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Awaiting Word on bin Laden's Fate
September 18, 2001 Posted: 9:24 a.m. EDT (1324 GMT)

CNN
A week after terrorists turned four jets into deadly missiles of mass destruction, U.S. officials awaited word from Afghanistan's Islamic spiritual leaders on the future of prime suspect Osama bin Laden.
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Meanwhile, anxious investors awaited the opening of the New York Stock Exchange. Open on Monday for the first time since the attacks, the market set a new record for largest single day drop -- but it was not the largest percentage drop in the market's history.
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About 600 religious leaders were traveling from 30 districts across Afghanistan to Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, where they were to decide whether bin Laden, a Saudi millionaire also suspected in several terrorist attacks, would remain a "guest" in the civil war-torn country. The meeting had been scheduled to begin Tuesday, but by late in the day not all the leaders had arrived.

Meanwhile, senior Pakistani officials met with leaders from Afghanistan's ruling Taliban for a second day on Tuesday.

More than 5,000 people are feared dead in the September 11 attacks on the Pentagon and the twin towers of the World Trade Center. A fourth plane crashed in Stony Creek Township, Pennsylvania, killing everyone aboard.
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Dan