World News 29-08-2003 Twin Towers 911 Calls Released who: Port Authority what: Praises bravery of heroes who lost their lives as World Trade Center emergency call transcripts are published where: NEW YORK when: Yesterday snippet: A judge has ordered the publication of transcripts of 911 calls and radio transmissions by the New York Port Authority police on the morning of September 11th 2001 when two passenger jets struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan. Victims of the terrorist attack were told not to evacuate. After the first tower had been hit, a man on the 92nd floor in the other tower called the police to say: "We need to know if we need to get out," reports The Mirror. The officer replied: "I`d wait till further notice." No one who remained in the top floors of that tower survived after the second plane hit. The New York Times had called for the publication of the transripts, says The Financial Times, "arguing they were a matter of public record. After more than a year of wrangling, a New Jersey judge sided with the Times last week." "The transcripts provide the first look at the extraordinarily difficult decisions faced by both the occupants of the towers and port authority personnel as they struggled to respond to the attack," says The Scotsman. Inevitably, there has been resistance by some of the families of the dead. But in general, says Greg Trevor, a spokesman for the port authority, the local government agency that owned the World Trade Center, "they show people performing their duties very heroically and very professionally on a day of horror". [... more]

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