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Countless trips to hell and back
~MERGENCV SERVICES dr-lver Kevin Er-nest was on the
I.Job at New York Unlvel"Sity Medical Center- when the
call came In that a Jet had crashed Into the World Tr-ade
Center-.
"We thouKht they were klddln&," he told The ENQUIRER.
"Then we saw the smoke!"
Er-nest and other EMS par-amedlcs rushed to the aoene.
"It was heartbreakine. Ther-e wer-e people atoppln1 ua
and begin& for- help, but we had to pt to th worat
cases."
Ernest found a man with severe bur-na. Th• h drtwr
made frantic turns left and r-iKht, dod Ir a rll •• he
transported the victim to a hosplt I.
Then he headed back to the die It - , ilt t up •
man bleedlne profusely.
His actions wer-e repeated th
a break - a tr-Ip Into hell, then I
back again.
rally to car-ry a victim away from the disaster- area.
. MAI
I mulling
. •• ' . • l • '.,.
Rescue workers
ghreAIII ica
their all
He needed a miracle - and fire fighter delivered
ll()RT AUTHORITY Serpent William Jimeno
r was dylne - and he knew It!
Trapped under tons of heavy concrete and
steel, Jimeno could feel the oxyaen belne
crushed out of him. With the superhuman
streneth of a man faclne doom, he thrust
his hand up through the rubble, wriallne
past the atass and Jaaed rock ... until he
felt air against his palm!
Frantlcally he bepn wavlne his hand
around, hoplne aplnst hope that someone
THE RIGHT STUFF: Marching from a surreal backdrop. would spot him In the pitch darkness of the
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World Trade Center basement. Fire flehter
John Cleary of Ladder 24 In Manhattan
spotted the movement In the danclne llet,t
of his flashll&ht beams.
He ran to clasp the hand and let the man
beneath know that he had been found.
Cleary held on tieht while other fire
flehters due away the rubble plnnlne In
Jimeno.
And when he was freed and was belne
loaded Into an ambulance, Jimeno psped
to his rescuers, "You all be careful!" ..,
changes and
 They're heroes in the sky- four courageous men who stood up
to evil aboard hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 . .. and made the ul-
timate sacrifice. All 45 people aboard the Newark-to-San Francisco
flight lost their lives when the jet slammed into the Pennsylvania
countryside. Officials believe terrorists planned to plow the plane into
the Capitol. But these four American heroes foiled their heinous plot.
Here are their stories.
'AIIEIT
"Let' roll!"
Tho e were the last defi-
ant words heard from Todd
Beamer, 32, of Cranbury,
.J., an account manager
for the oftware firm Ora-
cle, a he prepared to fight
the hijackers.
A Sunday chool teacher
and father of two boy , he
was a high school ba ket-
ball and baseball star who
loved playing ball with hi
sons.
Beamer used an airphone
to report the hijacking
to GTE upervisor Lisa
Jefferson.
"I know we're not going
to make it out of here," he
told her.
Beamer also reported the
pilot and copilot were hurt
and he "was not sure
they were dead or alive,"
Jefferson said.
After asking Jeffer on to
call his wife to tell her that
he loved her, Beamer recit-
ed The Lord's Prayer with
her.
Then he put the phone sales manager for a California told them not to panic or break down, Jeremy told the phone to her father.
down. Internet company.At 6-foot-4 worry, Jeremy said. her, 'Lyz, I need you to be "After veral minutes of
The last thing Jeffer on and 220 pounds, Glick had "They said they were strong for me,'" Crowley silence, he heard creaming
heard him say wa : ''Are been a high school Wl tier just making a political state- aid. and yelling," said Crowley.
you guy ready?" and college judo champ. ment and if everyone "He told Lyz that he "Then there wa more
Then he heard, "Let's His wifeLyzbethgave birth remained calm, theywouldall loved her at least a thou- creaming. That wa the
roll" - and the connection to their first child 12 weeks get back on the ground safely. and times. la t ound he heard. The
went dead. before the terrorist trike. "But when Lyztold Jeremy "Then Jeremy told Lyz phone went dead."
It's an expre ion Beamer Jeremy called Lyz, who about the World Trade that several pa engers had Prai ing her fallen
used often, hi wife Lisa re- wa visiting her parents in Center disaster, he realized taken a vote and decided to husband, Lyz Glick said:
called. Up tate ew York, on his the terrorists had lied." rush the hijacker . "I think it show that
"Heu es 'Let' roll!' with cell phone ju t after terror- Despite the horrific itu- "He aid, 'I'm going to one per on can make a dif-
our little boys all the time. i ts hijacked the plane. ation, Jeremy remained put the phone down now.' " ference, that one per on
"As soon a I heard that, I "Jeremy aid the men calm. "When Lyz started to Distraught, Lyz handed in thi country ha th
knew it was Todd. were Arabs wearing red
"He was gentle by nature, bandannas," his uncle
but he wouldn't tand for Thoma Crowley told The
anyone being hurt. ENQUIRER. "They were
"Some people live their wielding knive and carried
whole live without having a large red box that they
left anything behind. claimed wa a bomb.
"My son will be told that "Lyz' father called 911as
their father wa a hero, that Jeremy described what was
he saved lives. happening.
"It's a great legacy for a "Jeremy said some of the

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father to leave hi children."

