The controllers assigned to United Airlines Flight 175 on Tuesday suspected that it had been hijacked.
Bush declared today that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were "acts of war."
Union Square has become the site of a vast homegrown memorial and sit-in.
Arafat angrily rejected tonight any suggestion that Palestinians had rejoiced over the terrorist attack.
For many survivors of the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, the disaster scenes from Tuesday's hijackings were an overwhelming reminder of the terrorism that remains a scar on the city's psyche.
President Bush vowed tonight to retaliate against those responsible for today's attacks.
A morning of terrorist attacks forced top officials and a quarter-million federal workers out of their offices.
Today's attacks plunged the nation into a warlike struggle against an enemy that will be hard to identify with certainty and hard to punish with precision.
The mighty towers were reduced to nothing.
The White House asserted today that Mr. Bush was a target of the terrorists.
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