For those wanting on-line news and having difficulties, you could try http://www.ananova.com/home.htm?226821 which seems to not be suffering (the BBC is overloaded at the moment).

>Senator Chuck Hagel called it "The Perl Harbor of Terrorism".
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>>For those who havn't heard, two planes crashed into the two world trade center towers in New York City, City is shut down, tunnels, communications, etc. One of the planes was a hijacked 767. Unconfirmed rumor of a bomb exploded at the pentagon. Anyone else have more details, traditional news websites are overwhelmed
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>>Bob