史上今日：September 11
The second plane hit the south tower of the World Trade Center2001: US rocked by day of terror
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The United States is in a state of shock after a day of attacks which have
left thousands dead and New York's World Trade Center destroyed.
The Pentagon was also severely damaged by one of the three civilian
airliners which hijackers turned into flying bombs. A fourth plane crashed in a
field near Pittsburgh.
A state of emergency has been declared in Washington D.C. and the US has
closed its airspace and its borders with Mexico and Canada.
American forces are on one of their highest states of alert and the
Pentagon has deployed a naval battle group off the country's east coast to
bolster air defences.
American Airlines Flight 11 was hijacked at 0825 Eastern Daylight Time
(1225 GMT) and 18 minutes later crashed into the north tower of the World Trade
Center.
United Airlines Flight 175 - which had been hijacked within minutes of the
first plane - was flown into the south tower at 0903 EDT (1303 GMT) causing
another devastating explosion.
The second crash was captured live on news cameras trained on the burning
north tower.
At 0940 EDT (1340 GMT) a third hijacked airliner - American Airlines Flight
77 - was flown into the side of the Pentagon in Washington.
An hour after the Boeing 767 slammed into the south tower of the World
Trade Center the 110-storey building collapsed.
The north tower followed minutes later, compounding the destruction and
loss of life.
Witnesses reported seeing people jumping from the towers just before they
collapsed.
President Bush was reading to pupils at a Florida school when his chief of
staff whispered news of the attacks to him.
He was flown to the US Strategic Command Centre at Nebraska - where the
country's nuclear weapons are controlled - but is now on his way back to
Washington.
He is expected to address the nation later this evening.
New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said the final number of dead may be "more
than any of us can bear".
Anna Lindh was a popular and able politician
2003: Anna Lindh dies of stab injuries
Artificially 1969: FilmTheTheAA The Swedish Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh,
has died in hospital from stab wounds inflicted in an attack while she was
shopping in a Stockholm department store.
She had been undergoing surgery for most of the night for injuries to her
chest, stomach and arms, but doctors were unable to save her.
Her death has shocked the nation, and raised questions about Sweden's long
tradition of accessibility for politicians. Like many officials, Anna Lindh did
not use a bodyguard.
The attack took place yesterday at about 1600 local time (1400 GMT) when
Mrs Lindh was shopping with a friend in the Nordiska Kompaniet shop in
Stockholm.
A man described as tall, wearing a peaked cap and camouflage jacket,
stabbed her several times before running off.
Mourners have been arriving all day to lay flowers on the pavement outside
the shop.
National flags have been flying at half-mast, and a special service was
held in Uppsala cathedral this evening.
The motive for her killing remains unknown.
However, there is speculation that it could be linked to her vigorous
campaigning for a "yes" vote in a referendum on whether Sweden should join the
euro. The vote is due to take place in three days' time.
Anna Lindh, who was married with two children, had been an active
politician since her early twenties.
She had a meteoric rise through the ruling Social Democratic Party, and
became foreign minister in 1998, at the age of 41.
Her solid reputation and her widespread popularity led her to be widely
tipped as a possible successor to Prime Minister Goran Persson.
Mr Persson described her death as "beyond belief" and said it had hurt
Sweden's open and democratic society.
"Sweden has lost one of its most important representatives," he said. "It
feels unreal, it is difficult to truly understand."
Security has been tightened around government buildings, but police said
there was as yet no evidence of a political motive.
Her death has also stirred memories of the murder of Swedish Prime Minister
Olof Palme, who was shot in the back, coincidentally on the same street as the
attack on Mrs Lindh, as he walked home from the cinema with his son and his wife
in 1986.
Vocabulary:
deploy: place troops or weapons in battle formation(展开;配置)
inflict: impose something unpleasant(造成)
camouflage: intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric
hard to distinguish from the background(伪装)
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