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From: Kerry Burgess
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Subject: Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the space program and the United States of America
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From: Kerry W. Burgess (official United States Marshals Service federal undercover identity created to investigate and prosecute and convict the criminal activity against the legitimate operations of the United States Department of Defense and against the legitimate operations of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; an identity completely compromised by forces hostile to the United States of America)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courts-martial_in_the_United_States
Courts-martial in the United States
Courts-martial in the United States are criminal trials conducted by the Military of the United States. Most commonly, courts-martial are convened to try members of the U.S. military for violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which is the U.S. military's criminal code. However, they can also be convened for other purposes, including military tribunals and the enforcement of martial law in an occupied territory. Courts-martial are governed by the rules of procedure and evidence laid out in the Manual for Courts-Martial and Military Rules of Evidence, respectively.
a military judge determines questions of law, and the members of the panel (or military judge in a judge-alone case) determine questions of fact.
From 6/19/1968 ( my 1st United States Navy Medal of Honor date of record and I am United States military fighter jet ace-in-single-day during Vietnam War ) to 5/1/1973 ( my graduation from University of Oxford at Lincoln College includes law degree ) is: 1777 days
From 5/1/1973 ( my graduation from University of Oxford at Lincoln College includes law degree ) to 3/13/1978 ( United States Department of the Army Order 31-3 General Of The Armies of the United States applies to me personally and professionally as United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) is: 1777 days
From 9/2/1974 ( I returned to planet Earth after my 18 January 1974 first landing planet Venus ) To 6/7/1976 ( my first landing Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to me and my wife ) is 644 days
From 6/7/1976 ( my first landing Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to me and my wife ) To 3/13/1978 ( United States Department of the Army Order 31-3 General Of The Armies of the United States applies to me personally and professionally as United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) is 644 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_of_the_Armies
General of the Armies
General of the Armies and General of the Armies of the United States are the highest possible ranks in the United States Army.
After World War II, which saw the introduction of U.S. "5-star" officers who outranked Washington, both Congress and the President revisited the issue of Washington's rank. To maintain George Washington's proper position as the first Commanding General of the United States Army, he was appointed, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 January 19, 1976, approved by President Gerald R. Ford on October 11, 1976. The law established the grade as having "rank and precedence over all other grades of the Army, past or present,"clearly making it superior to General of the Army. The Department of the Army Order 31-3, issued on March 13, 1978 had an effective appointment date of July 4, 1976. The rank ensures that no United States military officer outranks George Washington
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Admiral_%28United_States%29
Fleet Admiral (United States)
Fleet Admiral of the United States Navy (FADM), or more commonly referred to as Fleet Admiral, is a five-star flag officer rank and is presently considered the highest possible rank in the United States Navy.
The insignia for Fleet Admiral comprises five stars in a pentagon design with a thick rank stripe, below four smaller stripes, on the service dress blue uniform.
The Fleet Admiral rank is reserved for war-time use only
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
1-06 - Litmus 11/22/04
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season1/galactica-106.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
1X06 - LITMUS
Original Airdate: February 11, 2005 (USA)
Hadrian - A Cylon ? Eyewitness accounts all state the bomber was a man.
Tigh - The Cylons look like us now.
Hadrian - Like us ?
Adama - Yeah, they appear human. Flesh, the blood, the whole thing. The bomber was another copy of a man we knew as Doral, posing as the public relations officer aboard this ship. We've learned that there are multiple versions of the same Cylon. I want you to open an investigation immediately. I want to find out how that Cylon, or any civilian, could break through our security.
Hadrian - There have been a string of security incidents aboard ship, sir. The water tank explosion, the discovery of explosives aboard a raptor, and now this—
Adama- your point ?
Hadrian - I need a free hand. The authority to follow evidence wherever it might lead, without command review.
Adama - Independent tribunal ?
Hadrian - Yes, sir.
Adama - You'll get it.
Hadrian - Thank you.
Adama - That'll be all, Sergeant.
Hadrian - I also strongly recommend alerting the public to the Cylon threat. If there are other copies of this man aboard the fleet, we should find them before they strike again.
[ Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the cowardly International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigate insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government with all Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis staff partners contributors employees contractors lawyers managers of any capacity as severely treasonous criminal accomplices and that are active unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States that actively make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in the United States and in the Severely Treasonous and Criminally Rebellious State of Washington by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings ]
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/premeditation
premeditation
the act of planning or plotting something in advance, especially an intentional crime
From 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) To 8/29/2007 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis causes the United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident with the objective of nuclear destruction in the United States and Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-George Bush continue to actively plan to produce nuclear destruction in the United States of America for the purpose of ongoing protection to organized crime and other illegal commerce activity ) is 2354 days
2354 = 1177 + 1177
From 7/16/1963 ( another threat sent to me against my wife ) To 10/5/1966 ( premiere US film "Seconds" ) is 1177 days
From 10/28/1955 ( Bill Gates the transvestite and the Soviet prostitute and the International Terrorist against the United States federal government and cowardly violent criminal actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government and USA allies ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 16579 days
16579 = 8289 + 8290
From 3/4/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date UK ) To 11/12/1981 ( date hijacked from me:I was the commander aboard the United States STS-2 Columbia spacecraft as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan US Navy ) is 8289 days
From 3/3/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date US ) To 11/12/1981 ( date hijacked from me:I was the commander aboard the United States STS-2 Columbia spacecraft as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan US Navy ) is 8290 days
From 11/19/1969 ( date hijacked from me:I was United States Apollo 12 Intrepid spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing on Earth's moon ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 11443 days
From 3/4/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date UK ) To 7/2/1990 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Die Hard 2" ) is 11443 days
From 5/22/1985 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Rambo: First Blood Part II" ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 15 years 9 months 3 weeks 4 days
'1-59-34' ( date hijacked from me:my birth date UK )
From 5/5/1999 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS - Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition & Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigate insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government and USA allies ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 684 days
From 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) To 2/1/2003 ( United States space shuttle Columbia destroyed during landing killing all US and foreign national astronauts aboard United States Columbia spacecraft and as a continuing act of terrorism sabotage by Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-NASA-George Bush because I am the first commander of the first United States space shuttle Columbia OV 102 ) is 684 days
From 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) To 2/1/2003 ( United States space shuttle Columbia destroyed during landing killing all US and foreign national astronauts aboard United States Columbia spacecraft and as a continuing act of terrorism sabotage by Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-NASA-George Bush because I am the first commander of the first United States space shuttle Columbia OV 102 ) is 684 days
684 = 342 + 342
From 7/16/1963 ( another threat sent to me against my wife ) To 6/22/1964 ( premiere US film "The Troublemaker" ) is 342 days
From 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) To 2/1/2003 ( United States space shuttle Columbia destroyed during landing killing all US and foreign national astronauts aboard United States Columbia spacecraft and as a continuing act of terrorism sabotage by Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-NASA-George Bush because I am the first commander of the first United States space shuttle Columbia OV 102 ) is 684 days
684 = 342 + 342
From 3/3/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date US ) To 2/8/1960 ( date hijacked from me:my paternal grandmother Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II announces creating the family surname Mountbatten-Windsor ) is 342 days
From 6/11/1980 ( Steve Ballmer the International Terrorist violently against the United States federal government and the cowardly violent criminal leader at Microsoft the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government ) to 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is: 7586 days
7586 = 3793 + 3793
From 3/3/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date US ) to 7/21/1969 ( date hijacked from me:I was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut walking on Earth's moon ) is: 3793 days
From 10/19/1979 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Meteor" features "Astronaut Tom Easton" enroute to planet Mars in the ultimately doomed "Challenger II" spacecraft after investigating a large rogue comet and other mountains of rock floating in space ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 7822 days
From 3/3/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date US ) To 8/1/1980 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "The Final Countdown" features central figure US Navy Commander "Richard T. Owens" as USS Nimitz CVN 68 Commander Air Group and US Navy F-14 Tomcat pilot and time traveler ) is 7822 days
From 10/19/1979 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Meteor" features "Astronaut Tom Easton" enroute to planet Mars in the ultimately doomed "Challenger II" spacecraft after investigating a large rogue comet and other mountains of rock floating in space ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 7822 days
From 7/16/1963 ( another threat sent to me against my wife ) To 12/14/1984 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Starman" & premiere US film "Nineteen Eighty-Four" & premiere US film "Dune" & premiere US film "Runaway" ) is 7822 days
