September 9, 2004, Des Moines Register, "Firefighter Jay Jonas was trapped for more than three hours in the World Trade Center debris,"
by J. Janeczko Jacobs, Register Staff Writers,
Survivors of Sept. 11
–Three years after he was entombed in the rubble of the World Trade Center, New York City firefighter Jay Jonas worries that Americans have forgotten that the country is vulnerable to attack. "The biggest lesson? Don’t fall asleep," said Jonas, who flew into Des Moines Wednesday and will give an insiders' account of Sept. 11 at a public lecture tonight in Newton. "Make no mistake about it. This is a serious group of people. They want to destroy us."
Jonas, a battalion chief who led one of the first fire crews into the World Trade Center, recently studied Al-Qaida and other Muslim extremist groups during a 14-week counter-terrorism course at the U.S. Military Academy. "All is not well," said Jonas, 46, of Goshen, N.Y. "None of us are going to be safe for a very long time. This is not a war that’s going to be over in a couple years." With major cities tightening security, terrorists may go for "softer targets," Jonas said.
"As we’re driving in from the airport, I’m thinking, there's a target . . . and there's a target," he said. "It can be something much less conspicuous than a high-rise building in a big city." Jonas declined to identify the potential targets, saying it would be inappropriate to do so. On Sept. 11, 2001, Jonas was awaiting orders in the lobby of the north tower as a raging fire consumed 20 floors – each an acre in size – 100 stories above him. He saw a black shadow cross the floor. The second plane hit the south tower with a violent explosion.
"That radically changed things," said Jonas, who was then captain of Ladder Company 6 in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood. "That naivete disappeared. We knew we were under attack. One of the firemen said, 'I don’t know if we’ll make it through today.'" It occurred to Jonas then that terrorists had actually declared war on the United States when they bombed the twin towers in 1993. "We just didn’t do anything" then, he said. Jonas gave his crew of five firefighters their orders: Stick together, walk up 80 flights and help anyone you can.
"Without hesitation, they all said, 'OK, Cap, let's go. We’re with you,' " he said. As they hit the stairs, Jonas wondered if the U.S. Air Force would be protecting the building from the air. "I've never been to a fire where I was wondering if we had military backup," he said. Jonas was on the 27th floor, waiting for two firefighters to catch up, when an earthquake-like rumble shook the building and knocked out the lights. The south tower had just collapsed.
"I couldn’t believe it," Jonas said. A 22-year firefighter with two college degrees, he knew no U.S. high-rise had ever collapsed from fire. He looked at his firefighters for a moment, then said, "If that tower can go, this one can go. It's time for us to get out of here." Still, Jonas was nervous because he hadn't gotten an order to evacuate. He later learned the order was radioed before the south tower fell, but he couldn't hear it – probably because the repeaters, which boost radio signals so they can be heard inside skyscrapers, weren't working.
On the way down, they passed a firefighter Jonas used to carpool with to work, Lt. Mike Warchola, who was helping a civilian suffering from chest pain. "Mike, come on," Jonas told him. "Let's go." "We'll be right behind you," Warchola told him. Around the 20th floor, the firefighters found an injured woman in a doorway crying. Helping Josephine Harris, 59, limp down the stairs slowed their descent and bottlenecked everybody behind them. "This was the terrifying time," Jonas said. "The spooky music in this whole scenario is that the clock is ticking. Instead of descending with a normal gait, it was: Step. Step. Step. It was like water torture."
By the fourth floor, Jonas felt a twinge of confidence. They could make it, he thought. Then Harris' legs gave way. She could no longer walk. Jonas broke into the fourth floor to find a chair in which to carry Harris. "It's the biggest office building in the world, and this is not an office floor," he said. "It's a mechanical equipment floor." He searched, running to the opposite side of the building, but couldn't find a chair." Something told me, 'This isn't working out. I've got to get back to the stairway. We're just going to have to drag her.' "
About four feet from the door, there was a thunderous roar and the floor bucked like ocean waves. The collapse had started. Jonas pulled the door handle, but the compression effect kept it stuck shut. He yanked again. It opened. He dove into the stairway, curled into a ball, and waited to be crushed, he said. Rushing wind picked up one of his firefighters and threw him down two flights of stairs. Debris pummeled them, cutting and bruising their skin. Each time a floor pancaked onto the one below, the tremendous vibration bounced them like basketballs. Steel twisted around them with an ear-splitting screech.
"It's over," he thought. "This is how it ends." Then it stopped – 110 floors flattened in 13 seconds. Gagging and coughing in a cloud of dust, Jonas did a roll call. Of the 13 people with him – 11 firefighters, a Port Authority police officer and Harris – one had a concussion, one had a separated shoulder and one possibly had broken ribs. But for the most part, they were fine. Maydays crackled over the radio from elsewhere in the tower. Warchola, the firefighter they'd passed as he helped a civilian, radioed that he was in the B stairway on the 12th floor, badly hurt.
Jonas tried to reach him, but chunks of the stairway were missing or blocked with debris. They were trapped in a two-story pocket. A second mayday came from Warchola. Then a third. Jonas took a breath. "I'm sorry, Mike," he said into the radio. "I can’t help you." The firefighters could hear fires crackling around them. They found a toilet on the fifth floor that wouldn't flush, but would be handy if someone needed to use the john. They found some sprinkler piping they could break into when they got thirsty. They found a service elevator with an open shaft below and figured that, if desperate, they could rappel down into a subcellar and find a subway tunnel out. They found a can of orange soda and shared sips.
An hour passed. Then two hours. Rescuers repeatedly asked for their location. Over and over Jonas said, "North tower, B stairwell, fourth floor." At one point, he heard a firefighter on the radio say, "Where's the north tower?" "I'm thinking, 'You hayseeds. It's the big building on the corner,' " Jonas said. He was unaware that all the physical landmarks of the World Trade Center had disappeared. After 31/2 hours, the dust cleared and a ray of light beamed through a small hole.
"Guys," Jonas told his crew. "There used to be 106 floors above us, and now I'm seeing sunshine. "By widening the hole, they were able to use ropes to climb out. The view stunned them: 16 acres of rubble and two buildings ablaze just feet away. As they hiked over the treacherous debris, Jonas was optimistic he'd see other survivors emerging. "We had a nice little pocket. There’s got to be hundreds of them," he thought. To Jonas’ shock, only his group of 14 and four others escaped the wreckage alive.
The rescue personnel death toll: 421. Altogether, about 3,000 people were confirmed dead in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "The numbers are kind of cold," Jonas said Wednesday. "I hope my story gives this a personal feeling. People aren't recognizing how significant a day it really was."
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Michael Warchola Jr. and Linda Gronlund
May 5, 2011
The Southampton (NY) Press
'Time For Reflection'
Bin Laden death strikes chord
by Michael Wright
Denis Warchola was just waking up on Monday, his 65th birthday, when he heard the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed by American soldiers in Pakistan on Sunday.
"I couldn't have gotten a better birthday present," said Mr. Warchola, a Southampton resident, military veteran, retired New York City firefighter and brother of Fire Department of New York Lieutenant Michael Warchola Jr., who was killed just weeks short of his own retirement during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
"I just love the way they did it," he continued. "They didn't use one of those stupid bombs---they went in shooting. They went over the wall and they went in and got him like men. I was in the Army myself, but all I can say today is, 'Go Navy.'"
On Sunday, an elite team of U.S. Navy Seals conducted a raid on a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan where Bin Laden had reportedly lived for the past five years. He resisted the soldiers and was killed. His body was buried at sea swiftly after the raid, in accord with Islamic rules.
For Mr. Warchola's father, Michael Warchola Sr., the death of the leader and face of Al Qaeda was less relief than reminder The elder Mr. Warchola said when he heard the news, he was reminded of that horrible day, and while he was glad that Bin Laden was brought to justice, the memory is still very painful.
"I'm glad they got him, I guess, but I still feel sad," Mr. Warchola said at his Southampton Village home. "The anger, I think, is dying down, but you never forget about any of it. There's nothing we can do about any of it that really helps."
The news came as bittersweet to Sag Harbor resident Doris Gronlund, whose daughter Linda Gronlund, was a passenger aboard United Flight 93, which crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 2001, when passengers tried to wrest control of the plane back from its hijackers.
"Today, I don't feel very nice," Ms. Gronlund said. "It's a very sad day in many ways. There is no, hurrah. Yes, I'm glad he was caught, but it doesn't change anything. It will never bring that wonderful woman back."
Mr. [sic] Gronlund said the occasion did bring out the best in the supportive nature of the Sag Harbor community. She visited the Linda Gronlund Memorial Preserve in Barcelona and found that someone had planted a small American flag next to the sign honoring her daughter.
"I was so moved," she said. "That's the kind of love I have in this village. It's so incredible to me how caring people are."
But Ms. Gronlund said she is equally pained by the suggestion that Bin Laden's death would somehow assuage the pain of her loss.
"There's a word that people keep saying to me that I haven't gotten myself around: closure. Nobody is going to tell me that I'm going to not be missing my great, elegant, smart daughter," she said of Linda, who was an attorney for BMW of North America in New Jersey and was flying to California with her fiancée on September 11, 2001. "How much more she could have done---she was just 46 years old."
Ms. Gronlund will participate in the dedication of a memorial to all of the Flight 93 victims in Shanksville, Pennsylvania in September in honor of the 10th anniversary of that dark day.
On Monday morning, U.S. Representative Tim Bishop of Southampton also described Bin Laden's death as an opportunity for everyone to remember those from near and far who died in the terrorist attacks and in the war that sprang from them.
"As we mark this momentous day, I hope all Americans will take a moment to remember the lives lost as a result of Osama bin Laden's evil,"he said, calling the killing an important victory and a triumph for justice.
New York Senator Charles Schumer trumpeted the skill and bravery of those who executed the strike on the fortified compound where Bin Laden had been living.
"This is a massive accomplishment for the countless military and intelligence personnel who have been urgently dedicated to this task for the past decade," he said in a statement. "This successful mission sends a definitive message to those who would test the resolve of the United States of America...if you do us harm, we will find you, we will mete out justice and we will prevail."
As he took Michael Warchola's daughter to a doctor's appointment, Denis Warchola nodded to the symbolic importance of Bin Laden's death and said it was a proud day for Americans, even if it was just another sad one for the families of the victims.
"I know it's just one guy, but he was the face of al Qaeda and it tells them that they can run but they can't hide," Mr. Warchola said. "It gives me a little pleasure, I guess. I'm proud today, proud to be an American. I'm proud of this country and I'm proud of our president for sending them in there that way, like men."
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September 21, 2001,
The [Somerset County PA] Daily American,
'Firefighter with local ties among N.Y. victims,'
by Vicki Rock,
Daily American Staff Writer
NEW YORK CITY - Mike Warchola, 51, was retiring at the end of this month. A lieutenant of Ladder Co. 5 of the Fire Department of New York, he was one of the firemen to rush to the scene of the first plane crash at the World Trade Center.
The men of No. 5 and 24 were among the first to respond. They pulled their fire trucks right up to the north tower and headed up the “A” stairwell. The men of Co. 24 made it up 37 floors, carrying heavy equipment, said Marcel Claes of Engine No. 24, and got an urgent message to come down. Co. 5 was up higher.
Warchola and seven others of Ladder Co. 5 perished. Denis, his brother, is also a captain in the fire department. He was not in the building when it collapsed. He helped with rescue efforts and worked to find his brother’s body which was recovered Sept. 15.
Warchola’s father, Michael, is still living. His mother, Norah, is deceased. He has two children, Aaron and Amy Warchola, both in their 20s. His aunt and uncle, Bernard and Dorothy (Warchola) Oravec live in Johnstown. A cousin, Paul Warchola, is also a New York fireman. He was not injured.
"Denis is younger than Mike, and there’s an age difference with me, but they’d come visit us and we'd go there," his cousin, Bernie Oravec, Johnstown, said. "They weren’t used to the woods and we'd go out and put crab apples on sticks and fling them around. They’d take crab apples and sticks back to New York."
Mike and Denis loved the fire department, Oravec said.
