The Eleventh Day

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;