Anthony Summers - The Eleventh Day

15 milling around:Brian Jenkins and Frances Edward-Winslow, “Saving City Lifelines: Lessons Learned in the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks,” Mineta Transportation Institute report, 9/03, 11;

16 1,344 souls: NYT , 1/15/04;

17 stairways blocked:CR, 285;

18 Meehan:Dwyer & Flynn, 36, NYT , 9/25/01, www.damianmeehan.org (family website);

19 San Pio Resta:Bernstein, 177;

20 Richards: The Independent (U.K.), 9/24/01, Village Voice , 6/6/02, Art News , 11/01;

21 Fred Alger: NY Sun , 9/11/06;

22 Marsh: Insurance Journal , 9/6/04;

23 “Oh, my God!”:Dwyer & Flynn, 14;

24 remains:ibid., 20;

25 658 people:www.cantor.com/public/charities;

26 Wittenstein:eds. Der Spiegel , 51;

27 Rosenblum:Bernstein, 212;

28 van Auken:CNN, 9/13/01;

29 dead staffer:William Langewiesche, American Ground , NY: North Point, 2002, 134;

30 Windows:ibid., 56–;

31 meetings:Dwyer & Flynn, 11;

32 Risk Waters:ibid., 12, Bernstein, 175;

33 Kane:Dwyer & Flynn, 14;

34 calls/Olender/Heeran:ibid., 38–, 138, 127, 277, James Bamford, A Pretext for War , NY: Doubleday, 2004, 21–, Bernstein, 205–, Times Union (Albany), 8/20/06;

35 Wortley:Dwyer & Flynn, 130;

36 two helicopters:CR, 291–;

37 blocked:Thomas Kean & Lee Hamilton, Without Precedent , NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, 220, “Crisis Management,” Staff Statement 14, CO, Dwyer & Flynn, 126–41–;

38 cut:MFR 03003644, 7/21/03, CF;

39 “Be advised”:Dwyer & Flynn, 58;

40 “We got jumpers”/too shocking:Friend, 188, 128–, Esquire , 9/03.

41 Reiss:Dwyer & Flynn, 18 & cf. 136–;

42 Naudet: 9/11 , documentary;

43 clutching briefcase/skirt: Economist , 5/6/06;

44 burning shirt:Dwyer & Flynn, 32;

45 groups/paratroopers:Friend, 134, int. of Jason Charles, TF, 1/23/02, New Yorker , 9/24/01;

46 Smiouskas:Dwyer & Flynn, 137;

47 “As the debris”:int. Kevin McCabe, TF, 12/13/01;

48 “looked like”:int. Derek Brogan, TF, 12/28/01;

49 “We started”:Bernstein, 5.

50 “Christ!”:“Why No Rooftop Rescues on September 11?,” ABC News, 11/8/01.

CHAPTER 3

1

“We have

some planes”:

ATCR-AA11, 7–.

2

Zalewski/colleagues:

MFR 04016801, 9/22/03, CR, 6. On the second transmission, at 8:24

A.M.

,

the hijacker said: “Nobody move. Everything will be okay. If you try to make any moves you’ll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet.” There would also be a third transmission. At 8:33, the hijacker said: “Nobody move, please. We are going back to the airport. Don’t try to make any stupid moves.” Contrary to the notion that this was an inadvertent blunder by the American 11 hijacker, Commission staff member Miles Kara ventures the thought that the transmission was deliberate—a way of letting his accomplice aboard United 175, who could listen in to radio traffic on cabin channel 9, know that the operation had begun. (MFR 04016801, 9/22/03, corr. Miles Kara, 2011.)

3

Horrocks:

www.michaelroberthorrocks.com

;

4

Saracini:

NYT

, 12/31/01;

5

attendants:

CR, 454n41,

www.afanet.org

,

www.airlineride.org

;

6

usual mix:

FBI 302, 10/01/01, “FBI 302s, Arestegui,” B10, T7, CF, Bernstein, 180,

INN.com

, 2/1/08,

The Sun

(Ireland), 9/11/06,

Northeastern University Voice

, 12/11/01;

7

Arabs First or Business:

UA175 manifests, “Flight 175 Misc. Manifest—Check in—Boarding,” B17, T7, CF & Exhibit P200018,

U.S. v. Zacarias Moussaoui

, Cr. No. 01-455-A, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of VA;

8

boarding card:

FBI 302 re int. of [name redacted], 9/12/01, “Flight 175 Info.,” B16, T7, CF;

9

buy ticket:

FBI 302 re Gail Jawahir, 9/21/01, INTELWIRE;

10 in line:FBI 302 re Mike Castro, 9/15/01, “302s of Interest Flight 175,” B17, T7, CF;

11 Flight 175 course/We figured/suspicious:“Flight Path Study—UA Flight 175,” NTSB, 2/19/02, MFR 04016823, 10/1/03. As noted above, none of the hijacker transmissions from Flight 11 heard by ground control included these precise words;

12 Channel 9: Time , 9/14/01, PRWeek , 3/10/08 & see Farmer, 124, 143;

13 Allentown:MFR 04016828, 10/1/03;

14 Policastro:MFR 04017221, 11/21/03, MFR 04017218, 11/21/03;

15 Hanson:FBI 302 re Lee Hanson, 9/11/01, “FBI 302—Mace and Flight,” B11, T7, CF, Bernstein, 7;

16 “We might”:MFR 04016823, 10/1/03, MFR 04016828, 10/1/03, “Flight Path Study—UA Flight 175,” NTSB, 2/19/02, map;

17 8:58:FBI 302 re [name redacted], 9/28/01, INTELWIRE, NY Daily News , 3/9/04, but see CR, 8;

18 Sweeney: Hyannis News , 9/13/01, Metrowest Daily News , 9/18/01, WP , 9/14/01;

19 Peter Hanson 2nd call:FBI 302 of Lee Hanson, 9/11/01, “FBI 302—Mace and Flight,” B11, T7, CF;

20 “planes, as in plural”:Position 15, Parts 2 & 3, “ATCSCC Tape Transcript,” B1, T8, CF, CR, 23, 460n131;

21 “He’s going in”: WP , 9/17/01;

22 Statue of Liberty:Peter Lance, 1000 Years for Revenge , NY: Regan, 2003, 12;

23 rocked:Bamford, Pretext , 28.

24 Mosiello:int. Steven Mosiello, TF, 10/23/01. Mosiello was one of 503 firefighters, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians who contributed oral history interviews after 9/11. The interviews were released by city authorities—and transcripts were published by The New York Times as “World Trade Center Task Force” interviews—in 2005. They will be cited frequently—sourced as “TF”—in the chapters that follow ( NYT , 8/12/08).

25 O’Clery:Conor O’Clery, May You Live in Interesting Times , Dublin: Poolbeg, 2009, 4;

26 Praimnath: NYT , 5/26/02, Staff Statement 13, CO, Dwyer & Flynn, 92;

27 Clark:“A Survivor’s Story,” transcript, PBS Nova , Bernstein, 222, CR, 293, CTV News (Canada), 9/6/02, CNN, 9/9/02;

28 Many others:“Final Report on the Collapse of the World Trade Center,” NCSTAR 1, NIST, 23,41.

CHAPTER 4

1

CNN break:

transcript, 09/11/01,

www.transcripts.cnn.com

, Bamford,

Pretext

, 16;

2

Sawyer/Gibson:

transcript, “ABC News Special Report: Planes Crash into World Trade Center,” 09/11/01, & tape on