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Smoke and firesurround theupper floors ofthe World TradeCenter in NewYork City in thisimage fromtelevision, after asecond planecrashed into thebuildingsTuesday.

“Terrorismagainst ournation will notstand.” President Bush

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‘We’velost ourinnocence,’BSU profsays

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The U.S. under siegeThousands are presumed injured or dead after a series on terroristattacks on American soil.

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1. Two American Airlines jetliners are hijacked enroute from Boston and Washington, D.C.

2. Just before 8 a.m. Muncie time, the first jetlinercrashes into one of the World Trade Center’s twintowers. Minutes later, the second jetliner crashes intosecond tower. The event is recorded by CNN cameras.

3. President Bush is informed at 8:05 a.m. Muncietime. He leaves Sarasota, Fla.

4. A third jetliner crashes into the Pentagon inWashington, D.C. A fourth jetliner (presumed hijacked)crashes south of Pittsburgh.

5. With fires raging out of control at the World TradeCenter, officials attempt to evacuate the complex.Ninety minutes later, the tower collapses. The secondtower collapses shortly after, hurling ash and debris.

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Terrorist attacks ignite chaosBy DERRICK DePLEDGEand MIKE MADDENGannett News Service

WASHINGTON — Terroristsstruck across the East Coast onthis morning, destroying the twin-tower World Trade Center in NewYork and severely damaging thePentagon in what surely is theworst acts of domestic terrorismin the nation’s history.

In attacks just minutes apart,two hijacked airplanes slammedinto the World Trade Center —the first about 8:45 a.m. — leav-ing thousands of workers toscramble before the towers col-lapsed in smoke and rubble.About 50,000 people work in theTrade Center.

About 9:40 a.m., another air-craft crashed into a section of thePentagon, headquarters of thenation’s military. Debris raineddown on motorists going to workon nearby George WashingtonParkway as some 20,000 Penta-gon workers scrambled from thebuilding.

Another airplane also crashednear Pittsburgh on this morning,and authorities suspect the crash

was related to the other twoattacks.

Airports and train stationsacross the nation were placed onalert as the nation’s transporta-tion system was effectively shutdown. The Federal AviationAdministration ordered air traffichalted across the nation. SomeAmtrak trains were canceled.Traffic in New York and down-town Washington soon turned togridlock.

Scores of buildings in New Yorkand Washington were evacuated,with workers fearful of moreattacks asking to go home for theday. People poured into the street,adding confusion as emergencycrews and rescue workers tried todetermine what had happened,fought fires, launched rescueefforts, and began the horrendoustask of taking a death toll.

President Bush, in Florida,described the attacks as a‘‘national tragedy.’’

‘‘Terrorism against our nationwill not stand,’’ the presidentsaid.

Pentagon official Rear Adm.Craig Quigley said, ‘‘What you seehere is a full assault on the

United States of America.’’Authorities attempted to put

the events into perspective butwere stunned by the coordinationand the enormity of the attack.No terrorist group immediatelyclaimed responsibility for theattacks.

American Airlines confirmedthat two of its planes, a flight

from Boston to Los Angeles, and aflight from Washington Dulles toLos Angeles, were lost and likelyinvolved in the incidents. AUnited Airlines plane from New-ark was involved in the Pittsburghcrash. And a separate United Air-lines flight from Boston was alsomissing and likely was involved inone of the attacks.

At the Pentagon, emergencycrews were still trying to controlthe fire and smoke from the crashby early afternoon. ‘‘We heard aloud thud,’’ Col. Glenn Takemotosaid of the attack. ‘‘You could feelthe concussion.’’

In downtown Washington, lifewas almost completely frozen.Sirens rang out every few minutesfrom every direction. Police shutdown several blocks near theWhite House and shouted atpedestrians to stay off of Pennsyl-vania Avenue. The Capitol andcongressional office buildings alsowere evacuated. Other federaloffice buildings were shut down.

On Capitol Hill, buildings werequickly cleared. Robert Johnston,a sheet metal worker, was mea-suring water pipes in a computerroom in a House office buildingwhen he heard an alarm andwent into the hallway. A policeofficer told him to evacuate.

Once outside, he could see thesmoke coming from the Pentagon.

‘‘I’ve never seen anything likethis,’’ Johnston said. ‘‘What arewe supposed to do? We can’t goback into the building. I can’t gohome.’’

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“Everyone right now has ahigh level of sorrow andanger. Everyone is just

concerned with what is goingon in New York and

Washington.”Ron Bonham

Delaware County commissioner

“We are trying to beresponsive, but we don’t want

to cause undue panic andconcern for the people thatwork in these buildings. We

are just trying to be cautious.”Capt. Brian Lipscomb

Delaware County Police Department

“People should not call 911.They probably know more

than what we do. It’s not likewe have a pipeline to the

FBI.”Bill Gosnell, director

Delaware County emergencymanagement

East Coast bombings halt flights at county airportBy JENNY KOPACESKIThe Star Press

MUNCIE — Employees of theDelaware County Airport listenedto the radio, checked flight pat-terns on computer programs andprepared themselves for anuncertain future.

Richard Manes, propertiesmanager at the airport, said fourplanes departed from the runwaytoday for business meetings andall reached their destinations. Allfour planes were waiting for clear-ance to return to Muncie.

Two local private pilots whowere in flight this morning were

directed to land to the airportafter news of the bombings of theWorld Trade Center and thePentagon.

The airport was closed fordepartures until 5 p.m. today. Atthat point, the FAA (Federal

Aviation Administration) publicaffairs officer, who was at theMuncie airport today, will givefurther flight instructions andideas for additional securitymeasures.

The officer would not comment

this morning.A couple of planes were sched-

uled to take off from the DelawareCounty Airport today and headfor Oklahoma, but the airplaneswere not allowed to leave. Thepilots were just “hanging aroundthe airport,” waiting for furtherinformation.

“Some were stopping through,some were overnight, and theyjust can’t leave,” Manes said ofthe pilots destined for Oklahoma.

At 10:26 a.m., Muncie Aviationreceived orders by phone to “se-cure the airfield.” Manes wouldnot comment on the details ofthat order.

MUNCIE — While city hall and the Delaware County Building remainedopen in downtown Muncie today, the nearby federal building closed. Ithouses the local offices of the FBI, IRS, federal probation officers and aprivate telemarketing firm, Teleservices Direct.

A sign taped to the front door read: “Office closed today. IRS closed bycommissioner.”

“We are still here but we’ve got the building locked down, so nobody isgoing to be getting in,” an FBI official said.

Federal offices closed

Sheriff’s trip toPentagon comesto abrupt halt

“When I realizedthere had been abombing, I was

just shocked. Myfirst instinct was to

get out ofWashington

becausesomething else isgoing to happen.”

Steve AulDelaware County sheriff

TRAVEL: The official wason a train in the capitalwhen he was ordered offas a security measure.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dela-ware County Sheriff Steve Aulwas on a Metro train bound forthe Pentagon today when his tripcame to an abrupt end.

A train operator told Aul andother passengers that a “situa-tion” had developed — the appar-ently intentional crash of a planeinto the Pentagon — and orderedeveryone off the train, which hadbeen about a minute away from

the Pentagon.“When I real-

ized there hadbeen a bombing,I w a s j u s tshocked,” Aulsaid in a tele-phone Interviewlate this morningfrom a hotel 25miles from thenation’s capital.“My first instinct

was to get out of Washingtonbecause something else is goingto happen.”