"Mike was very nice, an active guy, athletic," he said. "Both Mike and Denis were very active in the fire department."
Oravec's parents received a call from Warchola's father who was visited by the parents of a rookie fireman. That rookie was on the truck with the others of the company, but Warchola wouldn't let him go in the building. He ordered him to leave, saving his life.
His funeral is today (Friday). Only one cousin will go from this area because of the difficulty getting in to New York now, Oravec said. His uncle suggested the others visit later.
The family is asking for donations to NYC Bravest Scholarship Fund, c/o Uniformed Fire Officers Assoc., 225 Broadway, Suit 401, New York, N.Y. 10007; or the NYCPD Burn Center.
The Southampton (NY) Press
'Time For Reflection'
Bin Laden death strikes chord
by Michael Wright
Denis Warchola was just waking up on Monday, his 65th birthday, when he heard the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed by American soldiers in Pakistan on Sunday.
"I couldn't have gotten a better birthday present," said Mr. Warchola, a Southampton resident, military veteran, retired New York City firefighter and brother of Fire Department of New York Lieutenant Michael Warchola Jr., who was killed just weeks short of his own retirement during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
"I just love the way they did it," he continued. "They didn't use one of those stupid bombs---they went in shooting. They went over the wall and they went in and got him like men. I was in the Army myself, but all I can say today is, 'Go Navy.'"
On Sunday, an elite team of U.S. Navy Seals conducted a raid on a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan where Bin Laden had reportedly lived for the past five years. He resisted the soldiers and was killed. His body was buried at sea swiftly after the raid, in accord with Islamic rules.
For Mr. Warchola's father, Michael Warchola Sr., the death of the leader and face of Al Qaeda was less relief than reminder The elder Mr. Warchola said when he heard the news, he was reminded of that horrible day, and while he was glad that Bin Laden was brought to justice, the memory is still very painful.
"I'm glad they got him, I guess, but I still feel sad," Mr. Warchola said at his Southampton Village home. "The anger, I think, is dying down, but you never forget about any of it. There's nothing we can do about any of it that really helps."
The news came as bittersweet to Sag Harbor resident Doris Gronlund, whose daughter Linda Gronlund, was a passenger aboard United Flight 93, which crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 2001, when passengers tried to wrest control of the plane back from its hijackers.
"Today, I don't feel very nice," Ms. Gronlund said. "It's a very sad day in many ways. There is no, hurrah. Yes, I'm glad he was caught, but it doesn't change anything. It will never bring that wonderful woman back."
Mr. [sic] Gronlund said the occasion did bring out the best in the supportive nature of the Sag Harbor community. She visited the Linda Gronlund Memorial Preserve in Barcelona and found that someone had planted a small American flag next to the sign honoring her daughter.
"I was so moved," she said. "That's the kind of love I have in this village. It's so incredible to me how caring people are."
But Ms. Gronlund said she is equally pained by the suggestion that Bin Laden's death would somehow assuage the pain of her loss.
"There's a word that people keep saying to me that I haven't gotten myself around: closure. Nobody is going to tell me that I'm going to not be missing my great, elegant, smart daughter," she said of Linda, who was an attorney for BMW of North America in New Jersey and was flying to California with her fiancée on September 11, 2001. "How much more she could have done---she was just 46 years old."
Ms. Gronlund will participate in the dedication of a memorial to all of the Flight 93 victims in Shanksville, Pennsylvania in September in honor of the 10th anniversary of that dark day.
On Monday morning, U.S. Representative Tim Bishop of Southampton also described Bin Laden's death as an opportunity for everyone to remember those from near and far who died in the terrorist attacks and in the war that sprang from them.
"As we mark this momentous day, I hope all Americans will take a moment to remember the lives lost as a result of Osama bin Laden's evil,"he said, calling the killing an important victory and a triumph for justice.
New York Senator Charles Schumer trumpeted the skill and bravery of those who executed the strike on the fortified compound where Bin Laden had been living.
"This is a massive accomplishment for the countless military and intelligence personnel who have been urgently dedicated to this task for the past decade," he said in a statement. "This successful mission sends a definitive message to those who would test the resolve of the United States of America...if you do us harm, we will find you, we will mete out justice and we will prevail."
As he took Michael Warchola's daughter to a doctor's appointment, Denis Warchola nodded to the symbolic importance of Bin Laden's death and said it was a proud day for Americans, even if it was just another sad one for the families of the victims.
"I know it's just one guy, but he was the face of al Qaeda and it tells them that they can run but they can't hide," Mr. Warchola said. "It gives me a little pleasure, I guess. I'm proud today, proud to be an American. I'm proud of this country and I'm proud of our president for sending them in there that way, like men."
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September 21, 2001,
The [Somerset County PA] Daily American,
'Firefighter with local ties among N.Y. victims,'
by Vicki Rock,
Daily American Staff Writer
NEW YORK CITY - Mike Warchola, 51, was retiring at the end of this month. A lieutenant of Ladder Co. 5 of the Fire Department of New York, he was one of the firemen to rush to the scene of the first plane crash at the World Trade Center.
The men of No. 5 and 24 were among the first to respond. They pulled their fire trucks right up to the north tower and headed up the “A” stairwell. The men of Co. 24 made it up 37 floors, carrying heavy equipment, said Marcel Claes of Engine No. 24, and got an urgent message to come down. Co. 5 was up higher.
Warchola and seven others of Ladder Co. 5 perished. Denis, his brother, is also a captain in the fire department. He was not in the building when it collapsed. He helped with rescue efforts and worked to find his brother’s body which was recovered Sept. 15.
Warchola’s father, Michael, is still living. His mother, Norah, is deceased. He has two children, Aaron and Amy Warchola, both in their 20s. His aunt and uncle, Bernard and Dorothy (Warchola) Oravec live in Johnstown. A cousin, Paul Warchola, is also a New York fireman. He was not injured.
"Denis is younger than Mike, and there’s an age difference with me, but they’d come visit us and we'd go there," his cousin, Bernie Oravec, Johnstown, said. "They weren’t used to the woods and we'd go out and put crab apples on sticks and fling them around. They’d take crab apples and sticks back to New York."
Mike and Denis loved the fire department, Oravec said.
"Mike was very nice, an active guy, athletic," he said. "Both Mike and Denis were very active in the fire department."
Oravec's parents received a call from Warchola's father who was visited by the parents of a rookie fireman. That rookie was on the truck with the others of the company, but Warchola wouldn't let him go in the building. He ordered him to leave, saving his life.
His funeral is today (Friday). Only one cousin will go from this area because of the difficulty getting in to New York now, Oravec said. His uncle suggested the others visit later.
The family is asking for donations to NYC Bravest Scholarship Fund, c/o Uniformed Fire Officers Assoc., 225 Broadway, Suit 401, New York, N.Y. 10007; or the NYCPD Burn Center.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
'Plane Lands In Cleveland; Bomb Feared Aboard'
September 11, 2001, WCPO 9News [Cleveland]
"Plane Lands In Cleveland; Bomb Feared Aboard,"
Reported by: 9News Staff
Web produced by: Liz Foreman
9/11/01 11:43:57 AM
This is one of the earliest documented news items from September 11th, with it's web appearance timestamped before noon that day. That it stems from such a high-level source as Cleveland's mayor, while being so wildly divergent from the official narrative of events, makes for interesting, if disorienting, reading. [A para-UFO information web site, www.jerrypippin.com is responsible for its preservation as a screen grab of a cache page maintained at their news site, whose servers are only God-knows-where. So if you are a good spook, thank you very much, but don't we get to drop a house on your wicked sister before this movie is over?
"Plane Lands In Cleveland; Bomb Feared Aboard,"
Reported by: 9News Staff
Web produced by: Liz Foreman
9/11/01 11:43:57 AM
A Boeing 767 out of Boston made an emergency landing Tuesday at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport due to concerns that it may have a bomb aboard, said Mayor Michael R. White.
White said the plane had been moved to a secure area of the airport, and was evacuated.
United identified the plane as Flight 93. The airline did say how many people were aboard the flight.
United said it was also "deeply concerned" about another flight, Flight 175, a Boeing 767, which was bound from Boston to Los Angeles.
On behalf of the airline CEO James Goodwin said: "The thoughts of everyone at United are with the passengers and crew of these flights. Our prayers are also with everyone on the ground who may have been involved.
"United is working with all the relevant authorities, including the FBI, to obtain further information on these flights," he said.
This is one of the earliest documented news items from September 11th, with it's web appearance timestamped before noon that day. That it stems from such a high-level source as Cleveland's mayor, while being so wildly divergent from the official narrative of events, makes for interesting, if disorienting, reading. [A para-UFO information web site, www.jerrypippin.com is responsible for its preservation as a screen grab of a cache page maintained at their news site, whose servers are only God-knows-where. So if you are a good spook, thank you very much, but don't we get to drop a house on your wicked sister before this movie is over?
"Hijacked passenger called 911 on cell phone,"
September 11, 2001, CNN News, "Hijacked passenger called 911 on cell phone,"
Posted: 11:35 PM EDT (0335 GMT)
SHANKSVILLE, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 called on his cell phone from a locked bathroom and delivered a chilling message.
"We are being hijacked, we are being hijacked!" Minutes later the jetliner crashed in western Pennsylvania with 45 people aboard, the last of four closely timed terror attacks across the country.
Radar showed the San Francisco-bound Boeing 757 from Newark, New Jersey, had nearly reached Cleveland when it made a sharp left turn and headed back toward Pennsylvania, crashing in a grassy field edged by woods about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. There was no sign of any survivors.
"There's a crater gouged in the earth, the plane is pretty much disintegrated. There's nothing left but scorched trees," said Mark Stahl, of Somerset, who went to the scene.
The Boeing 757 crash was one of four reported Tuesday by United and American Airlines. Two jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City and one hit the Pentagon in Washington.
United said Flight 93 left Newark at 8:01 a.m. with 38 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants. Minutes before the 10 a.m. crash, an emergency dispatcher in Pennsylvania received a cell phone call from a man who said he was a passenger locked in a bathroom aboard United Flight 93. The man repeatedly said the call was not a hoax, said dispatch supervisor Glenn Cramer in neighboring Westmoreland County.
"We are being hijacked, we are being hijacked!" Cramer quoted the man from a transcript of the call.
The man told dispatchers the plane "was going down. He heard some sort of explosion and saw white smoke coming from the plane and we lost contact with him," Cramer said.
FBI agent Wells Morrison wouldn't confirm that the plane was hijacked, but said the FBI was reviewing the tape of the 911 call.
"At this point, we're not prepared to say it was an act of terrorism, though it appears to be that," Morrison said.
Reporters were taken to the top of a hill overlooking the scene. The crash left a V-shaped gouge in a grassy field surrounded by thick woods, just below a hilltop strip mine. The gouge is 8- to 10-feet deep and 15- to 20-feet long, said Capt. Frank Monaco of the Pennsylvania State Police. Investigators believe the plane crashed there and disintegrated, sending debris into thick trees nearby, Monaco said.
"There's nothing in the ground you can see," Monaco said of the crash site. "It just looks like tiny pieces of debris."
Michael R. Merringer was out on a mountain bike ride with his wife, Amy, about two miles away from the crash site.
"I heard the engine gun two different times and then I heard a loud bang and the windows of the houses all around rattled," Merringer said. "I looked up and I saw the smoke coming up."
The couple rushed home and drove near the scene.
"Everything was on fire and there was trees knocked down and there was a big hole in the ground," he said.
In Chicago, United CEO James Goodwin said the airline was sending a team to Pennsylvania to assist in the investigation and to provide assistance to family members.
"Today's events are a tragedy and our prayers are with everyone at this time," Goodwin said.
Without citing a death toll, United said Tuesday afternoon that it had identified all passengers and crew members on board the two planes and was notifying family members. No names were released immediately.
In Pennsylvania's Richland Township, police Chief Jim Mock said air traffic control coordinators reported Tuesday morning that a large aircraft was heading toward John Murtha Johnstown Cambria County Municipal Airport in the township, about 60 miles east of Pittsburgh.
