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^By RON FOURNIER
^Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — An aircraft crashed near the Pentagon Tuesday, and the Capitol and White House were evacuated after bomb threats.
President Bush said the two earlier plane crashes into the World Trade Center were “an apparent terrorist attack on our country.”
The Federal Aviation Administration shut down all airplane traffic nationwide.
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Other major government institutions, including Treasury and the State Department, were also evacuated.
Paul Begala, a Democratic consultant, said he witnessed an explosion near the Pentagon.
“It was a huge fireball, a huge, orange fireball,” Begala said in an interview on his cell phone.
He said another witness told him a helicopter exploded. AP reporter Dave Winslow also saw the crash. He said, “I saw the tail of a large airliner. ... It plowed right into the Pentagon.”

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Meanwhile, one of two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center was hijacked after takeoff from Boston, a U.S. official said, citing a transmission from the plane.
The second plane may have flown out of Newark, N.J., the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Asked if there was any possibility the crashes were anything other than deliberate, the official said it appeared not to be an accident, the official said.

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A somber Bush told an audience in Sarasota, Fla., gathered to hear an address on education that “this is a difficult moment for America.” He said he would be returning immediately to Washington.
“Today we’ve had a national tragedy,” Bush said. “Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country.”

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NEW YORK — Explosion hits another building near World Trade Center.
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