These ht ™ Evil Acts' ptember ^diicsday, September 12, 2001 fill vTTj ACKS ^Continued from Page 1 the World Trade Center, e lead and the doomed plum- - ctld from the skyscrapers, c)l t k 1 w ni 0 ]ig them a man and woman ' i , »ldi ig hands, welcome ti ^ , , n , I vance or, P OIV l ' ian nine hours after the ,S. attacks began, explosions xJ Center a ,u * 1 heard north of the Dining Ceti f6p an capital of Kabul, but Center (MS’twrican officials said the United »bby, will :Bs was not resptinsible. ^Bfficials across the world 11 ^ i: Bemned the attacks but in the intinueio ' e s Bank city of Nablus, thou- nd of Palestinians celebrated, ^Bting “God is Great†and Hling out candy. The United :ates has become increasingly ipppular in the Mideast in the ist| year of Israeli-Palestinian n ! cc iceded," of the MSCi junior tor the ik-^s er to dona: tie .noway .tantes oftccfi®>ng, with Washington wide- ut stHHier;/ leen as siding with Israel gainst the Arab wo Davila) world. iced mo enters s led. no 5 ReedMcto tas A&M SDX pies 251. thi; ,tet. $17.50* the Pentagon, the symbol nd command center for the ation’s military force, one side f the building collapsed as -noke billowed over the otomac River. Rep. Ike Skelton, riefed by Pentagon officials, laid, “There appear to be about 00 casualties in the building.†Ttlie first airstrike occurred Jlly before 8:45 a.m. EDT By v^friing, huge clouds of smoke till billowed from the ruins. A 'un ing, 47-story pan of the Vorld Trade Center complex — Iready evacuated — collapsed n lames just before nightfall. Htmergency Medical Service vorker Louis Garcia said initial eports indicated that bodies verc buried beneath the two feet >floot on streets around the rade center. JBf A lot of the vehicles are run- hrfc over bodies because they ire all over the place,†he said. •l or the first time, the nation’s iviation system was completely »hui down as officials consid- ired the frightening flaws that lad been exposed in security procedures. Financial markets were closed, too. Top leaders of Congress were led to an undisclosed location, as SPECIAL EDITION THE BATTALION Page 3 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. In Afghanistan, where bin Laden has been given asylum, the nation’s hardline Taliban rulers rejected suggestions he was responsible. Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the Al-Quds al-Arabi newspa per, said he received a warning from Islamic fundamentalists close to bin Laden, but had not taken the threat seriously. “They said it would be a huge and unprecedented attack, but they did not specify,†said Atwan in a telephone interview in London. This is how Tuesday’s may hem unfolded: At about 8:45 a.m., a hijacked airliner crashed into the north tower of the trade center, the 25-year-old, glass-and-steel complex that was once the world’s tallest building. The enormity of the disaster was just sinking in when 18 minutes later, the south tower also was hit by a plane. The chaos was just begin ning. Workers stumbled down scores of flights, their clothing torn and their lungs filled with smoke and dust. John Axisa said he ran out side and watched people jump out of the first building; then there was a second explosion, and he felt the heat on the back of his neck. Donald Bums, 34, was being evacuated from the 82nd floor when he saw four people in 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. Worse was to come. At 9:50, one tower collapsed, sending debris and dust cascading to the ground. At 10:30, the other tower crumbled.Glass doors shattered, police and firefighters ushered people into subway sta tions and buildings. The air was black, from the pavement to the sky. The dust and ash were inch es deep along the streets. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said it was believed the after effects of the plane crashes eventually brought the buildings down, not planted explosive devices. “This building would have stood had a plane or a force caused by a plane smashed into it,†he said. “But steel melts, and 24,000 gallons of aviation fluid melted the steel. Nothing is designed or will be designed to withstand that fire.†At mid-afternoon, Giuliani said 1,500 “walking wounded†had been shipped to Liberty State Park in New Jersey by ferry and tugboat, and 750 oth ers were taken to New York City hospitals, among them 150 in critical condition. Bridges and tunnels were closed to all but pedestrians. Subways were shut down for much of the day; commuter trains were not running. Meanwhile, at about 9:30 a.m., an airliner hit the Pentagon — the five-sided headquarters of the American military. “There was screaming and pandemoni um,†said Terry Yonkers, an Air Force civilian employee at work inside the building. The military boosted securi ty across the country to the highest levels, sending Navy ships to New York and Washington to assist with air defense and medical needs. 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