The air traffic controllers said the aircraft would not identify itself, according to Mock, who is also the airport's emergency coordinator. Shortly after talking to the controllers, Mock said, a plane crashed north of the Somerset County airport about 20 miles away.
"It shook the whole station," said Bruce Grine, owner of Grine's Service Center in Shanksville, about 21/2 miles from the crash. "Everybody ran outside, and by that time the fire whistle was blowing."
Stahl was listening to reports about the World Trade Center attacks on the radio when he heard Flight 93 crash. He took pictures showing a billowing cloud and a large, black hole burrowed into the ground surrounded by small piece of airplane still on fire.
"I didn't know what to think, it was shocking," Stahl said.
At San Francisco International Airport, where the plane was headed, an evacuation was ordered. Bomb-sniffing dogs patrolled the hallways and a counseling center was set up for relatives of the people aboard Flight 93.
"This is a time for compassion. It's not a time for long sermons," said the Rev. John Delariva, a Catholic priest who is part of the airport's counseling team.
Flight 93 also operated as a code-share flight with Air Canada as Flight AC4085.
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Neat trick being able to see white smoke "coming from the plane" while inside a locked bathroom. Or or we to understand the grammar employed to possibly indicate he'd seen the smoke earlier? Along with the [concurrent, we assume] "some sort of explosion," which would give rise to it. So was this a hijacking or a plane bombing? If it were both, wouldn't they have come in that order?
"'We are being hijacked, we are being hijacked!' Minutes later the jetliner crashed in western Pennsylvania..." indicates it came first in a sequence, while the "we're going down," is the likely response following an explosion resulting in white smoke, which occurred shortly before being disconnected, and seconds before the "end."
In any event, this bathroom tale means the call was made on a cell phone while the plane was going over 500 miles per hour, so pins down a narrative element that shifts between calls using Airfones and cell phones.
Frances Watson wears a picture of her neice CeeCee Coss Lyles, flight attendent of UA Flight 93, around her neck like a credential, on Sept. 9, 2009
Posted: 11:35 PM EDT (0335 GMT)
SHANKSVILLE, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 called on his cell phone from a locked bathroom and delivered a chilling message.
"We are being hijacked, we are being hijacked!" Minutes later the jetliner crashed in western Pennsylvania with 45 people aboard, the last of four closely timed terror attacks across the country.
Radar showed the San Francisco-bound Boeing 757 from Newark, New Jersey, had nearly reached Cleveland when it made a sharp left turn and headed back toward Pennsylvania, crashing in a grassy field edged by woods about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. There was no sign of any survivors.
"There's a crater gouged in the earth, the plane is pretty much disintegrated. There's nothing left but scorched trees," said Mark Stahl, of Somerset, who went to the scene.
The Boeing 757 crash was one of four reported Tuesday by United and American Airlines. Two jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City and one hit the Pentagon in Washington.
United said Flight 93 left Newark at 8:01 a.m. with 38 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants. Minutes before the 10 a.m. crash, an emergency dispatcher in Pennsylvania received a cell phone call from a man who said he was a passenger locked in a bathroom aboard United Flight 93. The man repeatedly said the call was not a hoax, said dispatch supervisor Glenn Cramer in neighboring Westmoreland County.
"We are being hijacked, we are being hijacked!" Cramer quoted the man from a transcript of the call.
The man told dispatchers the plane "was going down. He heard some sort of explosion and saw white smoke coming from the plane and we lost contact with him," Cramer said.
FBI agent Wells Morrison wouldn't confirm that the plane was hijacked, but said the FBI was reviewing the tape of the 911 call.
"At this point, we're not prepared to say it was an act of terrorism, though it appears to be that," Morrison said.
Reporters were taken to the top of a hill overlooking the scene. The crash left a V-shaped gouge in a grassy field surrounded by thick woods, just below a hilltop strip mine. The gouge is 8- to 10-feet deep and 15- to 20-feet long, said Capt. Frank Monaco of the Pennsylvania State Police. Investigators believe the plane crashed there and disintegrated, sending debris into thick trees nearby, Monaco said.
"There's nothing in the ground you can see," Monaco said of the crash site. "It just looks like tiny pieces of debris."
Michael R. Merringer was out on a mountain bike ride with his wife, Amy, about two miles away from the crash site.
"I heard the engine gun two different times and then I heard a loud bang and the windows of the houses all around rattled," Merringer said. "I looked up and I saw the smoke coming up."
The couple rushed home and drove near the scene.
"Everything was on fire and there was trees knocked down and there was a big hole in the ground," he said.
In Chicago, United CEO James Goodwin said the airline was sending a team to Pennsylvania to assist in the investigation and to provide assistance to family members.
"Today's events are a tragedy and our prayers are with everyone at this time," Goodwin said.
Without citing a death toll, United said Tuesday afternoon that it had identified all passengers and crew members on board the two planes and was notifying family members. No names were released immediately.
In Pennsylvania's Richland Township, police Chief Jim Mock said air traffic control coordinators reported Tuesday morning that a large aircraft was heading toward John Murtha Johnstown Cambria County Municipal Airport in the township, about 60 miles east of Pittsburgh.
The air traffic controllers said the aircraft would not identify itself, according to Mock, who is also the airport's emergency coordinator. Shortly after talking to the controllers, Mock said, a plane crashed north of the Somerset County airport about 20 miles away.
"It shook the whole station," said Bruce Grine, owner of Grine's Service Center in Shanksville, about 21/2 miles from the crash. "Everybody ran outside, and by that time the fire whistle was blowing."
Stahl was listening to reports about the World Trade Center attacks on the radio when he heard Flight 93 crash. He took pictures showing a billowing cloud and a large, black hole burrowed into the ground surrounded by small piece of airplane still on fire.
"I didn't know what to think, it was shocking," Stahl said.
At San Francisco International Airport, where the plane was headed, an evacuation was ordered. Bomb-sniffing dogs patrolled the hallways and a counseling center was set up for relatives of the people aboard Flight 93.
"This is a time for compassion. It's not a time for long sermons," said the Rev. John Delariva, a Catholic priest who is part of the airport's counseling team.
Flight 93 also operated as a code-share flight with Air Canada as Flight AC4085.
**************************
The Shanksville Crash Site, 2010
Neat trick being able to see white smoke "coming from the plane" while inside a locked bathroom. Or or we to understand the grammar employed to possibly indicate he'd seen the smoke earlier? Along with the [concurrent, we assume] "some sort of explosion," which would give rise to it. So was this a hijacking or a plane bombing? If it were both, wouldn't they have come in that order?
"'We are being hijacked, we are being hijacked!' Minutes later the jetliner crashed in western Pennsylvania..." indicates it came first in a sequence, while the "we're going down," is the likely response following an explosion resulting in white smoke, which occurred shortly before being disconnected, and seconds before the "end."
In any event, this bathroom tale means the call was made on a cell phone while the plane was going over 500 miles per hour, so pins down a narrative element that shifts between calls using Airfones and cell phones.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Global Crossing,
Found at: rense.com,
Dead Link:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CBoQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rense.com%2Fgeneral70%2Fmore.htm&rct=j&q=wtc%20Global%20Crossings%20Holdings%20Ltd&ei=-t77TMbvF4T78AbolaGSCw&usg=AFQjCNH4AdAxEkFxYw8eo3jYTchKuAwONw&sig2=NBUKAZGWta9Nt2T2pAGv0w&cad=rjt
Our sources have informed us that there was a group of ONI [Office of Naval Intelligence] working in this part of the Pentagon that were investigating the $120 billion Brady Bond scam I have reported on recently. Reports are that this matter went all the way to the top Nicholas Brady and George H W Bush. Those are the same documents that another person and I took to the offices of Eliot Spitzer and Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morganthau and no response, no apparent action.
That may just be conjecture that ONI was onto something but when you weigh the Bush Family Secrecy Forever Doctrine, where he has classified things going all the way back to when his father was with CIA, there might be something to it. Bush has even classified things that happened during his father's presidency even though there is no legal basis for doing that other than something might be discovered about this entire GWOT scam. Bush has even put the lid on matters when his father was vice president in the Reagan Administration. Reportedly the Zero Coupon Brady Bonds were secured by bogus gold collateral certificates and for that to have happened someone inside of our government had to have given bogus documents the color of authenticity. I think Americans deserve to know who would do such a thing and why they thought felony conduct was OK with Americans.
That same Brady Bond scam that was to have closed in late September and early October 2001 and the bonds were reportedly at Cantor Fitzgerald, WTC 1. Fortuitously they were destroyed on September 11, 2001. Odds are the SEC records in WTC 7 that were fortuitously destroyed when that building was "pulled" included this apparently bogus Brady Bond deal too. We know that key records that would have proven the fraud of Global Crossing and Citigroup and their shadow network Cable Systems Holdings, Ltd, also of Bermuda so the records would be out of the reach of the United States Bankruptcy Court, were in WTC 1 on the 83rd Floor.
http://worldtradeaftermath.com/wta/wtc_info/tenants_by_floor_wtc1.asp
Fortuitously they were destroyed too in WTC 1 as the SEC records were destroyed later that day in WTC 7. I was directly involved in going after those records and we knew exactly what we were looking for because we had an inside source at Global Crossing. How lucky can these folks be? Another tenant on the 83 rd Floor was Lava Trading, LLC, a company that developed highly advanced trading software.
http://worldtradeaftermath.com/wta/wtc_info/tenants_by_floor_wtc1.asp The same reason that Global Crossing was built (global trading network by former Milken co-defendants) and touted to the moon by none other than Citigroup, who had the Cable Systems Holding, Ltd along for the ride. Guess what? Citigroup bought Lava Trading, LLC. How fortuitous.
https://www.lavatrading.com/lava/lavapage.aspx?f=about/team
How many deals could the deal doers do if the deal doers could do deals? Months ago I received an email from an individual regarding another person that was on the 83rd Floor on September 11, 2001. We already knew about Global Crossing Holdings and what they were hiding from the world, but had not paid attention to this person or company until Citigroup purchased Lava Trading.
Mr Schwarz: I am an independent voter so your message and platform has so found a home here with me. I am a researcher and it keeps me very busy with feeding info to 9/11 groups and in general educating people. Thermite brought those buildings down and by a fluke I might have discovered the source of those internal explosions. On 9/11 at 9:05am in the stairwell of the 83rd floor of the North Tower was a man with a transceiver. Witness's thought it was a radio but after doing a background check on this person, I am not convinced of that. His name was Charles E. Allen and he was an executive at Lava Trading LLC whose fortunes vastly improved after 9/11. Mr. Allen is a pilot, top of the heap computer expert (Microsoft, Saudi banks, Swiss banks and Ross Perot Systems) is married to a Middle Eastern woman, knows top Saudis and spent many years in the Middle East. In short more than qualifies in my book as a man worth taking a look at. If you have any questions just ask. With hope for success in your endeavor, Just paying attention to Lava was not enough. This tip came from someone that was in WTC 1 and saw this person (allegedly) in the stairwells.
When you weigh the WTC 7 destruction of many stock fraud investigations, of which Citigroup was smack dab in the middle of many of them as were Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and others, Citigroup gained huge when 9-11 happened. Wall Street and their prime customers stole hundreds of billions from unsuspecting investors and only paid back in fines to SEC pennies on every dollar they plundered. When you go one step further and understand why the major banks wanted a proprietary global trading network under their control, it becomes easier to understand why Global Crossing and 9-11 might not be as disconnected as they might seem.
Citigroup was the most heavily fined Wall Street firm regarding these fraudulent activities and its former CEO Sanford Weill is a known Zionist. Maurice Hank Greenberg, former CEO of AIG is another well known Zionist and only a fool would pass over Goldman Sachs and their desires in the area of Israel and globalization. If you look at the bulk of what they were fined for, it basically comes down to Enron, WorldCom and Global Crossing as the most egregious of their actions in defrauding the public.
