September 11 Chronology

I originally posted this last year over at Hoosier Access.

For a long time, I subscribed to CNN's breaking news email alerts (at least I did until they started considering Paris Hilton breaking news but not things that were happening in Washington or on Wall Street, so I unsubscribed).

Six years ago today, I got a great many breaking news emails.

I have them saved, and rereading them is a chilling and haunting account of that day.

I have every email saved from September 11 to the fall of Kabul, but I will repost the September 11 ones and those for the immediately following days.

I repost them today, because I think that we should all read and remember. It is too easy to forget and too simple to exploit.

Think back to that day.

Remember what you were doing.

What you saw.

What you felt.

What you thought in those chaotic early hours when nothing was clear and everything was surreal and the fog of war obscured for the first time in almost two centuries three locations on American soil.

The emails are after the leap.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:55:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Iraq claims U.S. spy plane shot down; Pentagon confirms losing contact with unmanned craft. Details to come.

I include this only out of a sense of irony; Iraq had nothing to do with the attacks, but it was the first breaking news email I got that day.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:52:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- World trade center damaged; unconfirmed reports say a plane has crashed into tower. Details to come.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:21:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Second plane crashes into World Trade Center.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:23:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- FBI investigating reports of foul play in World Trade Center plane crashes, according to the Associated Press. Details to come.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:32:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Sources tell CNN one of two planes that crashed into World Trade Center was an American Airlines 767.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:42:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- President Bush calls plane crashes at World Trade Center a terrorist act.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:46:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- White House evactuated. Details to come.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:47:03 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Fire reported on National Mall in Washington

The cameras that the networks use are all mounted on a single building, and from their perspective the smoke coming from where the plane had struck the Pentagon appeared to either be coming from the National Mall or from the State Department.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:55:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- CNN confirms a plane hit the Pentagon.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:45:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Significant fire at the Pentagon. Details to come.

A personal insert here. I woke up sometime between the time that I received the above email and the time that I received the next one. I had left my computer on overnight with Outlook Express open. I had hit the snooze button on the alarm several times that morning, as is the habit of college students, and was interrupted frequently by the bleeping noise that Outlook made when I got emails. When I woke up, I found that I had received no less than forty emails in my inbox. (These include other breaking news alerts from other sites that I have sadly since lost since then.)

When I saw the number of waiting messages, I was first convinced that someone was spamming the university email system again, as had happened in the past. When I realized that the messages waiting were breaking news, I thought perhaps that the bottom had fallen out of the stock market. When I started to read them, I started to think that someone had hacked into the CNN Breaking News email system and was playing a cruel joke. This was ruled out when I started to read the same breaking news messages from other sources.

I turned the television in my dorm room on just in time to see the first tower fall, and the world change, as mentioned below.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:03:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- One of World Trade Center towers collapses; fire forces evacuation of State Department

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:13:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- United Nations evacuated.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:38:01 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Car bombing at the State Department, The Associated Press reports.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:44:03 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Pentagon monitoring second suspected hijacked plane.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:50:03 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Fighter scrambled amid reports of second plane headed for Pentagon.

They wouldn't make it in time.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:26:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- FAA diverting all U.S.-bound international flights to Canada.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:39:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Part of Pentagon collapses

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:30:03 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Second World Trade Center tower collapses in Manhattan

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:18:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- NTSB confirms plane crashes near Pittsburgh

I'll take this opportunity to say that if you haven't seen the movie United 93, you should.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:37:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Government sources tell CNN President Bush is not returning to Washington.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:27:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Terrorists struck the United States Tuesday morning in harrowing, widespread attacks that included at least three commercial jet crashes into significant buildings.

In the first attack, a plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m., followed by another plane into the second tower about 20 minutes later. Both towers later collapsed.

About an hour later, a plane crashed into the Pentagon, part of which later collapsed.

American Airlines told CNN that it lost two planes in "tragic accidents:" Flight 11 from Boston with 81 passengers and 11 crew aboard and Flight 77 from Washington Dulles airport with 58 passengers and six crew aboard. Both planes were en route to Los Angeles.

United Airlines Flight 93 airliner headed from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, crashed near Somerset, Pennsylvania -- police said initial reports indicated no survivors. United also confirmed the crash of Flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles.

The Pentagon, the White House, the State Department, the Justice Department, the Capitol, the CIA and all other government buildings in Washington evacuated.

President Bush cancelled an appearance in Florida to return to Washington, calling the crashes "apparent terrorist attacks" and "a national tragedy."

In the first ever national ground stop of aircraft, all flights nationwide have been stopped at their departure airports. All international flights were diverted to Canada.

Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, said in reaction to the news of the terror attacks that "we want to tell the American children that Afghanistan feels your pain and we hope that the courts find justice."

In New York, more than 10,000 rescue personnel rushed to the scene. The entire downtown area of Manhattan was evacuated as far north as Rockefeller Center, according to an official at an emergency command post.

When you read the statement of the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan above, I want you to think for a moment about the prior American responses to terrorist attacks. How they were treated as matters for the courts and for law enforcement. An unusual coincidence that he should urge that the courts find justice, I should think.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:23:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

NEW YORK (CNN) -- In what appeared to be coordinated acts of
terrorism, two jets crashed into the twin towers of the World
Trade Center, collapsing them Tuesday while another aircraft
crashed into the Pentagon. Hundreds were injured or killed, if
not more.

A fourth aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania with 45 people on
board.

President Bush said the United States would "hunt down and
punish" the terrorists responsible. U.S. Secretary of State
Colin Powell cut short a trip to Peru to return to the United
States. He also vowed, "The U.S. government will find out who
is responsible."

The U.S. military went on full alert. Two aircraft carriers
left the Naval base in Norfolk, Va., in response to the
attacks. At the Pentagon, witnesses said a plane crashed into
what is known as the "Army Corridor," the building collapsed
and there wase an undetermined number of casualties.

Bush, who wound up an tour in Florida that was to focus on
education, did not return to Washington out of concerns for his
safety but flew to an Air Force base in Louisiana. Later, Air
Force One took from Barksdale Air Force Base, its destination
unknown.

Officials in Washington said a "Continuation of Government"
plan had been activated. The activation involves a fortified
facility at Mount Weather, Va. There was no word whether any of
the U.S. leadership or ranking military officers had been taken
to the facility, but Congressional leaders were said to be
assembling outside Washington.

The city of Washington declared a state of emergency.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:36:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- FAA says no commercial air traffic in U.S. until at least noon EDT tomorrow.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:28:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
DEVELOPING STORY

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Public transportation in all five of New York
City's boroughs has been restored, Mayor Rudy Giuliani said
Tuesday.

Operation had been halted after the apparent terrorist attacks
on the city's World Trade Center buildings.

It took less than six hours to restore public transport.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:59:03 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
DEVELOPING STORY

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Navy is sending ships to sea to
protect the U.S. East Coast from further attack and to reduce
the number of ships in port.

Two aircraft carriers -- the USS George Washington and the USS
John F. Kennedy -- are headed for the coast off New York.

Five other ships -- guided missile destroyers and frigates --
are also headed to sea.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 16:38:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
DEVELOPING STORY

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The New York Stock Exchange will be closed
Wednesday, officials said.

The American Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and the New York Stock
Exchange will all be closed.

Trading never began Tuesday after a terrorist attack on the
World Trade Center.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 16:59:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
DEVELOPING STORY

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The National Guard is mobilizing all troops
in the New York City area.

Maj. Jose Obregon of the 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry told CNN
that soldiers are being called to their home bases, where they
are to stand by until they receive further orders.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 17:32:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Third World Trade Center tower, 47-story building 7, collapses. Details soon.

This incident, of course, is the central point upon which so many of the September 11 conspiracy theories rest.

All of eight and a half hours after the first plane struck the first tower.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 17:51:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
DEVELOPING STORY

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Barbara Olson, a conservative commentator
and lawyer, alerted her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson,
that the plane she was on was being hijacked Tuesday morning,
Ted Olson told CNN.

A short time later the plane crashed into the Pentagon. Barbara
Olson is presumed to have died in the crash.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 18:02:04 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Explosions rock Kabul, Afghanistan, CNN's Nic Robertson reports. Details soon.

Given the time between the attacks and these explosions, the talking heads on television began to immediately speculate that these were B-2 bomber strikes on Afghanistan.

It did not take long at all for people to draw the conclusion that the most powerful nation on Earth had been attacked by a group being harbored by the world's worst hellhole.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 18:07:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
DEVELOPING STORY

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The first-ever grounding of all flights in
the United States will remain in effect until at least noon EDT
Wednesday due to security concerns following Tuesday's
hijackings of airliners that were then crashed into buildings,
the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 18:36:03 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- White House spokesman says President Bush did not order strike on Afghanistan. Details soon.

The talking heads chattering about air strikes all looked foolish right about here.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 19:07:03 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Afghanistan opposition claims responsibility for Kabul explosions. Details soon.