Aul has been vacationing inWashington since Friday. Today,he was supposed to meet with hiscousin, who works at the Penta-gon, for a tour of the facility.

Aul and members of the familywere on the Metro train — whichalternately travels below andabove ground — en route to thePentagon when the sheriff lookedout the window and saw a largecloud of smoke

“When I saw that high cloud ofsmoke rising to the sky, I feltsomething was wrong,” Aul said.

When the train stopped at itsnext-to-last destination, the oper-ator ordered everyone off. Aul andhis family waited 45 minutes

before they could catch anothertrain away from Washington.

As he waited, Aul said he heardthe constant blare of sirens asemergency crews rushed to thePentagon.

“People everywhere was justlooking at the sky,” Aul said. “Itwas odd. There wasn’t mass cha-os. It wasn’t like things were outof control. There was just a con-stant array of sirens and vehiclesgoing everywhere.

“We were 60 seconds away. It’sscary. The good Lord was watch-ing over us.”

Aul said he planned on cancel-ing the rest of his vacation andreturning to Delaware County assoon as possible.

Aul said late this morning hehad not been able to reach hiscousin, who is an Army general.He said as soon as he returned tohis hotel, he spent most of histime answering pages and phonecalls from friends and relatives.

He said it was hard to find aphone or use a cellular telephonein Washington

“People in Muncie, Ind., don’trealize how lucky they are to livewhere they live,” Aul said. “This isreal. Terrorism is real. It is some-thing we are going to have to dealwith from now on.”

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Pencemoved tosafe placeBy RICK YENCERThe Star Press

MUNCIE — U.S. Rep. MikePence was an at undisclosedcommand center today afterairplane attacks destroyed theWord Trade Center in NewYork City and hit the Pentagonin Washington, D.C.

“He shares the shock of thenation,” said Lani Czarniecki,Pence’s district director.

Pence was attending aHouse Agriculture Committeemeeting reviewing the federalfarm bill when news of theTrade Center attack came.

“People were evacuated outof the Capitol Building andother federal offices,” Czarni-ecki said.

Communication to Washing-ton D.C., even cell phones andInternet e-mail, was down,although Czarniecki saidPence’s Washington staffassured him the congressmanwas OK.

Pence was moved with otherHouse and Senate leadershipto a command center, Czarni-ecki said, and the congress-man also was securing thesafety of his family.

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Lateness to work saveddaughter from tragedyBy KEITH ROYSDONThe Star Press

MUNCIE — A Muncie familywhose daughter works in theWorld Trade Center reported thismorning it was likely her life wassaved because she was late towork.

Jill Fairchild, the daughter ofMuncie residents Lance andNancy Lillie, works on the 66thfloor of one of the World TradeCenter towers.

Nancy Lillie, an employee of theDelaware County Clerk’s office,came to work today and had notheard about the attacks, CountyClerk Karen Wenger said.

Fairchild was apparently late

for work and was en route whenplanes hit the buildings. Whenshe arrived at the disaster scene,she found a telephone and con-tacted a family member.

After an anxious half-hour,Nancy Lillie heard from a familymember that her daughter wassafe.

“My sister is fine,” Muncie resi-dent Brian Fairchild said.

Wenger said her employee was“pretty distraught” and believedthat her daughter’s friends andco-workers were killed in theattack.

“Now, they’re trying to get herout of New York City,” Wengersaid. “They’re very thankful. Thiswas too close for comfort.”

Kurt Hostetler / The Star PressChristy Arnold and her son, Raysen, 2, watch coverage of the attacks on television at H.H. Gregg on Tuesday morning. “Gosh, maybewe should stay home,” Arnold said. “It seemed kind of silly to come out and buy something when all of this was going on.”

NEWS WATCHING

Mall closes; some events canceledMUNCIE — Muncie Mall decided

to close this afternoon out of respectfor the loss suffered by manyAmerican families “due to tragicevents of the day.”

In an interview, the mall’s SteveBuckley urged the public to remaincalm. The mall should re-openWednesday, he said.

In other news:• All afternoon and evening

activities planned today at MuncieCommunity Schools facilities —except the Latch Key program andtonight’s school board meeting —have been canceled, Supt. MarlinCreasy said.

• Also, tonight’s Jimmy Buffett

concert at Verizon Wireless Centernear Noblesville has been canceled.

• Nearly all East Central Indianahigh schools cancelled athleticevents scheduled for today, andtonight’s Ball State University’swomen’s volleyball match withIUPU-Fort Wayne has beencanceled.

John Frye / The Star PressPlanes sit outside Muncie Aviation at the Delaware County Airport.Authorities were not allowing flights out of the airport in response tothe terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

Ball State professor says,‘We’ve lost our innocence’By JOHN CARLSONThe Star Press

MUNCIE — Remember thisdate: Sept. 11, 2001.

“We’ve lost our innocencetoday,” said Bryan Byers, a crim-inal justice professor at BallState University. “We really have.This is a turning point for us asa society.”

Today’s horrific attacks on theWorld Trade Center and the Pen-tagon mark an unprecedentedviolation against a country thathad gone largely untouched byworldwide terrorism.

“It’s been a terrible morning,”Byers said.

Despite the scope of theattacks, however, the professorsaid the motivation boiled downone small word: hate.

“Any kind of act of terrorism isrooted in some ideology of hate,”said Byers, a hate-crime expert.

However, he and a colleague,professor and Middle East expertDan Goffman, warned against

placing premature blame for thetragedy.

“We can’t rule out homegrownterrorism,” Byers said.

Goffman recalled how suspi-cion was immediately directed atArab terrorists in the wake of theOklahoma City Federal Buildingbombing. The facts, of course,proved otherwise.

Regarding speculation abouttoday’s attacks, Goffman said, “Ithink all of that is over the top atthis point.”

Regardless of who orches-trated today’s attacks, however,they mark a terrible change forour country. Americans have notbeen psychologically prepared forsuch acts of devastation.

“We’ve been lucky compared toothers that have been used tothis,” Byers said.

Terrorist groups have gener-ally ignored America because ofa belief that attacks against uswould ultimately hinder attain-ment of their goals, he added.

Today’s events, he fears, opens

us up to many new threats. The startling effectiveness of

the attacks also is sobering, hesaid.

“This did not require thatequipment be brought into theUnited States,” Byers said. “Theplanes were used as weapons.”

The ramifications of today’sattacks are liable to be profound,he added.

“We will understand . . . thissort of thing can happen here,”Byers said.

In a practical, even moredepressing vein, he added, Amer-icans will receive a painfulnational lesson in dealing withthe aftermath of terrorism.

As for preventing future acts,Byers said the sad truth is, it’snot possible.

Terrorism is about power, andindiscriminately killing Ameri-cans is an effective way to provethat we are vulnerable.

“That’s a message that terror-ists like to send,” Byers said.

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“The most productive coursewould be for us to conduct

business as usual. We will bemonitoring this throughout

the day and keep our concernwith those in Washington and

New York.”Dan Canan

Mayor of Muncie

“Our reaction should be torealize terrorism is now here,

not in some other country, noton CNN. It’s down the street.”

