Reports came through soon after that the planes had been hi-jacked. Trapped workers could be seen waving for help above and below the gaping hole torn apart in the side of the massive skyscraper. The explosion created a mile-high plume of dense black smoke. It will take weeks to identify the thousands of dead.
The death toll is likely to be at lest 20,000 after terrorist madmen launched the most devastating wave of suicide attacks in the history of mankind. President George Bush, who first heard of the attacks as he spoke to children in Florida, warned that America would strike back. It was not clear who was behind the devastation, but the prime suspect was Osama Bin Laden, known as the grand master of terrorism, who has vowed eternal war against the west.
As the entire western world reacted with horror, Palestinians danced with joy in the streets of Jerusalem.
The newspapers spoke of a young girl who was made to watch a terrorists slit the throats of air stewardesses, then died as her plane smashed into the World Trade Centre. The terrorists used razor-sharp craft knives to kill the air stewards and stewardesses or anyone else who got in the way of their plans. Disturbing details of the nightmare were revealed by doomed passengers in horrific calls to there loved ones. The terrorists made the passengers ring there loved ones to tell them that the plane had been hijacked and that they were all going to die. One stewardess rang her husband and her son answered the phone, she told him that she loved him and that she will always look over him as he grew up and then suddenly, there was a loud noise and the phone went dead as the plane plummeted into the monumental towers.
The lunatics told pilots that there was a bomb on board to try and get them to open the cockpit but when they refused they began to slit the throats of the stewardesses. Brave pilots were unable to just sit back and watch their friends being murdered and attempted a desperate rescue.
The terrorists flying the planes only had basic flight training and the planes could have crashed at any time. The F.B.I arrested five men at an airport in Boston who were owners of a car filled with basic flight manuals in Arabic. They were suspected of boarding another flight to take over. The hijackers smuggled the weapons through airport security because they were ordinary household items such as a shaving razor. One of the weapons was a PLASTIC razor blade.
Thousands of rescuers put their own lives on the line as they battled violently among the carnage of the World Trade Centre looking and hoping to find survivors of the atrocity. Streets usually buzzing with the sounds of life were instead engulfed in silence and the thick cloud of dust that is all that remains of the famous twin towers. Officials estimated that between 10,000 and 20,000 people had been in the buildings at the time of the collapse, and that more than 10,000 were missing.
There were four planes hijacked on September 11th, one plane was thought to be heading to destroy the White House but brave pilots over powered the terrorists and managed to stop the terrorist by taking their own lives. Its departure was New Jersey and was supposed to be landing in San Francisco. All 38 passengers, both pilots and the five flight attendants died in the crash.
After the shock of the destruction came the sorrow. The world wept an ocean of bitter tears; the peoples lives will always be remember on the day that the world stood still.
