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9/11/2001
World Trade Towers hit by planes, both collapse
NEW YORK - Shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday, American Airlines Flight 11 left Boston for Los Angeles. It would not reach its destination. Something happened shortly after takeoff. A hijacking. And instead of climbing well aloft and heading west, the plane swept to the south, to New York.
 
Jet crashes in Pa.; passenger reported hijacking in phone call
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. – A passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 called on his cell phone from a locked bathroom with a chilling message: "We are being hijacked, we are being hijacked!" Minutes later the jetliner crashed with 45 people aboard, the last of four closely timed terror attacks across the country.
 
Pentagon takes direct hit
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon took a direct, devastating hit from an aircraft and the enduring symbols of American power were evacuated Tuesday as an apparent terrorist attack quickly spread fear and chaos in the nation's capital.
 
Nation reels in horror
The nation reeled in horror and security precautions spun into effect as the work day began with a series of plane crashes that left the World Trade Center in flames and smoke billowing from the Pentagon.
 
Bush promises full force of U.S. government will track down terrorists
BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. - As chaos unhinged New York and Washington, President Bush commanded the full force of the United States government to "hunt down and to find" the terrorists responsible.
 
London editor says he was warned of attack
KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's hardline Taliban rulers condemned the devastating terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on Tuesday and rejected suggestions that Osama bin Laden could be behind them.
 
NY workers walk miles to safety
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Thousands of workers jammed onto ferries or walked for miles Tuesday to flee lower Manhattan after the attack on the World Trade Center.
 
Terrorists must have had own pilots in scheme that defied planning, experts say
NEW YORK - The terrorists who apparently hijacked four planes and attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon could only have succeeded by using their own trained pilots in a scheme that defied all scenarios envisioned by national security officials, terrorism experts said.
 
Chaotic scene of devastation unfolds on national television
NEW YORK - Television became a national gathering place on a terror-filled Tuesday, replaying unimaginable scenes of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center and its skyscrapers collapsing. Newspapers rushed out special editions. Many headlines said simply: "TERROR."
 
Bush puts government on highest alert, says terrorists will be brought to justice
WASHINGTON - President Bush and congressional leaders sought to calm a shaken nation and show the government was functioning and determined after Tuesday's deadly terrorist attacks. From the Oval Office, Bush pledged to "find those responsible and bring them to justice."
 
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