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LATEST NEWS
TERRORISTS WREAK CARNAGE ACROSS AMERICA
Foreign Office Emergency No: 020 7800 0000
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Latest: Reports of airliner heading towards Washington DC
* 1.58pm (UK) - Jet airliner crashes into World Trade Centre, New York
* 2.16pm - Second jet crashes into World Trade Centre
* 2.43pm - Jet crashes into Pentagon, Washington DC
* 3.07pm - First tower of World Trade Centre collapses
* 3.25pm - Car bomb explodes outside US State Dept, Washington DC
* 3.27pm - Second tower of World Trade Centre collapses
* 3.30pm - Reports of plane crashing into outside Pittsburgh
AMERICA was gripped by a terrorist horror unprecedented in history this afternoon as hijackers struck at the financial and military heart of the the world's most powerful nation.
The massive death toll and catastrophic carnage wreaked by the killers included the World Trade Centre, Pentagon, Capitol Hill, and other targets across the eastern seaboard.
Both towers of the World Trade Centre collapsed with untold loss of life after the two hijacked planes smashed into them just after 2pm UK time.
Scenes of unbelievable panic gripped Manhattan as the 110-storey buildings collapsed into rubble.
More than 50,000 people work in the World Trade Centre but loss of life is still unknown.
US airlines American Airlines and United Airlines confirmed they had lost two planes each - with a total of 268 people aboard.
The terrorists' first strike on the towering symbol of American financal power left both skyscrapers engulfed in flames, before they finally collapsed about one hour later.
Shortly after a third plane smashed into the Pentagon - the heart of America's military machine.
And minutes later a car bomb exploded outside the US State Department in Washington.
The body count is threatening to reach into the thousands after the most devastating terrorist strike on the US in history.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw called the carnage: "An attack on civilisation itself."
The first airliners crashed into the upper floors of both World Trade Center towers in a horrific scene of explosions and fires that left gaping holes in the 110-story building.
In Sarasota, Florida, President Bush was reading to children in a classroom at when his chief of staff, Andrew Card, informed him of the attack.
Mr Bush said: "I have ordered the full resources of the federal government to help the victims and their families and to hunt down and find the people who committed this act.
"Terrorism against our nation will not succeed."
British Prime Minister Tony Blair broke off from speaking at the TUC conference in Brighton to lend the nation's condolences.
He said: "You can only imagine the terror and the carnage.
"I know you would want to join with me in sending deepest condolences to George Bush and the American people on behalf of the British people.
"This terrorism is the new evil in our world today.
"It is perpetrated by fanatics who are wholly indifferent to the sanctity of life."
New York mayor Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said: ``I have a sense it's a horrendous number of lives lost.
"I don't know yet. Right now we have to focus on saving as many lives as possible.''
One New York eyewitness Sean Murtagh, a CNN vice president, said: ''The plane was coming in low and ... it looked like it hit at a slight angle,''
Mike Smith, a fire marshall, said: ``Everyone was screaming, crying, running, cops, people, firefighters, everyone,
``A couple of marshals just picked me up and dragged me down the street.''
``It's like a war zone. There are many injured.''
Businessman Gabriel Loan, said: `I just saw the building I work in come down. I just saw the top of Trade Two come down.''
A crowd mobbed a man on a pay-phone, screaming at him to get off the phone so that they could call relatives. Dust and dirt flew everywhere. Ash was 2 to 3 inches deep in places. People wandered dazed and terrified.
``People were jumping out of windows,'' said an unidentified crying woman. ``I guess people were trying to save themselves. Oh my God!''
``I was in the World Financial Center looking out the window,'' said one woman. ``I saw the first plane and then 15 minutes later saw the other plane just slam into the World Trade Center.''
Another eyewitness, AP newsman Dunstan Prial, described a strange sucking sound from the Trade Center buildings after the first building collapsed.
``Windows shattered. People were screaming and diving for cover. People walked around like ghosts, covered in dirt, weeping and wandering dazed.''
``It sounded like a jet or rocket,'' said Eddie Gonzalez, a postal worker at a post office on West Broadway. ``I looked up and saw a huge explosion. I didn't see the impact. I just saw the explosion.''
Morning commuters heading into Manhattan were stranded as the Lincoln Tunnel was shut down to incoming traffic. Many left their cars and stood on the ramp leading to the tunnel, staring in disbelief at the thick cloud of smoke pouring from the top of the two buildings.
On the streets of Manhattan, people stood in groups talking quietly or watching on television at ground-level network studios.
Joan Goldstein, communications project leader for The Associated Press, was on a bus from New Jersey at about 8:50 a.m. when she saw ``smoke pouring out of the World Trade Center building. We said, `Oh, my God! The World Trade Center's on fire!''
Perhaps 10 minutes later, ``All of a sudden, there was an orange plume, a huge explosion. It shot out the back of the building. Everybody on the bus was just moaning and gasping,'' said Goldstein, who wept and trembled as she spoke.
The plume was from the second plane, but she didn't see the plane because of the thick smoke.
She tried to call friends who work there, but couldn't get through.
``It was the most horrible thing I've ever seen in my life,'' said Goldstein.
Bin Laden extradition raised
Osama bin Laden says he is committed to a "Holy War"
A leading spokesman for Afghanistan's ruling Taleban militia has said it would consider extraditing terror suspect Osama Bin Laden based on US evidence.
