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...known. U.S. officials say Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the captured architect of the 9/11 attacks, has told interrogators that his original plan was to have some of his pilots fly commandeered airplanes into nuclear power plants. According to the final report of the 9/11 commission, Atta, pilot of the first plane to hit the World Trade Center on 9/11, "had considered targeting a nuclear facility he had seen during familiarization flights near New York." At the dawn of the Iraq war in 2003, Arizona National Guard troops were ordered to the nation's largest nuclear-reactor complex, the Palo Verde Nuclear...
...read it, and finally my agent said, "You call him." So after I got his number and he called back after about four days, I said, "Did you read it yet?" He said, "No, but hey, I just bought a 707." So then we had to talk about the plane, you know...
...fully accredited institution, with 95% of its graduates going on to college. The growing sense of harmony was abruptly reversed on the morning of 9/11. After a frightened parent called the school, a classroom TV was wheeled into vice chairman Zarzour's office, where he watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center. "As soon as the terrorism speculation started," says Zarzour, "the parents came and took their kids home. The head of the FBI came out from Chicago. The mayor and police chief of Bridgeview stopped by. After all the kids had gone, I sent the staff home...
...death of her younger brother, John F. Kennedy Jr.—with whom she was extremely close—in 1999 after his plane went down off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, devastated Caroline...
...April 6, 1994, a plane carrying the President of Rwanda was shot down— setting off a collapse of the nascent Rwandan government. Extremist Hutus killed the Prime Minister and the 10 Belgian troops who were protecting her, and a campaign began to rid the country of Tutsi...