TIMELINE OF EVENTS
■ Sept. 13 — Secretary of State Colin Powell identifies
Osama bin Laden as prime suspect. Limited commercial flights resume. National Football League, Major League Baseball call off weekend games.
Sept. 14 — Justice Department names 19 suspects in attacks; intelligence sources link them directly to bin Laden. Bush gives military authority to call up 50,000 reservists.
Sept. 15 — Pakistan agrees to U.S. demands for possible attack on neighboring Afghanistan.
■ Sept. 17 — Wall Street trading resumes, ending stock market’s longest shutdown since the Depression. Dow loses 684.81 points, its worst-ever oneday point drop.
Sept. 19 — Pentagon orders combat aircraft to Persian Gulf bases. American and United airlines announce 40,000 layoffs.
Sept. 20 — Bush announces new cabinet-level Office of Homeland
Security, to be led by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge.
Sept. 24 — Bush orders U.S. financial institutions to freeze assets of 27 groups and individuals suspected of supporting
terrorists.
Sept. 27 — Bush announces plan to bolster airline security, including expanded use of federal marshals on airliners.
Sept. 30 — Armed Tennessee National Guard put on security checkpoints at Chattanooga
Metropolitan Airport.
Oct. 5 — Tabloid photo editor Robert Stevens dies of anthrax in Florida, in nation’s first known case of inhalation version of disease since 1976; five people eventually die from anthrax infections. Army dispatches 1,000 soldiers to Uzbekistan, which borders Afghanistan.