Twin attacks on New York’s Twin Towers Cause Thousands of Casualties, Explosion at the Pentagon Heliport, and White House Evacuated
In the blackest day in the history of terrorism in the United States, two planes crashed into New York’s World Trade Center in sequence, causing thousands of casualties and an unknown number of deaths. One of the planes was a Boeing 767, apparently hijacked en route from Boston to Los Angeles.
It has been widely speculated that Osama Bin Laden’s organization is behind the incident.
It also appears at this writing that the attack on the World Trade Center was merely the first in a series of attacks now ongoing. An explosion was reported at the Pentagon Heliport, followed shortly thereafter by another hijacked plane which crashed into the Pentagon. as well as a shopping mall nearby. The White House, Pentagon, and Capital building have meanwhile been evacuated. The New York Stock Exchange closed early; it is feared that a sharp crash in the value of stocks will immediately follow.
An explosion rocked the World Trade Center in 1993. Its perpetrators included Ramzi Ahmed Yusuf and Ahmed Ajaj, both now serving life sentences.
