IF NOT TERROR, WHAT WAS IT?

摘要

In the first moments after amer- ican Airlines Flight 587 went down last Monday, the unthinkable seemed to be happening again: an airliner crashes in New York City, Air Force fighters scramble, tunnels are closed, the Empire State Building is evacuated, and the United Nations is locked down. As sirens wailed and hundreds of fire fighters converged on the scene, 8 million New Yorkers tensed with a fear that they were still in the terrorists' cross hairs. "Be brave ... Stay calm," urged Mayor Rudy Giuliani, reprising a sick-eningly familiar role as a dozen homes blazed around him.