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Hijacked planes destroy World Trade Centertowers in New York, damage Pentagon

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Thousands could be dead or injured, a high-ranking New York City police official said,speaking on condition of anonymity.

A fourth jetliner, also apparently hijacked,crashed in Pennsylvania.

President Bush ordered a full-scale investiga-tion to “hunt down the folks who committed thisact.”

Authorities had been trying to evacuate thosewho work in the twin towers when the glass-and-steel skyscrapers came down in a thun-derous roar within about 90 minutes after theattacks, which took place minutes apart around9 a.m. But many people were thought to havebeen trapped. About 50,000 people work at theTrade Center and tens of thousands of othersvisit each day.

American Airlines said two of its planes, bothhijacked, crashed with a total of 156 peopleaboard, but said it could not confirm where theywent down. Two United airliners with a total of110 aboard also crashed — one outside Pitts-burgh, the other in a location not immediatelyidentified. Altogether, the planes had 266 peopleaboard.

“This is perhaps the most audacious terroristattack that’s ever taken place in the world,” saidChris Yates, an aviation expert at Jane’s Trans-port in London. “It takes a logistics operationfrom the terror group involved that is second tonone. Only a very small handful of terror groupsis on that list. ... I would name at the top of thelist Osama bin Laden.”

CNN aired videophone pictures this eveningof apparent bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan,thought to be the home of Osama bin Laden,identified as a suspect in the terrorist attack.

Within the hour, the Pentagon took a direct,devastating hit from a plane. The fiery crash col-lapsed one side of the five-sided structure.

The White House, the Pentagon and theCapitol were evacuated along with other federalbuildings in Washington and New York.

The president put the military on its highestlevel of alert. Authorities in Washington immedi-ately called out troops, including an infantry reg-iment, and the Navy sent aircraft carriers andguided missile destroyers to New York andWashington. The U.S. and Canadian borderswere sealed, security was tightened at navalinstallations and other strategic points, and allcommercial air traffic across the country was

Reaction: Nation reactswith shock, fear, outrage.Precaution: States onhigh alert.

Narrative: How the TradeCenter came down.Scene: Witnesses feelhorrified, helpless.

Mid-Columbia: Securityheightened at govern-ment installations.Blood donations: Area residents contribute.Community: Residentsreact to terrorism.

Religion: Area churchespray for peace.School: Tri-City studentsdiscuss events.

Photos: Cameras capturegrisly scenes in N.Y, D.C.

Sports: Baseball gamespostponed; games still onat area high schools.Northwest: Communities,leaders deal with terror.

Opinion: Root out ene-mies of democracy.Quotable: Reactions fromaround the world.

Taliban: Rulers condemnterrorist attacks.Reaction: Palestiniansrejoice; world stunned.

Associated PressThe south tower collapses this morning as smoke billows from both towers of the World Trade Center in New York. In oneof the most horrifying attacks ever against the United States, terrorists crashed two airliners into the World Trade Centerand brought down the twin 110-story towers.See Terror, Page 2

By The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Mounting anaudacious attack against theUnited States, terrorists crashedtwo hijacked airliners into theWorld Trade Center and broughtdown the twin 110-story towersthis morning. A jetliner alsoslammed into the Pentagon asthe government itself cameunder attack.

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Associated Press photosFirefighters fight a blaze amidst rubble after terrorists crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center in a deadly series of blows that brought down the twin 110-story towers in New York.

Smoke billows from one of the towers of the World Trade Center and flames and debris explodes from the secondtower Tuesday. In one of the most horrifying attacks ever against the United States, terrorists crashed two airlinersinto the World Trade Center in a deadly series of blows that brought down the twin 110-story towers.

he day wasforged by fire,shrouded insmoke. And

while the dawn explosionswere nearly 3,000 milesaway, the tragedy seemedmuch closer.Never before had the

United States felt so totallyat the mercy of terrorists.The nation was experi-encing a sense of horrorthat — like Pearl Harbor,like the Kennedy assassina-tion, like the OklahomaCity bombings — immedi-ately became a definingmoment for us all.We tried to deal with the

unimaginable events takingplace. Many attempted tocarry on their normal day,getting dressed for work,battling traffic, sitting attheir computer terminals,starting meetings.Then reality set in ...

➤ Capital: Eerie calm settles on D.C. A2.

➤ Aftermath: Estab-lishing death tollcould take weeks. A3.

➤ Security: Hanford,other sites on height-ened alert. A3.

➤ Surreal: Imageshard to believe. A5.

➤ Attack: Destruc-tion shatters Amer-ican security. A6.

➤ World: Attack condemned; Pales-tinians rejoice. A7.

➤ Images: Photosfrom tragedy. A8-9.

➤ Fort Lewis: Statemilitary basemourns. A10.