John BultmanVietnam veteran

“Unbelievable, We live in aworld where we think this will

never happen.”David McIntosh

former congressman


Local student travel plans canceledTHE STAR PRESS STAFF REPORT

Local students scheduled totravel to the nation’s capital orabroad today were grounded.

East Jay and West Jay middleschools canceled an eighth-gradefield trip to Washington, D.C.that was scheduled to leave onWednesday.

Students will attend classes asusual this week instead.

The annual trip might berescheduled for later in theschool year, according to

Barbara Downing, interim super-intendent for Jay Schools.

“This is a very valuable trip,but we need to [analyze] the situ-ation in the nation’s capital,” shesaid.

School officials are workingwith the travel agency to post-pone the trip, Downing said.

Ball State University studentshad been scheduled to fly out ofIndianapolis for the London Cen-tre program and other interna-tional programs this morning,but their flights had not left by

the time the Federal AviationAdministration canceled allflights, according to Marc Rans-ford at University Relations.

“Obviously, none of them areleaving today,” Ransford said,adding that students were still athome or were on their way to theIndianapolis airport at the time.

Ransford did not know howthe plane hijackings and crashesmight affect the internationalprograms beyond today’s can-celed departures.

‘Pearl Harbor all over again’REACTION: Localveterans called for aviolent response totoday’s terrorist attacks.

By SETH SLABAUGHThe Star Press

MUNCIE — Delaware Countymilitary veterans watching onlive television as New York andWashington, D.C., were attackedthis morning were reminded ofPearl Harbor, and some calledfor a violent response.

“Who did it? What is our reac-tion going to be? And how soon?”

Those thoughts ran throughthe mind of Will Hale, past com-mander and manager of Ameri-can Legion Post 19 in downtownMuncie.

“My first reaction is, bomb theheck out of them,” Hale said. “Iwonder if the government doesn’talready have aircraft under way.They know a whole lot more thanwe do.”

World War II veteran ClintonBeaty said: “This is a terrible

thing. It comes as a heck of asurprise. I was thinking aboutPearl Harbor all over again. Thisis as bad or worse than that.Everything is shut down all overthe country. Lord, help us.”

Beaty said his mind wasn’tclear enough yet to form an opin-ion about how the United Statesshould respond.

“I guess we should leave it upto the president and his team todo whatever they think is best,”Beaty said. “He’s already saidthey’ll pay for it.”

Jim Voiles, commander of theAmerican Legion post in Cam-mack, said: “If we find out whereit’s coming from, we should takedrastic measures. Round upeverybody with a Marine cardand send them across the pond.”

Voiles said if he had been thepilot of one of the hijackedplanes that was forced to crashinto the World Trade Center orthe Pentagon, “I would have toldthe son of a bitches to shoot meand fly it themselves — every-body on the plane is going to dieanyway.”

Ron Alexander, a retired

Marine master sergeant, said:“This should be a wake-up call tothe American people. This isbasically another Pearl Harbor,only a lot worse. It should makepeople realize we need a largerand better armed forces.”

Vietnam veteran John Bult-man said, “At least we had anenemy; this is like an invisibleenemy.”

“Our reaction should be torealize terrorism is now here, notin some other country, not onCNN,” he said. “It’s down thestreet. I though the first time theWorld Trade Center had been hitwould have woken them up. TheWorld Trade Center has alreadybeen hit once, and now it’s gone.If this is how good our counter-intelligence is, we’re going tohave to reevaluate. This willprobably have a bigger impactthan Pearl Harbor as far as thedeath toll.”

Bultman was shocked thatcommercial airlines could behijacked and flown into build-ings. He said on his most recentflight, he couldn’t get his beltbuckle past the metal detectors.

Tell usThe Star Press is interested in

hearing from people with EastCentral Indiana connections whohave been affected by today’sterrorism acts in New York,Washington, D.C., and other parts ofthe country.

To report local connections, callthe newsroom at 747-5754 or e-mailto [email protected].

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State directors for U.S. Sena-tors Richard Lugar and EvanBayh said the senators werem o v e d t o u n d i s c l o s e dlocations.

“It’s my understanding thateveryone was evacuated,” saidLeslie Reser, Lugar’s statedirector. “Communication hasbeen minimum.”

Bayh was at a meeting out-side the capital when sirenswent off the smoke went upover the Pentagon mall.

“It was horrific,” Bayh said. “This is an act of war.”

Besides assisting the familiesof victims, Bayh said the fed-eral government had to find outwho was responsible andrespond with strong retaliation.

Former U.S. Rep. DavidMcIntosh called today’s terror-ist attacks “unbelievable.”

“We live in a world where wethink this will never happen,”said McIntosh, also a formerU.S. Justice Departmentofficial.

When he worked at the jus-tice department, one of McIn-tosh’s jobs was clearing sur-veillance of terrorists.

The government either let itsability slide on tracking terror-ists or terrorists have done abetter job concealing theiractions, McIntosh said.

I n d i a n a G o v . F r a n kO’Bannon also called a state ofalert this morning, andincreased security at govern-ment buildings. State policewere put on standby.

ISTEP+ testing continues despite bombingsEDUCATION: Localschools elected tocontinue the first day ofthe state standardizedtesting despite news of theattacks.

John Frye / The Star PressLESSON: Heather Bowers addresses her class at Southside High School about the terrorist situationfacing the United States on Tuesday afternoon. Most of the students were just hearing about the newsafter being in ISTEP sessions all morning.

By MICHELLE KINSEYThe Star Press

MUNCIE — Hundreds of localschool students were unaware ofthe tragedies that were unfoldingthis morning in New York Cityand Washington, D.C.

They were isolated in roomstaking ISTEP+ tests.

The standardized tests begantoday at schools statewide for stu-dents in grades 3, 6, 8 and 10.

“Many of them will not knowuntil lunch time,” said Rick Kauf-man, a teacher at Cowan Junior-Senior High School, shortly before11 a.m. today.

Marlin Creasy, superintendentof Muncie Community Schools,said all principals were notified ofthe World Trade Center and Pen-tagon incidents immediately.

“All of the Muncie CommunitySchools were told to be aware ofthe possibility of increased securi-ty,” he said this morning. “Rightnow that is all we are doing.”

Gerald Shelton, superintendentof Blue River Valley Schools, saidteachers were notified this morn-ing of the events. “We have beenkeeping them updated regularly,”he said.

“We have only had one parentcall and say they wanted to pick

their child up from school andtake them home,” said Del Jar-man, superintendent of BlackfordCounty Schools.

Creasy said it was best to oper-ate “as usual.” That includedISTEP+ testing

Creasy said he was most con-cerned about the students whowere participating in the testing.

Suellen Reed, Indiana’s super-intendent of public instruction,announced the following shortlyafter 10 a.m. today:

• Schools may suspend testingtoday if they choose to do so. Iftesting has begun, students needto continue testing until the endof a subtest at all grade levels.

• Graduation Qualifying Examtesting that is suspended todaywill be completed Friday. Schoolsdoing so must notify the IndianaDepartment of Education.

The release, sent to all princi-pals, also said that “testing that issuspended for grades 3, 6, and 8can be resumed at a time of thecorporation’s choosing within thetest window [ending September28].”

Most local schools were alreadytoo far along in the test to stop.

