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copyright 0 2001 The New York Times
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2001
Printed in Ohio
ONE
US, ATTACKED
[IJACKED JETS DESTROY TWIN TOWER
AND HIT PENTAGON IN DAY OF TERR
REEPING HORROR
Idings Burn and Fall
Onlookers Search
for Elusive Safety
By N. R. KLEINFIELD
ept getting worse.
horror arrived in episodic
s of chilling disbelief, signified
trembling floors, sharp erup-
cracked windows. There was
Ctual unfathomable realization
aping, flaming hole in first one
tall towers, and then the same
all over again in its twin. There
the merciless sight Of bodies
k*sly tumbling out, some of
in flames.
ally, the
ty towers them-
President Vows to E
Punishment for 'Ea
By SERGE SCHMEMANN
Hijackers rammed jetliners into each of New York's
Center towers yesterday, toppling both in a hellish storm
smoke and leaping victims, while a third jetliner cra
Pentagon in Virginia. There was no official count, but Pl
said thousands had perished, and in the immediate a
calamity was already being ranked the worst and mc
terror attack in American history.
The attacks seemed carefully coordinated. The hij
were all en route to California, and therefore gorged
their departures were spaced within an hour and 40 minu
American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 out of
Angeles, crashed into the
north tower at 8:48 a.m.
Eighteen minutes later,
United Airlines Flight 175,
also headed from Boston to
Los Angeles, plowed into the
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