11/26/09

Text messages send on 9/11

by Jeanne Meserve and Mallory Simon, CNN, November 25th 2009:

"Newly released text messages reportedly from the morning of September 11, 2001, show panicked family members trying to contact loved ones and officials frantically trying to grasp what was happening.

More than half a million messages, released by whistleblower site Wikileaks, reveal the panic, horror and pain of what happened that morning in the words of those who experienced it.

On September 11, 2001, 19 hijackers commandeered four commercial jetliners, loaded with fuel for cross-country flights. Two were flown into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York, one crashed into the Pentagon, and another, headed for an unknown location, crashed in Pennsylvania when it was disrupted by passengers.

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Wikileaks will not say if the source was in government, law enforcement, industry or was a private citizen with the capability to intercept messages."

Read the full article on the CNN Homepage.