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![]() A woman is consoled outside the American Airlines terminal in Boston, Massachusetts, September 11, 2001, where it is believed that the American Airlines plane that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City departed from. The airplane attacks that destroyed New York's World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon were unprecedented in the history of civil aviation, security experts said. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) |
![]() A Palestinian fires his rifle in celebration as children dance around him at Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near the port city Sidon in south Lebanon September 11, 2001. Arab leaders voiced shock and horror at devastating attacks that leveled symbols of American power Tuesday, but a chorus of cheers rose from streets that resent U.S. backing of Israel. (Ali Hashisho/Reuters) |
![]() Panic and terror gave way to anger and disbelief on September 11, 2001 as New Yorkers mourned the massive loss of life after two hijacked commercial planes slammed into the World Trade Center's twin towers, which later crumpled to the ground in a heap of concrete, flames and ash. (Reuters Graphic) |
![]() Air Force One sits on the tarmack under tight military security just after President Bush arrived to address the nation from a location the White House does not want known, about the terrorist acts at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Doug Mills) |
![]() A hijacked passenger plane smashed into the Pentagon September 11, 2001, setting off a huge explosion and fire and causing untold casualties in a devastating blow to the headquarters of the U.S. military. The attack, coinciding with similar incidents at the World Trade Center in New York, set off an immediate security alert in the American capital, with all federal buildings evacuated and F-16 fighter jets scrambled over the city. A rescue helicopter is seen surveying the damage to the Pentagon as fire fighters battle flames. (Larry Downing/Reuters) |
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![]() A woman reacts to the apparent terrorist attack of the World Trade towers, while observing from the Brooklyn Promendade, which provides a view of the Manhattan skyline Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) |
![]() Two women hold each other as they watch the World Trade Center burn following a terrorist attack on the twin skyscrapers in New York Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Terrorists crashed two planes into the World Trade Center and the twin 110-story towers collapsed Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Ernesto Mora) |
![]() Attendees at the Jane's Facility Security Conference bow their heads in silence in response to the terrorism attacks on the United States Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, in Salt Lake City. The international conference is on security and how to handle terroristic attacks. Jane's is based in London. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac) |
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![]() The remaining tower of New York's World Trade Center disolves in a cloud of dust and debris soon after the towers were hit by hijacked airliners, September 11, 2001. The pictures were made from across the Hudson River in Jersey City, New Jersey. The kamikaze airplane attacks that destroyed New York's World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon on Tuesday were unprecedented in the history of civil aviation, security experts said. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine |
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