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...surveillance camera pointed at it. On Tuesday, shortly before 6 a.m., the camera captured an image of Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari clearing security in the quiet airport for a US Airways flight to Boston. "In the photo, Atta has a ticket in his hand and a small shoulder bag," says Michael Chitwood, who runs Portland's 155-man police department. Both men were dressed in Western garb...
...Tuesday morning, they no longer needed the karate and flight manuals investigators would later discover. Two teams of five rendezvoused at Boston's Logan, a third group of four at Newark and the last five men at Dulles, with their knives and their box cutters either stashed in their shoulder bags or perhaps already concealed onboard. Wail Alshehri, Waleed Alshehri, Mohamed Atta, Abdulaziz Alomari and Satam Al Suqami boarded American Airlines 11 and drove it square into the World Trade north tower at 8:45 a.m. A few minutes later, Marwan Al-Shehhi, Fayez Ahmed, Mohald Alshehri, Hamza Alghamdi...
...building where she worked and the one where they live had been evacuated. It was almost 11 a.m. when he finally saw her. "She was sitting on a bench all alone, her head down," he says. She was praying and meditating. Nishikant put his hand on Jaya's shoulder. "And she cried like a baby for a long time." A miracle is worth at least that many tears. --By John Cloud. With reporting by Unmesh Kher and Desa Philadelphia...
Captain Pat Brown, 48, always said the New York City fire department had saved his life. He came home to Queens from Vietnam in 1973 covered with medals but angry and choked up on adrenaline, daring anyone to knock the chip off his shoulder. Not good qualities for most jobs--unless you need to suit up every day against an adversary like fire. He made some spectacular rescues, including a courageous save as a lieutenant in 1991 on the roof of a midtown office building: Brown and two of his men held an inch-thick rope in their bare hands...
...These eight grieve while watching over their shoulder. They are, in Yassines words, doubly affected because Muslim and Arab Americans have not only lost loved ones but that, as he said, I feel what is coming is worse...