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Pilot in Pa. crasha Jeffco resident Page 23A

: Ken-Caryl Ranch resident JasonDahl was at the controls Tuesday ofFlight 93, which crashed 85 milesnorthwest of Camp David.

Now some of his shaken col-leagues are calling the soft-spokenDahl, 43, a hero.

‘‘We would never have crashedinto a building or the Pentagon,’’one said. ‘‘No way. They’d have tokill us before we’d do that.’’

Gas prices surge;markets reel Page 1C

: Tempers grew shorter as the linesgrew longer at gas stations in Den-ver and along the Front Range,where prices and demand spikedTuesday night.

Financial markets came to a haltafter attacks on the World TradeCenter, and the Securities and Ex-change Commission said all ex-changes had decided to close.

The event could push the alreadyunstable economy into a full reces-sion, analysts warned.

Consumer confidence is likely toplummet and volatility could lingerto create havoc with energy prices,stock markets and retail sales.

‘‘Clearly, something like thisshakes people up very badly,’’ saidTucker Hart Adams, chief econo-mist for the Rocky Mountain regionof U.S. Bank.

Terrorist bin Ladentops suspects Page 8A

: U.S. officials piece together a caseagainst terrorist Osama bin Ladenwith harrowing cellphone callsfrom victims aboard the jetliners.

Callers said hijackers werearmed with knives and in some

cases stabbed flight attendants.

With rest of nation,Colorado waits Page 13A

: Across Colorado, the tragedyshook residents in myriad ways.

Ironworkers piecing togetherbeams on a downtown constructionsite were sent home for fear theycouldn’t concentrate.

Hundreds waited in line at bloodcenters, mostly to donate blood, butalso to not be home alone. Theywent home from work, prayed to-gether and watched TV for anyglimmer of hope.

Travelers facechaotic week Page 14A

: Immediately, thousands of travel-ers were stranded after airportsclosed down nationwide and flightswere diverted.

A limited number of flights wereto resume today, but expect securi-ty to be oppressive.

Information Page 9B

: How to get information on flights,loved ones in New York, or how tohelp locally.

Games suddenly trivialto sports fans Page 1D

: Major League Baseball postponedTuesday’s games and isn’t surewhen it will resume play. The NFLis considering the unprecedentedstep of postponing games. For near-ly everyone, it didn’t matter.

United we stand Page 24A

: The Denver Post offers a full-pageUnited States flag for you to dis-play.

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By Mark ObmascikDenver Post Staff Writer

In the most devastating terroristattack in U.S. history, hijackerscrashed two passenger jets Tues-day into the World Trade Center inNew York City and one into thePentagon near Washington, killingthousands and leaving the nationfeeling horrified and vulnerable.

President Bush vowed retribu-tion, saying, ‘‘We will make no dis-tinction between the terrorists whocommitted these acts and thosewho harbor them.’’

At 8:45 a.m. EDT, the first plane,with 92 aboard, slammed into thenorth tower of the Trade Center inManhattan. Eighteen minutes lat-er, another jet, with 65 on board,erupted in a fireball midway up thesouth tower.

Less than an hour later, a thirdhijacked flight crashed into thePentagon, killing all 64 aboard. An-other 45 passengers and crew werekilled shortly afterward when theirhijacked plane dived into a fieldnear Shanksville, Pa.

As hundreds of New York policeofficers and firefighters rushed torescue survivors, the twin 110-sto-ry towers of the World Trade Cen-ter collapsed in a massive cloud offire and rubble, spewing dust downManhattan streets. Reported miss-ing were 78 police officers andmore than 300 firefighters andparamedics. The city’s fire chiefwas killed.

Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said thedeath toll would not be known forat least a day but would be ‘‘morethan any of us can bear.’’ As manyas 50,000 people worked in the twotowers, which have up to 100,000visitors a day.

There were reports Tuesdaynight of survivors using cellphonesto call for help while buried in rub-ble. One trapped man reachedfamily in Pennsylvania and gavedirections on how to rescue himand two police sergeants.

Six firefighters were rescuedfrom one collapsed building, andcrews searched through the nightfor other victims. ‘‘We’re veryhopeful there are pockets of peo-

Please see ATTACK on 9A

For more on how it happened, see Page 5A

Sunny, warmHigh 86, low 53

Complete weather, 8B

The New York Times / Kristen Brochmann

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These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

President Bush in his address to the nation Tuesday night

‘ ‘The calculated, cold-blooded, cowardlytaking of precious human lives

in the name of religion or nationalism is beyond blasphemy. It is pure evil.

Roman Catholic Bishop Kenneth Angell of Vermont

Darkest hourATTACK ON AMERICA

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R.I.Conn.7:59 a.m.American AirlinesFlight 11, carrying 92people, leavesBoston’s LoganInternational Airport forLos Angeles.

8:45 a.m.The plane crashes intothe north tower of theWorld Trade Center.

8:14 a.m.United Airlines Flight 175, carrying65 people, leaves Boston forLos Angeles.9:03 a.m.The plane crashes into the southtower of the World Trade Center.

9 a.m.American Airlines Flight 77, carrying64 people, leaves from Washington,D.C., for Los Angeles.9:40 a.m.The plane crashes into the Pentagon.

8:01 a.m.United Airlines Flight 93, carrying 45 people, leavesfrom Newark, N.J., for San Francisco.10:00 a.m.The plane crashes near Shanksville, Pa.

The Denver Post Onlinedenverpost.com

Special to The Denver Post / Emilio Portelli

At just after 9 a.m. EDT, United Airlines Flight175, above, heads for the south tower of theWorld Trade Center, while the north tower burnsin the background. At right, the upper floors ofthe south tower explode into flames.

Associated Press / Gulnara Samiolava

An emergency worker carries an injured woman out of the ruins ofthe World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.

See Page 2A for a complete list of storiesin The Post’s 30 pages of coverage.