHINGTON - President Bush greeted White House workers as they returned to their jobs Monday and sought to reassure Americans elsewhere that they can safely go back to their routines. "The best way to fight terrorism is to not let terrorism intimidate America,'' he said.
 
Focusing on tasks becomes 'almost a salvation' for workers recovering bodies from Pentagon
WASHINGTON – The grisly job of the teams digging through the Pentagon's charred wreckage only gets more awful as they move closer to the worst damage. But workers are pushing ahead by taking an almost numb, workmanlike view of the long and difficult task.
 
9/18/2001
Fires still burning in subterranean levels pose test to rescuers
NEW YORK – Far below the World Trade Center, fires still burn. The twin towers and their five sister buildings once capped seven levels of below-ground parking, communications and security offices, all shot through with subway tunnels and elevator shafts.
 
Nation honors dead as hope dwindles
NEW YORK – One week after terrorists brought down the World Trade Center, the mayor said there was virtually no hope left Tuesday of finding any of the 5,400 missing souls alive. Meanwhile, a federal grand jury has begun investigating the attack.
 
9/19/2001
Bodies of 2 NYPD officers found
NEW YORK – They pulled the bodies of two police officers from the ruins of the World Trade Center on Wednesday, and dogged searchers took a moment to salute before returning to a task that seemed more hopeless with each passing hour.
 
Nearly as many foreigners as Americans killed in towers
WASHINGTON – As certainly as its name suggests, the World Trade Center was the global office. And since terrorists plunged two airplanes into its twin towers last week, nearly as many foreigners are missing as Americans.
 
9/21/2001
Bush vows to rebuild New York
NEW YORK - As the number of people missing in the destruction of the World Trade Center rose to 6,333, President Bush vowed to rebuild New York City as a symbol of America's resolve.
 
9/23/2001
New York holds prayer service for victims
NEW YORK – The House that Ruth Built became a house of prayer on Sunday, as thousands assembled at Yankee Stadium for an interfaith service for the victims of terrorism.
 
9/24/2001
We say goodbye to the victims, one by one
The men who turned airliners into weapons of mass destruction killed thousands in a matter of minutes; we say farewell to them one by one, in sanctuaries jammed with mourners touched by their lives and deaths.
 
Rescuers find jetliner fuselage at Trade Center site as toll of missing rises
NEW YORK – Toiling in the rubble of the World Trade Center, firefighter Paul McGuire said he keeps "waiting for that cheer to ring out where they find someone."
 
9/25/2001
Last standing piece of World Trade Center tower saved
NEW YORK — Workers late Tuesday began removing the last standing piece of the World Trade Center towers — a seven-story twisted metal ruin that has come to symbolize the terrorist attacks — and saving it for possible use in a memorial.
 
9/26/2001
Families begin applying for death certificates for World Trade Center victims
NEW YORK – Hundreds of people, some sobbing, filtered into a building on a Hudson River pier Wednesday, many to begin the heartbreaking process of applying for death certificates for loved ones still missing in the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center.
 
10/04/2001
Fire Department captain buried as area continues to grieve World Trade Center victims
NEW YORK – The flap-draped casket rode atop a lone firetruck Thursday, taking Capt. Terence Hatton past his two families – his fellow firefighters and his pregnant wife, carrying the child he will never hold.
 
Reagan National Airport reopens
WASHINGTON - U.S. Airways shuttle flight 6850 left for New York Thursday, signaling the reopening of Reagan National Airport for the first time since the Sept. 11 hijackings.
 
10/11/2001
Moment of silence observed at ground zero
NEW YORK — Through unstinting smoke and endless tears, weary cleanup workers paused for a moment at ground zero Thursday to mark a grim milestone — the passage of one month since two colossal towers ceased to exist, along with thousands of people trapped inside.
 
10/16/2001
Hijackers voice captured from cockpit: 'Nobody move, please.'
NEW YORK – Minutes before American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the World Trade Center, a voice from the plane's cockpit said: "Nobody move, please; we are going back to the airport. Don't try to make any stupid moves."
 