Jeremy Glick, 31, was a

passengers and crew were
moved to the back of the
plane.
"At first, the terrorist
HEROES Jeremy Glick with his newborn baby, Thomas Burnett and Merk
BlnKham. At rlet,t, the wife and two younK sons Todd Beamer (Inset) I ft behind.
opportunity to change the
world."
Thoma Burnett, 38,
wa a 6-foot-2 former high
chool quarterback with
three daughters - 5-year-
old twin and a 3-year-old.
He was a top executive at a
California medical firm.
He called his wife Deena
in San Ramon, Calif., four
time from the plane on hi
cell phone, aid hi si ter
Martha Burnett.
"During the first call,
Tom told Deena, 'I'm on the
airplane. It's been hijacked
and they've already knifed a
guy. They ay they have a
bomb. Please call the au-
thorities.'
"On the econd call, he
a ked a lot of que tion
about the other two plane .
"He wanted to know if
they were commercial jets.
"When he called back he
told Deena, 'There' three of
u and we've decided to do
omething.'
"Deena told him to ju t it
still and take a seat. But
Tom wouldn't hear of it.
"He w~s totally pumped
up. Deena could tell hi
adrenaline wa flowing.
"I'm so proud of Tom.
"But I'd rather not be
o proud - and have him
here."
Deena Burnett recalled
her hu band' final phone
calls.
"He didn't review his
life story or ay goodbye
or tell me wonderful
thing ,"
she said. "He
wa asse ing the prob-
lem and trying to solve it.
"He was coming home,
you see."
OF
Mark Bingham, 31,owned
a San Franci co public rela-
tion firm.
A trapping 6-foot-5, 230-
pound rugby player, he'd run
with the bull in Pamplona,
Spain, thi past summer.
"Just after the hijackers
took over the plane, Mark
called hi mother u ing the
airphone," revealed his un-
cle Linden Hoagland.
"Mark aid, 'Mom, this is
Mark Bingham, I love you.
Fir t, I want to tell you guy
I love you.
" 'We've been taken over.
There are three men that
say they have a bomb.'
"Then my ister
heard a good deal of
commotion and the
phone went dead.
"We believe my
nephew and the other
pa sengers got togeth-
er and refu ed to obey
the orders of the hi-
jackers.
"We are all o proud
ofhim."
- ELLENGOODSTEIN
SMOKE RISES as Investigators comb through the debris of Flight 93 In Pennsylvania.
 I T WAS terrori m at its worst ... but
America at its fine t.
Ordinary citizens and dedicated public
servants joined force - frequently risking
their own lives - in the heroic re cue
efforts that followed the cowardly attack on
our nation.
Climbing atop mountains of unstable
rubble, volunteers worked tirelessly dig-
ging for survivors, knowing that tons of
twisted steel and shattered gla could
collapse on them at any second without
warning.
An army of everyday people - from con-
struction worker to doctors and nurse
- choked back cloud of smothering du t
as they poured their hearts and soul into
aiding trapped victim and fellow rescue
8 THE NATIONAi.. ENQUIRER
worker who them elve were tricken
by smoke, heat and exhaustion.
The young and the old, all races and
religions, pitched in to provide aid and
comfort in the be t ways they could
- giving blood, building stretcher ,
di tributing medical upplie , comfort-
ing the grieving, and providing food to
tho e laboring around the clock amidst
the awful human carnage.
And when one brav Am rican gave
out from heer xhau tion, another
brave American wa ulwuys ready to
step in.
Only a few mile away, in New York
Harbor, the Statue of Lib rty h ld its
torch ... never higher, never brighter,
never prouder. God hies Am rica.
Fromconstructionworkers -
to doctors,volunteerspitch -i:1:tr&I
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 TIE TERRORISTS'
SECRE
n BARBARIC ter-
rists who attacked
America turned the
trust and ho pitality of
an open society again t u
- living deadly double live
right in our midst. Two of
people that hang out at th
airport dre very ca ual -
but not Atta and Al-Shehhi.
the terrorists even pent a They'd show up wearing tai-
week a gue ts of an aver- lored pants, expensive silk
age Ameri an family, The hirts, and Gucci hoe .
E QUIRER learned. "Back then, I ju t thought
The terrori ts u ed free it wa becau e they came
computers in our public li- from w ll-to-do families like
brarie to contact their mo t of our foreign stu-
a ociate , lived quietly in den .
apartments and hotel , and "But in light of the at-
even partied in strip club , tack , that, too, make
all while planning their ick perfect en e: Atta and Al-
act of mass murder. Shehhi were living it up
We al o di covered because they knew they'd be
that the lead terrorist dead within a matter of
fought with his Florida month.
flight instructor - becau e FLIGHT SIMULATOR similar to those on which the terrorists trained In Florida. "There was no way form
during in-flight to know I wa giving them
training, the flying le on o they'd
madman prac- know how to pilot an air-
ticed crashing craft filled with pa enge
the plane! into a building, but I till
To ensure can't help but feel guilty."
their success,the But Mikarts wa n't th
heart! kille only one fooled by Atta
were trained in and Al-Shehhi. Th
martial arts - cowardly killer out-
helping explain rageously abu ed th
how they were HIJACKERS Mohamed Atta Cleft) and ho pitality and friend hip
able to hold Marwan AI-Shehhl. American traditionally ex-
plane passen- tend to others.
gers in check despite being "They learned to fly right Former Huffman Aviation
outnumbered. here on American soil. We employee Charlie Vo and
"The hijacker used gave them freedom and an his wife Drucilla let the two
America to de troy Ameri- education." men tay with them a
ca," fumed Mahnaz Fini, Several of the terrori ts became housegue ts when they ar-
a Florida neighbor of attended Florida' well- adept In the rived in Venice, a city of
Mohamed Atta, one of known flight chool , mertlal arta 21,000 on Florida's Gulf
the terrorist ringleaders. including Huffman Aviation so they Coast.
in Venice, about 60 couldflat,t "Atta and Al-Shehhi we
miles south of Tampa. off alrllne not very ocial people, but
Atta, 33, and Marwan pasaenprs they eemed harmle
Al-Shehhi, 23, moved who tried to enough. In the week the
there in July 2000 to atop them. tayed at our house, w
learn to fly propeller- probably didn't exchange
driven airplane - at more than a dozen word .
least that was their cov- pulling the nose of the plane a matter of day , he was One thing I remember
er story. up to a very dangerou point having conflicts with that about them is that they both
Huffman Aviation - where it would almo t in tructor, too. were very loppy.
flight in tructor Mark stall. "Looking back, I think he "They alway left the
Mikarts revealed to "This happened quite a wa doing those near- tall bathroom a me , wet tow-
The E QUIRER: "Atta few time . And after I to push the envelope and els laying around, and didn't
and I got into an in- reprimanded him for con- te t the airplane' physical pick up their dirty clothe .
flight altercation one tantly putting u in tho e limitations, in case he ever "I asked them to leave af-
day because during our dangerou ituation , he got found him elf in a imilar ter only one week, becau
FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR Mark training flights he al- up et and demanded that flight ituation cau ed by a my wife and I found their
Mlkarts says, "I still can't help waysinsistedonjerking the flight school give him an- truggle in the cockpit dur- loppine and lack of social
but feel guilty." the yoke back and other instructor. But within ing a hijacking. U ually, the interaction very rude." After

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 IVE

Charlie and Drucilla Voss

araclously let the two men
Atta and AI-Shehhi were stay with them at their
bl& spenders and wild home In Venice, Fla.
partiers at these Florida
nlahtspots, the 44th Aero
Squadron and Cheetah.

Atta and Al-Shehhi left the
Vo re idence they moved
into a two-bedroom home in
the leepy community of
Nokomi , about four miles
north of Venice.
They worried their accents
might raise suspicions
among neighbors so they
kept to themselves - and
kept quiet.
Their former landlord
there, Steve Kona, told The
ENQUIRER: "At the very
mo t, they'd nod their heads
and say hello. They usually
wouldn't even make eye
contact."
That wa standard operat-
ing procedure for all 19of the
identified hijackers. They hid
in plain sight by living in a
variety of hou ing - from
cheap out-of-the-wayFlorida
apartments and motels to
more upscale rentals.
They moved frequently,
paying cash in advance to
rent, often changing the
spelling of their name on
rental receipts. They used
public library computers to
get on the Internet rather
than a home computer in an
attempt to camouflage their
electronic tracks.
They obtained cars
for cash from mall,lo-
cal rental companies
which don't demand
credit reference , and
got their mail at anony-
mous private mailbox
companies.
They had few visitors
- caused no trouble
and made no noise.
But the terrorists
were also sickening hyp-
ocrite . Awayfrom their

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- hideout, they cut loose
with wild partying that
• made a mockery of their
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religion's sacred tenets.
And they carried lot
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 DID
Everett, who volunteered to
help the relief effort after he
witnessed the World Trade
Center catastrophe.
The "My Best Friend's
Wedding" star was walking
his dog near his home in
Greenwich Village when
disaster struck.
"I heard this big bang
and looked up and saw it,"
he said. "Then bang! The
other plane hit the oth-·:,-
er tower. r
"When I first saw
the towers bursting
into flames it
seemed like a big
Hollywood movie.
Then the two tow-
ers came crashing
down. I just stood
there dumbfound-
ed."
Rupert rushed to
NEWLYWEDS Anne Heche and Coley Laffoon were In the scene to join
Boston's Loaan Airport at same time as hijackers. other New Yorkers
offering to help in
to the faces of evil. The the wake of the
newlywed was in the Amer- tragedy.
ican Airlines terminal at He was put to
Boston's Logan Airport on work for hours mak-
September 11 at the same ing sandwiches for
time that the hijackers were firemen and hospital
boarding the American Air- workers. HAPPIER DAYS: Actress Berry Berenson, widow of Anthony
lines flight to Los Angeles "These people are Perkins, is all smlles with son Oz Perkins at a recent movie
that crashed into the World exhausted and even if premiere. She perished on American Airlines Fllaht 11.
Trade Center. it's a little service, I
"Anne was leaving for will do it," he said. "I just wife Rebecca is from New
Toronto on a flight that left could not stand by and do York.
at 8:45 a.m.," said a source nothing.'' "Why did this happen?"
close to the actress.
"American Airlines Flight
11 that was hijacked left *** ***
Boston at 7:59 a.m., and Rupert's fellowBritish ac- Connie Stevens was in
Anne was already at the air- tor Dartiel Day-Lewis also her Manhattan penthouse
port and in the same area pitched in to help after the apartment, looking out the
where passengers for Flight disaster in downtown Man- floor-to-ceiling living room
11were boarding. hattan. window, when she saw the
"Anne believes she First the "Last of the Mo- first plane crash into the
brushed shoulders with the CHANGE OF PLANS kept hicans" star tried to give World Trade Center.
hijackers. Even more fright- Mark Wahlbera off one blood, but he was turned "Even though she was al-
ening, she'd considered of the doomed fllghts. away because the hospitals most 60 blocks away, she
taking that very flight back were overwhelmed with was horrified by what she
to Los Angeles! Anne went to Toronto. donors. saw," said a friend. "And the
"She and her new hus- "Now she hudders at the So he began carrying horror only magnified when
band Coley Laffoon had thought of how close she coolers of ice to medical minutes later the second
been in Boston for a signing came to death.'' centers to help cool down plane hit the south tower.
of her book, 'Call Me Crazy.' vital blood supplies. "Connie's still absolutely
But then she was asked to
do a book signing in Toron- *** "This situation is so aw-
ful," he said. "We have a
WITNESS TO TRAGEDY:
Connie Stevens saw the
traumatized.''
- MICHAEL GLYNN,
to as well. So instead of "I saw the whole thing!" home here close to the first plane crash into the JOHN SOUTH and
heading home to California, declared a shaken Rupert World Trade Center - my World Trade Center. PATRICIA TOWLE

