The attacks of September 11th, 2001 came as
a huge surprise, shocking the world and immediately dominating the news
around the world. Ten years later, the reverberations from that shock
and the varying reactions to it continue to affect nearly everyone in
ways large and small. While most people remember where they were on that
day, it can be difficult to recall what else was happening in the days
just before. I thought it would be interesting to go through the
newswires and find photos of events taking place around the world during
the week of September 3 to September 10, 2001. Some of the photos are
directly related to the upcoming attacks, or the fallout that resulted,
many have nothing at all to do with the attacks, but simply show
glimpses of what was happening at that time. Gathered here is a time
capsule of images taken during this week of September, one decade ago,
before everything changed. This entry is part one of a three-part series
on the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks. [41 photos]
Iraqi president Saddam Hussein listens to Deputy Prime Minister Tariq
Aziz as they look at a model of the al-Amiria shelter on September 3,
2001 in Baghdad. The shelter was hit by two air-to-surface missiles
during the 1991 Gulf war, and more than 400 of its occupants were
killed. (INA/Getty Images) # 
An Air France Concorde takes off from the Charles de Gaulle airport in
Roissy, north of Paris, on September 4, 2001, at the beginning of a new
round of training flights to prepare pilots and flight instructors for
the aircraft's possible return to commercial use. The Concorde fleet was
grounded after an Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris in July
2000, killing 113 people. Normal commercial operations resumed in
November of 2001. The Concorde was retired in October of 2003 due to
high costs and low passenger numbers driven in part by the post-9/11
slowdown in air travel. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours) #
A giant statue representing Aumism sect founder Gilbert Bourdin falls
to its destruction following a controlled explosion in Castellane,
southern France, on September 6, 2001. Local authorities had ordered the
destruction of the 33-meter high (100-foot) statue built by Bourdin and
his followers near the protected natural site around the Verdon Gorge.
The statue had been the center of an eight year legal battle over the
legitimacy of its building permits. (AP Photo/Eric Gaillard) #
President George W. Bush, surrounded by Washington, DC area Pop Warner
League football players in the White House Rose Garden, watches his coin
toss to decide which teams would kickoff games on opening day of the
National Football League's regular season, on September 9, 2001. (Tina Hager/The White House) #
Unidentified female detainees of the Shelter Now International get into
a car to leave the Supreme Court in Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 8,
2001. Eight foreign aid workers appeared Saturday at the Taliban's
highest court for the first time to plead their case on charges they
preached Christianity in the devoutly Muslim nation. They said they were
not guilty. Among the aid workers were Americans Heather Mercer, and
Dayna Curry. After the attacks of 9/11 and subsequent invasion of
Afghanistan, the aid workers were held by the Taliban even as they
retreated -- until they were freed by anti-Taliban forces in November of
2001. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash) #
Security guards stand outside the ruling Taliban's Supreme Court
buildings in Kabul on September 8, 2001. Eight foreign aid workers, on
trial for promoting Christianity in Islamic Afghanistan, appeared for
the first time in court since their arrest five weeks ago saying they
were innocent of proselytizing. (Reuters/Zahid Hussein) #
Sgt. First Class James Freeman speaks with a potential U.S. Army
recruit on September 6, 2001 at a recruiting station in New York City.
The U.S. Army announced that it was experiencing it's most successful
recruiting year since 1997, having met it's recruiting goals for the
2001 fiscal year one month early partly due to the recent economic
downturn that was affecting the labor market. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) #
A satellite image of the Pentagon Building near Washington, D.C., taken
on September 7, 2001 by the IKONOS satellite. Four days later, American
Airlines Flight 77 would be crashed into the western wall (top right in
this photo), killing 189 aboard the flight and on the ground. (Space Imaging/Getty Images) #
A group of young Iranians, wearing special head-to-toe outfit in
accordance with the Islamic dress code, stage a ceremonial show in
celebration of the anniversary of Women's Day in Iran, which coincides
with the birth anniversary of Saint Fatemeh Zahra, Prophet Mohammad's
daughter, in Tehran, on September 9, 2001. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) #
King Carl Gustaf of Sweden reacts after a young man threw a strawberry
cake in his face during a royal visit to the southwestern city of
Varberg, Sweden, on September 5, 2001. The king was not hurt. The
16-year old cake thrower was wrestled to the ground by bodyguards and
immediately detained by police. The motive was unknown. (AP Photo/Pressens Bild/Ljud-Bildskolan Varberg) #
Aviatrix Carlene Mendieta taxis to the runway on September 5, 2001
before departing Westchester County Airport in New York in an antique
aircraft beginning her three-week flight in re-creating Amelia Earhart's
1928 record-setting flight across America and back. The flight, landed
in 23 cities along the historic route and covered approximately 5,500
miles at an average speed of 82 mph. Mendieta's trip was grounded for
more than 10 days after the FAA closed airspace following the attacks of
9/11. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) #
A woman raises her hands in despair on September 9, 2001, as others try
to revive a woman shot by a security agent in Jos, Nigeria. Heavily
armed soldiers struggled to maintain order Sunday, conducting patrols
and setting up checkpoints in the central Nigerian city of Jos where
dozens have died in Muslim-Christian violence. (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images) #
Pupils at a school in Baghdad, Iraq, receive books and supplies from
their teacher on their first day back in school on September 8, 2001.