➤ Oregon: Securitytightened acrossstate. A11.

➤ Opinion: U.S.must not let terror-ists win. A12-13.

➤ Region: Manystranded at Tri-CitiesAirport. B1.

➤ Services: Faithoffers solace. B1. — From the San Jose Mercury News

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Tragedy sinks inBy The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Federalauthorities have identified morethan a dozen hijackers of MiddleEastern descent in Tuesday’sbombings and gathered evidencelinking them to Osama binLaden and other terrorist net-works, law enforcement officialssaid. In all, perhaps 50 peoplewere involved in the plot, govern-ment officials say.

The massive investigationstretched from the Canadianborder, where officials suspect

some of the hijackers entered thecountry, to Florida, where someof the participants are believed tohave learned how to fly commer-cial jetliners before the attacks.Locations in Massachusetts andFlorida were searched for evi-dence.

The names of two men beingsought by authorities emerged inFlorida. There, the FBI inter-viewed a family who gave themtemporary shelter a year ago.

The officials, speaking on con-

Officials identifysuspects, gatherlinks to bin Laden


NEW YORK — As the smol-dering ashes of the World TradeCenter slowly yielded unimagin-able carnage, investigatorsfanned out across the countryWednesday to track the conspir-ators who orchestrated anunprecedented day of terrorfrom the air.

In one indication of thepotential death toll, MayorRudolph Giuliani was askedabout a report that the city hasrequested 6,000 body bags fromfederal officials. “Yes, I believethat’s correct,” the mayor said.

In another, 2,500 people vis-ited a grief counseling centerhandling questions about

missing family membersWednesday.

The last few floors thatremained of the trade center’ssouth tower collapsedWednesday afternoon in yetanother cloud of thick smoke.No injuries were reported, butrescuers were evacuated frompart of the area where the1,350-foot titans stood.

Police and fire officials saidthere were problems with other“mini-collapses” among somebadly damaged buildingsnearby, and when the towerswere destroyed, the MarriottWorld Trade Center hotel fellwith them.


WASHINGTON — Thousands of pas-sengers whose flights were diverted afterTuesday’s terror attacks began resumingtheir journeys Wednesday, but officials keptthe rest of the nation’s commercial air fleeton the ground.

Federal transportation officials said theywon’t reopen the skies to all planes untilthey can ensure the safety of the passengers.

One plane that was diverted to Canadalanded Wednesday night in the Northeast,the Federal Aviation Administration said,and other flights were on their way home.

Transportation Secretary Norman Minetasaid Wednesday that only those flightsdiverted Tuesday because of four hijackingsand intentional crashes would be allowed tocontinue to their original destinations. Onlypassengers originally on the flights couldreboard, and only after airports had imposednew security procedures. Some passengersslept in the planes Tuesday night.

Mineta could give neither a time nor a datefor full resumption of air service, stopped byunprecedented government order after the

The Journal NewsNew York City firefighters Tuesday raise a flag from the rubble of the World Trade Center. Two hijacked air-liners crashed into the twin towers, which subsequently collapsed, killing and injuring the trapped and rescuers.

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NEW YORK — With fires stillsmoldering and other buildingsin danger of collapsingWednesday night, only 82 bodieshad been recovered and at leastfive people had been pulled outalive, New York Mayor RudyGiuliani said. About 20,000people worked in the two towersand tens of thousands more inother buildings at the WorldTrade Center, though manyescaped before the buildings col-lapsed. About 300 firefightersand 70 police officers were alsomissing.

“There are thousands andthousands and thousands ofdead,” said Dr. Ira Warheit, a vol-unteer medical worker on thescene.

“I really think this is a situationwe’re going to be living with for awhile, which is we’ll only knowwhether we’ve saved someone orrecovered someone’s body whenthat actually happens,” Giulianisaid at a news conference. Heapologized that he could not offeranything more concrete to rela-tives desperate for information.

Jose Oyola, a hospital medicaltechnician, was with a team ofseven doctors and medical tech-nicians who found a semicon-scious female police officermoaning and pinned under a 10-foot-long beam, bleeding heavilyfrom a wound on her leg.

A crane couldn’t get to thearea, so they tried hefting thebeam. But it was too heavy. Theonly solution: Amputate her leg.

“Once we got the leg off of her,we tied her up, started an IV withblood transfusion” and got her toa triage center, Oyola said.

No survivors were taken tonearby St. Vincent’s Hospital onWednesday, said Dr. LeonardBakalchuk. The only peopletreated during the day wereemergency workers with respira-tory problems, an eye abrasionand heat exhaustion.

“We didn’t end up with thenumber of patients we expectedbecause of the fact that people areunder rubble,” Bakalchuk said.

