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Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 161

Publication:
Evening Standardi
Location:
London, Greater London, England
Issue Date:
Page:
161
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

LONDON WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2001 wwwthisislondoncouk Incorporating THE EVENING NEWS 35p BarbaraOlson7onerofJhepassengersoh light 7IwhocalledJoIsayJheplane had been Jiiiackedyand theTentagonminutes'later7afterJietplaneJiadslammed into the building killing 800 By Hugh Muir and Patrick Sawer PASSENGERS on the plane which crashed into the Pentagon killing up to 800 people were ordered to phone their loved ones by terrorists who said: them you are about to it wasreported today It is understood that the hijackers of Flight 77 from Washington herded the terrified passengers to the back of the Boeing 757 before urging them to use their mobile phones to contact family They told them to George Bush A spokesman for her family said she called her husband twice from the plane Seconds after she spoke to him for the last time the aircraft crashed into the American military command centre reportedly killing all 60 people on board and causing an explosion which destroyed six storeys of the building MShe called and said she was locked in the toilet and the plane had been said a spokesman for Mrs family MShe said the hijackers had box-cutters and knives They had rounded up the passengers at the Continued on Page 7 warn of an imminent attack on the White House which triggered a massive evacuation there but the plane was flown to the Pentagon instead Terrorists who seized four flights in total are now known to have attacked and murdered stewardesses with knives to draw the pilots from their cockpits Among the passengers who made desperate pleas for help was Barbara Olson 46 the wife of Theodore Olson the US solicitor general and a friend of President.

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