“The students that I supervisedduring the test today did notseem to be so upset that theycould not take the test,” said AmyLewman, a teacher at Delta HighSchool. The students, she said,learned of what happened duringshort breaks in the testing. “Theywere anxious to go find out whatwas going on.”

Indiana’s Department of

Education was to make a decisionlate today regarding testingWednesday and Thursday.Schools will be notified by e-mailand posting on the IDOE Webs i t e , a t h t t p : //www.doe .state.in.us.

Those not in testing this

morning were closely watchingthe news on televisions in theclassrooms.

Kaufman, who teaches history,government and economics, saidthe mood at Cowan this morningwas “disbelief, shock and anger.”

“I have been trying to explain to

them that we’ve had a history ofterrorism in this country,” hesaid. ‘We have not been devoid ofthese acts. It’s also important totell kids that they cannot startpointing fingers until we actuallyhave information about who didit.”

Kaufman’s regular lesson planfor today, understandably, wasdrastically changed.

“In my history class I told mykids that this is exactly what theirkids will be reading about yearsfrom now,” he said. “We are nowliving history.”

Kaufman, also a part of theNewspapers In Education pro-gram, which provides The StarPress to schools, said he will bemaking sure his students followup on the events tomorrow.

John Robbins, principal atSouthside High School, saidWednesday and Thursday wouldbe difficult days.

“This certainly affects every-one,” he said. “Some kids willtake it harder than others. Maybesome of them might have familymembers in the service or knowsomeone who was at the TradeCenter.

“This is a very important, tragicthing that will be talked about [inthe classrooms] for several weeksto come.”

Kurt Hostetler / The Star PressDelaware County Building security bailiff David Shaw patrols aroundthe County Building on Tuesday morning as justice center guardsGreg Taylor (front) and Kirby Johnson (back) secure the ramp to thejustice center. Security was heightened after the terrorist attacks inNew York and Washington.

ON GUARD

Mother fears for her daughter’s safety in New YorkBy JOHN CARLSONThe Star Press

ANDERSON — For Kathy Lind,today’s ghastly attack spurred thestark terror of a mother fearingfor her child.

The former Muncie resident’s

daughter, Allison Moody, works inthe World Financial Center justacross a plaza from where theWorld Trade Center towers stood.

“It’s a little place to sit . . . andthere it is,” the shaken mothersaid of the buildings’ proximity.

Moody, who went to St. Mary’s

School in Muncie, has lived inNew York since May and wasmarried in August, her mothersaid. She is an engineer, perform-ing appraisals for railroads,banks and other major interests.

Lind learned of the tragedywhen friends come to her home

and told her about it. She hadbeen trying to reach her daughterby telephone, but to no avail.

“You can’t get through,” shesaid. “All the lines are busy, orwhatever they say.”

She called The Star Press hop-ing for information on damage to

buildings that are near the top-pled Trade Center towers. AnAssociated Press story offered atleast this much hope:

“Much of the downtown dis-trict, including the nearby Finan-cial Center, was evacuated,” thewire story reported.

On the air

Many local radio stationsswitched from their usual formatsthis morning to broadcastcontinual news reports or periodicupdates.

• WLBC 104.1 and WXFN1340 — broadcasting ABC news.

(Other stations owned by thesame company, WURK, WERK,WHTY, WHBU and WHIT, usedthe same broadcasts.)

• WMDH 102.5 — broadcastingABC news.

• WBST 92.1 — broadcastingNational Public Radio and CNNnews.


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SOMBERADDRESS:President Bushlooks down as hemakes astatementTuesdayregarding theterrorist attacksat the WorldTrade Center inNew York. Bushwas visiting aschool in Floridaat the time of theattacks.

COLLAPSE:One of the World

Trade Centertowers in New

York Citycollapses in this

image fromtelevision.

PANIC: People run from the collapse of the World Trade Center tower Tuesday in New York City. Two planes crashed into the towers.

PRAYERS: Hope College students in Holland, Mich., sing hymns during a prayer service Tuesday inresponse to news of the World Trade Center attacks in New York.

CLEANING UP: Harry Shasho sweeps up Tuesday before being evacu-ated from his vitamin store after the collapse of the World Trade Center.

Photos by The Associated Presss

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PENTAGON RUBBLE: Flames and smoke pour from a building Tuesday at the Pentagon after a direct hit from an aircraft.

WATCHINGFROMAFAR:Spectatorswatch theburningWorld TradeCentertowers fromthe BrooklynPromenade,across theEast RiverfromManhattan.

RUBBLE: One of the towers of the World Trade Center in New York collapses in this image from television.

COMFORT: A woman who claimed to have lost an aunt in theterrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York iscomforted outside a downtown Los Angeles high rise after itwas evacuated Tuesday.

ON GUARD:A pair of

unidentifiedFBI agents

stand gaurdat an entrace

to theFederal

Building inthe

Westwooddistrict of Los

Angeles.

DELAYED: Aboard showsdelayedSouthwest flightsafter the FAAcanceled allflights Tuesday.


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“Obviously, this will bedisruptive of business, but it

is too early to know anyanswers after such a tragedy.First, we must think about the

people who have been hurtand killed, then we need to

consider national security —and what might be next.”Kelly Stanley, CEO, Ontario Corp.

Chairman, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

“All of the Muncie CommunitySchools were told to be

aware of the possibility ofincreased security. Right now

that is all we are doing.”Marlin Creasy, superintendentMuncie Community Schools

“This certainly affectseveryone. Some kids will takeit harder than others. This is a

very important, tragic thingthat will be talked about [inthe classrooms] for several

weeks to come.”John Robbins, principal Southside High School

World watches in horrorIn the West Bank city of Nablus, thousands

of Palestinians poured into the streets tocelebrate, chanting ‘‘God is Great’’ and

distributing candy to passers-by, even astheir leader, Yasser Arafat, expressed

horror over the attacks.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — Astonishing terror-ist strikes in the United Statesquickly reached a global audienceTuesday, with many around theworld watching live coverage asboth World Trade Center towerscollapsed.

In the West Bank city of Nab-lus, thousands of Palestinianspoured into the streets to cele-brate, chanting ‘‘God is Great’’and distributing candy topassers-by, even as their leader,Yasser Arafat, expressed horrorover the attacks.

Audiences were transfixed bythe awful images from New Yorkand Washington, and world lead-ers expressed solidarity with anAmerica that looked more vulner-able than ever, offering a streamof condolences.

Key indexes sank on worldstock markets and some Euro-pean airlines canceled flights tothe United States and recalledplanes already in the air. Canadaclosed all border crossings withthe United States, although theborder with Mexico remainedopen.

Many countries beefed up secu-rity at American embassies, andin Oslo, Norwegians left bouquetsof flowers in a park near the U.S.Embassy. U.S. armed forces inEurope and Asia were put on highalert, and Israel closed its air-space to foreign flights. NATO andEuropean Union institutions also

took special security measures,including partial evacuations.

‘‘It is impossible to fully com-prehend the evil that would haveconjured up such a cowardly anddepraved assault upon thousandsof innocent people,’’ said Cana-dian Prime Minister JeanChretien.

Russian President VladimirPutin expressed condolences tothe American people, calling theattacks ‘‘terrible tragedies.’’

‘‘This mass terrorism is the newevil in our world today,’’ said Brit-ish Prime Minister Tony Blair. ‘‘Itis perpetrated by fanatics who areutterly indifferent to the sanctityof human life, and we the democ-racies of this world are going tohave to come together and fight ittogether.’’

