One of the suspected hijackers was tied to two previous attacks by Osama bin Laden's terror network.
Omar Rivera and his guide dog escaped unharmed from the 71st-floor office.
Osama bin Laden appeared in a videotape broadcast worldwide in which he taunted the United States and celebrated the terrorist attacks.
Pataki and Giuliani announced an ambitious plan, asking the federal government to provide $54 billion worth of incentives, tax breaks and direct subsidies.
Report of a videotape showing Osama bin Laden laughing and boasting about the attacks.
The United States intelligence community was told in 1998 that Arab terrorists were planning to fly a bomb-laden plane into the World Trade Center, but the F.B.I. and the Federal Aviation Administration did not take the threat seriously, a Congressional investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks has found.
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