Special coverage➤ Worldwide: Palestinians try to alterimage; Pentagon survivors talk. A6-A7.

➤ Images: More photos of damageleft by terrorist attacks. A8-A9.

➤ Opinion: Usually vocal writers at lossfor words as others speak out. A12-13.

➤ Mid-Columbia: Current, former Tri-Citians share stories. B1.

Search for bodiesfollows destruction

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FAA allows some planesto complete journeys

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■ ‘Mini-collapses’ shake Trade Center rescuers

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■ Officials keep ban in effect until security measures met

Herald/Molly Van WagnerTri-Cities Airport officials walk through a security zone in front of the airportWednesday. After Tuesday’s terrorist attacks, the Federal Aviation Administra-tion grounded all commercial flights.

By John TrumboHerald staff writer

A day after Tuesday’s horrific terroristattacks on the World Trade Center and thePentagon, Mid-Columbia residents resolvedto get on with life in the face of tragedy.

The assault on American soil 3,000 milesaway cut deeply into the soul of EasternWashington, but it also affirmed for manythat freedom is worth the cost.

Hundreds of Tri-Citians snapped uppatriotic red, white, blue and yellow ribbons

made available Wednesday as icons of anindomitable American spirit.

Schools in the Tri-Cities carried on, busi-nesses resumed regular hours and peoplefaced the day after with a renewed commit-ment to be united as a nation.

Many Tri-City crafts and fabric storeswere selling out of patriotic ribbons, yellowribbons and black ribbons.

People were purchasing as many as 10spools of red-white-and-blue ribbon, saidJani Prater, assistant manager at HancockFabrics in Kennewick.

“In a day or two, red, white and blue willbe scarce,” she said, wearing a patrioticribbon on a yellow ribbon background.

Life returning to normal for Mid-Columbians■ East Coast attacks bring out patriotic spirit in Tri-Cities

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Above: A tank crew stands on top of their M1Ai Abrams tank linedup in a front position Wednesday night as the U.S. Army 3rdBrigade prepared to move north to a location near the Iraq border.The crew named their tank “Apophis” after the Egyptian god ofdeath and war. Below: An F/A-18 Hornet aircraft pilot gives the

thumbs up Wednesday before takeoff from the flight deck the USSHarry S. Truman aircraft carrier, which cruises in the easternMediterranean Sea. The Truman and its battle group are preparingfor the strike against Iraq. The United States launched attacks asultimatum for Saddam to leave Iraq ended.


The United States launchedthe opening salvo Wednesdaynight of a war to topple SaddamHussein, firing cruise missilesand precision-guided bombs intoBaghdad. U.S. officials said theIraqi leader himself was amongthe targets.

“This will not be a campaign ofhalf-measures, and we will acceptno outcome but victory,” Presi-dent Bush said in an Oval Officeaddress shortly after explosionsricocheted through the pre-dawnlight of the Iraqi capital.

Anti-aircraft tracer fire arcedacross the Baghdad sky as theAmerican munitions bore in ontheir targets. A ball of fire shotskyward after one explosion. Thestrikes used Tomahawk cruisemissiles, and precision-guidedbombs dropped from F-117Nighthawks, the Air Force’sstealth fighter-bombers, militaryofficials said.

Saddam appeared on state-runtelevision a few hours after theattack. He said the United Stateshad committed a “shamefulcrime” by attacking Iraq andurged his country to “draw yoursword” against the enemy. Heappeared unhurt and wore a mil-itary uniform.

“We promise you that Iraq, itsleadership and its people willstand up to the evil invaders, andwe will take them to such limits

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■ Saddam: U.S. actions ‘shameful’ ■ 300,000 troops await more orders

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of stories, graphics and photos covering the most recent developments in the war with Iraq.

By Kristina Lord and John StangHerald staff writers

Heartfelt prayers, soothingstained glass windows andtapered candles flickering on thealtar at Richland LutheranChurch provided the peacefulsanctuary parishioners soughtWednesday evening as thecountry braced for war with Iraq.

A couple of blocks away, ahandful of protesters continuedtheir daily anti-war vigil next toRichland City Hall on busyGeorge Washington Way. Theyplan to continue their protest forthe duration of the war.

The church’s service for peaceand the safety of those serving inthe military or living abroad wasespecially important for GretchenIsakson on Wednesday. The 5:30p.m. meeting coincided with Pres-ident Bush’s 48-hour ultimatumfor Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

“It’s absolutely more poignant.It’s foremost in all of our minds,”she said.

The Richland woman has been

faithfully attending the church’sweekly prayer services since theybegan after Sept. 11. Fifteenothers attended Wednesday’ssolemn ceremony.

“We thought this is somethingwe need to continue doingbecause there’s a lot of people inharm’s way,” said Pastor BillMartens. “There’s a lot of peoplein the military and exchange stu-

dents and people involved in thePeace Corps.”