What do they have in common? Energy and communications. Remember, Enron Energy Services was one of the 21 energy companies that defrauded California ratepayers in 2000 and 2001 with two-way trip fraud. WorldCom and Global Crossing both provided fiber optic networks that are used in communications, trading, money laundering, intelligence, military, etc. Enron pipeline right of ways is where much of the fiber optics were installed and Enron had a separate fiber optics "bandwidth trading" division as well. The head of that Enron division, Thomas White, was fortuitously named Secretary of the Army so we could go attack Afghanistan rather than face prosecution for fraud at Enron.
http://files.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/wxmnwht20102rqst.pdf
Most Americans have no idea how many national security issues were involved and Bush overrode them in selling Global Crossing to Singapore based ST Telemedia. I was there; I was on the front line fighting what our government was doing in covering up a huge corporate fraud and government complicity in it. When Lincoln stood up to the banks he was assassinated. When Jackson did, they wanted him dead but he maintained an eye for an eye policy to defend himself. His popularity with the military could not be taken lightly. Kennedy wanted to address the Federal Reserve abuses and he is no longer with us. Reagan did too, and he was shot.
What has happened through the past three presidencies is a complete sell out of America for the good of the greedy among us. Many of the US offices of foreign banks involved in the Leo Wanta matter, the $27.5 trillion created to wage economic warfare on certain nations, were probably housed at WTC too. That is not a stretch since the United States government guaranteed that they would convert all of those foreign currencies into US dollars. If records were there and were destroyed, how fortuitous that day was for the US parties behind that colossal scam. How fortuitous that Domink Suter (one of the Five Dancing Israelis) was released and managed to flee to Israel about the same time that the FBI identified accounts in Europe with his name on them that were involved in 9-11 financing. How fortuitous indeed. How fortuitous that some or all of the pre-9-11 shorting of stocks that led back to Israeli interests and profiteering on 9-11 might have been destroyed with WTC Building 7 too.
The same applies for those Americans that were so fortuitous to know that something was about to happen. That might explain that smile on Harvey Pitt's face in that SEC article about all of those investigations that were compromised when WTC Building 7 was "pulled".
http://www.upstaterecordinggroup.com/911_Headlines.html
He sure looks like he is smirking to me. Larry Silverstein might have been protecting his Zionist buddies when he told them to "pull it". You see, when certain prominent butts are on the line I do not believe in coincidences. The "coincidences" of 9-11 just flat out do not add up. It is indeed time for that Grand Jury and make sure there is not a Neocon nor a Zionist among those seated on that jury. Gosh, the Bush Administration sees no evidence of price gouging by Big Oil.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1907119
Certainly not since Big Oil is so tight with their family and family interests. Doing all they can do, to fleece America and the rest of the world. Can't you see them working so hard for America? It is hard work to undermine the dollar to the point that it is the single biggest reason oil is skyrocketing and getting an additional boost from all the talk of war and terrorism. If such evidence surfaces, watch out for another fortuitous destruction of those records. Fact, Iran is a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and as such has the right to develop nuclear energy inside their own nation. Fact, Israel is not a signatory to the treaty limiting non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. It is another WMD fable, as in W's Mass Deception. Best regards, Karl
Dead Link:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CBoQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rense.com%2Fgeneral70%2Fmore.htm&rct=j&q=wtc%20Global%20Crossings%20Holdings%20Ltd&ei=-t77TMbvF4T78AbolaGSCw&usg=AFQjCNH4AdAxEkFxYw8eo3jYTchKuAwONw&sig2=NBUKAZGWta9Nt2T2pAGv0w&cad=rjt
Our sources have informed us that there was a group of ONI [Office of Naval Intelligence] working in this part of the Pentagon that were investigating the $120 billion Brady Bond scam I have reported on recently. Reports are that this matter went all the way to the top Nicholas Brady and George H W Bush. Those are the same documents that another person and I took to the offices of Eliot Spitzer and Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morganthau and no response, no apparent action.
That may just be conjecture that ONI was onto something but when you weigh the Bush Family Secrecy Forever Doctrine, where he has classified things going all the way back to when his father was with CIA, there might be something to it. Bush has even classified things that happened during his father's presidency even though there is no legal basis for doing that other than something might be discovered about this entire GWOT scam. Bush has even put the lid on matters when his father was vice president in the Reagan Administration. Reportedly the Zero Coupon Brady Bonds were secured by bogus gold collateral certificates and for that to have happened someone inside of our government had to have given bogus documents the color of authenticity. I think Americans deserve to know who would do such a thing and why they thought felony conduct was OK with Americans.
That same Brady Bond scam that was to have closed in late September and early October 2001 and the bonds were reportedly at Cantor Fitzgerald, WTC 1. Fortuitously they were destroyed on September 11, 2001. Odds are the SEC records in WTC 7 that were fortuitously destroyed when that building was "pulled" included this apparently bogus Brady Bond deal too. We know that key records that would have proven the fraud of Global Crossing and Citigroup and their shadow network Cable Systems Holdings, Ltd, also of Bermuda so the records would be out of the reach of the United States Bankruptcy Court, were in WTC 1 on the 83rd Floor.
http://worldtradeaftermath.com/wta/wtc_info/tenants_by_floor_wtc1.asp
Fortuitously they were destroyed too in WTC 1 as the SEC records were destroyed later that day in WTC 7. I was directly involved in going after those records and we knew exactly what we were looking for because we had an inside source at Global Crossing. How lucky can these folks be? Another tenant on the 83 rd Floor was Lava Trading, LLC, a company that developed highly advanced trading software.
http://worldtradeaftermath.com/wta/wtc_info/tenants_by_floor_wtc1.asp The same reason that Global Crossing was built (global trading network by former Milken co-defendants) and touted to the moon by none other than Citigroup, who had the Cable Systems Holding, Ltd along for the ride. Guess what? Citigroup bought Lava Trading, LLC. How fortuitous.
https://www.lavatrading.com/lava/lavapage.aspx?f=about/team
How many deals could the deal doers do if the deal doers could do deals? Months ago I received an email from an individual regarding another person that was on the 83rd Floor on September 11, 2001. We already knew about Global Crossing Holdings and what they were hiding from the world, but had not paid attention to this person or company until Citigroup purchased Lava Trading.
Mr Schwarz: I am an independent voter so your message and platform has so found a home here with me. I am a researcher and it keeps me very busy with feeding info to 9/11 groups and in general educating people. Thermite brought those buildings down and by a fluke I might have discovered the source of those internal explosions. On 9/11 at 9:05am in the stairwell of the 83rd floor of the North Tower was a man with a transceiver. Witness's thought it was a radio but after doing a background check on this person, I am not convinced of that. His name was Charles E. Allen and he was an executive at Lava Trading LLC whose fortunes vastly improved after 9/11. Mr. Allen is a pilot, top of the heap computer expert (Microsoft, Saudi banks, Swiss banks and Ross Perot Systems) is married to a Middle Eastern woman, knows top Saudis and spent many years in the Middle East. In short more than qualifies in my book as a man worth taking a look at. If you have any questions just ask. With hope for success in your endeavor, Just paying attention to Lava was not enough. This tip came from someone that was in WTC 1 and saw this person (allegedly) in the stairwells.
When you weigh the WTC 7 destruction of many stock fraud investigations, of which Citigroup was smack dab in the middle of many of them as were Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and others, Citigroup gained huge when 9-11 happened. Wall Street and their prime customers stole hundreds of billions from unsuspecting investors and only paid back in fines to SEC pennies on every dollar they plundered. When you go one step further and understand why the major banks wanted a proprietary global trading network under their control, it becomes easier to understand why Global Crossing and 9-11 might not be as disconnected as they might seem.
Citigroup was the most heavily fined Wall Street firm regarding these fraudulent activities and its former CEO Sanford Weill is a known Zionist. Maurice Hank Greenberg, former CEO of AIG is another well known Zionist and only a fool would pass over Goldman Sachs and their desires in the area of Israel and globalization. If you look at the bulk of what they were fined for, it basically comes down to Enron, WorldCom and Global Crossing as the most egregious of their actions in defrauding the public.
What do they have in common? Energy and communications. Remember, Enron Energy Services was one of the 21 energy companies that defrauded California ratepayers in 2000 and 2001 with two-way trip fraud. WorldCom and Global Crossing both provided fiber optic networks that are used in communications, trading, money laundering, intelligence, military, etc. Enron pipeline right of ways is where much of the fiber optics were installed and Enron had a separate fiber optics "bandwidth trading" division as well. The head of that Enron division, Thomas White, was fortuitously named Secretary of the Army so we could go attack Afghanistan rather than face prosecution for fraud at Enron.
http://files.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/wxmnwht20102rqst.pdf
Most Americans have no idea how many national security issues were involved and Bush overrode them in selling Global Crossing to Singapore based ST Telemedia. I was there; I was on the front line fighting what our government was doing in covering up a huge corporate fraud and government complicity in it. When Lincoln stood up to the banks he was assassinated. When Jackson did, they wanted him dead but he maintained an eye for an eye policy to defend himself. His popularity with the military could not be taken lightly. Kennedy wanted to address the Federal Reserve abuses and he is no longer with us. Reagan did too, and he was shot.
What has happened through the past three presidencies is a complete sell out of America for the good of the greedy among us. Many of the US offices of foreign banks involved in the Leo Wanta matter, the $27.5 trillion created to wage economic warfare on certain nations, were probably housed at WTC too. That is not a stretch since the United States government guaranteed that they would convert all of those foreign currencies into US dollars. If records were there and were destroyed, how fortuitous that day was for the US parties behind that colossal scam. How fortuitous that Domink Suter (one of the Five Dancing Israelis) was released and managed to flee to Israel about the same time that the FBI identified accounts in Europe with his name on them that were involved in 9-11 financing. How fortuitous indeed. How fortuitous that some or all of the pre-9-11 shorting of stocks that led back to Israeli interests and profiteering on 9-11 might have been destroyed with WTC Building 7 too.
The same applies for those Americans that were so fortuitous to know that something was about to happen. That might explain that smile on Harvey Pitt's face in that SEC article about all of those investigations that were compromised when WTC Building 7 was "pulled".
http://www.upstaterecordinggroup.com/911_Headlines.html
He sure looks like he is smirking to me. Larry Silverstein might have been protecting his Zionist buddies when he told them to "pull it". You see, when certain prominent butts are on the line I do not believe in coincidences. The "coincidences" of 9-11 just flat out do not add up. It is indeed time for that Grand Jury and make sure there is not a Neocon nor a Zionist among those seated on that jury. Gosh, the Bush Administration sees no evidence of price gouging by Big Oil.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1907119
Certainly not since Big Oil is so tight with their family and family interests. Doing all they can do, to fleece America and the rest of the world. Can't you see them working so hard for America? It is hard work to undermine the dollar to the point that it is the single biggest reason oil is skyrocketing and getting an additional boost from all the talk of war and terrorism. If such evidence surfaces, watch out for another fortuitous destruction of those records. Fact, Iran is a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and as such has the right to develop nuclear energy inside their own nation. Fact, Israel is not a signatory to the treaty limiting non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. It is another WMD fable, as in W's Mass Deception. Best regards, Karl
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Joshua David Birnbaum
Joshua David Birnbaum at archive.org
A DJ and Bond Trader Who Made an Impression
March 8, 2002
Jill Birnbaum stood near the finish line of the San Diego Marathon in January because of a promise the 19-year-old had made to her older brother, Joshua, sometime last year.
It was a run the 24-year-old Joshua hoped to finish, but never started. The assistant bond trader for Cantor Fitzgerald was killed in the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11.
But Birnbaum's sister waited at the finish line of the 26.3-mile race that Martin Luther King Jr. weekend just the same.
Joshua David Birnbaum had planned to run the marathon and had requested his sister be there at the finish line. Despite Sept. 11 and its aftermath, his sister still made the trip to San Diego, their mother, Marcel Birnbaum of Oceanside, said.
"Jill decided she would get tickets a few weeks before the marathon, and go there and honor her brother," she said.
Sharing her grief and reason for being there with some in attendance, she inspired the event's organizers: The first "Spirit of Joshua Award," will be given to a runner who had overcome great odds to complete the San Diego Marathon next year.
In a message written to her brother on his Web site, www.samsson.com, she wrote: "You did it, You crossed that finish line like a true champ. OK, so maybe you didn't physically cross the finish line in San Diego, but in your life, with all you accomplished and all the obstacles you overcame... you crossed that finish line. And the greatest part about it was that I got to keep my promise. I stood there, with tears in my eyes, sorrow in my heart, and you on my mind."