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 ERRIRIS TIUCHES
CTRESS/PHOTOG-
A
RAPHER BERRY
Berenson was on
doomed American
Airlines Flight 11 out of
Boston because she was
rushing back to L.A. to be
with her two sons the next
day - the ninth anniver-
sary of her husband
Anthony Perkins' death.
The "Psycho" star died on
Sept. 12, 1992,of complica-
tions from AIDS.
Berry, 53, had just fin-
ished work on a book on the
late designer Halston and
DOING HIS PART: British actor Rupert Everett works
as a volunteer after the attack. With him Is Nicky
Perry, a British bar owner who Is helping those In
New York's British community Involved In the tragedy.
10 THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER
HE terrorist attack on the World Trade Center
T touched everyone In America, lncludlna
celebrities who witnessed the calamity, narrowly
missed falllna victim - or traalcally perished.
closed up her summer
home on Cape Cod before
flying home that Tuesday
morning to her beloved
boys.
Her two sons, Osgood
"Oz" Perkins II, 27, and
Elvis, 25, were "the light of
her life," said a longtime
friend.
"Berry was so 'proud to
see their show business
careers finally start to take
off. She was excited when
Osgood landed a role in
the Reese Witherspoon film
'Legally Blonde.' And she
was really looking forward
to seeing Elvis play in his
new Hollywood rock band.
"She had called her
youngest son over the
wookend to as ure him
she'd be there, adding
that she 'wouldn't
miss it for the
world.'
"But first,
Berry and her
boys plan-
ned to quietly
commemo-
rate the death
of her hu band
and their father,
Tony Perkins. It
was important to
her that they all be
together on that day."
***
A last-minute change
in plans saved the life of
"Planet of the Apes" star
Mark Wahlberg.
"Mark was in Boston for
a children's charity he
runs," said a pal.
"He organized an Adop-
tion Resource Exchange
event at Fenway Park,
where people looking to
adopt children can be put
together with needy chil-
dren.
"He was planning to
head back to Los Angeles
on Tuesday morning, Sep-
tember 11. The only two LENDING A HAND: Actor Daniel Day-Lewis carries a
nonstops that fly from donated box of ice used to store blood collected to
Boston to L.A. in the aid victims at Saint Vincent's Hospltal In Manhattan.
morning are the American
Airlines flight and the mind. Instead of flying to Center attacks, Mark got
United flight that were hi- L.A. on Tuesday, he decid- tuck in New York when
jacked and rammed into ed to leave Boston Monday everything closed down.
the World Trade Center. night, flying to New York But he' thankful to be alive."
"Mark had planned to be to pend time with fri nd
on one of them. But the
day before, he changed hi
befor flying back to L.A.
"After the World Trad
* *'*
Anne Heche came close
 HEROI
Quick-thinkin
brothersaves
bigsister's life
ENISE GAMBLE owe her life to her baby brother. '
I The 31-year-oldwoman had decided to stay in her in-
surance office on the 100th floor of Tower Two after
the first hijacked jet exploded into Tower One - and it was
only a telephone call
from her brother Dan,
29, that prompted her
to get out alive.
"I treat her like a
younger sister," said
Dan, who worked in
Tower Seven, only one
block from Denise's of-
fice. He says he called
Denise and told her
"Get out! Get out
NOW!"
Despite building-
wide announcements
advising workers in
Tower Two to stay put,
Denise followed her
brother's frantic direc-
tion. While others
reportedly began smlles with her brother Dan
T wer one He survived the climbing back up the two days after her escape.
FIRE FIGHTER Mike Kehoe helps ;ork~~he~=~~a=al:s down the staircase. doomed stairs of Tower
collapse. At right, a man covers sm Two, saying they were sup- 70th floor, rocking the sky-
posed to remain in their scraper and cracking the
HESE ARE the offices, Denise made her walls around her.

T last photos taken

inside the World
Trade Center - sec-
onds before the
way down to the 68th floor.

plane hit her building at the and

"She said the stairs
That's where he was at ex- shook; the building shook,"
actly 9:03 when the second said Patricia Gamble, Dan
Denise's mother.
famous 110-storyland-
mark ceased to exist,
collap ing in a heap of
rubble.
They are pictures of
people whose world
Co-workers
risk
S THE FLAMES of Cerqueira, 22, were two of
A
will never be the same
again - frightened of- hell roared around 26 employees of Network
fice workers fleeing them,MichaelBenfante Plus, a telecommunica-
the flaming hell of the DOING HIS JOB: and a co-worker saved a tions firm, at work in Suite
upper stories of Tower Fireman John wheelchair-bound woman, 8121 in Tower One when
One. Sheehan stands carrying her down 68 the first plane hit the
When financial con- guard as evacuees smoke-choked floors - building just eight floors
sultant John Labriola flee Tower One. jeopardizing their own above them.
shot these photos as Sheehan was later escape. "No one knew what had
he fled his 71st-floor treated for smoke "In the back ofmy head, I happened, but I ordered
office, none of these inhalation but couldhear my mother telling everyone out of th~ office
people, workers nor escaped with no me to get out," Benfante and down the stairs," said
firemen, realized the other injuries. told The ENQUIRER. ''But Benfante, the branch
scope of the disaster I had to help." manager. "I saw flames
that was to come. Benfante, 36, and John flickering to the side of the
 STORIES
OF.SURVIVA
ATTWINTOWERS
"Smoke started coming
into the stairwell." Mo-
ments later desperate
trapped workers on upper
level floors began leaping to
their deaths.
"We could see the car-
nage across the street," said
Dan, who had evacuated
and started heading north
after calling Denise. "We
could see it all happening
behind us. Then we looked
back and saw that the tow-
ers were no longer part of
the skyline. I thought the
chances weren't too good
my sister had made it out."
But blocks away Denise
was running for her life. She
had continued down the 68
flights of stairs in smoke
and darkness, fighting pan-
ic with every step. She
xited the building into
mayhem. Bodies were drop-
ping from the burning
floors.
"She said she was shak-
ing so bad - her whole
body - it was hard to even
move," Patricia Gamble
aid.
But exhausted Denise ran
for her life - and made it.
Hours later she arrived at a
relative's house on the Up-
per West Side, where she
learned that her guardian
angel Dan, too, was safe.
Patricia said her daugh-
ter couldn't be more
grateful. "She said, 'Danny
saved my life.' "
-TOM DINARDO
Tearsofjoyforcouple whothought
C theirmateshadperished
ARMEN GRIFFITH, 48, was
operating a passenger elevator
ferrying customers to the famed
Windows on the World restaurant in
the North Tower when a fireball
blasted through the building after
the jet struck. She was badly burned,
but two heroic strangers carried her
down 78 stories to safety and she was
whisked away by ambulance to Long
Island College Hospital in Brooklyn.
But Carmen had no idea what had
happened to her beloved husband
Arturo, 52, who worked a freight ele-
vator in the same tower at the World
Trade Center.
"When I got to my hospital bed, I
had the TV turned on," Carmen told
The ENQUIRER. "I heard on the
news that a freight elevator was
stuck with people in it, and then the
building collapsed. I thought to my-
self, 'That's it - my husband is dead.'
It was the worst feeling in the world."
But unbeknownst to Carmen, it
wasn't Arturo's elevator that was
•
LUCKY TO BE ALIVE: Arturo and Carmen Griffith are cared for In the
hospital after escaplna from the North Tower. Incredibly, both
husband and wife were elevator operators In the doomed bulldlna.
stuck. His elevator was working and
after the impact he managed to get it perished in the attack. Finally, a was an incredible feeling. I told him I
most of the way down before it relative located Carmen among hos- was burnt pretty bad, that he may
dropped. He broke a leg, but was able pitalized survivors and rushed to tell not recognize me, but I'm still me. He
to crawl out into the building's main Arturo the news. The Bronx man im- said, 'I don't care. I love you!'
concourse and find help. mediately called his wife. ''Arturo is a very wonderful man -
Doctors at St. Vincent's Hospital "I was so happy to speak to my and now we will have many more
in Manhattan performed surgery on husband - I just kept telling him happy years together! God gave us a
his leg and then he, too, lay in his hos- that I loved him!" Carmen said. second chance."
pital bed thinking that his mate had "He came back from the dead, it - ROGER HITTS

