Web site posts what it says are half million text messages from 9/11 - CNN.com: "(CNN) -- Newly released text messages reportedly from the morning of September 11, 2001, show panicked family members trying to contact loved ones and officials frantically trying to grasp what was happening.
More than half a million messages, released by whistleblower site Wikileaks, reveal the panic, horror and pain of what happened that morning in the words of those who experienced it.
On September 11, 2001, 19 hijackers commandeered four commercial jetliners, loaded with fuel for cross-country flights. Two were flown into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York, one crashed into the Pentagon, and another, headed for an unknown location, crashed in Pennsylvania when it was disrupted by passengers.
A total of 2,976 people -- not including the hijackers -- were killed in the attacks.
Some people witnessing the attacks reached out to loved ones out of fear there might have been more attacks coming and they might die.
'The only thoughts I have are of Nicholas, Ian and you,' read one text message. 'I am terrified. I needed to tell you that I truly love you. always, diane.'
'I want to hold you now,' one text message a minute later reads.
'I know you have a new relationship and do not care about me. But just in case anything happens know I love you hon. Missed Ya good bye.'
The first indication of a problem comes at 8:50 a.m., five minutes aft.er the first plane hit the World Trade Center.
'An aloha call is starting. This is for a fire at 2wt ...'"
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