From 12/17/1959 ( premiere US film "On the Beach" ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 15068 days
15068 = 7534 + 7534
From 3/4/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date UK ) To 10/19/1979 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Meteor" features "Astronaut Tom Easton" enroute to planet Mars in the ultimately doomed "Challenger II" spacecraft after investigating a large rogue comet and other mountains of rock floating in space ) is 7534 days
From 9/30/1954 ( United States Navy warship USS Nautilus SSN 571 commissioned into United States Navy active service - worlds first nuclear powered submarine ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 16972 days
16972 = 8486 + 8486
From 3/4/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date UK ) to 5/28/1982 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Rocky III" ) is: 8486 days
From 11/10/1932 ( Roy Scheider ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 24966 days
24966 = 12483 + 12483
From 3/4/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date UK ) To 5/7/1993 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Dave" ) is 12483 days
From 5/28/1971 ( Audie Murphy - United States Army Medal of Honor - deceased - airplane crash ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 10888 days
From 7/16/1963 ( another threat sent to me against my wife ) To 5/7/1993 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Dave" ) is 10888 days
From 4/30/1982 ( date hijacked from me:my graduation and commissioning US Naval Academy Class of 1982 as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan US Navy ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 6898 days
From 7/16/1963 ( another threat sent to me against my wife ) To 6/4/1982 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" ) is 6898 days
From 12/14/1972 ( date hijacked from me:I was United States Apollo 17 Challenger spacecraft United States Navy astronaut walking on Earth's moon ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 10322 days
10322 = 5161 + 5161
From 3/3/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date US ) To 4/19/1973 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Soylent Green" & premiere US film "High Plains Drifter" ) is 5161 days
From 5/22/1981 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Outland" ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 7241 days
From 7/16/1963 ( another threat sent to me against my wife ) To 5/13/1983 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Blue Thunder" ) is 7241 days
From 9/21/1968 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US TV series "Adam-12"::series premiere episode "Log 1: The Impossible Mission" ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 11867 days
11867 = 5933 + 5934
'59-33' ( date hijacked from me:my birth date US )
'59-34' ( date hijacked from me:my birth date UK )
From 11/11/1966 ( date hijacked from me:I was United States Gemini 12 spacecraft United States Navy astronaut entering orbit of planet Earth ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 12547 days
From 3/3/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date US ) To 7/9/1993 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "In the Line of Fire" ) is 12547 days
From 1/20/1993 ( Bill Clinton in office as 42nd President of the United States and my direct and immediate superior as Commander-in-Chief of United States of America Armed Forces ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 2980 days
From 3/4/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date UK ) To 5/1/1967 ( date hijacked from me:my first flight by myself as jet pilot and as active duty United States Naval Aviator and United States Astronaut ) is 2980 days
From 7/21/1969 ( date hijacked from me:I was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut walking on Earth's moon ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 11564 days
11564 = 5782 + 5782
From 3/3/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date US ) To 12/31/1974 ( date hijacked from me:United States of America Privacy Act of 1974 - Public law 93-579 ) is 5782 days
From 9/9/1966 ( premiere US TV series "The Time Tunnel"::series premiere episode "Rendezvous With Yesterday" ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 12610 days
12610 = 6305 + 6305
From 3/4/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date UK ) To 6/7/1976 ( date hijacked from me:my first landing Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to me ) is 6305 days
From 12/7/1979 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 7773 days
From 7/16/1963 ( another threat sent to me against my wife ) To 10/26/1984 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "The Terminator" ) is 7773 days
From 12/25/1973 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Magnum Force" ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 9946 days
9946 = 4973 + 4973
From 3/4/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date UK ) To 10/14/1972 ( date hijacked from me:United States Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter jet aircraft publicly displayed and I was first United States Navy F-14 Tomcat Commander Air Group and I am original primary United States Navy F-14 Tomcat test pilot ) is 4973 days
From 12/10/1977 ( Nobel Peace Prize presented to Amnesty International ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 8500 days
From 3/4/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date UK ) To 6/11/1982 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" ) is 8500 days
From 8/9/1989 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "The Abyss" ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 4240 days
4240 = 2120 + 2120
From 3/4/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date UK ) To 12/22/1964 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Goldfinger" ) is 2120 days
From 1/14/1966 ( Sergei P. Korolev - the chief designer of Soviet rockets - deceased ) To 3/19/2001 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government ) is 12848 days
12848 = 6424 + 6424
From 3/3/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date US ) To 10/3/1976 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US TV series "Quincy M.E." features central figure "Dr. R. Quincy, M.E." as forensic coroner ) is 6424 days
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20010316&slug=bizbriefs
Friday, March 16, 2001
Microsoft's 'Hailstorm' key part of Net strategy
REDMOND - Microsoft said it will give details Monday about new tools it has developed to make it easier to do business, communicate and receive important information via the Internet.