Queen Elizabeth II said shewatched deve lopments in‘‘growing disbelief and totalshock’’ and offered her prayers toAmericans.

President Jacques Chirac ofFrance called the attacks ‘‘mon-strous.’’

‘‘There is no other word for it,’’he said in a televised statement.

Arafat and his top aides fol-lowed the events at his seasideoffice in Gaza City, gatheredaround a TV set.

‘‘I send my condolences to thepresident, the government andthe people for this terrible inci-dent,’’ Arafat said. ‘‘We are com-plete ly shocked. I t ’ s un-believable.’’

The leaders of Northern Ire-land’s joint Protestant-Catholicgovernment, Reg Empey and Sea-mus Mal lon, a lso of feredcondolences.

‘‘As a society that has sufferedfrom the effects of terrorism forover 30 years, we have some rec-ognition and understanding of thehurt being felt by the Americanpeople,’’ they wrote. ‘‘It is hard tocomprehend what could motivateanyone to cause such misery,destruction and deliberate loss ofhuman life.’’

In Berlin, Foreign Ministry offi-cials huddled in a crisis meeting.

Virtually all German TV

channels switched to live cover-age. ‘‘This is pure mass murder,’’one commentator said.

‘‘My government condemnsthese terrorist attacks to theutmost,’’ German Chancellor Ger-hard Schroeder said.

Airlines including British Air-ways, Scandinavia’s SAS and Bel-gium’s Sabena canceled flightsacross the Atlantic and recalledplanes that were already in theair.

In Puerto Rico, people scram-bled for news of relatives andfriends in New York, where anestimated 2 million Puerto Ricanslive.

Groups gathered on the cornersof cobble-stoned streets in thecolonial city of San Juan, clingingto strangers in search of moredetails.

‘ ‘Dios mio, have mercy!’ ’exclaimed a whited-haired man,making the sign of the cross as hewatched the second tower explodeon TV.

Broadcasters around the worldbroke into programming to showimages of the disaster. ‘‘It’sincredible. I thought I was watch-ing a Hollywood movie,’’ saidHong Kong school teacher DorisTang.

In the Nigerian capital of Abuja,aghast hotel workers at the localHilton stopped their chores towatch.

‘‘If this can happen in America,then the whole world is not safe,’’said one, Augustine Okweche.

United says two planes crashedThe airline said 110 people were aboard the downed jetliners“I heard the

engine gun twodifferent times andthen I heard a loud

bang, and thewindows of the

houses all aroundrattled. I looked up

and I saw thesmoke coming

up.”Michael R. Merringer

near crash scenein Pennsylvania


SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — TwoUnited Airlines jetliners crashedTuesday morning, one in westernPennsylvania and the second at alocation the airline did not imme-diately disclose. A total of 110people were aboard the twoplanes, the airline said.

One plane, United Flight 93,crashed north of the SomersetCounty airport, a small airportabout 80 miles southeast ofPittsburgh.

The Pennsylvania crash fol-lowed the crash of two planes intothe World Trade Center in NewYork City. American Airlines ini-tially said its planes crashed intothe twin towers but later said thatwas unconfirmed.

‘‘It shook the whole station,’’said Bruce Grine, owner ofGrine’s Service Center in Shanks-ville, about 21⁄2 miles from thecrash. ‘‘Everybody ran outside,and by that time the fire whistlewas blowing.’’

United said that flight, a Boeing757, left Newark, N.J., at 8:01a.m., headed for San Franciscowith 38 passengers, two pilotsand five flight attendants.

A second plane, United Flight175, a Boeing 767, also crashed,the airline said, but it did not givea location. That plane left Bostonat 7:58 a.m., bound for Los Ange-les with 56 passengers, two pilotsand seven flight attendants, theairline said.

United’s pilots union said Flight

175 crashed into the Trade Cen-ter. But the airline had no imme-diate comment.

Because of the attacks in NewYork, the Federal Aviation Admin-istration had ordered all depart-ing flights canceled nationwide,and any planes already in the airwere to land a the nearest airport.The Pennsylvania crash cameafter the order was issued.

According to Somerset Countydispatchers, Flight 93 crashedabout 9 a.m. Muncie time about 8miles east of Jennerstown, WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh reported.

Michael R. Merringer was outon a mountain bike ride with hiswife, Amy, about two miles awayfrom the crash site.

‘‘I heard the engine gun two

different times and then I heard aloud bang and the windows of thehouses all around rattled,’’ Mer-ringer said. ‘‘I looked up and Isaw the smoke coming up.’’

The couple rushed home anddrove near the scene.

‘‘Everything was on fire andthere was trees knocked downand there was a big hole in theground,’’ he said.

Earlier Tuesday, terroristscrashed two planes into the WorldTrade Center and the twin 110-story towers collapsed. A planealso hit the Pentagon inWashington.

In Chicago, United CEO JamesGoodwin said the airline wasworking with authorities includ-ing the FBI. United said it was

sending a team to Pennsylvania toassist in the investigation and toprovide assistance to familymembers.a

‘‘Today’s events are a tragedyand our prayers are with everyoneat this time,’’ Goodwin said.

At Boston’s Logan Airport,Joseph Lawless, director of publicsafety for the Massachusetts PortAuthority, said a family assis-tance center had been set up andfamilies were arriving at theairport.

The three passenger terminalsat Newark International Airportwere evacuated. At 11:30 a.m.,several hundred people were stillclustered at the Terminal A bag-gage carousel, while shotgun-toting officers patrolled. Ticketcounters were deserted.

Taliban condemnsattacks in U.S., deniesbin Laden’s involvement

bin LADEN


KABUL, Afghanistan —Afghanistan’s hardline Talibanrulers condemned the devastat-ing terrorist attacks in New York

and Washing-ton on Tuesdayand rejecteds u g g e s t i o n sthat Osama binLaden could bebehind them.

‘ ‘We neversupport terror-ism. We too aretargets of ter-rorism,’’ AbdulHai Muttmain,

the Taliban’s representative inthe southern city of Kandahar,told The Associated Press in atelephone interview.

After the attacks, a London-based Arab journalist said fol-lowers of bin Laden warned 3weeks ago that they would carryout a ‘‘huge and unprecedentedattack’’ on U.S. interests.

Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor ofthe Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper,said he received a warning fromIslamic fundamentalists close tobin Laden, but did not take thethreat seriously.

‘‘They said it would be a hugeand unprecedented attack butthey did not specify,’’ Atwan saidin a telephone interview inLondon.

‘‘We usually receive this kind

of thing. At the time we did nottake the warnings seriously asthey had happened severaltimes in the past and nothinghappened. ‘‘This time it seemshis people were accurate andmeant every word they said.’’

Atwan, who interviewed binLaden in 1996 and has sincemaintained contacts with hisfollowers, said he believed theattack on the World Trade Cen-ter in New York was the work of‘‘an Islamic fundamentalistgroup’’ close to bin Laden.

But Muttmain, who is the rep-resentative for the Taliban’sreclusive leader Mullah Moham-med Omar and one of the mostsenior Taliban officials, dis-missed allegations that binLaden could be behind theattacks in the United States.