Born in Holbrook in 1977, Birnbaum graduated from Oceanside High School in 1995, and earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Columbia University in 2001.
Birnbaum spent a semester interning at Atlantic Records in Manhattan where "he made a lasting impression," his mother said. He was one of three out of 75 applicants who received a job on the bond trading desk of Cantor Fitzgerald, "shortly after graduation," his mother said.
But his alter-ego was never fully suppressed by suits and ties. DJ Samsson, as he called himself, spun records in his spare moments, at benefit shows in college, raves, and even in Tennessee, his mother said. Birnbaum coined the moniker from family dynamics. He was Sam's son, and proud of it, Marcel Birnbaum said.
Birnbaum's father, a director for global quantitative research at Salomon Smith Barney in Manhattan, was instrumental in his son's choosing a career in finance, and always served as a guide, and friend for him. "He felt that being that his dad is in the financial field, it was the true path for him," his mother said. "I think he realized what a good family and support system he had."
She called her son "a persevering spirit," who "influenced a lot of people in his life along the way to do positive things." He was "always there to guide and to listen."
Birnbaum, a resident of Manhattan, spoke to his mother shortly after the first plane flew into Tower One, she said. Her son worked on the 104th floor.
"He said something hit the building and that there was smoke everywhere," she said. "He told me the ceiling was falling down around him, and that he needed to tell all of us that he loved us. I told him to find someone to be with so he wasn't alone. He said, 'OK, Mom,' and the phone went dead."
-- Nick Iyer (Newsday)
A DJ and Bond Trader Who Made an Impression
March 8, 2002
Jill Birnbaum stood near the finish line of the San Diego Marathon in January because of a promise the 19-year-old had made to her older brother, Joshua, sometime last year.
It was a run the 24-year-old Joshua hoped to finish, but never started. The assistant bond trader for Cantor Fitzgerald was killed in the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11.
But Birnbaum's sister waited at the finish line of the 26.3-mile race that Martin Luther King Jr. weekend just the same.
Joshua David Birnbaum had planned to run the marathon and had requested his sister be there at the finish line. Despite Sept. 11 and its aftermath, his sister still made the trip to San Diego, their mother, Marcel Birnbaum of Oceanside, said.
"Jill decided she would get tickets a few weeks before the marathon, and go there and honor her brother," she said.
Sharing her grief and reason for being there with some in attendance, she inspired the event's organizers: The first "Spirit of Joshua Award," will be given to a runner who had overcome great odds to complete the San Diego Marathon next year.
In a message written to her brother on his Web site, www.samsson.com, she wrote: "You did it, You crossed that finish line like a true champ. OK, so maybe you didn't physically cross the finish line in San Diego, but in your life, with all you accomplished and all the obstacles you overcame... you crossed that finish line. And the greatest part about it was that I got to keep my promise. I stood there, with tears in my eyes, sorrow in my heart, and you on my mind."
Born in Holbrook in 1977, Birnbaum graduated from Oceanside High School in 1995, and earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Columbia University in 2001.
Birnbaum spent a semester interning at Atlantic Records in Manhattan where "he made a lasting impression," his mother said. He was one of three out of 75 applicants who received a job on the bond trading desk of Cantor Fitzgerald, "shortly after graduation," his mother said.
But his alter-ego was never fully suppressed by suits and ties. DJ Samsson, as he called himself, spun records in his spare moments, at benefit shows in college, raves, and even in Tennessee, his mother said. Birnbaum coined the moniker from family dynamics. He was Sam's son, and proud of it, Marcel Birnbaum said.
Birnbaum's father, a director for global quantitative research at Salomon Smith Barney in Manhattan, was instrumental in his son's choosing a career in finance, and always served as a guide, and friend for him. "He felt that being that his dad is in the financial field, it was the true path for him," his mother said. "I think he realized what a good family and support system he had."
She called her son "a persevering spirit," who "influenced a lot of people in his life along the way to do positive things." He was "always there to guide and to listen."
Birnbaum, a resident of Manhattan, spoke to his mother shortly after the first plane flew into Tower One, she said. Her son worked on the 104th floor.
"He said something hit the building and that there was smoke everywhere," she said. "He told me the ceiling was falling down around him, and that he needed to tell all of us that he loved us. I told him to find someone to be with so he wasn't alone. He said, 'OK, Mom,' and the phone went dead."
-- Nick Iyer (Newsday)
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
CNN Breaking News bulletins
On the morning of September 11, 2001 the United States suffered a brutal terrorist attack. Documented here are the flurry of CNN Breaking News bulletins that followed.
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:52am
-- World trade center damaged; unconfirmed reports say a plane has
crashed into tower. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:21am
-- Second plane crashes into World Trade Center.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:23am
-- FBI investigating reports of foul play in World Trade Center
plane crashes, according to the Associated Press. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:32am
-- Sources tell CNN one of two planes that crashed into World Trade Center was an American Airlines 767.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:42am
-- President Bush calls plane crashes at World Trade Center a terrorist act.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:45am
-- Significant fire at the Pentagon. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:46am
-- White House evactuated. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:47am
-- Fire reported on National Mall in Washington
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:55am
-- CNN confirms a plane hit the Pentagon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:03am
-- One of World Trade Center towers collapses; fire forces evacuation of State Department
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:13am
-- United Nations evacuated.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:26am
-- FAA diverting all U.S.-bound international flights to Canada.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:30am
-- Second World Trade Center tower collapses in Manhattan
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:38am
-- Car bombing at the State Department, The Associated Press reports.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:39am
-- Part of Pentagon collapses
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:44am
-- Pentagon monitoring second suspected hijacked plane.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:50am
-- Fighter scrambled amid reports of second plane headed for Pentagon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:18am
-- NTSB confirms plane crashes near Pittsburgh
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:32pm
-- FAA confirms there are 50 aircraft in the air; none has a problem and all are within 50 miles of their destination.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:37pm
-- Government sources tell CNN President Bush is not returning to Washington.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 01:27pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Terrorists struck the United States Tuesday
morning in harrowing, widespread attacks that included at least
three commercial jet crashes into significant buildings.
In the first attack, a plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m., followed by another plane into the second tower about 20 minutes later. Both towers later collapsed.
About an hour later, a plane crashed into the Pentagon, part of which later collapsed.
American Airlines told CNN that it lost two planes in "tragic accidents:" Flight 11 from Boston with 81 passengers and 11 crew aboard and Flight 77 from Washington Dulles airport with 58 passengers and six crew aboard. Both planes were en route to Los Angeles.
United Airlines Flight 93 airliner headed from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, crashed near Somerset, Pennsylvania -- police said initial reports indicated no survivors. United also confirmed the crash of Flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles.
The Pentagon, the White House, the State Department, the Justice Department, the Capitol, the CIA and all other government buildings in Washington evacuated.
President Bush cancelled an appearance in Florida to return to Washington, calling the crashes "apparent terrorist attacks" and "a national tragedy."
In the first ever national ground stop of aircraft, all flights nationwide have been stopped at their departure airports. All international flights were diverted to Canada.
Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, said in reaction to the news of the terror attacks that "we want to tell the American children that Afghanistan feels your pain and we hope that the courts find justice."
In New York, more than 10,000 rescue personnel rushed to the scene. The entire downtown area of Manhattan was evacuated as far north as Rockefeller Center, according to an official at an emergency command post.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:23pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- In what appeared to be coordinated acts of terrorism, two jets crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, collapsing them Tuesday while another aircraft crashed into the Pentagon. Hundreds were injured or killed, if not more.
A fourth aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania with 45 people on board.
President Bush said the United States would "hunt down and punish" the terrorists responsible. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell cut short a trip to Peru to return to the United States. He also vowed,
"The U.S. government will find out who is responsible."
The U.S. military went on full alert. Two aircraft carriers left the Naval base in Norfolk, Va., in response to the attacks. At the Pentagon, witnesses said a plane crashed into what is known as the "Army Corridor," the building collapsed and there wase an undetermined number of casualties.
Bush, who wound up an tour in Florida that was to focus on education, did not return to Washington out of concerns for his safety but flew to an Air Force base in Louisiana. Later, Air Force One took from Barksdale Air Force Base, its destination unknown.
Officials in Washington said a "Continuation of Government" plan had been activated. The activation involves a fortified facility at Mount Weather, Va. There was no word whether any of the U.S. leadership or ranking military officers had been taken to the facility, but Congressional leaders were said to be assembling outside Washington.
The city of Washington declared a state of emergency.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:36pm
-- FAA says no commercial air traffic in U.S. until at least noon EDT tomorrow.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 03:28pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Public transportation in all five of New York City's boroughs has been restored, Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday.
Operation had been halted after the apparent terrorist attacks on the city's World Trade Center buildings.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 03:59pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Navy is sending ships to sea to protect the U.S. East Coast from further attack and to reduce the number of ships in port.
Two aircraft carriers -- the USS George Washington and the USS John F. Kennedy -- are headed for the coast off New York.
Five other ships -- guided missile destroyers and frigates --are also headed to sea.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 04:38pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The New York Stock Exchange will be closed Wednesday, officials said.
The American Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange will all be closed.
Trading never began Tuesday after a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 04:59pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The National Guard is mobilizing all troops in the New York City area.
Maj. Jose Obregon of the 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry told CNN that soldiers are being called to their home bases, where they are to stand by until they receive further orders.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 05:32pm
-- Third World Trade Center tower, 47-story building 7, collapses. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 05:51pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Barbara Olson, a conservative commentator and lawyer, alerted her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, that the plane she was on was being hijacked Tuesday morning, Ted Olson told
CNN.
A short time later the plane crashed into the Pentagon. Barbara Olson is presumed to have died in the crash.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:02pm
-- Explosions rock Kabul, Afghanistan, CNN's Nic Robertson reports. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:07pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The first-ever grounding of all flights in the United States will remain in effect until at least noon EDT Wednesday due to security concerns following Tuesday's hijackings of airliners that were then crashed into buildings, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:36pm
-- White House spokesman says President Bush did not order strike on Afghanistan. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:07pm
-- Afghanistan opposition claims responsibility for Kabul explosions. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:45pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. General Service Administration will reopen its federal buildings in Washington and all other regions -- except those in the New York City area -- on Wednesday, said Hap
Connors, an agency spokesman.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:50pm
-- New York City reports at least 78 police officers missing, 200 firefighters presumed dead.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:23pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The nation's first-ever groundstop will remain in effect until at least noon EDT Wednesday due to security concerns following Tuesday's hijackings of airliners that were then crashed into buildings, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:36pm
-- Bush: "Search is under way" for attackers.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:55pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The identities of some of the victims of the worst terrorist attack on American soil began to emerge Tuesday evening, including the top executives of a California optical networks company, a Boston-based technology company, a top NBC executive producer and the wife of the United States' solicitor general.As the day drew to a close, it was still horribly unclear exactly how many people had died, but the number was clearly in the thousands.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:53pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Secretary of State Colin Powell, returning to Washington from his aborted trip to Peru and Colombia Tuesday, said there were "no specific warnings" to herald the multiple terrorist
attacks earlier in the day against the financial and military nerve centers of the United States, but he promised those responsible would be caught."You can be sure the U.S. government will do everything it can to find the perpetrators of this cowardly attack against innocent people and bring them to justice," he told reporters.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:53pm
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Several Arab and Muslim groups in California received threatening phone calls Tuesday in response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Maha Elgenaidi, executive director of the Islamic Networks Group in San Jose, said "a lot of Islamic Centers have shut Web sites down because of the amount of hate mail they were getting." Her organization received two "hate" calls after the attacks. Elgenaidi said the first caller told her to "get the hell out of this country. You people have done nothing but ruin this country. You don't belong here. Your religion is vile and evil."
