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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19, 2001
Terrorists planned attack for years, investigators say
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — One week later, the FBI has meticulously pieced together a broad terrorist plot, securing evidence that the hijackers trained for months or years without raising suspicions in the United States, received financial and logistical support from others and identified additional targets for destruction.
Authorities have grown increasingly certain — from intelligence intercepts, witness interviews and evidence gathered in hijackers' cars and homes — that a second wave of violence was planned by collaborators. They said Sept. 22 had emerged as an important date in the evidence, but declined to be more specific.
Tuesday's attacks were "part of a larger plan with other terrorism acts, not necessarily hijacking of airplanes. Those acts were going to occur in the United States and elsewhere in the world," said Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
U. S. officials have made no secret they believe exiled Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden masterminded the plot from Afghanistan and organized his and other terrorist groups to carry it out. In President Bush's words, bin Laden is wanted "dead or alive."
Those familiar with the investigation said the collaborators have communicated by cell phones that were frequently rotated and by e-mail. They also
"Those acts were going to occur in the United States and elsewhere in the world."
world."
Bob Graham Florida Senator
made calls on traditional phones but may have used a special telephone company code involving the pound sign to make it harder to follow their tracks, officials said.
The complexity of the communications led Attorney General John Ashcroft to plead with Congress to pass expanded investigative authority this week.
Stock market rebounds slightly after Monday's woeful opening
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Wall Street staged a modest rally yesterday afternoon as the Dow climbed back above 9,000, a day after its biggest one-day point drop in history.
Trading was lighter than the day before, in part because it was Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year.
In early afternoon trading, the Dow was up 94.86 at 9,015.56.
The Nasdaq was up 14.11 to 1,593.66, and the Standard & Poor's 500 index inched up 6.98 to 1,045.75.
On Monday, the first day of trading since the terrorist attacks, the Dow Jones industrial average lost a record 684.81 points and slipped below 9,000 for the first time in more than two and a half years.
Insurance and financial companies and travel services were among the losers in yesterday morning's trading. But airlines, which suffered heavy losses Monday, were up.
Investors had looked to yesterday's session with apprehension, fearing further damage to the market.
"To buy stocks you need some kind of clarity and confidence, and right now you've got neither," said Bill Barker, investment consultant at Dain Rauscher in Dallas. "The buying public is sitting on its hands. The sellers are obviously in control now."
The market was closed for four days after the terror attacks, the longest shutdown since the Depression.
On Monday, volume on the New York Stock Exchange was a
record 2.33 billion shares, surpassing the previous mark of 2.13 billion on Jan. 4.
The Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates for the eighth time this year Monday was not enough to prevent Monday's sell-off.
Although the NYSE was not directly damaged, the surrounding neighborhood was littered with debris. A week after two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center, rescue workers continued to search for survivors amid smoldering rubble.The smell of smoke still hangs in the air—even permeating the NYSE trading floor.
The American Stock Exchange, forced out of its home because of damage, was operating out of a few posts clustered in one area of the NYSE.
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