‘‘Such a big conspiracy, tohave infiltrated in such a majorway is impossible for Osama,’’said Muttmain. He said binLaden does not have the facili-ties to orchestrate such a majorassault within the UnitedStates.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers,who espouse a harsh brand ofIslamic law, have resisted U.S.demands to hand over bin Lad-en, indicted in the United Stateson charges of mastermindingthe bombings of two U.S.Embassies in East Africa in1998 that killed 224 people,including 12 Americans.

The Associated PressCELEBRATING: A Palestinian woman receives free sweets froma vendor as groups of locals in Jerusalem’s Old City celebrateafter hearing the news of a terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York.

The Associated PressWATCHING: A crowd gathers in a market in downtown St. Paul, Minn., on Tuesday to watch televisioncoverage of the attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.

Theme parksshut downas precautionTHE ORLANDO SENTINEL

ORLANDO, Fla. — From thetheme parks to Kennedy SpaceCenter to downtown Orlando,Central Florida raced to takeunprecedented security precau-tions Tuesday in the wake of thecountry’s worst terrorist attack.

Walt Disney World, Universaland SeaWorld closed, KSC shutdown.

Disney closed down its themeparks and shopping areas at11:25 a.m., announcing the newson loud speakers to guests andcast members, many who hadbeen there since 7 a.m. All fourtheme parks, all three waterparks, all shopping areas, includ-ing Downtown Disney and Plea-sure Island closed. Disney offi-cials say they do not know howlong operations will remainclosed.

Theme park and store castmembers were told to go home,but hotel workers were asked tostay on.


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Some precautions takenaround the nation in the wake ofthe terrorist attacks:

The Federal Aviation Adminis-tration shut down airports nation-wide.

ALABAMA: Securityincreased at military basesincluding Redstone Arsenal, siteof the Army missile commandand NASA’s Marshall SpaceFlight Center.

ALASKA: Military bases wereplaced on high alert, FBI coordi-nating with other federal agen-cies to check major buildings inAnchorage, the state’s largestcity. Security also heightenedalong the trans-Alaska pipeline,which supplies the nation withabout one-fifth of its oil needs.

CALIFORNIA: Airports closed,as are other landmarks, includ-ing Knott’s Berry Farm inOrange County, the Museum ofTolerance in Los Angeles andthe city’s 74-story Library Tower,at 1,700 feet the tallest buildingwest of the Mississippi River.State on high alert. State’sEmergency Council convenedas Gov. Gray Davis requestedheightened security at all statebuildings.

COLORADO: City and stateofficials stepped up securityaround government buildings.City opened an emergency pre-paredness office in the base-

ment of City Hall, where repre-sentatives of police, fire andhealth agencies, public transpor-tation officials, Denver Interna-tional Airport and utilities weregathering.

FLORIDA: Security height-ened at federal courts. Walt Dis-ney World evacuated and closedits four theme parks and shop-ping and entertainment complex.Space shuttle operations halted,12,000 employees of KennedySpace Center sent home.Increased surveillance, with heli-copter patrols and extra gatechecks in place. Skeleton crewremains at launch control center.

GEORGIA: All flights at Harts-field Atlanta International Airport,the nation’s busiest, stopped.The CNN Center, world head-quarters of Cable News Net-work, closed to the public,although journalists at CNN andThe Associated Press remained.Legislators stopped their sessionto sing God Bless America.

ILLINOIS: Sears Tower shutdown, state government build-ings in Chicago and Springfieldclosed. National Guard on stateof heightened alert in Illinois.

INDIANA: Federal offices onalert.

KENTUCKY: Southern Gover-nors’ Association canceledannual fall meeting so governorsof Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana,Mississippi, Tennessee, Ken-tucky and West Virginia could

head back to their states.LOUISIANA: Upper floors of

the 34-floor Capitol buildingclosed. Louisiana Offshore OilPort, which handles supertank-ers in the Gulf of Mexico, sus-pends operations. State’s 19 oilrefineries on alert.

MAINE: Federal courthousesand state office buildings closed.

MARYLAND: Officials tighten-ing security throughout the state.Security heightened at AndrewsAir Force Base. Baltimore-Washington International Airporttaking arrivals not departingflights.

MICHIGAN: Tunnel betweenDetroit and Windsor, Ontario,closed to car traffic and securityincreased along the Canadianborder. Internal Revenue Ser-vice closes 18 Michigan offices.

MINNESOTA: Minneapolis-St.Paul International Airport shutdown. Evacuation of the 51-storyIDS Center, the state’s tallestbuilding, located in downtownMinneapolis. The Mall of Ameri-ca, in suburban Bloomington,and World Trade Center in St.Paul closed.

NEBRASKA: State employ-ees responding to requests forblood donations. Security washeightened at Offutt Air ForceBase near Omaha. Churches inNorfolk and Fremont areas hold-ing or planning prayer servicesfor victims.

NEVADA: Security increased

at casinos on the Las VegasStrip, at federal buildings acrossthe state and Nellis Air ForceBase near Las Vegas. Flightssuspended.

NEW JERSEY: Airports andriver crossings into New YorkCity closed. Traffic reportedsnarled on the New Jersey Turn-pike. At Newark InternationalAirport, officers with shotgunsblocked the road leading to PortAuthority offices and the air traf-fic control tower. Securityincreased at state buildings inTrenton. Liberty State Parkclosed. Federal buildings andcourthouses closed.

NEW YORK: Courts closed.Security clamped down acrossthe state. Security increased atborder points. Gov. GeorgePataki canceled his New YorkCity events. NEW YORK CITY:Subway lines shut down; somelimited service later restored.Mayoral primary election calledoff. Airports closed. Trading onWall Street suspended. UnitedNations building evacuated.Many offices throughout Man-hattan closed. Cellular phoneservice crippled. Regular phoneservice congested. Evacuationsfrom Wall Street to the UnitedNations. Lower Manhattanclosed to all but emergencyvehicles. Bridges and tunnelsinto Manhattan closed.

NORTH CAROLINA: Securitywas heightened at the Marine

Corps’ Camp Lejeune and its airbase at Cherry Point. The oldCapitol Building, which housesthe governor’s office, closed;security tightened at other stategovernment buildings in Raleigh.

OKLAHOMA: Gov. FrankKeating ordered all state officebuildings closed. Oklahoma Citypolice created a one-blockperimeter around the jail, wherebombing conspirator TerryNichols is housed.

PENNSYLVANIA: Philadel-phia International Airport closed.High-profile tourist attractionslike the Liberty Bell and Indepen-dence Hall closed.

SOUTH CAROLINA: All fed-eral courthouses closed. At FortJackson in Columbia, the Army’slargest training facility wasclosed anyone without militaryidentification.

SOUTH DAKOTA: Commer-cial flights from Sioux Falls,Rapid City, Pierre and otherSouth Dakota cities grounded.

TENNESSEE: Department ofEnergy’s nuclear weapons andresearch complex in Oak Ridgeput under heightened security.All flights from Tennessee’smajor airports grounded. Planeswere allowed to land.

TEXAS: Some office buildingsevacuated. Flights out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airportcanceled and Austin-BergstromInternational closed. City Hall inEl Paso closed.

UTAH: Security tightened atHill Air Force Base in Ogden.The Deseret Chemical Depotnear Tooele is at highest alert.Salt Lake International Airportshut down and some federalemployees sent home.

