It's a beautiful, crisp morning and people are
making their way to work as usual.
The World Trade Center, home to the Twin Towers, 110 stories high,
known across the world as a symbol of American business power.
The Pentagon, headquarters of the United States Department of Defence,
Known across the world as a symbol of American military power.
The White House. Official home of the President,
and the Capitol - seat of the American government.
Known across the world as symbols of American political power.
The north tower is hit by a hijacked passenger jet.
Travelling at 490 miles an hour, American Airline's Flight 11
punches a hole through seven floors of a building.
Jet's fuel ignites, spreading fire.
People above the impact zone are trapped. Rather than die
in the flames, some of them choose to jump from the windows.
United Airlines Flight 175 rams the south tower at 590 miles per hour.
Ripping across nine floors of the building.
Passengers and crew from United Airline's Flight 93 make phone calls reporting a hijack.
They hear about the World Trade Center and fear the same fate.
American Airline's Flight 77 dives into the western edge
of the Pentagon at 530 miles an hour.
The South Tower collapses. It takes just ten seconds.
Plumes of dust billow out, pouring down the streets in every direction.
It's confirmed that Flight 93 is heading towards the capitol city.
Only twenty minutes flight time, from Washington,
the passengers force the plane to crash, rather than allow
hijackers to use it as a weapon. The plane comes down in
a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
The North Tower collapses, half a million tons of steel
and concrete disintegrate in just eight seconds.
At the Pentagon five stories of the western side have fallen.
Over sixty people have been injured,
many of them severely burned in the fire.
The power is off, phone lines are jammed
and fires are burning out of control.
The evacuation of lower Manhattan is ordered.
One million people leave the island by boat or bridge.
Rescuers continue to search for the few remaining survivors.
President George W. Bush addresses the nation.
He condemns the attacks as evil. He warns that the hunt is on for the
terrorists who planned them. He declares that America and her
allies will win the war against terrorism.
The victims included Christians, Hindus, Jews and Muslims,
from more than seventy countries.
Hundreds of thousands more have died in the war on terror.