10/19/2001
Making a statement against fear, widow of passenger who fought hijackers takes same flight
NEWARK, N.J. – The pregnant widow of a passenger who fought back against hijackers on Sept. 11 boarded the same Newark-to-San Francisco flight Friday to make a statement against fear.
 
10/23/2001
A grim and untidy equation: New York City is still trying to come up with a reliable death toll
NEW YORK – After more than a month of cross-checking and detective work, police and city officials believe they are closing in on a reliable figure for the number of people missing and dead in the attack on the World Trade Center.
 
10/24/2001
Ironworkers who erected the World Trade Center three decades ago are now taking it apart
NEW YORK – Willie Quinlan was just a teen-ager when he began bolting together the 50-ton steel beams that would become, for a while at least, the world's tallest buildings.
 
10/26/2001
Red Cross president resigning
WASHINGTON — American Red Cross President Bernadine Healy announced her resignation Friday, saying she had been forced out of the job over policy differences with her board.
 
10/28/2001
Memorial Service held at ground zero for families of victims of World Trade Center attack
NEW YORK – With the smoldering gray rubble of the World Trade Center a sorrowful backdrop, the families of people killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack gathered Sunday for a memorial service filled with prayer and song.
 
10/31/2001
Red Cross halts donations appeal
WASHINGTON — The American Red Cross is halting its appeals for donations to a fund created to help victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, its interim chief executive officer said Tuesday.
 
11/01/2001
Terrorist hijackers all had Social Security numbers, most obtained legally
WASHINGTON – All 19 terrorist hijackers in the Sept. 11 attacks had Social Security numbers and 13 obtained them legally, the government says.
 
11/14/2001
Red Cross says all Liberty Fund donations will go to terrorist attacks victims
WASHINGTON - The American Red Cross said today it will use all the money donated to the Liberty Fund for victims of the terrorist attacks, reversing a plan to set aside some of the money for other needs.
 
11/21/2001
Number of missing and dead in World Trade Center falls below 3,900 in NYC's official count
NEW YORK – The number of people missing or dead in the Sept. 11 terrorist assault on the World Trade Center has dropped below 3,900, according to the city's official tally.
 
11/26/2001
Ground Zero flag, filled with emotional messages, being sent to Marine unit in Afghanistan
NEW YORK – Scrawled with messages of anguish, vengeance and patriotic fervor, an American flag that flew at Ground Zero is being sent to U.S. troops in Afghanistan as a reminder of what they are fighting for.
 
12/04/2001
World Trade Center families are being warned that some victims were `vaporized'
NEW YORK – Three months after the World Trade Center attack, victims' families are being forced to face the ghastly possibility that many of the dead were "vaporized," as the medical examiner put it, and may never be identified.
 
12/11/2001
Bush leads three-month commemorations around the world – and in space
WASHINGTON – Precisely three months after the first jetliner slammed into the World Trade Center, the American national anthem played Tuesday at the White House, across the country and throughout the globe as President Bush vowed to "right this huge wrong."
 
12/12/2001
Widow of trade center victim commits suicide
STROUDSBURG, Pa. – A 51-year-old woman whose friends say had been depressed since her husband died in the collapse of the World Trade Center committed suicide this week, authorities said Wednesday.
 
12/16/2001
'I'm fine,' many trade center survivors say, but post-traumatic stress widespread
NEW YORK – Thunder booms, a car backfires, a door slams and Christine Gillies' heart jumps. Everyday noises have caused waves of anxiety since an airliner crashed into the World Trade Center four stories above her.
 
12/19/2001
After three months, the fires at the World Trade Center are finally out
NEW YORK – The stubborn fires that have burned beneath the ruins of the World Trade Center for the past three months are finally out, officials said Wednesday.
 
01/05/2002
Sept. 11 made Karen Carlucci a widow before she was a bride
NEW YORK – A few weeks after Sept. 11, Karen Carlucci took the train into the city to pick up her wedding ring.
 
Rev. Mychal Judge, FDNY chaplain and World Trade Center casualty, was larger than life, bigger than death
NEW YORK – In his brown Franciscan robe or white firefighter's helmet, Mychal Judge always seemed larger than life. Four months after becoming victim No. 00001 of the World Trade Center attack, Father Mike appears larger than death, too.
 
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