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World Trade Center bombing trial starts
Witnesses recall February terrorist act that killed 6, injured more than 1,000
NEW YORK (AP) - To
firefighter William Duffy, finding an
elevator packed with people who had
collapsed from smoke "waslikeopen-
ing up a tomb." Elevator operator
Joaquin Villa Fuerta recalled think-
ing, "We're all going to die."r
They and other witnesses testified
yesterday about the horrors that dis-
rupted their lives on Feb. 26 when a
bomb exploded in the garage of the
110-story twin World Trade Center
.office towers, killing six people and
injuring more than 1,000.
Prosecutors in the trial of four
Muslim fundamentalists charged in
the bombing also played a recording
of a call James Reilly made on his car
phone after pulling outof the center's
..garage just after the explosion.
"There was an explosion at the
exit ramp to the World Trade Center
parking lot ... a tremendous explo-
sion!" Reilly told a 911 operator.
Reilly, asalesmanager, said in the
second day of testimony that he saw
"remnants of steel guardrails, thick
aluminum tubing, stop signs" being
blown around his car.
He looked down the ramp andsaw
thick black smoke pouring out of the
garage and a bloodied man lying on
the ground waving his arms.
Ralph Cruz, areal estate company
worker who was driving about 100
feet ahead of Reilly, said his rear
windshield exploded and a large chunk
of twisted black metal became em-
bedded in his windshield frame.
"I said, 'Thank God,' first of all,"
On trial are Mohammad Salameh,
Ahmad Ajaj, Mahmud Abouhalima
and Nidal Ayyad. If convicted, they
could get life in prison without pa-
role.
In opening statements Monday, a
prosecutor said no one will testify he
saw the defendants make the explo-
sive or leave the bomb in a rental van
parked in the towers' underground
garage.
Prosecutors say the evidence will
tie the four to each other .and to the
attack. In their opening statements
Monday, defense lawyers maintained
their clients' innocence.
Firefighter Duffy testified how he
carried an ax and oxygen to the 44th
floor of one tower, where stuckeleva-
tors had to be brought down manu-
ally, packed with people who had
been trapped for hours.
People covered with soot "like
they had been in a fire" lumbered off
the first two elevators, he said.
As the third elevator descended,
there was no sound from inside. As
firefighters pulled open the doors,
they were hit with "a blast of hot air,
ash, smoke and solidified carbon," he
said.
"The first thing I saw was people
lying head-to-toe on the floor in the
elevator. I actually thought all the
people in the elevator were dead be-
cause there was no movement," he
said.
"It was like opening up a tomb,
that's what it reminded me of," he
said, recalling the ashen color of the
people's skin and the limp body of the
first man he dragged out.
After Duffy propped him against
a wall, the man began to move and
Duffy went to help others.
Fuerta, the elevator operator, said
he began ushering people down a
stairway from the 106th floor just
after finishing lunch with fellow op-
erator Wilfredo Mercado.
"On the 70th floor the smoke was
much stronger and people started to
get panicky. I saw an old lady crying.
I saw a man on the ground trying to
breathe," Fuerta said in Spanish.
"It just came to mind that we
weren't going to make it all the way.
We were all going to die due to smoke
inhalation," he said through an inter-
preter.
When Fuerta got to the bottom, he
could not find his friend Mercado.
He was one of those killed.
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