"By 8 a.m. Tuesday, September 11, a chain of events had been set in motion that, two hours later, would erase the World Trade Center towers from the New York City skyline, rip open the west wall of the Pentagon, drop four planes from the sky and kill an uncounted number of people."
- The New York Times

Tuesday the 11th of September 2001:
8:45 a.m.: A hijacked passenger jet crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center, tearing a gaping hole in the building and setting it afire.
9:03 a.m.: A second hijacked airliner crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center and explodes. Both buildings are burning.
9:30 a.m.: President Bush, speaking in Florida, says the country has suffered an "apparent terrorist attack."
9:40 a.m.: The FAA halts all flight operations at U.S. airports, the first time in U.S. history that air traffic nationwide has been halted.
9:43 a.m.: A third hijacked aircraft crashes into the Pentagon, sending up a huge plume of smoke. Evacuation begins immediately.
10:05 a.m.: The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses.
10:10 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 93 crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh. At the same time a portion of the Pentagon collapses.
10:28 a.m.: The World Trade Center's north tower collapses.
10:45 a.m.: All federal office buildings in Washington are evacuated.
1:04 p.m.: Bush, speaking from Barksdale Air Force Base, says that all appropriate security measures are being taken, including putting the U.S. military on high alert worldwide.
5:20 p.m.: The 47-story Salomon Brothers Building collapses.  Other nearby buildings in the area remain ablaze.
8:30 p.m.: President Bush addresses the nation.

"Europe embraced America, although some countries gently urged the world's wounded superpower, in a grim mood for vengeance, to think calmly before it unleashed retaliation." - CNN News

No matter the horror that the world went through yesterday, I still can't stop thinking about the future. It's frightening to know that USA does not only have the power, the money, the means and the opportunity to revenge what happened. Their hearts are filled with desperation, anger and sorrow but perhaps most of all, a great need of revenge, even said so by their president, who's not very experienced yet - and one must wonder what's gonna happen next. When the most powerful nation in the world has been brought down on its knees by terrorists... Anything can happen. Anything.
Diplomats say NATO plan to declare that the strikes falls under the mutual defence clause of the world's most powerful military alliance - meaning European allies would react to the attack on America as if it were an attack on themselves... Are we facing World War 3...?

Many other, different reactions were seen Tuesday: Walt Disney closed down all their Theme Parks in USA. All the biggest TV NetWorks, ABC, CBS and NBC began to share all video and satellite footage shortly after the attacks. Major league baseball cancels three straight days of official games, baseball hasn't postponed so many games since 1918. Tens of thousands, perhaps even millions, of people (mostly in USA, but all over the world too) lines up for blood donation...

"In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two tall brothers torn apart by chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb, The third big war will swiftly begin from the city of burning" (Nostradamus 1654)... this quote is a HOAX! Please go here to read more...

The European Union has declared Friday a day of mourning throughout its 15 member states in solidarity with the victims of the attacks and at noon Brussels time, three minutes of silence will be observed and all activity will cease.