VERMONT: Federal buildingsin Montpelier and Burlingtonopen. State’s lone atomic plantplaced on heightened security.

VIRGINIA: Navy installationsthroughout Hampton Roads,home of the world’s largest Navybase, placed under an increasedsecurity condition. The 192ndVirginia Air National Guard192nd fighter squadron, anattack unit of fully armed F-16fighter jets that will patrol thenation’s East Coast, were put onalert with orders to down anyunauthorized aircraft.

WASHINGTON: Airports andmilitary bases throughout thestate boosted security. Outgoingflights canceled at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, butplanes allowed to land. FederalCourt House in downtown Seat-tle on high alert.

WEST VIRGINIA: Chemicalplant security heightened.Flights out of Charleston’sYeager Airport, West Virginia’slargest, suspended. CapitolComplex evacuated, increasedsecurity at other state buildings.Federal courthouses closed.

State-by-state reaction to Tuesday’s terrorist attacks on U.S. soil


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One side of the Pentagoncourtyard is slightly longerthan one football field.Courtyard has outdoorsnack bar.

Restaurants: Seating for 4,000. About17,500 meals served daily in one diningroom, two cafeterias and six snack bars.

Subway, mall,visitors’ entrance

Hall of Heroes,second floor

One side of the Pentagon is slightlylonger than three football fields.

The Pentagon was hit a short while after the World Trade Center was struck. by a plane, described by witnesses as a jetliner. Here’s a look inside the complex:

Portiondamaged

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THE FOUNDATIONPentagon rests on 41,492 concrete piles, which if placed end to end,would stretch to 200 miles. Piles were needed because it was builton Potomac River flood plain.

THE BUILDING OF THE PENTAGONConstruction began on Aug. 11, 1941, and took 16 months to finish.Up to 15,000 workers were employed at any one time on the 6.5million-square-foot building. First completed portion was occupiedon May 1, 1942.

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CONSTRUCTION6” of Indiana

limestone

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Projected construction costActual construction cost

1993 dollars$1.1 billion

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Rings 50 feet

Height 71 feet 3.5inches

Inner walls 360.8 feet

Sides 921.6 feet

NUTS AND BOLTS

THE SHAPEDesigners discovered the pentagonal shape created maximumspace and efficiency. No two officers are more than a seven-minutewalk apart. Rooms are designated by floor, ring and corridor.

Source: The Pentagon: The First Fifty Years; Pentagon Tidbits; The PentagonRenovation Program, USA TODAY research

RIVER ENTRANCE

The south side of the Pentagon in flames after the attack.

Pentagon hit, one side catches fire and collapses


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“People everywhere was justlooking at the sky. It was odd.There wasn’t mass chaos. Itwasn’t like things were out of

control. There was just aconstant array of sirens andvehicles going everywhere.”Delaware County Sheriff Steve Aul

Vacationing in Washington since Friday

“We’re encouraging people totry to contact [the personsthey’re concerned about]

directly for 24 hours.”Stephanie White

director of communicationsAmerican Red Cross, Muncie

“The people of Indiana shouldbe confident that our nationalgovernment and our militaryis on the job. We will prevail.

We will respond..”U.S. Rep. Mike PenceIndiana, 2nd District


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World Trade Center

‘Everyone was screaming, crying, running– cops, people, firefighters, everyone’


NEW YORK — It was the sceneof a nightmare: people on firejumping in terror from the TradeTowers just before the buildingscollapsed.

‘‘Everyone was screaming, cry-ing, running — cops, people, fire-fighters, everyone,’’ said MikeSmith, a fire marshal fromQueens, as he sat by the fountainoutside a state courthouse,shortly after the second tower col-lapsed. ‘‘A couple of marshals justpicked me up and dragged medown the street. It’s like a warzone.’’

Others compared it to PearlHarbor as thousands of peoplepoured off the Brooklyn Bridge,fleeing Manhattan covered in graydust and debris. Many wore res-piratory masks, given by thepolice and fire departments.

Ambulances screamed downevery major thoroughfare in Man-hattan, depositing casualties athospitals and returning to getmore. Clusters of people, theirhands clutched to their heads inhorror, stood at boomboxes setup outside stores to listen to thenews. Others gathered aroundcars, their doors open and radiosturned up high.

Looking down West Broadwaythrough billowing brown andblack smoke, Tower Two tiltedacross the street. Ash, 2 inchesdeep, lined the streets.

Police and firefighters gaspedfor air as they emerged from thesealed-off area.

At least three explosions wereheard, perhaps from gas lines.Army Humvees whizzed by ontheir way downtown.

Workers from Trade Centeroffices wandered lower Manhattanin a daze, many barely able tobelieve they were alive.

Kenny Johannemann, a janitor,described seeing a man engulfedin flames at One World TradeCenter just after the first explo-sion. He grabbed the man, putthe fire out, and dragged him out-side. Then Johannemann heard asecond explosion — and saw peo-ple jumping from the upper sto-ries of the Twin Towers.

‘‘It was horrendous; I can’tdescribe it,’’ Johannemann saidas he stood outside the building.

Donald Burns, 34, was beingevacuated from a meeting on the82nd floor of One World TradeCenter, when saw four severelyburned people on the stairwell. ‘‘Itried to help them but they didn’twant anyone to touch them. Thefire had melted their skin. Theirclothes were tattered,’’ he said.

After the initial blast, HousingAuthority worker Barry Jennings,46, reported to a command center

on the 23rd floor of 7 World TradeCenter. He was with MichaelHess, the city’s corporation coun-sel, when they felt and heardanother explosion. First callingfor help, they scrambled down-stairs to the lobby, or what wasleft of it. ‘‘I looked around, thelobby was gone. It looked likehell,’’ Jennings said.

Boris Ozersky, 47, computernetworks analyst, was on the70th floor of one of the buildingswhen he felt something like anexplosion rock it. He raced down70 flights of stairs, and outside,in a mob in front of a nearbyhotel. He was trying to calm apanicked women when the build-ing suddenly collapsed.

‘‘I just got blown somewhere,and then it was total darkness.We tried to get away, but I wasblown to the ground. And I wastrying to help this woman, but Icouldn’t find her in the dark-ness,’’ Ozersky said.

After the dust cleared, he foundthe hysterical woman and tookher to a restaurant being used byrescue workers as a triage center.

As most people fled the area,others were drawn to it — desper-ate for information about friendsand relatives who worked there.

‘‘I don’t know what to do,’’ aweeping Alan Rivera said as he

stood behind barricades, hopingfor word about his niece, whoworked in the Trade Center. ‘‘Ican’t get through to her on thephone. . . . No one can tell meanything.’’

Businessman Gabriel Ioan wepttoo.

‘‘I just saw the building I workin come down,’’ he said, a cloud ofsmoke and ash from the WorldTrade Center behind him. ‘‘I justsaw the top of Trade Two comedown.’’

Nearby a crowd mobbed a manon a pay-phone, screaming at himto get off the phone so that theycould call relatives.

‘‘People were jumping out ofwindows,’’ said an unidentifiedcrying woman. ‘‘I guess peoplewere trying to save themselves.Oh my God!’’

Another eyewitness, AP news-man Dunstan Prial, described astrange sucking sound from theTrade Center buildings after thefirst building collapsed.

