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THURSDAY • SEPT. 13, 2001
Terrorists attack; nation in shock eyewitness said he saw bodies falling from the trade center, the AP National Writer target of a 1993 bombing by NEW YORK (AP) — In a horrific Middle East terrorists. Dazed sequence of destruction, terrorists workers, their clothing torn, were hijacked two airliners and crashed led from the buildings where them into the World Trade Center 50,000 people work. in a coordinated series of attacks "This is the second Pearl Tuesday morning that brought Harbor. I don't think that I down the twin 110-story towers. A overstate it," said Sen. plane also slammed Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. into the Pentagon, American Airlines "This is the raising fears that the identified the planes seat of government second Pearl that crashed into the itself was under attack. Trade Center as Flight Harbor. I don't "I have a sense it's a 11, a Los Angeleshorrendous number of bound jet hijacked after think that I lives lost," Mayor takeoff from Boston PHOTO BY LEITH LAWS Rudolph Giuliani said overstate it." with 92 people aboard, screen television to watch reports of a terrorist attack on the Students crowd the Lakeside Cafe big when asked about and Flight 77, which World Trade Center. The Pentagon was also targeted. Classes after 12:15 p.m. were canceled. casualties. "I don't was seized while —Sen. Chu ck Hagel know yet. Right now carrying 64 people from R-Neb. All bridges and tunnels to Ebanks managed to walk down Center, said he saw "bodies falling we have to focus on Washington to Los Manhattan were closed, as was the to safety, emerging from the out" of the building. He said police saving as many lives as possible." Angeles. building with tears running down told him to get out of the building city's subway system. A police source, speaking on In Pennsylvania, United "Today we've had a national his face and ash in his hair. "I immediately. He said he ran condition of anonymity, said the Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 en tragedy," President Bush said in worry about some of my co- outside, and watched people jump injuries could number. in the route from Newark, N.J., to San Sarasota, Fla. workers," he said. out of the first building; then, there thousands. One of the planes that Francisco, crashed about 80 miles Both World Trade Center Outside St. Vincent's Hospital, was a second explosion, and he felt hit the Trade Center was a southeast of Pittsburgh with 45 towers were aflame. Dave Billig, paramedics stood in the street heat on the back of neck. commercial flight carrying 92 people aboard. The fate of those An hour later, there were more spokesman for the Fire soliciting blood donors from passengers, while the other was aboard was not immediately known Department, said there were passersby. Nearby, huge black explosions, as the top of one of the carrying 64, authorities said. and it was not clear if the crash was reports of injuries, but there was no plumes rose into the sky where the towers sheared off and fell to the "I was here during the World related to the disasters elsewhere. immediate accounting of casualties. two buildings had once stood. On east in a huge cloud of smoke. "I Trade Center bombing (in 1993), In a statement, United said Clyde Ebanks, an insurance the Brooklyn Bridge, hundreds of just saw the building I work in and this is a hundred times worse," another of its planes, Flight 175, a company vice president, was sitting people stood staring in disbelief at come down. I just saw the top of said Mark Ackermann, spokesman Boeing 767 bound from Boston to in a meeting on the 103rd floor of the endless smoke billowing up Trade Two come down," said a at St. Vincent's Hospital. Los Angeles with 65 people on the south tower when his boss said, from the site. shocked Gabriel loan, an Another explosion was reported board, also crashed, but it did not "Look at that." He turned to see a John Axisa, who was getting off eyewitness. at a building near the center. An say where. plane slam into the other tower. a PATH train to the World Trade BY JERRY SCHWARTZ
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