Martens read about 70 namesof those serving in the armedforces or residing overseas thatwere submitted by parishioners.

Isakson’s future son-in-law’sname was among those on thelist. Her 30-year-old daughter,

Tri-Citians unite for prayer

Herald/Molly Van WagnerGretchen Isakson of Richland has been attending a weekly prayerservice in the chapel of Richland Lutheran Church since they beganafter Sept. 11. “It’s very important for me to be there,” she said.“There’s just something about coming and bonding with otherbelieving Christians that is just very special.”

By the Herald staff

As the bombs fell in IraqWednesday night, a heavinessfell in Michelle Aparicio’s heart.

The Prosser woman said shedidn’t know if her husbandwas in Iraq. If he was indanger. If he was in the midstof the violence.

Raymond Aparicio, 32, wascalled to active duty with theArmy National Guard lastmonth but couldn’t tell his wifewhere he was going. She couldonly sit and worry as thesomber news about thebombing began.

“I just can’t wait to hearwhere he is,” said MichelleAparicio, 33. “It’s just kind ofscary not knowing if he’s there.If he was somewhere in theU.S., he’d call.”

The Prosser woman, likemany in the Mid-Columbia,

kept a vigil in front of the tele-vision as “the possible war withIraq” materialized.

Aparicio last heard from herhusband last week. He told herhe was in Italy but said so in away that she knew he waslying.

“I could tell he was scared,”his wife said. “I figured theywere going. He told me, ‘Don’tworry if anything happens. Itwill be swift.’ I’m just kind of inshock. I don’t know where myhusband is at. (His unit) is notallowed to say anything to me,and I don’t know where he is.”

Raymond Aparicio wascalled to active duty immedi-ately after Sept. 11 and workedas an airport security guard atthe Tri-Cities Airport for ninemonths. When his life wentback to normal after he wasreleased from active duty, heapplied for a job and was hiredby the Pasco Police Depart-ment in November. He washalfway through the policeacademy when recalled to


BAGRAM, Afghanistan —About 1,000 U.S. troops andattack helicopters swept into vil-lages in southern Afghanistantoday in a new military operationto flush out remaining al-Qaidaterrorists and their allies, an Armyspokesman said.

The operation, code-named“Valiant Strike,” began with anearly morning air assault assistedby a ground convoy in theremote, mountainous area ofsouthern Kandahar province,Col. Roger King told reporters.

It was a coincidence that theoperation began at the same timeas U.S. forces began a broad mil-itary operation in Iraq, King said.

“Operations in Afghanistan areconducted completely inde-pendent of any operations inother sectors,” he said. An opera-tion of similar size took place inneighboring Helmand provinceabout a month ago. Several sus-pected militants were killed, andabout 30 were captured.

King said the raids would focuson areas east of Kandahar. Theprovince is the former spiritualheadquarters of the ousted Tal-iban regime, which is allied withthe al-Qaida network suspected ofcarrying out the Sept. 11 attacks.

King declined to say what thegoal of the operation was orwhether it targeted al-Qaidaleader Osama bin Laden.

The operation was likely tocontinue for two or three days,said Lt. Coryll Angel, a U.S. mili-tary spokesman in Kandahar.

The assault was one of thebiggest in Afghanistan sinceOperation Anaconda just morethan year ago, King said. Thateight-day battle pitted hundredsof Taliban and al-Qaida fightersagainst thousands of Americanand allied Afghan troops.

Since then, the multinational,U.S.-led coalition headquarteredat Bagram Air Base has carried outat least a dozen major offensives.

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U.S. raidsAfghanvillages■ 1,000 troops huntfor al-Qaida members

■ Richland Lutheranbegan weekly servicesafter Sept. 11 attacks

Bushfollowsthroughwith war

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Mid-Columbiansrespond to combat■ Prosser woman’shusband deployed toan unknown location

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Associated PressCapt. Pete McAleer of San Diego, Calif., with the 15th Marine Expe-ditionary Unit shows a little girl’s identification Wednesday foundamong documents strewn in an abandoned Iraqi security facility,which included a suspected torture chamber in Nasiriyah.


NASIRIYAH, Iraq — The Marine patrolthought they found a small police station — a one-story building in this impoverished city in southernIraq.

But deep inside, they found a wooden stockade,what looked like a primitive electric chair andphotos of burned bodies amid reams of surveil-lance documents. Five tiny cells weren’t just toimprison people, it seemed, but to torture them.

“It looks a bit too much like Nazi Germany tome,” said Capt. Pete McAleer, commander of EchoCompany of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit,whose patrol found the small compound.