More than 5 million Iraqi students returned to school Saturday, as
government measures forcing parents to meet many of the costs of keeping
their children in the classroom came into force. (AP Photo) #
A lunch menu fails to lure customers on September 3, 2001 at a New York
City restaurant. With the recent slowdown in the economy, many New York
City restaurants, which once seemed impervious to economic slowdowns,
have begun to see business drop as much as 30 percent. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) #
Terrified children are shielded by parents and RUC police officers as
they walk past a burnt out car only minutes before a Loyalists pipe bomb
exploded nearby on the Ardoyne Road in North Belfast, Northern Ireland,
on September 5, 2001. The Loyalists pipe bomb injured a policeman and
police dog during the morning trip to the school for a third day. (Reuters/Paul McErlane) #
Senger Dustin, a gunner of the U.S. CH-47 Chinook from the Aviation
Regiment, part of Task Force Harvest (TFH) looks back as the helicopter
flies over the village of Brodec, some 40 km west from the capital
Skopje, on September 10, 2001. NATO troops collected further weapons
from ethnic Albanian guerrillas in Macedonia on Sunday while the Skopje
government and the European Union appeared at odds over the future role
of the alliance in the Balkan state. (Reuters/Oleg Popov) #
An Albanian soldier looks at a pile of destroyed anti-personnel mines
in Mjekes, 60kms southeast of the capital Tirana, September 10, 2001.
Albania is destroying an average of 9,000 anti-personnel mines per day
from its excess stockpile under a project as part of NATO's Partnership
for Peace Trust Fund. (Reuters/Stringer) #
A skateboarder rides in the bowl on September 5, 2001 at the Millennium
Skate Park in Brooklyn borough of New York City. The new skate park
cost nearly $1 million to construct and is part of a growing resurgence
of parks designed for skateboarders and bikers after most were closed in
the 1980s for insurance concerns. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) #
Turkish police assist a woman injured after a woman suicide bomber
killed herself and two police officers in an attack on a police station
in central Istanbul, turkey, on September 10, 2001. More than 20 people
were injured, three of them seriously, in what Istanbul Mayor Erol Cakir
described as a "treacherous attack on the police". (Reuters/Stringer) #
The village of Sao Jorge da Beira, Portugal, 300 km from Lisbon, is
surrounded by forest fire at the earlier hours of September 11, 2001.
Hundreds of firefighters battled to control forest fires raging in
mountainous parts of northern and central Portugal on Tuesday, officials
said. A late-summer heatwave combined with strong westerly winds and
dry weather fuelled a spate of blazes in heavily wooded areas in recent
days during an otherwise wet year with fewer fires than normal. (Reuters/Stringer) #
On September 5, 2001, Julien Menichini was in the middle of a trip to
New York City, photographing landmarks up and down Manhattan. Here is a
view of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, as he prepared to
ride up to the observation deck. Original here. (Julien Menichini / CC BY) #
A panorama made from two photos taken from the rooftop of the World
Trade Center's South Tower, on September 5, 2001. The top of the North
Tower can be seen on the left. Original here. (Julien Menichini / CC BY) #
A view of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, seen from the top
of the World Trade Center South Tower on September 5, 2001. Original here. (Julien Menichini / CC BY) #
A view of New York City skyscrapers, with the top of the World Trade
Center North Tower at left. Photo taken on September 5, 2001 from the
107th floor observation deck of the South Tower. Original here. (Julien Menichini / CC BY) #
At 8:41 p.m. on September 10, 2001, these two men later identified by
the FBI as 9/11 hijackers Mohamed Atta (Left-Rear) and Abdulaziz
al-Omari, (Right-Foreground) were photographed by a security camera at a
Fast Green ATM money machine in South Portland, Maine. Only 12 hours
after these photos were taken, Atta and al-Omari would fly American
Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New
York City. (Reuters/FBI) #
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