ownlivestocarry
•es
wheelchair-bound
stranger
down88Slorl
building. I could feel the
building swaying.''
His first thought was
that there had been an
earthquake. Or even that a
wayward plane had some-
how hit the building in a
tragic error.
As they went down the
stairs, Benfante and
Cerqueira came upon a
blonde woman in a
wheelchair stranded on
the 68th floor.
Putting thoughts of their
own safety aside, the two
heroes assisted her out
of the wheelchair and
strapped her into a special
chair kept in the stairwell
for emergencies.
Blinding smoke poured
into the stairwell as the
building's steel beams
began to melt. But the two
men, their muscles aching
beyond description, care-
fully made their way down
the stairs in an hour-long
journey - carrying their
disabled charge every step
oftheway.
Exhausted, sweating
profusely, they finally
reached the street with the
fortysomething woman.
They couldn't believe what
they saw.
"It looked like I WO
Jima," said Cerqueira.
They placed the woman
- whose name they never
learned-into an emergency
van. Then, just when they
thought they were safe, the
building began to collapse.
Andtheystartedrunning.
"Wemadeitafewblocks,
when the building just
exploded," said Benfante.
"Everything went black.
Smoke and debris were
everywhere."
The two men dived under
a truck and waited for the
worst to pass. After about
five minutes, they ran to a
nearby Catholic church
and stumbled inside ...
amazed and overjoyed to
be alive.
Benfante, a former
altar boy who rarely at-
tends church, revealed,
"I thanked God. I told
Him that I didn't know
what I'd done to be in His
grace."
- PETER DAVIDSON
 BODY SEARCH: Fllet,t
attendant Is scanned with
a metal detector as she
aoes through security.

NEVI
WEAPONS
INTHEWAR
AGAINST
TERRORISM AIR TRAVEL resumes In t
LTHOUGH terror-

A ists were able to

destroy the World
Trade Center and
damage the Penta-
gon, experts say there ARE
measures authorities can
take to ensure that a repeat
of that dark day never occurs.
William L. Waugh, author
of three books on terrorism,
says officialsshould focus on
airport security.
"The weaponry used in
these hijackings seems to be
something that almost any-
one could get on an airplane.
"Currently, there is such a
thing as biometric scanning f

that provides an outline of
the body and an X-ray of
everything beneath the cloth-
ing. This works much better
than metal detectors, espe-
cially if someone is carrying
a pla tic knife or plastic
gun," which can pass
through metal detectors.
"The reason the X-ray ma-
chine hasn't replaced metal
detectors is because there
are a lot of privacy issue .
Aside from revealing physi-
cal objects someone might
be carrying beneath their
AIRPORTS OF THE FUTURE: At left Is a biometric eye scanner, used for Identification Just llke fingerprints.
New security measures mean more crowds (right) at the airport. Officials ask travelers to be patient.
clothing, biometric scanning technology availablethat rec- turnover and most of them more professional and much
also ha the tendency to ognizes pupils inside the eye, are underpaid." better trained.
show body parts. as well as electronic finger- Another terrorism expert, '½irports need to increase
•~other solution to stop- printing machines. That type Gary Perlstein, said: "Ameri- the number of checkpoints,
ping terrorists from getting of technology could be used can airports should use train their agents on what to
inside the airplane's cockpit to prohibit anyone other than Heathrow Airport in London look for, and even put armed
during a flight would be to the assigned pilot from taking as a model for security. officers at many checkpoints.
make the doors out of a hard- control of that aircraft. Heathrow has no less than ''As citizens,we can all con-
ened material such as '½.uthorities really need to four checkpoints before pas- tribute to putting a stop to
tempered steel, making them take a good look at our air- sengers get anywhere near terrorism by going to the
nearly impossible to open port security. Most sites are the plane. There's no question authorities if we ever see any
from the outside. manned by personnel who that their security and suspicious behavior. A lot of
"There also is biometric are ill-trained,there is a huge personnel are better, they're times,peopleare embarr<lS.Sed

14 THE NATIONAi. ENQUIRER

or don't want to take the time
to report something suspi-
cious,but it's everyone'scivic
duty to do that.
"Another problem is that
most people are very impa-
tient when they're traveling.
They are in such a hurry to
get to where they're going
that they unintentionally
push their way through the
line and try to speed up the
security process.
"Peopleneed to realizethat
security checkpoints are
there to protect them, and
everyone will be a lot better
offifthey are more patient."
James L. Halperin, author
of the 1995best-seller "The
Truth Machine,"said:
"In light of the recent
hijackings, the Federal Avi-
ation Administration could
require airlines to put
video cameras on planes
so authorities could al-
ways see what's going on
inside aircraft.
"There are machines avail-
able today that can read faces
in a crowd and pick out any
person with any given combi-
nation of features and facial
expressions the authorities ARMED GUARDS man security checkpoints at Heathrow Airport In London, a model for changes In the U.S.
are searching for. With this
equipment someone who's
wanted by the FBI can't go
out in public places because NEWSECURITY
FOR
they'llbe caught.
"If that equipment would
have been available in air-
THEWHITEHOUSE
ports, maybe the recent
hijackings could have been ANDAIRFORCE
ONE
prevented.
"Scientists are also work-
ing on a foolproofliedetector
test. If something like that
is ever approved, simple
questions like,'Are you a ter-
S ECURITY experts r
say our President is
ed in the Wh"t
One - and since t
.
ece~t ter_ror1~t attacks
already well protect- a~% if possible, improved.
O protect the Presi-
House and on Air For~! d~nt:stsecffiu:ity, no one will
a m1 o ic1allythat these
rorist?' or 'Do you intend to events of September te counter~errorism devices
commit a crime?' could sort he'll have even tighter se, even exist," the military
out the terrorists before curity. - source says. "But Air
they're able to inflictharm." "From now on Air R0 Force One is far from de-
One will fly with' two fi ~~~ fenseless i~ the sky."
Richard Horowitz, a for-
mer captain in the Israel er_~scorts on its wing!," a sh '!'f3 ~ite Ho1!se,too, is
military source told The A ie e. from air attack.
Defense Forces and con-
sultant on terrorism, said: ENQUIRER "They h _ccordmgtoaSecretSer-
.• ave Vice sour .
"In theory, anyone can or ders to intercept and tat' ce, agents are
threaten the life of an ~hoot down any approach- s wned on the roof
airplane passenger with mg airplane that threatens ~ro~d the cl~ck, ready to
their bare hands and turn A LOCKED, STEEL DOOR on the cockpit Is one the President's plane." re. eat-~ee_kmgsurface-
the plane into a missile. chanKe recommended to thwart terrorists. According to the source . ?-rur m1ss1les at any
"One way to avoid that the specially e ui ' airc~aft t~at threatens the
type of thing from happen- in the concrete at the en- security agents can check B~ing 747alreadyqca~~:~ president~al residence.
ing is to do what some trances of parking garages for bombs. an impressive array of de- H Protecting the White
countries like Israel do and and other checkpointswhere "But technologyis only a fensive devices designed ou~~on _theground are a
hire armed sky marshals on cars pass. The scanner runs small solution to the prob- to thwart even the most born. mat10~ of physical
every flight. the width of the automobile lem. Being aware that a determined terrorist - a~rr1er~, un1fo~ed police
"There are scanners avail- and takes a picture of the problem exists and plan- an~ these devices will be he d ~n inner perimeter of
able that could be embedded bottom of the car so that ning ahead is the key." reviewed in light of th aVIly armed body-
e guards.

