>Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 >Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:28:52 -0400 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: FC: Terrorists attack World Trade Center and Pentagon >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-URL: Politech is at http://www.politechbot.com/ >X-Author: Declan McCullagh is at http://www.mccullagh.org/ >X-News-Site: Cluebot is at http://www.cluebot.com/ > >[Police and other sirens are wailing in Washington, and high-profile >federal buildings have been evacuated. One of the Trade Center towers >apparently has collapsed, with a death toll I don't want to imagine. I >wonder if these attacks are over, and what kind of legislation we're >likely to see in response... --Declan] > >http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010911/ts/crash_tradecenter_dc_2.html >NEW YORK (Reuters) - A plane struck the World Trade Center in lower >Manhattan Tuesday morning, an eyewitness reported. > >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/evac.htm > > The AP and Reuters are reported the following D.C. area evacuations on > the threat of terrorist attacks: the White House, the U.S. Capitol > Building, the Pentagon, the State Department and the Old Executive > Office Building. > > According to GSA press office, they are awaiting a decision on whether > to close government agencies in Washington. > > The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market said trading in > stocks would not open until at least 11:30 EDT. > > Also the Federal Aviation Administration has shut down all aircraft > takeoffs nationwide and has directed all planes in the air to continue > to their final destinations or land at the nearest airport. > > The Sears Tower in Chicago is also being evacuated. > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list >You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. >Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ >To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html >This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ >-------------------------------------------------------------------------