NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document
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usetts, referring to a char- out everything else because paper is how to live in this altered place and over foreign policy issues. Earlier
the 196O’s television series porous and might have absorbed how to assess the enviroamental this week, he announced that toe
dust - from the collapsing World risks that the proximity to a disaster
ontinued on Page C4 Trade Center towers that blasted site and cleanup project may entaU. Continued on Page All
into their Lower Manhattan apart This being New York. the, diversity
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ment through an open window. of conclusions is boundless, tome
No one knows whether Phoebe’s people see downtown as a toxic night-
j Heavily artwork had become dangerous, and mare, a kind of Manhattan Love Ca- Post-Mortem on a Raid
alr tests done In that apartment nal that has permanently poisoned
building, about a block from ground the area’s buildings and apartments
Blessings zero, have shown the air to be safe. with , asbestos or chemicals. Others y ' Stung by criticism that Americans
But declsions still had tP be made, so believe the risks are overblown or - might have mistakenly killed anti-
Taliban troops in a raid last month, .
everything absorbent — stuffed anl- , nonexistent
I mals, mattresses, coats — went into But in another way, many resl- the commander of the war in Af
orecasters talk of a de the trash. dents say, the diversity of views re- ghanistan said he had ordered
percent or more. It’s the floor that has the family In fleets the deeper problem they face: tighter coordination with Afghan al-
id when Argentina will a quandary now. Hie family’s Insur- that no answer seems certain, scien- lles to prevent a recurrence.
rom this economic coi- ance company said it would pay to
ich has been accompa- have their old wooden floor refin Continued on Page B6 Article, Page AIO.
loss of confidence in the • ished, but that idea was shot down by
nd social institutions, is their pediatrician, who said that the
Ir. Duhalde admits that trade center dust, perhaps contain
banking system cannot
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ing asbestos or other hazardous ma
terials, was deep in the floor’s cracks
E-Mail Sent to Flight School :
te a pariah on intema- and that sanding would throw it back
dit markets since de-
1 $141 billion in public
into the air.
“It’s such a imiquely American
Gave Terror Suspect’s ‘Goal’
cember. thing to think that science can pro
la’s long slide into in- vide an objective truth, but no one By JDM YARDLEY
9th baffles and enrages has an answer to these kinds of ques
e because this country tions,’’ said Phoebe’s mother, Eliza MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 7 — Zacar- ban Minneapolis, employees realized
with some of the most beth Berger. “There’s no one to turn las Moussaoui’s e-mail menage their new student was not some afflu;
In the world, under to.’’ brimmed with ambition. He wanted ent joy rider, said John Rosengren,
lie supplies of oil also Community leaders in Lower Man to “pilot one of these Big Bird,” he director of operations for the office/
irosperous past — and hattan have estimated that about 75 wrote in broken English, even though Mr. Moussaoui wanted technical
— herds of cattle percent of the roughly 20,000 people he did not have a private pilot’s classroom training to familiarize
le endless pastures license. He described flying airliners himself with airliners. He asked
the pampas. Wheat, as “my ’Goal’ my dream,” yet he questions about protocols for com-
more recently, soy- NEWS SUMMARY A2 admitted his qualifications “could be muhlcatlng with flight towers. He .
/ almost effortlessly, better.” wanted to learn fast. He paid by I
Business Day_ Cl-16 “But I am sure that you can do pulling a wad of cash — roughly • I
i typically cocky say- Editorial Op-Ed ---------------- A22-23 something,’’he wrote on May 23 to a $6,800 — out of a small satchel Soon, '
good harvest can fix International ------------------ - A3-12 sales director at the Pan Am Inter- employees began whispering that he
r ' ’ Metro Bl'S ’ national Flight Academy. “After all could be a hijacker.
Idst of such plenty. It National------- ----------------- A14-20
Nation Challenged--------------- AlO-Il we are in AMERICA, and everything “The cash, the Middle Eastern ac;
tor Argentines to be-
hey were destined for SportsFriday •••••••*<•<••••••••••••••••••••*••••««••• ni-« Is possble.” cent the fact that he had very, little
Weekend (2 Parts) ------El-30: E31-42 The message’s cheery tone and pilot training and wanted a slgnifh
"he attitude that came World Business --------......-------- Wl-8 patriotic flourish hardly befit the cant amount of training in ground .
late, Argentines now scowling public image of Mr. Mous school and on the simulator — all of
e, was predatory and Automobiles___ Pl Weather .. D8 saoui, the man federal authorities
these things together pointed to toe '
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say they believe was meant to be the fact that this was a significant con- . I
the country’s riches . oasstped Ads___ Ft-7 Auto ExOumge____ F2 20th hijacker on Sept 11. When the cern,” Mr. Rosengren said.
ustlble. note arrived at Pan Am Internation The e-mail message, obtained by
les were bitten by the Updated news: nytlnies.com al’s Miami office last spring, it The New York Times with other I
lug of self-complacen- This Weekend: Page D8 caused no alarm; customers who related documents, and Interview?
llarlano Grondona a wanted tb spend a few voyeuristic with officials at Pan Am Intematibn-
r the daUy La Nacidn, FOR HOME DEUVEHY CAU. l-eOO-NYTIMES" hours on flie simulator were not that al, provide the most detaUed picture
ritten of two books unusual . , yet of the school’s encounter ' with
Jued6n!lageA5^'' ' ;But wlthln hours of Mr. Mous- Mr. Moussaoui The initial suspicion :
saoul’s arrival In mld-August at the , ------ : . ,,
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