Across Iraq, coalition troops are finding glimpses

of past horrors — suspected torture chambers,secret police headquarters, Iraqis who reveal scarsto show the cruelty of Saddam Hussein’s rulecarved onto their bodies.

At a prison in Basra, Iraqis showed journalists awhite stone jail known as the “White Lion” wherethey claim Saddam’s secret police for decades tor-tured inmates with beatings, mutilations, electricshocks and chemical baths.

“They did unthinkable things — electrocution,immersion in a bath of chemicals and ripping offpeople’s finger- and toenails,” resident HamedFattil told British reporters.

Outside the jail, a man showed Associated PressTelevision News his mangled ears — he said Iraqipolice cut them off.

Fattil said Iraqi police locked him and his twobrothers in a jail dungeon in 1991, and that he was

By John StangHerald staff writer

The Department of Energysued Washington’s Departmentof Ecology on Wednesday, con-tending the state does not havethe right to unilaterally set dead-lines for cleanup of transuranicwastes at Hanford.

Federal attorneys filed lawsuitsin U.S. District Court and BentonCounty Superior Court.

The federal agency wants tonullify recent decisions by TomFitzsimmons, the EcologyDepartment’s director, for regu-lating the wastes.

The agency views his decision,plus an earlier state lawsuit, ashindering federal plans to speedup nuclear cleanup at Hanford.

Transuranic wastes are junklaced with highly radioactivematerials such as plutonium andneptunium. Hanford has about75,000 barrels of buriedtransuranic wastes and another9,000 barrels stored aboveground.

The state claims the Tri-PartyAgreement — the legal pact gov-erning Hanford’s cleanup — saysthe Energy Department and itsregulators must negotiate a dead-line to finish excavating, treatingand shipping the wastes.

DOE contends the state has noauthority over those wastes.

On March 11, Fitzsimmonsdeclared DOE must have treat-ment and storage facilities inplace at Hanford by June 2012.And he said DOE must submit byAug. 31 a detailed plan andschedule to meet that goal.

Fitzsimmons cited part of theTri-Party Agreement that givesthe Ecology Department’sdirector the final say in any dead-locked dispute between DOE andits regulators. However, theagreement also gives DOE theright to appeal.

The state expected DOE toappeal.

DOE’s cleanup czar JessieRoberson said in a news releaseWednesday: “Recent actions bythe state of Washington couldhave a chilling effect on cleanupoperations at Hanford and else-where. (DOE) has fundamentallychanged the cleanup programsfor every site in the country. Ourbalanced and integrated cleanupapproach is making progress.”

She contended the state’sactions could have “unintendedconsequences” of halting ship-ments of transuranic wastesaround the country.

But Sheryl Hutchison, EcologyDepartment spokeswoman, saidthe state is trying to hold the fed-eral agency to an enforceablecleanup schedule at Hanford.

Associated PressThe head of a giant Saddam Hussein statue is broken upWednesday by Iraqis in Baghdad.


BAGHDAD, Iraq — For theweary members of “Attack” Com-pany, it was a happy moment in along day. Iraqi crowds werewaving, grinning, cheering as theArmy soldiers moved up the streetWednesday toward the tourismdepartment.

It turned in an instant.From somewhere in the air

came weapons fire — a rocket-propelled grenade. Explosions.An American down. U.S. tanksreturning fire. Urban combat.

From the beginning, this waswhat the Americans had dreaded— the nightmare scenario ofblameless civilians on the street,peril from dark corners andsudden fighting in a city.

The mission, as laid out, wassimple.

The company, with the 3rd Bat-talion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rdInfantry Division, was ordered to

More inside■ Chemicals: Commanderpuzzled at response toexposure. A6■ Celebrate: Kurds rejoiceat Saddam’s downfall. A6■ Questions: Answers stillsought on POWs, chem-ical weapons. A7■ Rally: Hundreds of Her-miston residents marchin support of troops. B1■ Support: Red Crossoffers support group ledby professionals for mili-tary families. B2■ Expecting: Soldiers’pregnant wives faceadditional burdens. D6

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BAGHDAD, Iraq — Theirhour of freedom at hand, jubilantIraqis celebrated the collapse ofSaddam Hussein’s murderousregime Wednesday, beheading atoppled statue of their longtimeruler in downtown Baghdad andembracing American troops asliberators.

“I’m 49, but I never lived asingle day. Only now will I startliving,” said Yussuf Abed Kazim,a mosque preacher. A young Iraqispat on a portrait of Saddam.Men hugged Americans in fullcombat gear, and women held upbabies so soldiers riding on tankscould kiss them.

Iraqis released decades of pent-up fury as U.S. forces solidifiedtheir grip on the capital. Marinetanks rolled to the eastern bank ofthe Tigris River; the Army was onthe western side of the waterwaythat curls through the ancientcity.

