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...helped in any way their terrible cause, that my skills were used for such a terrible deed," he says. Al-Shehhi was on board United Flight 175 and was probably the pilot of the airliner as it smashed into the side of the World Trade Center's south tower. Atta was on American Flight 11, which had hit the north tower 21 minutes earlier...
...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 and Ahmed Alghamdi departed on United Airlines 175 and rammed it through the corner of World Trade south tower 21 minutes later. Khalid Al-Midhar, Majed Moqed, Nawaq Alhamzi, Hani Hanjour and Salem Alhamzi...
...claim of responsibility to get his message across; he has no agenda that can be met. What he wants is to make a statement: to carry out attacks to prove that he can. What better recruiting poster than that searing image of a plane shearing through the south tower: it tells the faithful, Look at me, look what we can do, join...
...getting up at 3 a.m. to nurse her infant son. The tender moments in the quiet house were good for both mother and baby. But she won't do it anymore--at least not alone. Molly's husband Matt works on the 75th floor of Chicago's Sears Tower, "an obvious target" for terrorists, she says. Now when she gets up in the middle of the night, she gets Matt up with her. "I need company," says Galo. "I don't want to be alone with my thoughts." She now also insists that her husband always keep his cell phone...
...South Tower of the WTC collapsed at 9:50 a.m. I had just finished calling my boyfriend in Boston, who would then call my parents in Hong Kong, when we heard another loud noise and saw a large cloud of smoke coming towards us. Everyone was again screaming and running towards the pier. After we had run a few more blocks, Kristin, Kersten, Dee and I decided that the safest thing to do would be to walk uptown...