THE NATIONA&. ENQUIRER1'5

 MERICAN INTELLIGENCE WORK foiled a plan by Osama Bin Laden

A to use nuclear weapons in a terrorist attack against this country, an ex-

clusive ENQUIRER investigation has discovered.
Following the unthinkable September 11attacks that destroyed the World
Trade Center and badly damaged the Pentagon, a team of ENQUIRER
reporters fanned out across America and overseas to uncover secret details
of the terrorist plot. _. ............... ,. was arrested in Munich,
And while many Ameri- Germany, in September
cans were quick to criticize ,_.._._........ 1998 and charged with
U.S. intelligence agencies acting on behalf of his
forfailingtoheadofftheat- 111111111111
·••■ boss to obtain nuclear
tacks, The ENQUIRER has By DAVIDWRIGHT,
materials. He is now in
learned that U.S. agents DON GENTILE,LARRY U.S. custody.
staved off a far, far deadlier HALEY,COURTNEY If he had been succe sful
catastrophe! CALLAHAN,RICHARD in purchasing nuclear ma-
Authorities believe the GOODING, REGINALD terial, Bin Laden could have
Planning of the suicide FITZ, .IOHNCOOKE and included it in his attack.
flights began as long ago as TOM DINARDO John LeBoutillier, former
1996. And throughout this _________ .. U.S.congre man and mem-
period, the U.S. and its al- her of the House Foreign
lies have foiled Bin Laden's buy $1.5 million worth of Affairs Committee, con-
attempts to obtain nuclear uranium for Bin Laden in firmed to The ENQUIRER
weapons. Khartoum, Sudan. that Bin Laden's plan "wa
Covert actions by the CIA During his negotiations thwarted - security precau-
led to a 1998 arrest that he had a meeting in the tions that the U.S.had in place
stopped a purchase of nu- town of Bait al-Mal, north of to prevent this worked."
clear material that would Khartoum. At that meeting, The arrests followed
have given Bin Laden the Alfadl was shown a cylinder earlier succe e in the
ability to use them in the between two and three feet campaign to keep Bin
attacks against the United tall containing uranium, he Laden away from nuclear
States! told FBI agents. materials - succe es that
The big break for intelli- Alfadl is considered so prevented him from
gence forces in that case important that the U.S. has launching a nuclear attack.
came when the FBI secret- spent nearly 1 million to In 1992, Bin Laden's
ly managed to "turn" J~mal protect him since he "came Germany-based group
Ahmad Alfadl, a Sudane e over." wa foiled in an attempt to
aide of Bin Laden, in 1996. And it paid off martly buy highly enriched urani-
The defector detailed for when Bin Laden aide um - a key component of
the U.S. his negotiations to Mamdouh Mahmud Salim a nuclear bomb - on the

16 THE NATIONAi. ENQUIRER

 Al-Qaeda(Duma bin Llden's group)

that attempt fail as a result weapons during the Sep- - facilities housing deadly
of cooperation between U.S. tember 11 assault on biological toxins including
lslamist and European security America "is one explana- the Ebola and West Nile
movements forces. tion of why President Bush viru es.
in ex•SoVJet
CentralAsia The intelligence success- was initially flown aboard "Hijacked planes would
-, es have slowed Bin Laden's Air Force One to a nuke-
Harkat•ul-Mujahideen hit them with the idea of re-
(Pakistarv continuing attempt to ob- proof bunker in Nebraska," leasing all kinds of deadly
kashmir) tain nuclear materials Middle East analyst toxins into the air."
Gamaa - but not stopped him. Emanuel Winston told The An attack on the U.S. is
Islamic lslamiyya
Jihad (Egypt) Russian agents recently ENQUIRER. just part of Bin Laden's
Ayman tipped off the U.S. to at- Chillingly, intelligence master plan, former Con-
al-Zawahiri tempts by Bin Laden to buy agents are also waging a gressman Bob Dornan
wing
~ gypt) radioactive materials from battle to prevent Bin Laden (R.-Calif.), who served on
the Chechen rebels. from obtaining chemical the House Intelligence
And former Russian and biological weapons. Committee, told The
security chief Alexander A highly placed intelli- ENQUIRER exclusively.
Lebed said 43 "suitcase gence source told The "I am going to declassify a
,wp Laurence
Sa~ nukes" - nuclear weapons ENQUIRER that while de- secret I was privy to on the
TERRORIST GROUPS throughout the Middle East, small enough to fit inside a vising their sickening plot Intelligence committee: It's
Africa and Asia have ties to Bin Laden. suitcase - developed for Bin Laden's lieutenants Bin Laden's plan to take
the KGB in the 1970s have explored carrying out air back his native Saudi Ara-
Russian black market. end of a sting operation. vanished! strikes on Fort Detrick, bia. He plans to kill the
In that case, the terror- A year later Bin Laden The possibility that Bin Md., and the Centers for
ists ended up on the wrong tried again, only to have Laden would use nuclear Disease Control in Atlanta (Continued on Page 20)

THIil NJ4TIONAL ENQUIRER 17

 PRESIDENT'S
New York's Senator
PUBLICCOURAGE
& PRIVATE
TEARS
CHARLES E. SCHUMER RESIDENT George W. Bush has

P forever stepped out of his father's

shadow to stand tall as the leader
. of the Free World- but he hasn't
done 1talone.
to~ -~er~f a's da~kest hours he turned
l~ arm y - his father, the former
Pr~s~enJ, his beloved mother Barbara
Dear fellow Americans, an _is evoted wife Laura - for the
My thoughtsand prayers are with you as together we grieve over this immense, and unknown em;t~nt~ s_upportto guide our nation
t n c- e1r unconditional Jove ha~ <
loss of life to our couna;1and our state. It is very difficult to come to grips with such an intense ransLormed him into a pill f
and tenible tragedy,but we must We have to. We seek as guidancethe generationsbefore us strength . , - a man destined toarheal o
who had their tragedies and also rose to the occasion. And rise 10 the occasion we must as well. Arn· er1ca d s broken
. heart • Hi s private
•
h~n an public courage have defined
P
un as a mar: e_n:bracinghis tremen-
Our hearts go out to all of those who have lost loved ones and are sufferingnow. We are with d ous respons1b1hty
"The ~ountry is •• embracing him "
them as one, from one end of this country to the other. •
D ana
the W h. Milbank - po 1·t·
i ica 1writer for•
"S ~ mgton Post and author of
As an American,make no mistake about it, we are in a new Amcdca; a new world. We're now in m~s mouth," a chronicle of last
a new era of conflict There are forces who are against us, and they are in many comers of the years presidential election - t 0 Id
world. They hate us for our freedom. They are against the very progressthat we have made. The ENQUIRER
"He had a shaky start. But now he's
~tepped up to the plate. And his father
We are a resilient nation. We don't take anythingon our knees. We're not going to take this. I is a tremendous influence on h"
assure the enemies of Ame1ica, the enemies of freedom, the enemies of progress of that. . 'c~;th~y're having many fath:\ 0 ~
. s - and President Bush is
domg a great job."
This is a long struggle, my friends. It is not an easy struggle. But because of our freedom, Americans witnessed the intense
because of our Ametican way of life, we will prevail.
GOD BLESS AMERICA:
President Bush raises
This event will never leave us the same, not as individuals,not as Americans,not as residents of a flag on his visit to
the planetEarth. But we can learn from it as we grieve. We can meet the challenge and rise to site of the world
Trade Center attack.
the ne,xt level of civilization. I'm confident we will.