Looting broke out in the capitalas Iraqis, shedding their fear ofthe regime, entered governmentfacilities and made off with furni-ture, computers, air conditionersand even military jeeps.

“We are not seeing any organ-ized resistance,” said Navy Capt.Frank Thorp at the U.S. CentralCommand. “The Iraqi military isunable to fight as an organizedfighting force.” And Maj. Gen.Buford C. Blount III, commanderof the Army’s 3rd Infantry Divi-sion, told reporters that “the endof the combat phase is daysaway.”

At a Pentagon briefing,Defense Secretary DonaldRumsfeld said Saddam “is takinghis rightful place” alongside suchbrutal dictators of the past asAdolf Hitler, Josef Stalin andVladimir Lenin.

And while Rumsfeld and otherAmerican officials cautioned thatcombat may lie ahead, Iraq’sU.N. ambassador told reportersthat “the game is over, and I hopepeace will prevail.” MohammedAl-Douri’s comments toreporters in New York were thefirst admission by an Iraqi officialthat Saddam’s forces had beenoverwhelmed.

There was continued combatin cities to the north, though,where government troops wereunder attack from U.S. andBritish warplanes.

Early today, Marines took con-trol of a palace after a fierce,three-hour firefight in which oneMarine was killed and at leasteight wounded.

The scenes of liberation inBaghdad and celebrations inscattered other cities unfolded asthe Pentagon announced that102 American troops had died inthe first three weeks of Opera-tion Iraqi Freedom. Elevenothers are missing and seven

■ Iraqis celebrate asU.S. forces tear downSaddam Hussein statue

Battle not yet overfor coalition forces

Troops suspect torture chambers

DOE sues stateEcology

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■ DOE says state hasno right to set cleanupdeadlines for Hanford

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A smiling Iraqi boy flashes V-for-victory signs Wednesday as he walks with Marines in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. Jubilant crowds swarmed into Baghdad’s streets, dancing,

looting and defacing images of Saddam Hussein as U.S. commanders declared that his regime’s rule over the capital hadended.

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■ Coalition forces find what Iraqissay is evidence of past atrocities

■ U.S. faces grenadeattack even as Iraqiscrowd street cheering


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‘We got him’By The Associated Press

BAGHDAD — Cornered alone in a cramped holenear one of his sumptuous palaces, a weary, disheveledSaddam Hussein was seized by U.S. troops and dis-played on television screens worldwide Sunday, ahumiliating fate for one of history’s most brutal dicta-tors.

The man who waged and lost two wars against theUnited States and its allies was armed with a pistolwhen captured in aStyrofoam-cov-ered undergroundhide-out, but didnot resist, the U.S.military said. In thebroadcast images,he resembled adesperate fugitive,not an all-powerfulpresident who hadordered his armyto fight to thedeath.

“Ladies andgentlemen, we gothim,” U.S. admin-istrator PaulBremer said at a conference. “The tyrant is a prisoner.”

“He was just caught like a rat,” said Maj. Gen. Ray-mond Odierno, whose 4th Infantry Division troopsstaged the raid. “When you’re in the bottom of a holeyou can’t fight back.”

Whether Saddam’s capture would curtail Iraq’sinsurgency, however, was unclear. President Bush cau-tioned that more anti-coalition attacks were expected,and Odierno said the lack of communications equip-ment in the hide-out indicated Saddam was not com-manding the resistance.

Early today, a car bomb went off outside a police sta-tion in western Baghdad, injuring at least four people,witnesses said. The blast in the Ameriyah districtappeared to target the police force’s bureau of criminalinvestigations. Four people were seen being carriedaway from the scene.

U.S. officials declined to specify Saddam’s where-abouts, saying late Sunday only that he had been movedto a secure location. The Dubai-based Arab TV stationAl-Arabiya said he was taken to Qatar, though thatcould not be confirmed.

The Americans made clear, however, that Saddamfaces intensive interrogation — foremost, what heknows about the ongoing insurgency against the U.S.-led occupation, and later about his regime’s unconven-tional weapons programs.

During the arrest of Saddam, U.S. troops discovered“descriptive written material of significant value,”another U.S. commander told The Associated Press,speaking on condition of anonymity. He declined to saywhether the material related to the anti-coalition resist-ance.

By Nathan IsaacsHerald staff writer

The capture of Saddam Hussein Saturdaywas a morale boost for many Mid-Columbiafamilies with military loved ones engagedthroughout the world in the fight againstterror.

“We’re really excited,” said Alberta Red-

wing of Kennewick. She received an e-mailfrom her son Pfc. Jacob Redwing earlySunday with a guarded account of what hap-pened.

Redwing, 21, is a member of the FortHood, Texas-based 4th Infantry Division,whose soldiers captured Saddam during araid of an Iraqi farmhouse.

