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| | USATODAY.com - Shoot-down order issued on morning of chaos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld thought a bomb had exploded at the Pentagon, even though the military defense command had been warned 12 minutes before impact that an errant airliner was headed toward Washington. |
 | | Cheney was told that six planes had been commandeered, that a helicopter had plunged into the Pentagon, that a car bomb had blown up the State Department, and that a plane had crashed in Ohio. |
 | | As the tragedy was unfolding, Mark Kettenhofen was pleading with his wife, Suzette, to get out of the Pentagon, but Suzette, who maintains the Navy's Web site, was reluctant to leave. |
| www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2001/09/16/pentagon-timeline.htm (881 words) |
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