Wednesday, September 12, 2001
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:04am
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (CNN) -- In parts of the country, motorists lined up at gas pumps Tuesday following rumors of shortages that fueled skyrocketing gas prices in the aftermath of terror attacks in
Washington and New York. Fears that tanker trucks wouldn't make it from refineries to gas stations put a premium on fuel. In Oklahoma City, prices reached the two-dollar mark.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:45am
NEW YORK (CNN) -- At least 265 New York City firefighters were feared dead as a result of the attack on the World Trade Center, according to Andrew White, spokesman for the International Association of Firechiefs. IAFC Executive Director Gary Briese told CNN earlier the specialized city rescue companies who went into the fiery twin towers of the World Trade Center are unaccounted for and it is believed they were in the buildings conducting search-and- rescue missions when structures collapsed after two airliners
slammed into them. New York City's fire chief, deputy fire chief, the fire department chaplain, and the chief of special operations were all killed in the collapse, White said.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 02:03am
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Government sources say senior administration officials told members of Congress that they believe the hijacked airliner that crashed in Pennsylvania was headed for another
government target, possibly the White House, the Capitol or the Camp David presidential retreat.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:20am
RAMSTEIN, Germany (CNN)-- Frankfurt's Messeturm, Germany's equivalent of the World Trade Center, was evacuated briefly Wednesday morning following a bomb threat. An anonymous caller at 9 a.m. said a device would explode at 9:20 A.M. Authorities quickly led employees out of the building.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 07:36am
-- Rescuers find 6 survivors in New York: 1 police officer, 5 firefighters. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:56am
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An aide to Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle said Wednesday that both House and Senate are trying to schedule closed-door security briefings between members and officials from
the CIA and the FBI.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:03am
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has sent rescue teams known for pulling survivors from earthquake rubble to the terrorist-disaster sites at the Pentagon and in New York City.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:33am
-- NATO considering guarantee of military, intelligence support if U.S. responds to terror attack, sources tell CNN.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:54am
-- President Bush calls attacks 'acts of war;' asks Congress for emergency funding. Details to come.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:54am
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission told CNN that SEC Chairman Harvey L. Pitt believes the financial markets, including the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, will be ready to
open for trading Thursday. However, an official decision has not yet been made.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:22am
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States intercepted two phone calls made after Tuesday's terrorist attacks against the Pentagon and New York's World Trade Center, and the conversations were between
members of al Qaeda, an organization sponsored by suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:53am
ATLANTA (CNN) -- Losses from Tuesday's terrorist attacks against the United States are expected to run into the tens of billions of dollars. Insurance comanies tell CNN that the industry considers what happened an act of terrorism -- not an act of war -- so they do plan to honor their customers policies.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:05pm
-- The Pentagon is being evacuated by order of fire marshal. Details to come.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:14pm
GANDER, Newfoundland (CNN) -- More than 17,000 people who were passengers on dozens of international flights that were diverted from landing in the United States remain stranded in the province of
Newfoundland in Canada. The planes landed at Newfoundland airports Tuesday as U.S. airspace was shut down in the aftermath of terror attacks in Washington and New York.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 01:03pm
VERO BEACH, Fla. (CNN) -- At least 10 FBI agents were searching two houses in this city in Florida in what appeared to be part of the investigation into the deadly terrorists attacks against the United States. The immediate neighborhood was temporarily evacuated after FBI agents knocked on doors and said there was a bomb scare. Residents have been allowed back in their homes.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 01:30pm
BOSTON (CNN) -- The FBI has taken several people into custody in connection with the investigation into the deadly terrorist attacks against the United States. The individuals have not been arrested and they have not been described as suspects. Heavily armed police and FBI agents swarmed the Westin Hotel in the Copley Square area of Boston. Sources said several people were also taken into custody for questioning in Florida.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 02:17pm
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Officials of the Taliban, the hard-line Islamic rulers of Afghanistan, are appealing to the United States not to attack Afghanistan, CNN has learned. The plea came after an
international message was passed along to senior Taliban officials, who were meeting Wednesday with Pakistan diplomats.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 02:47pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Giant brokerage firm MorganStanley's chairman and CEO, Philip Purcell, said Wednesday "a vast majority" of the 3,500 staff members who worked in two of the World Trade Center buildings, including one of the twin towers, got out safely after hijackers crashed two planes into the towers.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 03:01pm
-- White House, Air Force One were targets of terrorists on Tuesday, administration official tells CNN.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 03:26pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States reached out to Russia and Pakistan Wednesday in an effort to put pressure on the Taliban militia that is harboring Saudi exile Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, State Department officials and diplomatic sources tell CNN.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 04:14pm
BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- NATO has unanimously declared the hijack attacks on the U.S. to be an assault against all member states. Secretary-General George Robertson said the U.S. would receive
support for military action from its 18 NATO partners if it is found the assaults were committed by foreign nationals.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:16pm
BALTIMORE (CNN) -- The Navy's medical ship USNS Comfort left Baltimore Wednesday bound for the New York City waterfront, according to the Military Sealift Command. The vessel is nearly 900
feet long and has 1,000 beds. It saw action in the Middle East during Operation Desert Storm.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:32pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Top U.S. officials said Wednesday that they know the identities of many of the hijackers on each of the four flights that crashed Tuesday -- two toppling the World Trade Center and a
third heavily damaging the Pentagon in the worst terrorist attacks in U.S history.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:56pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Rescue workers and journalists were evacuated from the devastated area around the World Trade Center amid fear that another building may collapse. The twin towers of the World Trade
Center collapsed Tuesday after hijacked jets crashed into them. Another adjacent building also later collapsed.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 06:25pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
NEW YORK (CNNfn) - U.S. stock markets will stay shuttered for a third day Thursday and may not reopen until Monday, though officials from the major stock markets and the government said trading could
resume as early as Friday.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 07:05pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Federal officials Wednesday announced a limited resumption of commercial flights to allow travelers stranded around the country as a result of Tuesday's hijackings to return home. But
Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta temporarily extended all other aspects of the nationwide "groundstop" that halted all scheduled domestic flights until new security measures are put into effect at the country's airports.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 07:36pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
WASHINGTON (CNN) --- Congressional leaders and the White House agreed Wednesday to set aside $20 billion for rescue efforts, repairs and counterterrorism work after Tuesday's terror attacks on Washington and New York.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:18pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In the wake of Tuesday's terrorism attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the State Department Wednesday evening will reissue its Worldwide Caution warning Americans traveling abroad, a senior State Department official told CNN.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:02pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
VERO BEACH, Fla. (CNN) -- Investigators have leads on four hijackers they believe commandeered the two airliners from Boston that destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center, CNN has learned. Two of the men were brothers apparently from Saudi Arabia who had most recently been living in Florida where they attended flight training school.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:24pm
-- Empire State Building being evacuated. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:42pm
-- "All clear" given at Empire State Building, Penn Station. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:45pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Authorities evacuated the Empire State Building and Penn Station Wednesday night. Three police officers told CNN the Empire State Building was evacuated after a bomb-sniffing dog
detected a suspected explosive device inside one of the city's most popular landmarks.Shortly afterwards, police told people to get off the trains in Penn Station just a few blocks away and to "run as fast as they can," a CNN producer reported from the scene.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:47pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Authorities evacuated the Empire State Building and Penn Station Wednesday night. Three police officers told CNN the Empire State Building was evacuated after a bomb-sniffing dog
detected a suspected explosive device inside one of the city's most popular landmarks.Shortly afterwards, police told people to get off the trains in Penn Station just a few blocks away and to "run as fast as they can," a CNN producer reported from the scene. About 20 minutes after the evacuation was ordered, the all clear was given at both locations.
Thursday, September 13, 2001
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:06am
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A doctor helping treat rescue workers Wednesday in a downtown office building told CNN the building was serving as a makeshift morgue, and contained about 150 bodies. Dr. William
Bradley, an ophthalmologist treating rescue workers' eyes, burning and scratched by the cloud of soot and fiberglass that envelopes much of Manhattan, said he saw the bodies inside the American Express building in Tribeca.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 07:59am
-- FAA says airports that meet new safety requirements can reopen at 11 a.m. EDT. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:02am
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Dover Air Force Base in Delaware is preparing to receive bodies of victims killed in Tuesday's terrorist attack on the Pentagon, officials tell CNN. Spokeswoman Jennifer Hall says the
remains will arrive at the port mortuary starting Thursday afternoon, to be processed and identified "in the most honorable way by our mortuary affairs personnel."
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:15am
-- One of two Saudi pilot brothers believed connected with hijackings cooperating with FBI, CNN has learned. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:08am
-- New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani reports 4,763 people known missing at this time. Details to come.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:04am
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement is not confirming a widespread report out of the United Arab Emirates that suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden is under house arrest in
Afghanistan, but although it appears he is in the country, his exact location is unknown.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:07am
-- President Bush to visit New York tomorrow; says "we will win this war."
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:02pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Five firefighters rescued in World Trade Center rubble, CNN reports.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:01pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- American Express building in New York City being evacuated over concerns it may collapse. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 03:31pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- New York Stock Exchange to reopen on Monday. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 03:45pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Major League Baseball postpones games through Sunday. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 03:51pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In an effort to assess the security of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and review anti-terrorism efforts under way at U.S. nuclear power plants, a group of congressional leaders will visit U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories this weekend.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 04:45pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Major internet service providers (ISPs) in the United States said Thursday they are cooperating with federal authorities in the investigation of Tuesday's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 05:06pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Flight data recorder found from hijacked plane in Pennsylvania, Justice Department says. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 05:54pm
-- U.S. Capitol being evacuated; New York airports shut down. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 05:54pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell went further than any member of the Bush administration Thursday in naming Osama bin Laden as a leading suspect in Tuesday's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Friday, September 14, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 01:30am
-- The White House and Congress have agreed on a $40 billion emergency aid package in the wake of Tuesday's terrorist attacks. Officials said the legislation should be ready for President Bush's signature Saturday.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:30am
-- Defense Department intends to ask that 50,000 reservists be called up for 'homeland defense,' CNN has learned.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:15am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Sources have told CNN the identities of the 18 people believed to be the hijackers in Tuesday's terrorist attacks. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:52am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Senate approves $40 billion aid package by 96-0 vote.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:58am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Senate approves use of force by 98-0 vote.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:27am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- All three New York area airports are now reopened, according to Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Alison Duquette. This includes LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and Newark International Airport.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 01:59pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- People across the United States and around the world observed a day of "prayer and remembrance" Friday for the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
U.S. President George W. Bush joined members of Congress, top military officials, world diplomats and a host of dignitaries -- including former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George Bush and their wives -- at a noontime prayer service at the National Cathedral in Washington.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 02:25pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- House passes $40 billion emergency appropriations bill, sends to president. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 04:56pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
New York (CNN) -- President George W. Bush went to New York City Friday to see for himself the devastation from Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and boost morale for the rescue
and recovery effort. Earlier, the president told a prayer service at the National Cathedral that a "unity against terror is now extending across the world."
Saturday, September 15, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:41am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Continental Airlines to cut flights, furlough 12,000 employees. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 02:43pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Iran has closed its border with Afghanistan, Iran's News Agency reports. Details soon
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 04:33pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Sources: Suspected Washington hijacker met with suspect in USS Cole bombing. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 06:11pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Second arrest warrant issued in N.Y. for "material witness." Details soon
Sunday, September 16, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 02:00am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- A passport belonging to one of the hijackers was discovered Saturday several blocks from the Manhattan crash site.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 05:46am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- CNN has learned Pakistan will demand that the Taliban turn over Osama bin Laden. More to come
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 06:48pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Four "material witnesses" in custody. Details soon
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 06:55pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Arrest warrents issued for four "material witnesses." Details soon
Monday, September 17, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:26am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Fed cuts interest rates by half a percentage point. Full story soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:23pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- President Bush warns 'there will be costs' in war on terrorism. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 04:07pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Dow closes down more than 600 points; Nasdaq down more than 100. Details soon.
Tuesday, September 18, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:29am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Israel calls a halt to offensive operations against Palestinians, CNN confirms. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 02:47pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Hijacking suspect met with an Iraqi intelligence official somewhere in Europe earlier this year, U.S.officials said.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 03:42pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- United Airlines to lay off 20,000 employees, CNN has learned. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:36pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- President Bush signs $40 billion emergency spending bill, congressional authorization to use force. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:40pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Boeing to lay off 20,000 to 30,000 workers by end of 2002. Details soon.