Redwing was on duty nearby when the raidoccurred, he wrote his mother, and knewimmediately that Saddam had been taken.

“He said it really picked up the morale forthe troops and that everyone was excited,” she

said. “We all feel pretty happy and hope thatthis is a start to the end. I’ll support them 100percent ’till every last one our children comehome.”

Several hundred men and women from theMid-Columbia are in the Middle East or areheading there as members of the military’sactive units or its reserves.

Many of their family members on Sundayreflected on what the capture means to thewar, when soldiers will return home and what

➤ Hundreds of soldierstake part in raid. A4.➤ Interrogators pressfor intelligence. A4.

➤ Some Iraqis mournSaddam’s fall. A5.➤ Capture a boon toapproval of Bush. A5.

➤ World leaders praiseU.S. arrest. A5.➤ Car bomb at Iraqipolice station kills 17. A8.

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U.S. soldiers capture Saddam near Tikrit

■ U.S. troops find ex-Iraqi presidenthiding in a cramped hole in the ground

■ Capture relieves families of Mid-Columbia soldiers

Captured former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein speaks in Baghdad onSunday in this image from television. Top U.S. administrator in IraqPaul Bremer confirmed the capture of former Iraqi president Saddam

in a dirt hole under a farmhouse near his hometown of Tikrit, eightmonths after the fall of Baghdad. Top: Iraqis burn a banknote with theimage of Saddam. Right: Saddam after officials shaved his beard.

Raid boosts Tri-City morale

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Adil Rikabu, left, leads a group northbound Sunday on Colby Avenue near WallStreet in downtown Everett, celebrating the capture of Saddam Hussein whilechanting Iraqi slogans thanking the United States for his capture.

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WASHINGTON — President Bushsaid Sunday that Saddam Hussein’s cap-ture marks the end of “a dark and painfulera” in Iraq but cautioned that it does notmean the end of violence.

Bush said Saddam “will face the justicehe denied to millions.”

“It marks the end of the road for himand all who killed and bullied in his name,”Bush said in a nationally broadcast addressfrom the Cabinet Room.

Just after Bush spoke, large explosionswere heard in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital.

Bush was alerted Saturday afternoon byDefense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld thatU.S. forces believed they had capturedSaddam. But the final confirmation did notcome until 5:14 a.m. EST Sunday. That

was when his national security adviser,Condoleezza Rice, called the president tosay that the suspect was indeed the formerIraqi leader.

After three decades in power, Saddamwas captured without a single shot, hidingin an underground hide-out on a farm nearhis hometown of Tikrit.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist called it“a remarkable day for the world” and“probably the single most dramatic step inthis war.” But many challenges still lieahead in Iraq, said Frist, R-Tenn.

But Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the vicechairman of the Senate Intelligence Com-mittee, cautioned the capture likely will notend the insurgent attacks against U.S.troops in Iraq. U.S. officials were wary of

Bush celebrates custody

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■ Arrest marks end of ‘dark and painful era,’ president says

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WASHINGTON — Osamabin Laden, the glowering mas-termind behind the Sept. 11,2001, terrorattacks thatkilled thou-sands of Amer-icans, was slainin a firefightSunday withU.S. forces inPakistan, end-ing a manhuntthat spanneda frustratingdecade.

“Justice hasbeen done,”P r e s i d e n tObama said ina dramatic late-night announce-ment at the White House.

A jubilant crowd of thousandsgathered outside the WhiteHouse as word spread of binLaden’s death. Hundreds moresang and waved American flagsat Ground Zero in New York —where the twin towers that oncestood as symbols of Americaneconomic power were broughtdown by bin Laden’s hijackers 10years ago.

Another hijacked planeslammed into the Pentagon onthat cloudless day, and a fourthwas commandeered by passen-gers who forced it to theground before it could reach itsintended target in Washington.

U.S. officials said the helicop-ter raid in Pakistan was carriedout by CIA paramilitariestogether with the elite NavySEAL Team Six. The U.S. teamtook custody of bin Laden’sremains, which American offi-cials said were being handled inaccordance with Islamic tradi-tion.

The death marks a psycho-logical triumph in a long strug-gle, although its ultimateimpact on al-Qaida is less clear.

The greatest terrorist threatto the U.S. is now considered tobe the al-Qaida franchise in

Yemen, far from al-Qaida’s corein Pakistan. The Yemen branchalmost took down a U.S.-boundairliner on Christmas 2009 andnearly detonated explosivesaboard two U.S. cargo planeslast fall. Those operations werecarried out without any directinvolvement from bin Laden.

Obama said he gave theorder for the operation afterreceiving intelligence informa-tion that he did not furtherdescribe.