The products will let software developers at other companies write Web-service programs that take advantage of Microsoft features such as instant messaging, Internet-based identity certification, credit-card security and urgent message alerts, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said.
Microsoft's new tools, collectively known as "Hailstorm," are a key part of the company's strategy called .Net.
The strategy aims to keep Microsoft competitive as the Internet becomes more central to computing, and as sales of personal-computer-based programs slow.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20010320&slug=microsoft20
Tuesday, March 20, 2001
Microsoft plan is to unleash a HailStorm
By Brier Dudley
Seattle Times technology reporter
Microsoft yesterday explained how it will make money off .NET, its bet-the-company strategy to reshape the Internet, by firmly making itself chief gatekeeper.
The audacious vision left some software developers agape and prompted a rival to suggest Microsoft continues to wield monopolistic power, but Microsoft executives said they're only trying to give people more power over their computers and fulfill the Internet's promise of easily managed information.
"It really is about the dream and vision people have had all along about how computers ought to operate," said Chairman Bill Gates at a briefing for about 100 journalists and analysts in Redmond.
Under the vision, users would store personal and other information on the Internet in a way that could be shared and transferred automatically among computers, phones and other devices.
Plans call for the system to launch in 2002 as a free service, but customers may pay a monthly subscription fee for premium services, such as file storage, elaborate messaging systems and automatic calendar management. It would be similar to how broadcast TV is free, but cable has tiered fees for different levels of service.
The basic system, code-named "HailStorm," will be free, but Microsoft will charge a monthly fee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion
Extortion
Extortion, outwresting, or exaction is a criminal offense which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person, entity, or institution, through coercion. Refraining from doing harm is sometimes euphemistically called protection. Extortion is commonly practiced by organized crime groups. The actual obtainment of money or property is not required to commit the offense. Making a threat of violence which refers to a requirement of a payment of money or property to halt future violence is sufficient to commit the offense. Exaction refers not only to extortion or the unlawful demanding and obtaining of something through force, but additionally, in its formal definition, means the infliction of something such as pain and suffering or making somebody endure something unpleasant.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060955/plotsummary
IMDb
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Plot Summary for
Seconds (1966)
What if someone offered you the chance to begin again, with a new life that was organized to be exactly what you wanted it to be? That's what the organization offers some wealthy people. They find a life that is what their clients would have wanted, artist, writer, politician, kill the person who is to be replaced and surgically alter their clients to take their places. We follow a new client from first contact, through his staged death, to surgery, recovery and replacement. Of course thats when things become complicated.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060955/releaseinfo
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Release dates for
Seconds (1966)
Country Date
USA 5 October 1966
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058690/releaseinfo
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Release dates for
The Troublemaker (1964)
Country Date
USA 22 June 1964 (New York City, New York)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE4DC1238F931A2575AC0A9679C8B63&scp=20&sq=world+trade&st=nyt
U.S. ATTACKED; HIJACKED JETS DESTROY TWIN TOWERS AND HIT PENTAGON IN DAY OF TERROR
By N. R. KLEINFIELD
Published: September 12, 2001
It kept getting worse.
The horror arrived in episodic bursts of chilling disbelief, signified first by trembling floors, sharp eruptions, cracked windows. There was the actual unfathomable realization of a gaping, flaming hole in first one of the tall towers, and then the same thing all over again in its twin. There was the merciless sight of bodies helplessly tumbling out, some of them in flames.
Finally, the mighty towers themselves were reduced to nothing. Dense plumes of smoke raced through the downtown avenues, coursing between the buildings, shaped like tornadoes on their sides.
Every sound was cause for alarm. A plane appeared overhead. Was another one coming? No, it was a fighter jet. But was it friend or enemy? People scrambled for their lives, but they didn't know where to go. Should they go north, south, east, west? Stay outside, go indoors? People hid beneath cars and each other. Some contemplated jumping into the river.
For those trying to flee the very epicenter of the collapsing World Trade Center towers, the most horrid thought of all finally dawned on them: nowhere was safe.
