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EE P1JW255001-4-A00100-1---SB P1JW255001-4-A00100-1---SB P1JW255001-4-A00100-1---SB SB **** BLACK 09/12/2001 s 2001 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ! VOL. CCXXXVIII NO. 51 EE/PR 1111 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2001 WSJ.com iiii $1.00 TERRORISTS DESTROY WORLD TRADE CENTER, HIT PENTAGON IN RAID WITH HIJACKED JETS Nation Stands What’s News— Death Toll, Source of Devastating Attacks Remain Unclear; iii iii U.S. Vows Retaliation as Attention Focuses on bin Laden In Disbelief 7 By David S. Cloud Vt. 7 Business and Finance World-Wide 7 And Neil King BOSTON: American Airlines The Wall Street Journal N.H. And Horror Staff Reporters of Flight 11, a Boeing 767, leaves LL MAJOR U.S. FINANCIAL mar- By successfully attacking the most promi- Boston at 7:59 a.m. EDT for Los kets closed yesterday and remain BUSH PROMISED action against ter- New York A rorist attacks in the Eastern U.S. nent symbols of American power—Wall Street Mass. Boston Angeles. This flight, with 92 closed today in the wake of the terrorist and the Pentagon—terrorists have wiped out people aboard, including 11 The death toll from the hijacked-jet at- crew, becomes the first plane to Streets of Manhattan attack on the World Trade Center. The tacks that destroyed the World Trade Cen- any remaining illusions that America is safe Conn. hit the World Trade Center. near-panic reaction in the global mar- from mass organized violence. ter’s towers in New York and damaged the Pennsylvania Resemble War Zone kets that remained open suggested that Pentagon outside Washington was impos- That realization alone will alter the way NEW YORK: At about 8:50 a.m., Flight 11 from the U.S. approaches its role in the world, as Boston hits the North Tower of the World Trade substantial damage was done to the sible to gauge immediately. But the presi- Newark New York well as the way Americans travel and do busi- Center At about 9:03 a.m., a second plane hits psyche of a world financial system al- dent said “thousands of lives were sud- City Amid Clouds of Ash ness at home and abroad. the South Tower of the trade center. Both towers ready on edge from prospects of an in- denly ended.” A fourth hijacked plane N.J. later collapse. crashed near Pittsburgh. Another com- The death toll from the hijacked jets’ at- ternational recession. In Tokyo, the Ni- tacks that destroyed the World Trade Center A Wall Street Journal News Roundup mercial jet went down in western Pennsyl- NEWARK: United Flight 93, a Boeing 757 aircraft, leaves Newark at kkei stock index fell below 10000 early 8:01 a.m., headed for San Francisco with 45 people, including They were like scenes from a catastro- vania. It wasn’t immediately clear who in lower Manhattan, and damaged the Penta- Wednesday for the first time since 1984. was responsible for the attacks, but the gon, was impossible to gauge immediately. seven crew. This flight crashes at about 10 a.m. southeast of phe movie. Or a Tom Clancy novel. Or a Pittsburgh. CNN broadcast from a distant foreign na- (Article on Page B1) president told the nation the U.S. “would But it could eclipse the loss of life the country iii make no distinction” between terrorists suffered in the Japanese attack on Pearl Har- Washington tion. WASHINGTON: bor, when more than 2,300 perished. D.C. American Flight 77, a Boeing 757, departs Dulles But they were real yesterday. And they The World Trade Center housed and “those who harbored them.”He virtu- Airport at 8:10 a.m., bound for Los Angeles with 64 people aboard, ally promised armed response earlier yes- were very much in the U.S. many Wall Street and banking firms, It wasn’t immediately clear who was re- Virginia including six crew. This plane crashes into the Pentagon in Arlington, terday. “Make no mistake: The United sponsible for the attack, though official atten- Va., just south of Washington, D.C. James Cutler, a 31-year-old insurance law offices, technology companies, States will hunt down and punish those re- tion focused on Middle East terrorist Osama broker, was in the Akbar restaurant on the trading firms and other businesses. sponsible for these cowardly acts,” he bin Laden and his organization. One U.S. offi- ground floor of the World Trade Center Many escaped before the destruction said. (Articles on pages A1 and A15) cial said intelligence agencies already had President Bush nearly promised armed re- when he heard “boom, boom, boom,” he of the buildings yesterday, but the toll Sen. McCain, a Vietnam War vet- gathered “strong information” linking Mr. bin sponse