Update 17:01 GMT: French Government reinforces and reenables all over the territory "Vigipirate" security plan in fear of upcoming terrorism attacks. Russian President, Vladimir Putin told George Bush attacks shouldn't remain unpunished. No more train traffic in the north east of the US. NATO Bruxels (Belgium) headquarter evacuated. European foreign ministers to have emergency and extraordinary meeting tomorrow.
Update 16:56 GMT: F18 military planes fly over Washington and the Reagan airport to prevent any other terrorism actions. Reports state people jumped over the World Trade Center tower in despair attempts to escape fire.
Update 16:44 GMT: Arab group DFLP claims responsability (Disregarded as they don't have the means). New York United Nations building has been evacuated.
Update 16:39 GMT: 3 more jets belived to be hijacked and in the sky.
Update 16:23 GMT: American Airlines reports their two lost planes were transporting 58 passengers and 80 passengers in both.
Update 16:21 GMT: New York Mayor, Rudy Guiliano, reports that a "tremendous number of lives lost". He also asked New York citizens to leave the manhattan south area while keeping their clam.
Update 16:16 GMT: European Stocks Exchange places dramatically fell down today after the news of the various USA terrorism attacks. French CAC 40 loses 5,92%, UK FT 100 loses 3.63% while German DAX 30 loses 6.97% and EuroStoxx 40 loses 4.88%. Oil prices increased up to 10%.
Update 16:10 GMT: Part of the pentagon has collapsed. London Stock Exchange evacuated.
Update 16:07 GMT: Hijacked Jet heading for Washington - American Military scrambled to bring it down.
Update 15:58 GMT: Another crash into Camp David. 11 Planes unaccounted for.
Update 15:45 GMT: There are now reports that a plane has crashed in Pittsburg. Update 15:21 GMT: There has now been reports of an explosion on Capital hill. The trade center which collapsed contained 50,000 workers.
Update: One of the towers of the World Trade Center has now collapsed due to the plane attack earlier today. 1000's expected to have died in today's terrorist attack.
Planes crashed into the upper floors of both World Trade Center towers minutes apart today in a horrific scene of explosions and fires that left gaping holes in the 110-story building.
There was no immediate word on injuries or fatalities in the twin disasters, which happened shortly before 9 a.m. and then right around 9 a.m.
In Washington, officials said the FBI was investigating reports of a plane hijacking before the crashes.
The towers were struck by bombers in February 1993.
``The plane was coming in low and ... it looked like it hit at a slight angle,'' said Sean Murtagh, a CNN vice president, the network reported.
Large holes were visible in sides of the 110-story buildings, landmark twin towers.
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