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<item><title><![CDATA[ Terrorists Hijack 4 Airliners, Destroy World Trade Center, Hit Pentagon; Hundreds Dead ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033107980.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033107980.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Terrorists unleashed an astonishing air assault on America's military and financial power centers yesterday morning, hijacking four commercial jets and then crashing them into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside.  ]]></description><author>Michael Grunwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Nation Shuts Down as It Lives Its 'Darkest Day' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108228.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108228.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ America shut down yesterday. Disney World closed. So did the Liberty Bell. So did the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the Transamerica pyramid in San Francisco. So did the world's largest shopping mall, in Minnesota, and all 3,700 Starbucks coffee shops in North America. The pennant races in baseball were suspended -- all games canceled. The only planes left in the sky were military jets. ]]></description><author>Joel Achenbach and William Booth</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'I Saw Bodies Falling Out -- Oh, God, Jumping, Falling' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108356.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108356.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK, Sept. 11 -- Valerie Johnson stared, transfixed, at the inferno a thousand yards to her south and west. Tears streamed furrows through a film of ash on her face. Her mind tried to grasp what her eyes beheld: a blazing gash across the tower of wealth that symbolized New York for her all her life. The fire marched downward, floor by floor, windows bursting out ahead of the flames. ]]></description><author>Barton Gellman</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ New York: A City Turned Upside Down ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108349.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108349.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK, Sept. 11 -- The symbol of the nation's financial might was a smoldering wreck tonight as a third tower collapsed at the World Trade Center and the realization came that thousands likely lay dead in the rubble of two of the world's tallest buildings.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302954716596" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302954716596" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Michael Powell</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Cheney Authorized Shooting Down Planes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/06/18/AR2005040311317.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/06/18/AR2005040311317.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At 10:39 on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Vice President Cheney, in a bunker beneath the White House, told Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in a videoconference that he had been informed earlier that morning that hijacked planes were approaching Washington. ]]></description><author>Dana Milbank</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bush Confronts a Nightmare Scenario ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108297.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108297.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ George W. Bush's presidency changed indelibly in the hour that it took for terrorists to demolish the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and devastate the seemingly impregnable Pentagon building in Washington. ]]></description><author>Dan Balz</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'Magnitude Beyond Anything We'd Seen Before' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033107985.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033107985.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Built to withstand earthquakes and hurricane-force winds, and equipped with enhanced security after a 1993 terrorist bombing, the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center were supposed to last. Their architect boasted that they could withstand the impact of a jumbo jet. ]]></description><author>Guy Gugliotta</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'A Sense of Deep Mourning' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108233.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108233.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the wake of terrorist attacks yesterday in New York and Washington, Major League Baseball announced the cancellations of all its scheduled games last night, and the NFL told its 31 teams it will make a decision on whether to play 15 games scheduled on Sunday and Monday within the next 48 hours.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302954716890" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302954716890" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Leonard Shapiro and Mark Maske</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ At Logan Airport, Nobody Saw Plane's Sharp Turn South ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108361.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108361.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BOSTON, Sept. 11 -- American Airlines Flight 11 began routinely, in every way. ]]></description><author>Hanna Rosin and Pamela Ferdinand</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Security Experts Knew a Major Attack Was Possible ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108302.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108302.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For years, government watchdogs and outside experts have warned that U.S. airport security is no match for an organized terrorist organization. Loose enforcement of tarmac rules, limited background screening and a poorly paid workforce all increased the chances that a coordinated attack could succeed. ]]></description><author>Peter Slevin and Joby Warrick</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Air Travel System Grounded for First Time ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033107990.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033107990.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The complex air system that links families and commerce across the United States shut down yesterday for the first time as federal authorities ordered thousands of jets to land and canceled all other flights until at least noon today. ]]></description><author>Glenn Kessler and Don Phillips</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ An Icon of Capitalism: 'Now It's All Gone' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108238.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108238.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For three decades the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center stood as the symbol of American economic might, as powerful an icon for capitalism as the Statue of Liberty is for freedom.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302954717229" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302954717229" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Greg Schneider and David S. Hilzenrath</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Loud Boom, Then Flames In Hallways ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108366.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108366.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At the Pentagon yesterday morning, the men and women in charge of the nation's defense were staring at news reports of the attack on the World Trade Center. "You know, the next best target would be us," mused Tom Seibert, a network engineering contractor, watching TV. ]]></description><author>Mary Beth Sheridan</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Jet Crash Victims' Stories Start To Emerge ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108307.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108307.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Lauren Grandcolas had taken a few days off from her sales job at Good Housekeeping magazine in San Francisco so she could attend her grandmother's funeral in New Jersey. Now, she was on her way home from Newark when her husband received the phone call. ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein and Cheryl W. Thompson</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Muslims Condemn Acts, Fear Reprisals ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033107995.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033107995.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Major American Muslim organizations yesterday forcefully condemned the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington and called on their communities to donate blood, medical aid and other assistance for the victims. But they also voiced fears of a backlash if the perpetrators turn out to be Muslim, and urged Islamic institutions to take extra precautions. ]]></description><author>Caryle Murphy and Emily Wax</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Trading on Wall St. Comes to Standstill ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108244.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108244.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Terrorist attacks halted financial activities on Wall Street yesterday, sending global markets reeling downward, and the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market announced that they will be unable to open today as well.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302954717456" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302954717456" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Neil Irwin and Nicholas Johnston</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Attack Shatters Beefed-Up Security ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108371.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108371.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The terrorist attack on Washington, for which the nation's top military and civilian defense officials have been preparing for nearly a decade, finally came yesterday. And still their efforts weren't enough. ]]></description><author>Neely Tucker and Serge F. Kovaleski</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Symbols of Freedom, Arms of Family Provide Solace for a Shaken City ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108363.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108363.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Night brought the blessing of darkness to Washington yesterday. ]]></description><author>Michael E. Ruane and David A. Fahrenthold</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Under a Cloud of Evil ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108313.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/12/AR2005033108313.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was a day in Washington that people compared to the day President Kennedy was assassinated, or when Pearl Harbor was bombed. America has lost its innocence many times, but this was a day to discover all over again that the country still had something left to lose. ]]></description><author>David Montgomery</author></item></channel></rss>