US officials have described the Saudi-born dissident as their chief suspect in off-the record briefings, saying they have intercepted messages between his people talking about the attacks.
The Taleban ambassador to neighbouring Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, said, when asked about Mr Bin Laden's possible extradition, that the first step would be to discuss any US evidence.
OSAMA
I support the attacks because they constitute a reaction of the oppressed people against the atrocities of the cruel
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Osama bin Laden
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It would be "premature" to talk about extraditing the Saudi dissident.
"If any evidence is presented to us, we will study it," he told reporters.
"About his handover, we can talk about that in the second phase," Mr Zaeef said.
BBC World Affairs editor John Simpson says the ruling militia has consistently maintained that allowing Mr Bin Laden to remain in the country was a matter of honour.
A reversal could mean that Afghanistan's leaders are trying to rescue themselves from an all out, massive attack by American forces.
Mr Bin Laden has denied involvement in the attacks on the United States, but says he fully supports such "daring acts".
Attacks
US investigators blame Mr Bin Laden for the car bombings that killed 224 people at the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and last year's bomb attack on the USS Cole at a harbour in Yemen, which killed 17 US sailors.
He has repeatedly denounced the United States for sending troops to Arab countries and for its support of Israel.
But in a statement apparently sent from somewhere in Afghanistan and published by a Pakistani newspaper considered close to Mr bin Laden, the Saudi dissident has been quoted as saying that even if he was eliminated, such attacks were not going to stop.
He was reported to have praised what he called the courage of the suicide attackers, and thanked God.
'Noble cause'
The United States would get nothing out of eliminating one Osama, the paper quoted him as saying, " as there were several Osamas".
He said dozens of known fighters and other experts were with him and were willing to give their lives for what he described as a "noble cause".
However, BBC World Affairs Correspondent John Simpson said that there was "not a lot of doubt" that Mr Bin Laden was involved.
"There is no one else that has the flair for terrorism and his men have targeted the World Trade Center before."
Bush calls attacks 'acts of war'
Twin Towers World Trade Centre
The US expects a long-term conflict
US President George Bush says that Tuesday's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were "an act of war".
Speaking from the White House, Mr Bush said the US would rally the world to defeat those who had carried out the attacks.
FBI Director Robert Mueller told a news conference that several of the hijackers as well as possible associates still in the US had been identified.
This battle will take time and resolve, but make no mistake about it, we will win
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President Bush
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US police and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents stormed a hotel in the city of Boston, but the FBI said later no arrests had been made relating to the attacks.
And in other developments during the day:
 Secretary of State Colin Powell said that both the White House and the presidential jet, Air Force One, had been targeted in the attacks. This appeared to explain Mr Bush's delay in returning to Washington on Tuesday.
 Commenting on what he described as the most massive investigation ever conducted by the Justice Department, Attorney-General John Ashcroft said between three and six individuals were involved in the hijacking of each plane. A number had been trained as pilots in the US.
 Nato ambassadors invoked a mutual defence clause in the organisation's founding treaty which envisages a collective response to armed attack against one of its members.
 In New York, emergency teams have been sifting through the rubble to find thousands of people trapped underneath.
 After a day of highly volatile trading, European shares seized back some of the ground lost during Tuesday's turmoil. US markets reopen on Thursday.
 International flights are subject to severe disruption, and US air space is still closed to civilian flights. Transport Secretary Norman Mineta is said to be hoping to resume civilian flights on Thursday.
Reduced threat
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the risk of further attacks was now "significantly reduced".
Death toll
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All 266 on board the four planes are feared dead
Between 100 and 800 are believed to have died at the Pentagon. No survivors yet found
41 people are known to have died so far in the WTC. A few thousand were estimated to be inside the buildings when the first plane crashed
At least 259 uniformed service members are missing in the WTC, feared dead
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But Mr Bush said that it was definitely not business as usual in the US administration, and that everyone was operating on heightened security alert.
"This morning I am sending to Congress a request for emergency funding so we can spend whatever it takes to rescue victims... and to protect national security," he said.
Two hijacked planes crashed into the towers of New York's World Trade Center, triggering explosions and fires that resulted in their collapse.
A third hit the Pentagon in Washington, causing a fire and between 100 and 800 casualties.
A fourth hijacked passenger jet crashed in Pennsylvania, south-east of Pittsburgh, with all 45 people on board feared dead.
Bin Laden clues
FBI agents were investigating evidence that suspected sympathisers of Mr Bin Laden were operating in Broward County and Daytona Beach in the state of Florida.
CNN television is reporting that several people are already being held for questioning in Boston and Florida.
The FBI is requesting information about two cars, a two-door red Pontiac and a four-door tan Oldsmobile, suspected to be linked to the attacks.
It is dealing with 700 leads from the public and has set up a website containing a form people can use to report any new information on the attacks.
Republican Senator Orrin Hatch told The Associated Press that the name of a suspected supporter was found on the passenger list of one of the aircraft.
Also, a report in the Boston Herald said that authorities in Massachusetts had identified at least five Arab men as suspects in the attacks launched from Logan International Airport.
Officers are said to have seized a car laden with Arabic-language flight training manuals from the central parking garage.
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