Charles E. Schumer

As New York struggled to came to grips with the terrible world n-ade Center
tragec/Y, Sen. Charles Schumer of New York offered this open letter to the
people of his state - i,nd the people of Amer/ca. Schumer, along with fellow
New York Sen. HIiiary Rodham Cl/nton, pledged their prayers and the tull
resources of government to the victims and their famllies. 'We are with
them as one, from one end of the country to the other," said Schumer.

18 THE NATIOflAL ENQUIRER

 1111S
WELL DONE, SON: President Bush gets a hand squeeze from his father after giving
his speech at remembrance service at the National Cathedral in Washlneton, D.C.
emotional bond between
the two men during the
memorial service at Wash-
ington's National Cathedral
on September 14.
During the service, the
President and his wife
Laura sat next to his parents.
When he returned to his
pew after delivering his
stirring speech, his father
reached over and grasped
his hand.
"He's so proud. His son is
now the man his parents
always dreamed he'd be,"
said an insider close to the
Bush clan.
"Outside the cathedral,
Barbara gave her son a big
hug. With tears in her eyes,
she told him that he looked
like he'd grown a foot since
she'd last seen him.
"He has a confident smile
and a determined look in his
eye she's never seen before.
"Then his father shook
ILY
his hand and told him how
proud he was. It was a
touching scene of family
strength and resolve."
Although his first respon-
sibility is to the nation, the
President is also a dutiful
son.
And shortly after the
terrorist strikes, he called
his parents from Air Force
One.
The Bushes had been on
the way to Minneapolis for
WORDS OF COMFORT: President Bush speaks to a
rescue worker at the disaster site In New York.
a meeting. But their plane
was diverted to Milwaukee,
Wis.
"Almost as soon as they
were on the ground, George
got a call on his cell phone
from his son," said the in-
sider. "The President just
wanted to make sure his
parents were O.K.
•~r getting a few words
of encouragement from his
father, the President spoke
to his mother.
"Barbara said that she
loved him, had total faith
in him and that his parents
supported him '150 per-
cent.'"
Since then, the elder
Bush calls his son regularly
for what he calls "little pep
talks.''
"Publicly, he downplays
the phone conversations,
saying they're little more
than friendly chitchat be-
tween father and son," says
a source.
"But they've done won-
ders to buoy the President's
spirits.
"In one such talk, his
father told him that he had
an 'awesome responsibility,'
but also 'an unprecedented
opportunity' to achieve great
things.
"He encouraged his son
to root out and destroy the
terrorists responsible for
the attacks, along with
the nations that harbor
them. But most important
of all, he told him, 'Son,
your mother and I and LARRY HALEY
have every faith in you.'
"The President was moved
to tears.
"He told his father, 'With-
out you and Laura behind
me, I don't know where I'd
be.'"
Privately, the President's
family continues to give
him the strength to lead a
grieving nation.
And in public, he's not
afraid to weep.
The President unasham-
edly blinked back tears
during a phone call to New
York City's mayor and the
state's governor two days
after the terrorist attack.
"I weep and mourn with
America,'' he said.
"I wish I could comfort
every single family whose
lives have been affected.
"I think about the fami-
lies, the children. I'm a
loving guy.''
The next day his tears
had dried.
But his resolve was
strong when he addressed
a group of rescue workers
at the World Trade Center.
''America today is on
bended knee in prayer for
the people whose lives were
lost here, for the workers
who work here, for the
families who mourn.
"Thank you for making
the nation proud - and
may God bless America!"
- JAMES NELSON,
MICHAELGLYNN,
SHANE RODACK
THE NATIONJlL ENQUIRER 19
 SIDE
THE
TDIIRlff PLO
(Continued from Page 17)
7,000 members of the Saudi
Royal family by setting off a
bomb in Riyadh (the Saudi
capital). His aim is to gain
control of the Moslem
world.
"This is Bin Laden's hate
list in order: Saudi Arabia,
Israel, and the U.S. as the
leader of the free world."
Four teams of 19 hijack-
ers were on board the
planesthatcrashedintothe
World Trade Center, the
Pentagon and into a field
outside Pittsburgh.
And The ENQUIRER
learned the FBI believes the
hijackers and their associ-
ates were on our soil long
enough to go through many
dry runs of their deadly
missions as they turned
their plot into reality.
"They were on tho e four
hijacked planes before,"
said a source at the Federal
Aviation Administration.
"We have information
that the hijackers flew the
same routes several times
in the last year. We think
they may have become
familiar faces to the stew-
ardesses on those routes.
Who knew they were smil-
ing into the faces of their
killers?"
In the days and weeks
before the attacks, the
suicide teams headed for
the targeted airports -
Boston's Logan, Newark
International Airport and
Dulles Airport near Wash-
ington, D.C.
One gathering place was
Maine, where several ter-
rorists are thought to have
arrived from Canada.
At the Intown Internet
Cafe in Bangor, Maine,
owner Stephen Stimpson
told The ENQUIRER that
Arabic visitors came in
·and asked to use two com-
puters.
"I could see one of them
as he worked on the com-
puter. He checked hi
e-mail - he had a Hot-
mail.com account - and
printed out one message.
Then he seemed to type a
reply. TRADE CENTER TOWERS (circled) before and after the attack by terrorists.
"They were here five or
10 minutes, and when they was all of $4.26 for time on said, 'I think that's outra- with us after testing it.
paid, one man got very bel- the two computers and a geous for such a short time.' "But none of them want-
ligerent about the cost - it quarter for the printout. He He finally gave in and paid." ed to provide identification
Four suspected terrorists to sign up for service. My
stopped into the Unicel cell guess is they had a chip to
phone shop in Bangor the put in the phones so they
day before the attack. could use it."
A source said: "One of the A GSM-capable phone
terrorists wanted to rent a could enable a caller to di-
cell phone for one day that rect-dial a connection in
had GSM (Global Systems Afghanistan - where Bin
Mobile) capability. He was Laden hides out.
saying he was going to pur- After failing to make a
BOX CUTTER llke those used by the hijackers. chase a phone and sign Ul) deal for the cell phone, a

