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A4 Wednesday, September 12, 2001 THE PANTAGRAPH www.pantagraph.com York crying' i rfxiv lie 1 nmm I sky from the area behind the Statue of Liberty, lower left, where the World Trade Center towers "Freedom itself was attacked this morning and I assure you freedom will be defended." President Bush Mike Smith, a fire marshal from Queens, recovering at the fountain outside a state courthouse, shortly after the second tower collapsed. As a fireball engulfed the buildings, there was panic. "One minute everyone was casually walking, next there was this huge surge," said investment banker Mark DeAn-drea, who works in an office beside the Trade Center. "It seemed like 10,000 people were rushing toward us, running like a herd of gazelles, crying, "Get out, get out!" DeAndrea crouched behind a pillar trying to figure out what to do. "It was so unreal," he said.

"People were jumping out of buildings. It was horrifying." Frantically, DeAndrea tried to call his wife, but his cell phone wouldn't work. So he joined the surge heading back toward the ferries to New Jersey. At Pier 11, he said, "Boats were just filling up, taking everyone. Some people were threatening to jump into the water if they couldn't get on." Finally, the overloaded boat pulled away.

"It was so scary. Everyone on the boat was just staring at the buildings. And then, as we passed the tip of Manhattan, they were there no more." Other workers from Trade Center offices wandered lower Manhattan in a daze. Looking down West Broadway, brown and black smoke billowed. Ash, two inches deep, covered the streets.

Police and firefighters gasped for air as they emerged from the sealed-off area. At least three explosions were heard, perhaps from gas lines. Kenny Johannemann, a janitor, described seeing a man en-' gulfed in flames at One World Trade Center just after the first explosion. He grabbed the man, put the fire out, and dragged him outside. Then Johannemann heard a second explosion and saw people jumping from the upper stories of the twin towers.

"It was horrendous," Johannemann said. Donald Burns, 34, was being evacuated from a meeting on the 82nd floor of One World Trade Center when saw four severely burned people on the stairwell. "I tried to help them but they didn't want anyone to touch them. The fire had melted their skin. Their clothes were tattered," he said.

NEW YORK (AP) Police Officer Tyrone Dux paused before heading back to the horror. "New York is crying," said Dux, himself in tears. He was taking a break from shuttling medical supplies from St. Vincent's hospital to triage centers near the scene of the World Trade Center collapse. "It's like nighttime there," he said of the scene in lower Manhattan, which by early afternoon was a hive of rescue efforts.

"I didn't hear any screaming, just dead, dark silence. Dark. Frightening." The city looked and felt like a war zone Tuesday. Armed guards patrolled outside government buildings. Mass evacuations sent ash-covered pedestrians streaming across bridges.

Ambulances screeched through Manhattan. A city skyline and psyche were forever scarred. After the initial shock, after the nightmarish scenes of people on fire jumping from buildings, came the rescue. A few blocks away from the World Trade Center, about 120 doctors and people with medical training traveled in a convoy of pickup trucks, ambulances, a dump truck and SUVs toward the wreckage. Their job: To find-survivors and try to pave them.

i Paramedics waiting to be bent into the rubble were told that "once the smoke clears, it's going to be massive bodies," according to Brian Stark, an ex-Navy paramedic who volunteered to help. Ad-hoc medical crews formed to accept blood donations. Barbara Kalvig raced to a triage center with a car full of colleagues from the New York Veterinarians Hospital. "We closed the hospital and brought a bunch of doctors and nurses," Kalvig said. "We just drove as far as we could." Nearby, a construction crew hauled two-by-fours and plywood to the emergency teams to be used as makeshift stretchers.

Craig Senzon, 29, a neurologist volunteering at the triage center said of rescuers, "We felt a heaviness inside use that none of us have ever felt before." Before rescuers were mobilized, scenes of horror unfolded around the devastated buildings. i "Everyone was screaming, crying, running cops, people, firefighters, everyone," said Her face was covered in blood." For the first time, the nation's aviation system was completely shut down as officials considered the frightening flaws that had been exposed in security procedures. Financial markets were closed, too. Top leaders of Congress were led to an undisclosed as were key officials of the! Bush administration. Guards; armed with automatic' weapons patrolled the White! House grounds and military! aircraft secured the skies above the capital city.

National Guard troops appeared on! some street corners in the nation's capital. Evacuations were ordered at the tallest skyscrapers in several cities, and high-profile tourist attractions closed Walt Disney World, Mount Rushmore, Seattle's Space Needle, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. The Federal Reserve, seeking to provide assurances that the nation's banking system would be protected, said it would provide additional money to banks if needed. Eight years ago, the World Trade Center was a terrorist target when a truck bomb killed six people and wounded about 1,000 others.

Just the death tollon the planes alone could surpass the 168 people killed in the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. the plane on a a cell phone. "She called him and let him know how much she loved him and the boys," said her aunt, Mareya Schneider. CeeCee Lyles was crying and her husband could hear people screaming in the background, according to Schneider. Then she said "we've been hijacked" and the phone went dead.