Former President George W.Bush, who was in office on theday of the attacks, issued awritten statement hailing binLaden’s death as a momentousachievement. “The fightagainst terror goes on, buttonight America has sent anunmistakable message: Nomatter how long it takes, jus-tice will be done,” he said.

Senior administration offi-

cials said the terrorist master-mind was found inside a cus-tom-built compound with twosecurity gates. They said itappeared to have been con-structed to harbor one high-value target and that for undis-closed reasons, officialsbelieved the hideout was binLaden’s.

Officials also said they

believe the death puts binLaden’s al-Qaida on a path ofdecline that will be difficult toreverse, but there was noword on the whereabouts ofbin Laden’s second-in-com-

mand, Ayman al-Zawahri.The stunning end to the

world’s most widely-watchedmanhunt came just monthsbefore the 10th anniversary ofthe Sept. 11 attacks on theWorld Trade Centers and Pen-tagon, orchestrated by al-Qaida, that killed nearly 3,000people.

The attacks a decade agoseemed to come out ofnowhere, even though al-Qaidahad previously struck Ameri-can targets overseas.

The terrorists hijackedplanes, flew one of them intoone of Manhattan’s Twin Tow-ers — and, moments later, intothe other one. Both buildingscollapsed, trapping thousandsinside and also claiming thelives of firefighters and otherswho had rushed to help them.

Osama bin Laden is dead

ANNETTE CARY

HERALD STAFF WRITER

A teenager was shot Sunday after-noon at the busy Pasco Flea Market inwhat was likely a gang-related inci-dent.

He’s the third person shot sinceWednesday in Pasco.

Pasco police still are investigating

and determining which of the shoot-ings and other weekend incidents ofviolence may be related, possibly aspart of ongoing gang retaliation.

Police were called to the flea marketat East Lewis Place near Highway 12and the Pasco-Kahlotus highwayabout 2:45 p.m. Sunday. Hundreds ofpeople were enjoying the nice weather,shopping the market’s stalls that havea mix of Mexican and U.S. goods andfood.

Police had a report that someonehad been shot, but when they arrivedthey found a young teenager who hadbeen assaulted in a fistfight, said

Pasco Sgt. Mike Monroe. No one saidthey knew anything about a gunfire,he said.

But as another patrol car was arriv-ing, a car leaving the flea marketstopped and a 17-year-old with a gun-shot wound to the chest got out of thecar, Monroe said.

He was taken to Kennewick GeneralHospital. Although the injury did notappear to be life-threatening, he willneed surgery, Monroe said.

The young teen who had been hit inthe head during the fistfight was takento Lourdes Medical Center in Pasco.

The two people in the car with the

teen who was shot are being inter-viewed by police, and the shootingappears gang related at this point inthe investigation, Monroe said.

Police still are piecing together howthe fistfight was related to the shoot-ing, but know they happened in thesame area and at the same time, hesaid.

About an hour after the flea marketshooting, police got several calls frompeople in the neighborhood east ofEast Oregon Avenue. They reportedshots fired from a car as two carschased each other around the neigh-borhood that includes Broadway

Boulevard, Hugo Avenue and DouglasAvenue.

A parked car was hit and peoplelinked to gangs were seen running onthe street, Monroe said. The carsinvolved in the chase included amaroon Cadillac and a gray or silverHonda.

Saturday night, Pasco police alsoresponded to a gang fight about 11 p.m.at Kim’s Conoco at 1909 Court St. Noweapons were involved, but a car wasseized that appeared to have a weaponinside, Monroe said.

Police investigating rash of possible gang-related shootingsAttack on teenager atPasco flea market is thirdincident since Wednesday

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WASHINGTON — A mem-ber of a wealthy Saudi familywho had gone astray, Osamabin Laden earned his combatspurs by fighting withAfghanistan’s ragtag Muja-hadeen army to drive occupy-ing Soviet troops out of theirhomeland in the 1980s.

Ironically, the group had U.S.backing.

Bin Laden, though, had a farbigger vision, one that wouldlead him to be reviled by West-ern civilization and hailed as afolk hero among Islamicextremists by becoming theface of a 19-year campaign ofglobal terror. It peaked with theSept. 11, 2001, hijackings thatleft 2,972 people dead in NewYork, Virginia and Pennsylva-nia.

Violentlegacystretchesbackdecades

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Associated PressA crowd gathers outside the White House in Washington, D.C., early today to celebrate after President Obama announced the death of Osamabin Laden.

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‘Today’s achievement is a testament to the greatest of our country and the determination of the American people.’ — President Obama

Al-Qaida leader killedin raid by Navy SEALsand CIA operatives

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tonight America hassent an unmistakablemessage: No matterhow long it takes,

justice will be done.

President Obama, announcingdeath of Osama bin Laden

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