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Photos of 9/11 Carnage Begin World Tour

Aired March 02, 2002 - 08:23   ET

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Guns in the cockpit, a fierce debate erupted after 9/11. Today, a report suggests it just won't happen. The "Los Angeles Times" says Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta opposes the idea. Instead, he favors stun guns. No final decision has been made. Most pilots indicate they want lethal weapons in the cockpit, though. But the airlines oppose guns, worried that they would damage their planes or accidentally injure some passengers.

Already, United Airlines, which lost two planes on 9/11, is moving ahead with plans to put tasers in all of its planes.

Today's "Washington Post" reports nine of the 19 hijackers got extra security attention on September 11, but they still managed to board the planes. The paper says six hijackers were chosen by a computer for a second screening. That resulted in a sweep of their checked baggage. Two others were singled out because of problems with their identification papers. The "Post" also quotes an FAA document that says at least one hijacker got a gun on American Flight 11. The FAA and FBI later says the gun reference was a "mistake."

The carnage created by the hijackers will be available for all the world to see in a new photographic tour.

CNN's Skip Loescher has a look at that.

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SKIP LOESCHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Over the next three years, people in some 60 cities worldwide will get an idea what it was like when the World Trade Center towers came crashing down.

JOEL MEYEROWITZ, PHOTOGRAPHER: What fell down with all those thousands of people in it was steel and plumbing and wiring and cabling and rebar. It was a mighty mess.

LOESCHER: And over the months since September 11, photographer Joel Meyerowitz has captured it on film.

MEYEROWITZ: I felt that people needed to be able to stand in front of it to understand it.

LOESCHER: Meyerowitz's images are powerful, says Secretary of State Colin Powell. COLIN POWELL, SECRETARY OF STATE: They stun us with the magnitude of the horror that they have captured and they stun us with the chilling artistry of the photographs themselves.

LOESCHER: At the request of the State Department, the Museum of the City of New York went through thousands of images Meyerowitz made and chose 28 of them to be duplicated and tour the world. They will, Secretary Powell says, put a face on tragedy and at the same time show the world why America is committed to defeating terrorism.

Skip Loescher, CNN, Washington.

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PHILLIPS: And for CNN's retrospect of September 11, log on any time to cnn.com/specials. Click on 2001 at the top of the page. And remember, AOL keyword is CNN.

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