Also, Alice Hoglan told KTVU-TV in San Francisco that her son, Mark Bingham, 31, called her from aboard the flight at 8:44 CDT: Thick smoke billowed into the stood Tuesday. ATTACK From A1 No one took responsibility for the attacks that rocked the seats of finance and government. But federal authorities identified Osama bin Laden, who has been given asylum by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, as the prime suspect. Aided by an intercept of communications between his supporters and harrowing cell phone calls from at least one flight attendant and two passengers aboard the jetliners before they crashed, U.S. officials began assembling a case linking bin Laden to the devastation.

U.S. intelligence intercepted, communications between bin Laden supporters discussing the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, according to Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. The people aboard planes who managed to make cell phone calls each described similar circumstances: They indicated the hijackers were armed with knives, in some cases stabbing flight attendants. The hijackers then took control of the planes.

All of the planes were bound for California and thus loaded with fuel. At the World Trade Center, the dead and the doomed plummeted from the skyscrapers, among them a man and woman SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) A passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 called on his cell phone from a locked bathroom with a chilling message: "We are being hijacked, we are being hijacked!" Minutes later the jetliner crashed 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, N.J., 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 thousands of Palestinians celebrated, chanting "God is Great" and handing out candy. The United States has become increasingly unpopular in the Mideast in the past year of Israeli-Palestinian fighting, with Washington widely seen as siding with Israel against the Arab world. At the Pentagon, the symbol and command center for the nation's military force, one side of the building collapsed as smoke billowed over the Potomac River. The first airstrike on the trade center occurred shortly before 7:45 a.m.

CDT. A burning, 47-story part of the trade center complex, long since evacuated, collapsed in flames just before nightfall. Emergency Medical Service worker Louis Garcia said initial reports indicated that bodies were buried beneath the two feet of soot on streets around the trade center. "A lot of the vehicles are running over bodies because they are all over the place," he said. Said National Guard member Angelo Otchy of Maple-wood, N.J., "I must have come across body parts by the thousands.

I came across a lady, she didn't remember her name. moreland County. "We are being hijacked, we are being hijacked!" Cramer quoted the man as saying, 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.

Lome Lyles, a Fort Myers, police officer, was at home when his wife, flight attendant CeeCee Lyles, called him from Jet crashes in passenger called in hijacking iu.M.miu..iMnpi.i...iij.a mm holding hands. Shortly after 6 p.m. CDT, crews began heading into ground zero of the attack to search for survivors and recover bodies. All that remained of the twin towers by then was a pile of rubble and twisted steel that stood five stories high, leaving a huge gap in the New York City skyline. "Freedom itself was attacked this morning and I assure you freedom will be defended," said Bush, who was in Florida at the time of the catastrophe.

As a security measure, he was shuttled to a Strategic Air Command bunker in Nebraska before leaving for Washington. "Make no mistake," he said. "The United States will hunt down and pursue those responsible for these cowardly actions." More than nine hours after the U.S. attacks began, explosions could be heard north of the Afghan capital of Kabul, but American officials said the United States was not responsible. "It isn't us.

I don't know who's doing it," Pentagon spokesman Craig Quigley said. Officials across the world condemned the attacks but in the West Bank city of Nablus, 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 7:01 a.m.

CDT 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 West- Metro Rail and Metro Bus entrance 5 mi 5km AP "South va. Firefighters and emergency personnel investigated the scene of a fatal crash involving a United Airlines Boeing 757 carrying at least 45 passengers Tuesday morning.

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U.S. Rep. Christopher Cox, also at the meeting, said Rumsfeld had just predicted that the United States would face another terrorist incident at some point. "He said, 'Let me tell ya, I've been around the block a few times. There will be another And he repeated it for emphasis," Cox said.

"And within minutes of saying that, his words proved tragically prophetic." After the Pentagon attack, Rumsfeld went "running down to the site where the aircraft hit, was helpful in putting some of the injured onto some stretchers," Quigley said. The defense secretary then went to the National Military Command Center in the lower floors of the Pentagon, where "he has been ever since and will remain" for the time being, the spokesman said. PENTAGON Frtom A1 He talked to reporters at a gasoline station across the street from the massive building as an intense fire burned. Local hospitals reported receiving 40 victims of the attack, with seven patients in critical condition admitted at one hospital for treatment of burns. When the attack came at 8:40 a.m.

CDT, "the whole building shook" with the impact, said Terry Yonkers, an Air Force civilian employee at work in-'side the Pentagon at the time. "There was screaming and pan-'demonium." On a nearby road, debris hit "several cars. Cab drivers watched, stunned, as hundreds of people poured out the doors of the huge building. Rumsfeld was in his office 'when the aircraft hit on the opposite side of the bui ing. He had just run there after hearing of the Trade Center attack wm-- Area of offices for the highest officials, including Secretary of Defense Donald H.Rumsfeld.

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