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9-11 Attacks Changed The World
Monday, December 31, 2001
The Associated Press

Milosevic, Spy Plane, Mad Cow Disease All Paled Before Horror Of 9/11.
Bush held his fire, built his alliance and rose in stature.

LONDON -- AP
Wherever someone watched the World Trade Center towers fall -- whether from Manhattan, Mexico or Mozambique -- it was no distant event.

The shock was most acute in the United States, but the impact rumbled across the globe in a massive military mobilization, in the hasty assembling of a diplomatic coalition against terrorism, in the accelerated decline of the world economy that had looked so healthy as 2001 began.

Swarms of people fled Afghanistan toward Pakistan or Iran, fearing the inevitable fury of U.S. military strikes against the nation that accepted Osama bin Laden as its guest.

In the wider world some companies collapsed, jobs disappeared, airlines went out of business.

Wherever you lived, life became scarier.
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2001 © The Associated Press.

Dan