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...such weapons. They were "conventional," in a sense, but designed to cause great loss of life and spread chaos and despair. The hijackers didn't need sophisticated technology. Nor may their successors. The East Coast power grid, for example, has less than half a dozen key switching points. Six truck bombs, packed with nothing more sophisticated than the fertilizer that blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City six years ago, could disrupt the economy of half the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Clear And Present Danger | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...terrorist attack using a bomb carried on a car or truck 76% A terrorist attack using biological or chemical weapons 53% A terrorist attack using nuclear weapons 23% Another airplane attack like the one on Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Clear And Present Danger | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...MILLION Tons of hazardous materials hauled by truck last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For The Record Oct. 8, 2001 | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...grimy main artery, Calle Ruben Dario, homeless people are camped out in a clutter of cardboard boxes. Suddenly a caravan of vehicles wheel up, and a handful of youths pile out. They begin ladling plates of steaming beans and rice from kettles in the rear of a pickup truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Certain Charity | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...road down from the Khyber Pass, TIME photographer John Stanmeyer jumps out of our car to take pictures of Pakistani soldiers marching to an old British fort on a craggy hilltop. A narrow-faced man from Pakistani military intelligence (ISI) happens to drive by in a pickup truck and accuses Stanmeyer of being a spy. The two of us are quickly taken to the fort for interrogation. An army officer intercedes and gains our release two hours later; he gestures apologetically at the ISI man, who is fuming over our good luck. The officer cautions: "You know, this intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting Games | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

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