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Smoke, flames and debris erupts from one of
the World Trade Center towers Tuesday. The first
tower was already burning following a terror
attack minutes earlier.
VIDEO: TOWER COLLAPSE »
|  Hospitals began the grim accounting of
the dead and injured on Wednesday, as barges
ferried bodies across the Hudson River to a
makeshift morgue and rescuers waded through the
World Trade Center's smoking rubble.
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Powell:
'We will go after them'
The
government limped back to work amid the carnage
Wednesday, its political leaders, diplomats and
soldiers leaving no doubt the terrorist assault
would be answered. "We will go after them,"
Secretary of State Colin Powell vowed. "We will
not let up."
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Lives
'suddenly ended by evil'
A grim President
Bush mourned the deaths of thousands of
Americans in Tuesday's atrocities and vowed to
avenge their killings. "Today, our nation saw
evil," he said.
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America
reacts 
Eric Gay © AP
Debra Garcia clutches her son M. Jay Garcia,
9, during an inter-faith prayer vigil in San
Antonio, Texas, on Tuesday.
| Case
prepared against bin Laden
U.S.
officials began piecing together a case linking
Osama bin Laden to the worst terrorist attack in
U.S. history, aided by an intercept of
communications between his supporters and
harrowing cell phone calls from victims aboard
the jetliners before they crashed on Tuesday.
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Battered
city binds wounds
As emergency vehicles
careened through smoky chaos, and triage centers
and morgues sprouted wherever space allowed, it
became clear that the hundreds of people
bloodied and burned by Tuesday's destruction of
the World Trade Center towers may have been the
lucky ones.
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