This would be the Northern Alliance, which we would soon ally with to overthrow the Taliban.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 19:45:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
DEVELOPING STORY

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. General Service Administration
will reopen its federal buildings in Washington and all other
regions -- except those in the New York City area -- on
Wednesday, said Hap Connors, an agency spokesman.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 19:50:04 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- New York City reports at least 78 police officers missing, 200 firefighters presumed dead.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:23:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
DEVELOPING STORY

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The nation's first-ever groundstop will
remain in effect until at least noon EDT Wednesday due to
security concerns following Tuesday's hijackings of airliners
that were then crashed into buildings, the Federal Aviation
Administration said.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:36:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Bush: "Search is under way" for attackers.

Most people seemed to find Bush's speech on that night to be disappointing; he more than made up for it with the bullhorn at Ground Zero and in the Joint Session before Congress the next week.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:55:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
DEVELOPING STORY

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The identities of some of the victims of the worst
terrorist attack on American soil began to emerge Tuesday
evening, including the top executives of a California optical
networks company, a Boston-based technology company, a top NBC
executive producer and the wife of the United States' solicitor
general.As the day drew to a close, it was still horribly
unclear exactly how many people had died, but the number was
clearly in the thousands.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 21:53:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
DEVELOPING STORY

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Secretary of State Colin Powell, returning
to Washington from his aborted trip to Peru and Colombia
Tuesday, said there were "no specific warnings" to herald the
multiple terrorist attacks earlier in the day against the
financial and military nerve centers of the United States, but
he promised those responsible would be caught."You can be sure
the U.S. government will do everything it can to find the
perpetrators of this cowardly attack against innocent people
and bring them to justice," he told reporters.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 22:53:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
DEVELOPING STORY

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Several Arab and Muslim groups in
California received threatening phone calls Tuesday in response
to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon. Maha Elgenaidi, executive director of the Islamic
Networks Group in San Jose, said "a lot of Islamic Centers have
shut Web sites down because of the amount of hate mail they
were getting." Her organization received two "hate" calls after
the attacks. Elgenaidi said the first caller told her to "get
the hell out of this country. You people have done nothing but
ruin this country. You don't belong here. Your religion is
vile and evil."

Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:04:04 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
DEVELOPING STORY

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (CNN) -- In parts of the country,
motorists lined up at gas pumps Tuesday following rumors of
shortages that fueled skyrocketing gas prices in the aftermath
of terror attacks in Washington and New York. Fears that tanker
trucks wouldn't make it from refineries to gas stations put a
premium on fuel. In Oklahoma City, prices reached the
two-dollar mark.

Back then, two dollars for gas was a lot.

Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:45:03 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
DEVELOPING STORY

NEW YORK (CNN) -- At least 265 New York City firefighters were
feared dead as a result of the attack on the World Trade
Center, according to Andrew White, spokesman for the
International Association of Firechiefs. IAFC Executive
Director Gary Briese told CNN earlier the specialized city
rescue companies who went into the fiery twin towers of the
World Trade Center are unaccounted for and it is believed they
were in the buildings conducting search-and-rescue missions
when structures collapsed after two airliners slammed into
them. New York City's fire chief, deputy fire chief, the fire
department chaplain, and the chief of special operations were
all killed in the collapse, White said.

Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 02:03:03 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
DEVELOPING STORY

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Government sources say senior administration
officials told members of Congress that they believe the
hijacked airliner that crashed in Pennsylvania was headed for
another government target, possibly the White House, the
Capitol or the Camp David presidential retreat.

Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:20:03 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
DEVELOPING STORY

RAMSTEIN, Germany (CNN)-- Frankfurt's Messeturm, Germany's
equivalent of the World Trade Center, was evacuated briefly
Wednesday morning following a bomb threat. An anonymous caller
at 9 a.m. said a device would explode at 9:20 A.M. Authorities
quickly led employees out of the building.

Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 07:36:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Rescuers find 6 survivors in New York: 1 police officer, 5 firefighters. Details soon.

Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:56:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
DEVELOPING STORY

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An aide to Senate Democratic Leader Tom
Daschle said Wednesday that both House and Senate are trying to
schedule closed-door security briefings between members and
officials from the CIA and the FBI.

Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:03:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
DEVELOPING STORY

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The director of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency has sent rescue teams known for pulling
survivors from earthquake rubble to the terrorist-disaster
sites at the Pentagon and in New York City.

Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:33:03 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- NATO considering guarantee of military, intelligence support if U.S. responds to terror attack, sources tell CNN.

They would eventually invoke Article V, the mutual defense provision of the Washington Treaty that established NATO.

Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:54:02 -0400
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL4.CNN.COM
Subject: CNN Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- President Bush calls attacks 'acts of war;' asks Congress for emergency funding. Details to come.