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The upper floors of
the World Trade Center burn, early September 11, 2001
after a plane crashed into the building. A second
aircraft crashed into the other tower a short time
later. (Peter Morgan/Reuters)
- Sep 11 7:24 PM ET |
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Smoke billows from
the two World Trade Center towers after planes crashed
into each tower, in New York on September 11, 2001.
(Peter Morgan/Reuters)
- Sep 11 7:24 PM ET |
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Pedestrians and
police run as a tower of the World Trade Center
collapses after two planes crashed into the complex
September 11, 2001. Loss of life is expected to be
catastrophic from the collapse of the giant towers where
some 50,000 people work. (Reuters TV)
- Sep 11 7:24 PM ET |
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Smoke billows from
the two World Trade Center towers after TWO planes
crashed into each tower, in New York on September 11,
2001. (Peter Morgan/Reuters)
- Sep 11 7:24 PM ET |
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Smoke and debris
fill the air after one of the World Trade Center towers
in New York City collapsed September 11, 2001. Both
towers were hit by airplanes and both buildings
eventually collapsed. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
- Sep 11 7:24 PM ET |
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The World Trade
Center tower two falls to the ground after both towers
were struck by airplanes September 11, 2001. The two
enormous edifices both fell in a huge cloud of smoke and
fire two hours after the initial impacts. (Jeff
Christensen/Reuters)
- Sep 11 7:24 PM ET |
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Rescue workers
remove a man from one of the World Trade Center towers
in New York City, early September 11, 2001. Both towers
were hit by planes crashing into the buildings and
collapsed a short time later. (Shannon
Stapleton/Reuters)
- Sep 11 7:24 PM ET |
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Two hijacked
commercial planes slammed into the twin towers of the
World Trade Center September 11, 2001, causing both
110-story landmarks to collapse in devastating clouds of
flames and smoke and killing a 'tremendous number' of
people starting their workday inside. The first plane
struck the northern tower at about 8:45 a.m., and a
second plane hit the southern tower about 15 minutes
later. A ball of fire is seen erupting from the south
tower after the second attack. (Steven James
Silva/Reuters)
- Sep 11 6:48 PM ET |
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Firemen work near
the base of the destroyed World Trade Center after
planes crashed into each of the buildings in New York on
September 11, 2001. Three hijacked planes crashed into
major U.S. landmarks on Tuesday, destroying both of New
York's mighty twin towers and plunging the Pentagon in
Washington into flames, in an unprecedented assault on
key symbols of U.S. military and financial power. (Peter
Morgan/Reuters)
- Sep 11 6:48 PM ET |
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Secretary of State
Colin Powell gets in his car after a meeting with Peru's
President Alejandro Toledo in Lima's Government Palace,
September 11, 2001. Powell will fly home to Washington
after attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and
the Pentagon. (Pilar Olivares/Reuters)
- Sep 11 5:29 PM ET |
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Panic and terror
gave way to anger and disbelief on September 11, 2001 as
New Yorkers mourned the massive loss of life after two
hijacked commercial planes slammed into the World Trade
Center's twin towers, which later crumpled to the ground
in a heap of concrete, flames and ash. (Reuters Graphic)
- Sep 11 5:35 PM ET |
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President George W.
Bush talks on the phone with New York Mayor Rudy
Guiliani and New York Governor George Pataki aboard Air
Force One during a flight following a statement
regarding the two planes that crashed into the World
Trade Center in New York City, September 11, 2001. Bush
was abruptly plunged into the deepest crisis of his
brief period in office and how he responds may well
determine his political fate. (Doug Mills/Pool via
Reuters)
- Sep 11 5:19 PM ET |
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President George W.
Bush makes a statement September 11, 2001 on the recent
terrorist acts which have taken place in the United
States at Barksdale AFB near Shreveport, Louisiana. Bush
said the United States had taken all appropriate steps
to protect the American people and would hunt down and
punish those responsible for the attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon. (Win McNamee/Reuters)
- Sep 11 5:19 PM ET |
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Police officer
patrols the U.S. embassy in Ottawa, September 11, 2001.
The U.S. put its forces on alert as governments
worldwide held crisis meetings, tightening security at
embassies, airports and public buildings and braced for
more possible attacks. Planes bound for the United
States were recalled in mid-flight, Britain stopped
civilian flights over London, and NASA closed the
Kennedy Space Center after two hijacked U.S. planes
slammed into the World Trade Center and a third hit the
Pentagon. (Jim Young/Reuters)
- Sep 11 5:18 PM ET |
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President George W.
Bush said September 11, 2001 that the U.S. had taken all
appropriate steps to protect the American people and
would hunt down and punish those responsible for the
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 'We
have taken all appropriate security precautions to
protect the American people,' Bush, facing the first big
test of his eight-month presidency, told reporters at a
hastily arranged appearance at Barksdale Air Force Base.
Bush is seen pausing for a moment of silence after
speaking about the attack while visiting a school in
Sarasota, Florida. (Win McNamee/Reuters)
- Sep 11 5:19 PM ET |
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Two Massachusetts
State Police troopers stand in front of the closed
entrance to American Airlines gate area as passengers
are evacuatued at Logan International Airport in Boston
Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. One of the planes that crashed
into the World Trade Center in New York reportedly
originated in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
- Sep 11 4:58 PM ET |
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A woman is consoled
outside the American Airlines terminal in Boston,
Massachusetts, September 11, 2001, where it is believed
that the American Airlines plane that crashed into the
World Trade Center in New York City departed from. The
airplane attacks that destroyed New York's World Trade
Center and damaged the Pentagon were unprecedented in
the history of civil aviation, security experts said.
(Brian Snyder/Reuters)
- Sep 11 5:03 PM ET |
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The north tower of
New York's World Trade Center explodes as it begins to
collapse after terrorists crashed two airplanes in the
twin towers Tuesday Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Richard
Drew)
- Sep 11 4:56 PM ET |
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