in his response to the tragedy. “Amer- Hour of Horror recalls. In seconds, the kitchen doors blew of dead and injured is unclear. eran, expressed the incidents’ gravity: Laden to the attacks. If the bin Laden organi- ica has stood down enemies before, and we open, smoke and ash poured into the res- (Article on Page B1) “These were not just crimes against the zation isn’t directly responsible, U.S. officials will do so this time,” he said in nationally tele- taurant and the ceiling collapsed. Mr. Cut- iii United States, they are acts of war.” suspect, it could have sprung from a network vised address from the Oval Office. In a Forever Alters ler didn’t know what had happened yet, The attacks threaten to push a frag- iii of Islamic terror groups he supports and fi- pointed warning to terrorists as well as to na- but he found himself standing among bod- nances. tions such as Afghanistan, which hosts Mr. ies strewn across the floor. “It was may- ile global economy into widespread re- HEALTH TEAMS launched efforts to bin Laden, the president declared: “We will American Lives hem,” he says. cession, smashing consumer confi- treat thousands of injured victims. The gravity of the challenge to the country was summarized by Sen. John McCain, a Viet- make no distinction between the terrorists Around the same time, Nestor Zwyhun, dence and disrupting basic commercial Health workers mobilized a nationwide nam War veteran, who said: “These were not who committed these acts and those who har- the 38-year-old chief technology officer of functions such as air travel. effort to treat the thousands of injured taken to hospitals, identify the dead and sup- just crimes against the United States, they are bored them.” Tradecard, an international trading firm, (Article on Page A1) Attacks Will Force People acts of war.” Leaders of the House of Representatives had just stepped off the New Jersey com- iii ply tens of thousands of units of blood in the and the Senate–shuttered yesterday amid the muter ferry and was walking toward the wake of the terrorist attacks. More than Yeta war against terrorism is unlike a con- To Make Adjustments The dollar tumbled in global markets threat–plan to reconvene today ina special ses- World Trade Center when he heard a 2,000 people were reported injured in New ventional war, and in some ways is far scarier. following the attacks. In late London trad- sion to consider a bipartisan resolution con- sound “like a jet engine at full throttle,” York City, and hospitals expected to see As a traumatized nation saw in gruesome de- In Ways Large and Small demning the terrorist attacks. he says, then a huge explosion. Smoke ing, the euro stood at 91.44 U.S. cents, up more. Blood-center officials said immedi- tail on its television sets, terrorists attack civil- The sheer sophistication of the terrorists billowed in the sky and sheets of glass from 89.95 cents late Monday in New ate needs would be met by available sup- ians, not soldiers. And while the wars of the was remarkable. The FBI is operating on the were falling everywhere. “I stood there for York. The dollar tumbled to 119.16 yen plies, but they worried that they would run past century involved nation-states that could An hour of terror changed every- two seconds, then ran,” Mr. Zwyhun said. from 120.93 yen and the British pound short in coming days as they face the need ultimately be defeated, a war against terror- assumption that there were multiple hijack- thing. to replenish supplies. (Article on Page A6) ism involves a less distinct enemy, whose de- ers on each of the flights that struck New York More than 100 floors above him at the rose to $1.4751 from $1.4579. Far from the World Trade Center or feat will be hard to ensure. Please Turn to Page A12, Column 5 Trade Center offices of Cantor Fitzgerald, The Health and Human Services the Pentagon, Florida shut down its (Article on Page B3) chief activated all of the nation’s 80 spe- someone put a call from the company’s iii state universities yesterday. San Fran- cial disaster teams. It was the first gen- Los Angeles office on the speaker phone. cisco closed its schools, as well as the Energy prices soared on fears the at- eral mobilization of the teams. What was happening there? The Los Ange- TransAmerica building and pedestrian tacks might have originated in the Mid- iii les people heard someone say, “I think a U.S. Airport Security Screening access to the Golden Gate Bridge. Major dle East and any retaliatory action plane just hit us.” For more than five min- The FAA shut the national air-traffic league baseball games were canceled.