Wednesday, September 19, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:24am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Despite term limits, Rudy Giuliani considers run for third term as NYC mayor.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:51am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf says a U.S. attack on terrorists would not be an attack on Afghanistan's people or on Islam. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 02:56pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- U.S. Air Force will deploy more than 100 aircraft to "forward areas" in the Persian Gulf, sources tell CNN. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 04:25pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- American Airlines announces it will lay off 20,000 employees. Details soon.
Thursday, September 20, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:03am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Clerics in Kabul have suggested that accused terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden be asked to leave Afghanistan for the good of the country.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:01am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- White House rejects recommendation from Afghan clerics that Osama bin Laden be asked to leave the country voluntarily. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 04:55pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- President Bush wants $5 billion for immediate relief for airline industry, CNN has learned. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 05:04pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani raises estimate of people missing at World Trade Center to 6,333. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:45pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Delta to cut 15 to 20 percent of work force in layoffs next week. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:56pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- President Bush picks Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge for new Cabinet- level position overseeing homeland defense. Details soon.
Friday, September 21, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 04:00am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Taliban clerics "sympathetic" with U.S. but won't force bin Laden to leave Afghanistan.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 04:08am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Taliban says U.S. not justified in making demands without proof or evidence.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:01pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- The Senate has passed a $15 billion relief bill for the airline industry struggling in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Saturday, September 22, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 02:18am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Reports: The United Arab Emirates has cut diplomatic ties with the Taliban government of Afghanistan.
Sunday, September 23, 2001
No bulletins today
Monday, September 24, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:36am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Pakistan has pulled all diplomatic staff from Afghanistan, citing security concerns. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 09:40am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- President Bush announces freezing of U.S. financial assets with 27 entities with suspected terrorist ties. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:37am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Statement attributed to Osama bin Laden calls on Pakistanis not to cooperate with the U.S. in military action against Afghanistan. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 03:13pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Pilots union to ask Congress to allow pilots to have guns in cockpit. Details soon.
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
No bulletins today
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 03:51am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have arrived for talks at Gaza International Airport.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 07:02am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Israel and Palestians agree to resume full security cooperation. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 03:15pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- President Bush to propose armed marshals on almost all U.S. flights, increase federal role in airport screening. Details soon.
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:52am
-- World trade center damaged; unconfirmed reports say a plane has
crashed into tower. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:21am
-- Second plane crashes into World Trade Center.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:23am
-- FBI investigating reports of foul play in World Trade Center
plane crashes, according to the Associated Press. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:32am
-- Sources tell CNN one of two planes that crashed into World Trade Center was an American Airlines 767.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:42am
-- President Bush calls plane crashes at World Trade Center a terrorist act.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:45am
-- Significant fire at the Pentagon. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:46am
-- White House evactuated. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:47am
-- Fire reported on National Mall in Washington
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:55am
-- CNN confirms a plane hit the Pentagon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:03am
-- One of World Trade Center towers collapses; fire forces evacuation of State Department
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:13am
-- United Nations evacuated.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:26am
-- FAA diverting all U.S.-bound international flights to Canada.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:30am
-- Second World Trade Center tower collapses in Manhattan
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:38am
-- Car bombing at the State Department, The Associated Press reports.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:39am
-- Part of Pentagon collapses
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:44am
-- Pentagon monitoring second suspected hijacked plane.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:50am
-- Fighter scrambled amid reports of second plane headed for Pentagon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:18am
-- NTSB confirms plane crashes near Pittsburgh
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:32pm
-- FAA confirms there are 50 aircraft in the air; none has a problem and all are within 50 miles of their destination.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:37pm
-- Government sources tell CNN President Bush is not returning to Washington.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 01:27pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Terrorists struck the United States Tuesday
morning in harrowing, widespread attacks that included at least
three commercial jet crashes into significant buildings.
In the first attack, a plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m., followed by another plane into the second tower about 20 minutes later. Both towers later collapsed.
About an hour later, a plane crashed into the Pentagon, part of which later collapsed.
American Airlines told CNN that it lost two planes in "tragic accidents:" Flight 11 from Boston with 81 passengers and 11 crew aboard and Flight 77 from Washington Dulles airport with 58 passengers and six crew aboard. Both planes were en route to Los Angeles.
United Airlines Flight 93 airliner headed from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, crashed near Somerset, Pennsylvania -- police said initial reports indicated no survivors. United also confirmed the crash of Flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles.
The Pentagon, the White House, the State Department, the Justice Department, the Capitol, the CIA and all other government buildings in Washington evacuated.
President Bush cancelled an appearance in Florida to return to Washington, calling the crashes "apparent terrorist attacks" and "a national tragedy."
In the first ever national ground stop of aircraft, all flights nationwide have been stopped at their departure airports. All international flights were diverted to Canada.
Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, said in reaction to the news of the terror attacks that "we want to tell the American children that Afghanistan feels your pain and we hope that the courts find justice."
In New York, more than 10,000 rescue personnel rushed to the scene. The entire downtown area of Manhattan was evacuated as far north as Rockefeller Center, according to an official at an emergency command post.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:23pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- In what appeared to be coordinated acts of terrorism, two jets crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, collapsing them Tuesday while another aircraft crashed into the Pentagon. Hundreds were injured or killed, if not more.
A fourth aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania with 45 people on board.
President Bush said the United States would "hunt down and punish" the terrorists responsible. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell cut short a trip to Peru to return to the United States. He also vowed,
"The U.S. government will find out who is responsible."
The U.S. military went on full alert. Two aircraft carriers left the Naval base in Norfolk, Va., in response to the attacks. At the Pentagon, witnesses said a plane crashed into what is known as the "Army Corridor," the building collapsed and there wase an undetermined number of casualties.
Bush, who wound up an tour in Florida that was to focus on education, did not return to Washington out of concerns for his safety but flew to an Air Force base in Louisiana. Later, Air Force One took from Barksdale Air Force Base, its destination unknown.
Officials in Washington said a "Continuation of Government" plan had been activated. The activation involves a fortified facility at Mount Weather, Va. There was no word whether any of the U.S. leadership or ranking military officers had been taken to the facility, but Congressional leaders were said to be assembling outside Washington.
The city of Washington declared a state of emergency.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:36pm
-- FAA says no commercial air traffic in U.S. until at least noon EDT tomorrow.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 03:28pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Public transportation in all five of New York City's boroughs has been restored, Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday.
Operation had been halted after the apparent terrorist attacks on the city's World Trade Center buildings.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 03:59pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Navy is sending ships to sea to protect the U.S. East Coast from further attack and to reduce the number of ships in port.
Two aircraft carriers -- the USS George Washington and the USS John F. Kennedy -- are headed for the coast off New York.
Five other ships -- guided missile destroyers and frigates --are also headed to sea.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 04:38pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The New York Stock Exchange will be closed Wednesday, officials said.
The American Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange will all be closed.
Trading never began Tuesday after a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 04:59pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The National Guard is mobilizing all troops in the New York City area.
Maj. Jose Obregon of the 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry told CNN that soldiers are being called to their home bases, where they are to stand by until they receive further orders.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 05:32pm
-- Third World Trade Center tower, 47-story building 7, collapses. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 05:51pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Barbara Olson, a conservative commentator and lawyer, alerted her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, that the plane she was on was being hijacked Tuesday morning, Ted Olson told
CNN.
A short time later the plane crashed into the Pentagon. Barbara Olson is presumed to have died in the crash.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:02pm
-- Explosions rock Kabul, Afghanistan, CNN's Nic Robertson reports. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:07pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The first-ever grounding of all flights in the United States will remain in effect until at least noon EDT Wednesday due to security concerns following Tuesday's hijackings of airliners that were then crashed into buildings, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:36pm
-- White House spokesman says President Bush did not order strike on Afghanistan. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:07pm
-- Afghanistan opposition claims responsibility for Kabul explosions. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:45pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. General Service Administration will reopen its federal buildings in Washington and all other regions -- except those in the New York City area -- on Wednesday, said Hap
Connors, an agency spokesman.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:50pm
-- New York City reports at least 78 police officers missing, 200 firefighters presumed dead.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:23pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The nation's first-ever groundstop will remain in effect until at least noon EDT Wednesday due to security concerns following Tuesday's hijackings of airliners that were then crashed into buildings, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:36pm
-- Bush: "Search is under way" for attackers.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:55pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The identities of some of the victims of the worst terrorist attack on American soil began to emerge Tuesday evening, including the top executives of a California optical networks company, a Boston-based technology company, a top NBC executive producer and the wife of the United States' solicitor general.As the day drew to a close, it was still horribly unclear exactly how many people had died, but the number was clearly in the thousands.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:53pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Secretary of State Colin Powell, returning to Washington from his aborted trip to Peru and Colombia Tuesday, said there were "no specific warnings" to herald the multiple terrorist
attacks earlier in the day against the financial and military nerve centers of the United States, but he promised those responsible would be caught."You can be sure the U.S. government will do everything it can to find the perpetrators of this cowardly attack against innocent people and bring them to justice," he told reporters.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:53pm
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Several Arab and Muslim groups in California received threatening phone calls Tuesday in response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Maha Elgenaidi, executive director of the Islamic Networks Group in San Jose, said "a lot of Islamic Centers have shut Web sites down because of the amount of hate mail they were getting." Her organization received two "hate" calls after the attacks. Elgenaidi said the first caller told her to "get the hell out of this country. You people have done nothing but ruin this country. You don't belong here. Your religion is vile and evil."