‘‘Windows shattered. Peoplewere screaming and diving forcover. People walked around likeghosts, covered in dirt, weepingand wandering dazed.’’

‘‘It sounded like a jet or rocket,’’said Eddie Gonzalez, a postalworker at a post office on WestBroadway. ‘‘I looked up and saw a

huge explosion. I didn’t see theimpact. I just saw the explosion.’’

Morning commuters headinginto Manhattan were stranded asthe Lincoln Tunnel was shutdown to incoming traffic. Manyleft their cars and stood on theramp leading to the tunnel, star-ing in disbelief at the thick cloudof smoke pouring from the top ofthe two buildings.

Throughout lower Manhattan,rescue workers and police officerswore surgical masks to protectthem from the dust.

Police, some of them with semi-automatic rifles and dogs,guarded federal and state build-ings and prevented anyone fromentering.

At the city’s hospitals, hun-dreds lined up to give blood, afterhospital workers yelled on thestreets, ‘‘Blood donations! Blooddonations!’’

Roman Catholic CardinalEdward Egan arrived at St. Vin-cent’s Catholic Medical Center tocomfort the injured; other priestsalso were on hand, many wearingblue rubber gloves.

Mark Ackermann, chief corpo-rate officer at St. Vincent’s, said:‘‘I was here during the WorldTrade Center bombing [in 1993]and this is a hundred timesworse.’’

The Associated PressWITNESSES: People in front of New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral react with horror as they lookdown Fifth Avenue toward the World Trade Center.Engineers shocked

by towers’ collapse The building was designedto withstand impact of a jet

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

CHICAGO — The World TradeCenter, a symbol of American eco-nomic might, survived one terror-ist attack in 1993. It wasdesigned to withstand the impactof a jet, but both its towers col-lapsed this morning after planesrammed them.

The structural engineer whodesigned the towers said asrecently as last week that theirsteel columns could remainstanding if they were hit by a 707.

Les Robertson, the Trade Cen-ter’s structural engineer, spokelast week at a conference on tallbuildings in Frankfurt, Germany.He was asked during a question-and-answer session what he haddone to protect the twin towersfrom terrorist attacks, accordingto Joseph Burns, a principal atthe Chicago firm of Thornton-Thomasetti Engineers.

Burns, who was present, saidthat Robertson said of the center,‘‘I designed it for a 707 to smashinto it.’’

Burns, whose firm did thestructural engineering for the Pet-ronas Twin Towers in Malaysia —the world’s tallest buildings —said Robertson did not elaborateon the remark. Robertson couldnot be reached early Tuesday.

Completed in 1972 and 1973,the 110-story twin towers werethe fifth and sixth tallest build-ings in the world. One WorldTrade Center, finished in 1972,was briefly after its constructionthe world’s tallest building. Thetowers have been called ‘‘a monu-mental gate to New York and theUnited States.’’

They withstood the 1993attack, when a bomb-laden vanexploded, killing six people andinjuring more than 1,000.

Closely spaced steel columnsthat ringed their perimeter heldup the World Trade Center tow-ers. Chicago’s Aon Center (for-merly the Amoco Building), com-pleted in 1973, uses a similarsupport system, known to struc-tural engineers as a ‘‘tube.’’

Shocked by the building’s col-lapse, structural engineerspointed to fire as the likely causeof the structural failure.

‘‘Fire melts steel,’’ Burns said.In addition, he said, the impact ofthe plane could have severelydamaged the building’s sprin-klers, allowing the fire to rage,despite fireproofing supposed toprotect steel columns and beams.

‘‘You never know in an explo-sion like that whether they [thesprinklers] get cut off,’’ Burnssaid.

Architects Minoru Yamasakiand Associates, in associationwith Emery Roth & Sons,designed the World Trade Center.

The structural engineers werethe firm of Skilling, Helle, Chris-tiansen, Robertson. The developerwas The Port Authority of NewYork and New Jersey.

Tuesday’s attack marked thesecond time that a plane hascrashed into a New York City sky-scraper, although the first inci-dent was an accident.

In 1945, a B-25 flying at 200miles per hour slammed into the78th and 79th floors of theEmpire State Building, gougingan 18-by-20-foot hole 913 feetabove the streets of Manhattan.The pilot, Lt. Col. William F.Smith Jr., had been heading fromNew York’s LaGuardia Airport toNewark, N.J., when he becamedisoriented.

Fourteen people died in thecrash and the fire that followed —three people in the plane and 11in what was then the world’s tall-est building.

Completed in1972 and 1973,

the 110-story twintowers were the

fifth and sixthtallest buildings in

the world.

Bush promises U.S. will find terrorists

BUSH


BARKSDALE AIR FORCEBASE, La. — As chaos unhingedNew York and Washington, Presi-dent Bush deplored the acts of ‘‘afaceless coward’’and commandedthe United Statesmilitary to high-a l e r t s t a t u sworldwide.

‘‘The resolve ofour great nationis being tested.But make nomistake, we willshow the worldthat we will passthis test,’’ Bush declared Tuesdayas terrorist strikes on the nation’scenters of commerce and govern-ment forced him into virtualhiding.

‘‘Freedom itself was attackedthis morning by a faceless cowardand freedom will be defended,’’ he

said.With the White House itself

under threat of attack, the presi-dent’s whereabouts were keptsecret. He made a brief statementfrom a conference room here,assuring Americans that he is inregular contact with his com-mand post in Washington: VicePresident Dick Cheney, DefenseSecretary Donald H. Rumsfeldand the White House nationalsecurity team.

‘‘Our military at home andaround the world is on high-alertstatus and we have taken thenecessary security precautions tocontinue the functions of yourgovernment,’’ Bush said, his backto a pair of American flags andthe portraits of Air Force leaders.

‘‘We have been in touch withthe leaders of Congress and withworld leaders to assure them thatwe will do whatever is necessaryt o p r o t e c t A m e r i c a a n dAmericans.’’

He then boarded Air Force Oneat 12:30 p.m. Muncie for a desti-nation unknown.

The Boeing 747 taxied downthe runway at Barksdale, nearShreveport, but the small pool ofreporters on board were orderedoff their cell phones and, contraryto normal practice, no journalistswere allowed on base to watch theplane lift off.

The president had landed herejust 90 minutes earlier underescort by military fighter jets,arriving from Florida where hehad intended to make an educa-tion speech.

At the first reports of attacks onNew York’s World Trade Center,Bush told his Sarasota elemen-tary school audience that he washastening back to Washington.All of that immediately changed— and he was diverted to Louisi-ana — when a plane slammedinto the Pentagon, and Washing-ton, too, was under attack.

Secret Service agents took theextraordinary step of ‘‘sweeping’’White House aides for explosivesand weapons before they wereallowed to board the president’splane for his flight out ofSarasota.

On Capitol Hill, first lady LauraBush, who was to have made herdebut testifying before the Senateon education, tried to soothe ahorrified nation.

‘‘Parents need to reassure theirchildren everywhere in our coun-try that they’re safe,’’ she saidgrim-faced as she and Sen.Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.,announced their hearing waspostponed.

Mrs. Bush and a handful ofaides were whisked by motorcadestraight to a secure location awayfrom the White House, which hadbeen evacuated but for the smallcorps of foreign policy adviserswho manned the basement Situa-tion Room.

9/11/01 the star press special edition

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