HOW TERRORIS IS LIVED AMONG US
(Continued from Page 9)
of cash so they could not be traced
through credit card receipts.
Keith Schortzmann, owner of
the 44th Aero Squadron, a popular
watering hole at the Venice Munic-
ipal Airport, told The ENQUIRER:
"Atta carried a wad of $100 bills big
enough to choke a horse and he al-
ways paid the tab. Atta was a very
big spender."
A nude dancer at Cheetah, a pop-
ular gentleman's club in Sarasota,
told The ENQUIRER that an arro-
gant Atta and Al-Shehhi showed
their sadistic treak. They tried to
humiliate the dancers by tos ing
tips onto the floor and telling the
girls to crawl on their knees to pick
them up.
Shortly before they struck, the
two terrorists stayed at the Pan-
ther Motel in Deerfield Beach
- and left behind startling evi-
dence they were prepared to deal
with rebellious pas engers.
"I found three how-to books on
Ju-Jitsu and self-defense," motel
owner Richard Surma told The
ENQUIRER. "Obviously,they stud-
ied these books so they could
overpower their hostages if any of
them became confrontational.''
Shockingly, Atta, one of the main
ringleaders, came close to getting
busted this spring - but slipped
through a crack in the justice sys-
tem.
On April 26, he wa ticketed in
Broward County, Fla., for failure to
provide a valid driver's license dur-
ing a traffic stop. He was scheduled
to appear in court on May 28, but
he never showed up and a warrant
was issued for hi arrest. But Atta
was never picked up by the sher-
iff's department because it was not
considered a high priority case.
A top terrorism expert told The
ENQUIRER it's no coincidence
that the hijacker chose to train
and hide in Florida.
"The flight schools are much le
expensive than in their own coun-
tries, and because they have such
a diverse international student
body, it's easy to blend in no
matter what country you're from,"
explained Gary Perlstein, a Port-
land State University justice
profe sor.
"People living in small communi-
ties rarely expect hardened
criminals to be living next door."
But despite their elusiveness, the
terrorist will learn a very painful
!es on: They can run from the
United States - but they can't
hide.
- JOHN BLOSSER, LARRY
HALEYand KEVINLYNCH

20 THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER

 man in the group asked a
ales clerk if he could use a
phone in the shop.
"He made a few calls,
making plane reserva-
tions," an insider revealed.
"He tried to get a flight
leaving the next morning
out of Bangor Airport, but
there were none available.
So he booked a flight the
next day from Portland,
Maine, connecting with a
flight in Boston."
That flight was American
Airlines Flight 11,the first
plane to slam into the World
Trade Center.
Two of the hijackers took
the flight from Portland
in the early morning. They
' were identified as Abdulaziz
Alomari and Mohamed
Atta.
Alomari may have lived in
Portland in the past year,
stablishing a relationship
with an American woman.
The woman told authori-
tie her boyfriend bragged
that he was the member of a
terrori t group, and he had
a lot of cash despite being
unemployed.
The night before they
caught the flight to Boston,
Atta and Alomari checked
into room 232 of the Com-
fort Inn near Portland
airport.
They were in such a rush
to catch their flight the next
morning that Atta's luggage
was left behind. It con-
tained an instructional
video on flying commercial
jets, a fuel consumption cal-
culator - and a will, dated TERRORIST Osama Bin Laden lives llke his men, In bunker quarters deep Inside a mountain In Afghanistan.
in 1996, in which he said he
planned to kill himself so he hijackers appeared on space communications
would go to heaven as a Logan surveillance videos satellites serving the Mid-
martyr. driving in and out of the dle East.
Others who boarded the airport at least five times The firm listed two in-
two hijacked flights in in the days before the at- vestors with links to Bin
Boston lived in motels in tack. Laden.
several Massachusetts And after the attack A terrorist with a satellite
cities in the days before the came, 47-year-old Bin is a formidable enemy, say
attack. Laden reportedly ex- intelligence experts.
Marwan Al-Shehhi spent pressed great joy at the Bin Laden could moni-
Monday night at a Boston death, destruction and hav- tor communications from
hotel before boarding Tues- oc he'd caused. governments that would
day's United Flight 175 - With his wealth, Bin aid him in planning at-
the second plane that WEALTHY BIN LADEN has created a high-tech Laden has created a high- tacks.
crashed into the twin tow- communications network, with access to satellites. tech communications and Middle East analyst
ers. information-gathering sys- Emanuel Winston told The
Richard Surma, owner of used to seize control of the of the hijackers arrived in tem. ENQUIRER: "If Bin Laden
the Panther Motel Apart- four doomed flights - and a Boston early to conduct Intelligence officials have has access to a satellite and
ments, said Shehhi left stack of aeronautical maps scouting missions of airport charged that he's the secret can steal time, he can tap
behind a box cutter - the of the East Coast. security. big money man behind a into communications
same implement the hijackers Authorities believe some One car rented by company that launches from anywhere!"

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 fighters raise an American flag
amidst the rubble of what was
once the World Trade Center in
'The cost of freedom is New Yor.k.And just as
always high - and
Americans have Americans raised Old Glory on
always paid it. And one
path we shall never Iwo Jf during WW2,
choose, and that is tt1e
path of surrender or
Americans o ce again raise
submission.'
- John F. Kennedy, Oct. 22, 1962,
our symbo f freedom as a
during the Cuban Missile Crisis
sign to that the spirit
of the erican people
~ be broken.
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MERICA can wipe Osama Bin Laden off
the face of the earth - and top military
experts reveal it will be done, either with
bombs or poison.
"To win, we must out-terror
declared retired Army Col.
David Hackworth, one of
America's most decorated
soldier and an interna-
tionally re pected military
expert.
"If we don't destroy
him, he will destroy us,"
Hackworth, the author of
several be t- elling books,
told The ENQUIRER.
The good news is America
has the forces, finances,
know-how and unflinching
will to track down and elimi-
nate the notorious terrorist
and his top henchmen. But
military experts say it won't
happen with a single strike.
"The response will be
massive,'' declared retired
Navy Rear Admiral Steve
Baker, a senior fellow at the
Center for Defense Informa-
tion in Washington, D.C.
The United States will use
"a combination of conven-
tional and unconventional
tactic ," said Bob Finke, a
retired Army Special Force
expert and international
security consultant.
American military leaders
have considered several ways
of getting at Bin Laden and
have weighed their pro and
cons.
A national security source,
who must remain anony-
mous, told The ENQUIRER
this is the most likely battle
plan for hunting down the
merciless monster and his
heartless henchmen:
• A combination of satellite
and human operatives will
track Bin Laden to his
current hideout, enabling
military forces to pinpoint
their crucial assault.
• Cruise missiles launched
from U.S. Navy ships from
two strike forces positioned
in the Persian Gulf will take
out the headquarters of
Afghanistan' ruling elite,
the Taliban, who have
given safe harbor to the
terrorist.
• Waves of B-52 and B-2
bombers from U.S. bases in
Europe and the Indian
Ocean will bomb suspected
24 THIE NATIONAL ENQUIRER
the international terrorist,"
Bin Laden stronghold in
Afghanistan.
• Paratroopers will drop
into the landlocked nation
and destroy most armed op-
position, paving the way for
special forces to deliver the
final blow.
• Fighter planes from air-
craft carriers in the Persian
Gulf will support our ground
troops.
• Elite commando units and
special forces troops will ad-
minister the knockout DEADLY FIRE: American elite commando units will
punch, invading the terrorist deliver the knockout punch, say military experts.
mastermind's inner anc-
tum - bringing him down supporters into informers. "Eliminating Bin Laden will and will want to continue and
and destroying his rabid They are working for the destabilize the Islamic ter- repeat what he's done. He
pack of killer . Mossad as double agents, as- rorist movement and set it won't sit back, and the fear is
Our highly trained teams, sassins really.If they're given back a generation. We mu t that he will form an alliance
including the Navy's elite the word, they can strike." also obliterate Afghanistan's now with another country.
SEAL Team 6 and the An expert on U.S. covert ruler , the Taliban - and "In the pa t, assassina-
Army's Delta Force, can be operation told The anyone else who has helped tions weren't permitted by
ready on 48 to 72 hours no- ENQUIRER: "We have the Bin Laden either directly or our covert operations. But if
tice to carry out a raid on a capability of getting close indirectly." they consider this an act of
terrorist camp - or to posi- enough to Bin Laden to Retired U.S. Army Capt. war, they will act.
tion themselves in enemy poi on him. It can be done David Christian, one of the "Our intelligence agencie
territory to await orders. by tainting his food and wa- mo t decorated U.S. officers in recent years have been
An inside source told The ter supply or even with in the Vietnam War,told The pristine in how they operat-
ENQUIRER that soon after high-tech spy devices that ENQUIRER that assassina- ed. Youcan't run white-glove
the terrorist assault on work on a time delay and tion is definitely an option. agencies and accomplish
America, the U.S. began will release deadly gas at a "Because of what he's ac- your mission, which in thi,
planning to use a former So- predetermined time." complished, madmen like case should be assassination.
viet military ha e as a Former Green Beret Col. Osama Bin Laden feel invin- That's the bottom line - be-
staging area for an assault Bo Gritz, who trained cible,"said Christian, now on lieve me, we are at war - the
on Bin Laden. Afghan fighters to battle the staff of Senator John world is at war. But we will
"Some 40 miles north of the Soviets in the 1980s, Kerry of Massachusetts. win."
Afghanistan's capital Kabul declared: "We can win this!" "He won't stop with what - PETER DAVIDSON and
is the Bagram air base, He told The ENQUIRER: he's done. He's self-consumed COURTNEY CALLAHA~
which was once the Soviets'
hotbed of military opera-
tions in Afghanistan and is ..------ ~t~~~~~-~~:i :~~:
now under the control of 1u1rd BonLaden'sbasts
anti-Taliban forces," said the
source. "From there, the U.S.
could deploy its own forces.
Calls were made to work it
out.
"From that location, a full-
blown commando assault
can take place."
A high-ranking U.S.Intelli-
gence source told The
ENQUIRER that the U.S.
al o worked up an alterna-
tive plan to kill Bin Laden
that would be carried out by
agents for the Israeli secret
service Mossad.
"The Mo ad has already
turned some of Bin Laden's
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Oruzganmountainsnorth of Kandahar.
Jalalallad:He lived hereun11Ithe UScruise
missile raids in 1998.
Celtlral-■tal■t: Healso has terrorist training
camps,includingal Farouq,Khostand Zhawar.

THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER 26


ORMER "Baywatch" beauty Yasmine Bleeth has hit
F rock bottom. Only weeks after completing rehab, a
dirty and disheveled Yasmine was busted September
12 after running her car off the road while apparently un-
der the influenc~of cocaine.
Cops found liquefied co-
~~~:
antn~~~\~,::
heavily into the drug she's
"shooting up."
Yasmine's mug shot is
heartbreaking. The once-
ravishing brunette looks
like a homeless crack ad-
dict.
Last December The
ENQUIRER broke the
story that the star was
drowning in a cocaine
nightmare. And in April we
disclosed that friends felt
Yasmine was on the road
to recovery after her
"Baywatch" buddy David
Charvet convinced her to
go into drug rehab.
But now she's suffered a
frightening relapse, say
sources, who are praying
for her recovery.
Yasmine was jailed by
the Romulus (Mich.) po-
lice, after being stopped at
10:10 p.m. about 15 mile
southwest of Detroit with
her boyfriend Paul Cerrito.
In an exclusive interview,
Commander David Early of
the Romulus Police Dept.
told The ENQUIRER the
full shocking story: "We re-
ceived an anonymous call
that a car ran off into the
median heading eastbound
on 1-94.An officer respond-
ed to the call.
"A Caucasian woman
was in the driver seat with
a male passenger. The offi-
cer noticed the female
driver appeared to be in-
toxicated and conducted a
field sobriety test. He then
placed the woman, later
identified as Yasmine
Bleeth, in handcuffs.
''.AftersearchingYasmine's
purse, the police officer
found four syringes filled
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with a liquid substance. It
tested positive for cocaine.
A plastic bag with a coke-
like residue was found in
her purse.
"The police officer took
Yasmine to nearby Oak-
wood Annapolis Hospital
where blood was drawn to
be tested for cocaine.
''While in custody Yasmine
was cooperative but ap-
peared to be extremely
upset. Neither Yasmine
nor her male passenger
were hurt in the accident.
"Yasmine was later tak-
eri to the Romulus Police
Department where she
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POLICE MUQ SHOT of a disheveled Yasmine Sleeth EDITORIAL RESURCH: Nuneu.c Dubiel
shows her looking nothing like the bathing beauty she AMI PHOTO UBRARY:
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was on "Baywatch" Cleft}. Riendeau (O.•puty Chief), Kuthleen
Huebner. Nichole Muiomnn,
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was fingerprinted and a sheer bow tie in her hair." Maureen Sikorsky Ahborino
mug shot was taken. The Yasmine was in the AMI TEXT UBRARY:
Martha Moffett (Chief), Candy
next morning she was Detroit area because her Cogswell (Ail, illlltnt), O.,n,k Cwmbu,
released on her own recog- boyfriend, Paul Cerrito, is Phenicia F.sterine, Kuthl<'Cn Taylor
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blood test and the sub- a distressed friend. EXECVTIVIE YICIE -SIDENT
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stance found in the four Pals are alarmed and
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yringes and the pla tic saddened by this tragic Colin .Jenkin,
bag found in her purse. new turn in Yasmine's life. EXECUTIVE VICE PIIESIDENT
FINAN~l"O: John Miley
"She could be charged "She's not sniffing or EUECUTIY5 YICa PIIDIDENT/CHIIIJ'
MARKETINGa.ACSR: Kevin Hy,oon
with operating a even smoking VICE-AND
vehicle under the FAST FACT cocaine - she's IIENBIAL MANAGIIR:Lurry 13orn•tein
VICE PRESIDENT GENERAL COUNSEL,
influence and po - Yasmlne's past apparently rid- Michael B. Kuhune
es ion of a boyfriends are ing the spike ,..._
PRDIDIINT,
.. MAJUCaTINO AND
Dlll■CT
controlled sub- Richard Grieco, (injecting her- PUBUCAT»N DlflmTOR,
TABLOIDS: &-tie Rockmore
Luke Perry,
tance." Matthew Perry,
self)," declared VICE PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER
DIRECTOR Of' CORPORATE SALO:
A stunned in- Grant Show a source close to Duvid Enberg
sider revealed: and Ricky Paull the case. "Her ADYER'T1SINO Mru-cRichnrd.s
DIRl!ICTOR:
"Yasmine looked Goldln. cocaine use has Copyiij!l!t ,, 2001 by Nationul Enquirer,
Inc., Ot-tober 2, 2001, Vol. 76, No.12
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treet. When the police ap- And her distressed MAIL UBSCR!PTIONS 56.96 a )~-ar in
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proached her vehicle, friend sadly admits, side US. and Cnnodn. Peiiodit11ls~
Yasmine told the officers "Yasmine has finally hit poid at llcx.11 Rllt.on,Pia, and nt udditional
muilir¥l01T'tce11in the U.S.A Canndinn GST
that she had snorted co- rock bottom." R.t'l(i..trntion No. Rl:J:l912!l'J4 R.T. The
caine within the la t hour. Now tho e close ·to her publisher us.'!llmes no re,pomibttity for
rctumitl( un,,olicit,_>d manuscript.._ photo-
She was nervous and had a hope this brush with death grnph.s, a1i.W01i<. ll'Uer., or OUIL'l'
muterin1
hard time standing still. makes her realize how far
"Yasmine was dressed in she's fallen and causes her
a purple top and a floral to get help.
print dress, she wa wear-
ing sandals and had a
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and JOHN BLOSSER
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PATRIOTIC COL
All across America, our hearts beat true for the red, white
and blue. The Stars and Stripes have inspired fashion de-
signers since Betsy Ross made the first Star-Spangled
Banner for General George Washington in 1776.And
celebrities proudly wear their own unique versions
of our Grand Old Flag. Among the patriots is pop
princess Britney Spears (left), who pays tribute
to Old Glo

shows she's
proud to be an
American at a
film festival In
France.
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