Wednesday, September 12, 2001
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:04am
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (CNN) -- In parts of the country, motorists lined up at gas pumps Tuesday following rumors of shortages that fueled skyrocketing gas prices in the aftermath of terror attacks in
Washington and New York. Fears that tanker trucks wouldn't make it from refineries to gas stations put a premium on fuel. In Oklahoma City, prices reached the two-dollar mark.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:45am
NEW YORK (CNN) -- At least 265 New York City firefighters were feared dead as a result of the attack on the World Trade Center, according to Andrew White, spokesman for the International Association of Firechiefs. IAFC Executive Director Gary Briese told CNN earlier the specialized city rescue companies who went into the fiery twin towers of the World Trade Center are unaccounted for and it is believed they were in the buildings conducting search-and- rescue missions when structures collapsed after two airliners
slammed into them. New York City's fire chief, deputy fire chief, the fire department chaplain, and the chief of special operations were all killed in the collapse, White said.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 02:03am
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Government sources say senior administration officials told members of Congress that they believe the hijacked airliner that crashed in Pennsylvania was headed for another
government target, possibly the White House, the Capitol or the Camp David presidential retreat.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:20am
RAMSTEIN, Germany (CNN)-- Frankfurt's Messeturm, Germany's equivalent of the World Trade Center, was evacuated briefly Wednesday morning following a bomb threat. An anonymous caller at 9 a.m. said a device would explode at 9:20 A.M. Authorities quickly led employees out of the building.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 07:36am
-- Rescuers find 6 survivors in New York: 1 police officer, 5 firefighters. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:56am
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An aide to Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle said Wednesday that both House and Senate are trying to schedule closed-door security briefings between members and officials from
the CIA and the FBI.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:03am
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has sent rescue teams known for pulling survivors from earthquake rubble to the terrorist-disaster sites at the Pentagon and in New York City.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:33am
-- NATO considering guarantee of military, intelligence support if U.S. responds to terror attack, sources tell CNN.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:54am
-- President Bush calls attacks 'acts of war;' asks Congress for emergency funding. Details to come.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:54am
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission told CNN that SEC Chairman Harvey L. Pitt believes the financial markets, including the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, will be ready to
open for trading Thursday. However, an official decision has not yet been made.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:22am
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States intercepted two phone calls made after Tuesday's terrorist attacks against the Pentagon and New York's World Trade Center, and the conversations were between
members of al Qaeda, an organization sponsored by suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:53am
ATLANTA (CNN) -- Losses from Tuesday's terrorist attacks against the United States are expected to run into the tens of billions of dollars. Insurance comanies tell CNN that the industry considers what happened an act of terrorism -- not an act of war -- so they do plan to honor their customers policies.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:05pm
-- The Pentagon is being evacuated by order of fire marshal. Details to come.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:14pm
GANDER, Newfoundland (CNN) -- More than 17,000 people who were passengers on dozens of international flights that were diverted from landing in the United States remain stranded in the province of
Newfoundland in Canada. The planes landed at Newfoundland airports Tuesday as U.S. airspace was shut down in the aftermath of terror attacks in Washington and New York.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 01:03pm
VERO BEACH, Fla. (CNN) -- At least 10 FBI agents were searching two houses in this city in Florida in what appeared to be part of the investigation into the deadly terrorists attacks against the United States. The immediate neighborhood was temporarily evacuated after FBI agents knocked on doors and said there was a bomb scare. Residents have been allowed back in their homes.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 01:30pm
BOSTON (CNN) -- The FBI has taken several people into custody in connection with the investigation into the deadly terrorist attacks against the United States. The individuals have not been arrested and they have not been described as suspects. Heavily armed police and FBI agents swarmed the Westin Hotel in the Copley Square area of Boston. Sources said several people were also taken into custody for questioning in Florida.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 02:17pm
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Officials of the Taliban, the hard-line Islamic rulers of Afghanistan, are appealing to the United States not to attack Afghanistan, CNN has learned. The plea came after an
international message was passed along to senior Taliban officials, who were meeting Wednesday with Pakistan diplomats.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 02:47pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Giant brokerage firm MorganStanley's chairman and CEO, Philip Purcell, said Wednesday "a vast majority" of the 3,500 staff members who worked in two of the World Trade Center buildings, including one of the twin towers, got out safely after hijackers crashed two planes into the towers.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 03:01pm
-- White House, Air Force One were targets of terrorists on Tuesday, administration official tells CNN.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 03:26pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States reached out to Russia and Pakistan Wednesday in an effort to put pressure on the Taliban militia that is harboring Saudi exile Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, State Department officials and diplomatic sources tell CNN.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 04:14pm
BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- NATO has unanimously declared the hijack attacks on the U.S. to be an assault against all member states. Secretary-General George Robertson said the U.S. would receive
support for military action from its 18 NATO partners if it is found the assaults were committed by foreign nationals.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:16pm
BALTIMORE (CNN) -- The Navy's medical ship USNS Comfort left Baltimore Wednesday bound for the New York City waterfront, according to the Military Sealift Command. The vessel is nearly 900
feet long and has 1,000 beds. It saw action in the Middle East during Operation Desert Storm.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:32pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Top U.S. officials said Wednesday that they know the identities of many of the hijackers on each of the four flights that crashed Tuesday -- two toppling the World Trade Center and a
third heavily damaging the Pentagon in the worst terrorist attacks in U.S history.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:56pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Rescue workers and journalists were evacuated from the devastated area around the World Trade Center amid fear that another building may collapse. The twin towers of the World Trade
Center collapsed Tuesday after hijacked jets crashed into them. Another adjacent building also later collapsed.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 06:25pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
NEW YORK (CNNfn) - U.S. stock markets will stay shuttered for a third day Thursday and may not reopen until Monday, though officials from the major stock markets and the government said trading could
resume as early as Friday.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 07:05pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Federal officials Wednesday announced a limited resumption of commercial flights to allow travelers stranded around the country as a result of Tuesday's hijackings to return home. But
Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta temporarily extended all other aspects of the nationwide "groundstop" that halted all scheduled domestic flights until new security measures are put into effect at the country's airports.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 07:36pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
WASHINGTON (CNN) --- Congressional leaders and the White House agreed Wednesday to set aside $20 billion for rescue efforts, repairs and counterterrorism work after Tuesday's terror attacks on Washington and New York.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:18pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In the wake of Tuesday's terrorism attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the State Department Wednesday evening will reissue its Worldwide Caution warning Americans traveling abroad, a senior State Department official told CNN.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:02pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
VERO BEACH, Fla. (CNN) -- Investigators have leads on four hijackers they believe commandeered the two airliners from Boston that destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center, CNN has learned. Two of the men were brothers apparently from Saudi Arabia who had most recently been living in Florida where they attended flight training school.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:24pm
-- Empire State Building being evacuated. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:42pm
-- "All clear" given at Empire State Building, Penn Station. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:45pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Authorities evacuated the Empire State Building and Penn Station Wednesday night. Three police officers told CNN the Empire State Building was evacuated after a bomb-sniffing dog
detected a suspected explosive device inside one of the city's most popular landmarks.Shortly afterwards, police told people to get off the trains in Penn Station just a few blocks away and to "run as fast as they can," a CNN producer reported from the scene.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:47pm
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Authorities evacuated the Empire State Building and Penn Station Wednesday night. Three police officers told CNN the Empire State Building was evacuated after a bomb-sniffing dog
detected a suspected explosive device inside one of the city's most popular landmarks.Shortly afterwards, police told people to get off the trains in Penn Station just a few blocks away and to "run as fast as they can," a CNN producer reported from the scene. About 20 minutes after the evacuation was ordered, the all clear was given at both locations.
Thursday, September 13, 2001
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:06am
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A doctor helping treat rescue workers Wednesday in a downtown office building told CNN the building was serving as a makeshift morgue, and contained about 150 bodies. Dr. William
Bradley, an ophthalmologist treating rescue workers' eyes, burning and scratched by the cloud of soot and fiberglass that envelopes much of Manhattan, said he saw the bodies inside the American Express building in Tribeca.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 07:59am
-- FAA says airports that meet new safety requirements can reopen at 11 a.m. EDT. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:02am
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Dover Air Force Base in Delaware is preparing to receive bodies of victims killed in Tuesday's terrorist attack on the Pentagon, officials tell CNN. Spokeswoman Jennifer Hall says the
remains will arrive at the port mortuary starting Thursday afternoon, to be processed and identified "in the most honorable way by our mortuary affairs personnel."
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:15am
-- One of two Saudi pilot brothers believed connected with hijackings cooperating with FBI, CNN has learned. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:08am
-- New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani reports 4,763 people known missing at this time. Details to come.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:04am
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement is not confirming a widespread report out of the United Arab Emirates that suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden is under house arrest in
Afghanistan, but although it appears he is in the country, his exact location is unknown.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:07am
-- President Bush to visit New York tomorrow; says "we will win this war."
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:02pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Five firefighters rescued in World Trade Center rubble, CNN reports.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:01pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- American Express building in New York City being evacuated over concerns it may collapse. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 03:31pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- New York Stock Exchange to reopen on Monday. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 03:45pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Major League Baseball postpones games through Sunday. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 03:51pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In an effort to assess the security of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and review anti-terrorism efforts under way at U.S. nuclear power plants, a group of congressional leaders will visit U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories this weekend.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 04:45pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Major internet service providers (ISPs) in the United States said Thursday they are cooperating with federal authorities in the investigation of Tuesday's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 05:06pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Flight data recorder found from hijacked plane in Pennsylvania, Justice Department says. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 05:54pm
-- U.S. Capitol being evacuated; New York airports shut down. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 05:54pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell went further than any member of the Bush administration Thursday in naming Osama bin Laden as a leading suspect in Tuesday's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Friday, September 14, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 01:30am
-- The White House and Congress have agreed on a $40 billion emergency aid package in the wake of Tuesday's terrorist attacks. Officials said the legislation should be ready for President Bush's signature Saturday.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:30am
-- Defense Department intends to ask that 50,000 reservists be called up for 'homeland defense,' CNN has learned.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:15am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Sources have told CNN the identities of the 18 people believed to be the hijackers in Tuesday's terrorist attacks. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:52am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Senate approves $40 billion aid package by 96-0 vote.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:58am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Senate approves use of force by 98-0 vote.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:27am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- All three New York area airports are now reopened, according to Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Alison Duquette. This includes LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and Newark International Airport.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 01:59pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- People across the United States and around the world observed a day of "prayer and remembrance" Friday for the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
U.S. President George W. Bush joined members of Congress, top military officials, world diplomats and a host of dignitaries -- including former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George Bush and their wives -- at a noontime prayer service at the National Cathedral in Washington.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 02:25pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- House passes $40 billion emergency appropriations bill, sends to president. Details soon.
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 04:56pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
New York (CNN) -- President George W. Bush went to New York City Friday to see for himself the devastation from Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and boost morale for the rescue
and recovery effort. Earlier, the president told a prayer service at the National Cathedral that a "unity against terror is now extending across the world."
Saturday, September 15, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:41am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Continental Airlines to cut flights, furlough 12,000 employees. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 02:43pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Iran has closed its border with Afghanistan, Iran's News Agency reports. Details soon
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 04:33pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Sources: Suspected Washington hijacker met with suspect in USS Cole bombing. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 06:11pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Second arrest warrant issued in N.Y. for "material witness." Details soon
Sunday, September 16, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 02:00am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- A passport belonging to one of the hijackers was discovered Saturday several blocks from the Manhattan crash site.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 05:46am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- CNN has learned Pakistan will demand that the Taliban turn over Osama bin Laden. More to come
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 06:48pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Four "material witnesses" in custody. Details soon
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 06:55pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Arrest warrents issued for four "material witnesses." Details soon
Monday, September 17, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:26am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Fed cuts interest rates by half a percentage point. Full story soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:23pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- President Bush warns 'there will be costs' in war on terrorism. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 04:07pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Dow closes down more than 600 points; Nasdaq down more than 100. Details soon.
Tuesday, September 18, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:29am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Israel calls a halt to offensive operations against Palestinians, CNN confirms. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 02:47pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Hijacking suspect met with an Iraqi intelligence official somewhere in Europe earlier this year, U.S.officials said.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 03:42pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- United Airlines to lay off 20,000 employees, CNN has learned. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:36pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- President Bush signs $40 billion emergency spending bill, congressional authorization to use force. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:40pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Boeing to lay off 20,000 to 30,000 workers by end of 2002. Details soon.
Wednesday, September 19, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:24am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Despite term limits, Rudy Giuliani considers run for third term as NYC mayor.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:51am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf says a U.S. attack on terrorists would not be an attack on Afghanistan's people or on Islam. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 02:56pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- U.S. Air Force will deploy more than 100 aircraft to "forward areas" in the Persian Gulf, sources tell CNN. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 04:25pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- American Airlines announces it will lay off 20,000 employees. Details soon.
Thursday, September 20, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:03am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Clerics in Kabul have suggested that accused terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden be asked to leave Afghanistan for the good of the country.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:01am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- White House rejects recommendation from Afghan clerics that Osama bin Laden be asked to leave the country voluntarily. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 04:55pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- President Bush wants $5 billion for immediate relief for airline industry, CNN has learned. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 05:04pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani raises estimate of people missing at World Trade Center to 6,333. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:45pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Delta to cut 15 to 20 percent of work force in layoffs next week. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:56pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- President Bush picks Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge for new Cabinet- level position overseeing homeland defense. Details soon.
Friday, September 21, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 04:00am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Taliban clerics "sympathetic" with U.S. but won't force bin Laden to leave Afghanistan.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 04:08am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Taliban says U.S. not justified in making demands without proof or evidence.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:01pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- The Senate has passed a $15 billion relief bill for the airline industry struggling in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Saturday, September 22, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 02:18am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Reports: The United Arab Emirates has cut diplomatic ties with the Taliban government of Afghanistan.
Sunday, September 23, 2001
No bulletins today
Monday, September 24, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:36am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Pakistan has pulled all diplomatic staff from Afghanistan, citing security concerns. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 09:40am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- President Bush announces freezing of U.S. financial assets with 27 entities with suspected terrorist ties. Details soon.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:37am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Statement attributed to Osama bin Laden calls on Pakistanis not to cooperate with the U.S. in military action against Afghanistan. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 03:13pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Pilots union to ask Congress to allow pilots to have guns in cockpit. Details soon.
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
No bulletins today
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 03:51am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have arrived for talks at Gaza International Airport.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 07:02am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- Israel and Palestians agree to resume full security cooperation. Details to come.
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 03:15pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
-- President Bush to propose armed marshals on almost all U.S. flights, increase federal role in airport screening. Details soon.
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