2- fte Ml n Daly -Wesdy, October6,1993 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. t fi DAN;;..A}.S Former Black Pather Ahmad Abr-hmnsakabueqliynte om ray judicial system yesterday at the WestI Engineering Building. 'Nf Ul e'art 0 douleur! I. Sis afouar- Paris wrk - Major Art AHima C omtpum * Studies, F Affairs. In - Administ *Economic - Two t for vijir #temp mange & ve. AW Als! 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