recovered from the Pentagon and transported to Dover Air Force Base, Del. for identification. Lower Manhattan east of Broadway is opened to pedestrians. Tens of thousands of Afghan refugees stream toward the closed borders with Iran and Pakistan (there are already two million refugees in each country from the twenty years of Afghani-Soviet War then Afghan Civil War). Food and other aid can no longer get in. PM, A 20-year-old Saudi Arabian student is stabbed three times in Boston by assailants yelling anti-Arab abuse as he leaves a nightclub. Monday, September 17 The U.S. demands that Pakistan close its borders to Afghan refugees. Pakistan immediately complies. Major League Baseball games recommence kicked off by Jack Buck's poem "For America" and speech where he said "I don't know about you, but as for me, the question has already been answered: Should we be here? Yes!". The Department of Defense (DoD) releases a casualty update: 9 DoD employees and 2 passengers accounted for, and 124 DoD employees still unaccounted for. To date, 97 remains have been recovered and transported to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. for identification. Eleven have been identified. Search and rescue operations continue. The Northern Alliance in Afghanistan offers fifteen to thirty-thousand troops in support of attacks on the Taliban. 6:00 AM Staten Island Ferry resumes operation. New Brooklyn ferry also commences service. 8:30 AM approx. The US Federal Reserve cuts the prime interest rate by half a percent to three percent. 9:30 AM The NYSE, Mercantile Exchange, and NASDAQ open for the first time after the longest hiatus in history after two minutes of silence. The markets plummet. 11:08 AM The World Bank and IMF cancel the annual meeting scheduled for September 29 and 30th at Washington D.C. 4:00 PM Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 684.81 points (7.13%) in heavy trading. NASDAQ was down 6.84%, S&P 500 4.93%. Airline stocks were down over 40 percent. Insurance, financial, and travel and leisure stocks were also down heavily. Military contractor, savings and loans, telecom, and pharmaceutical stocks gained. 4:00 PM EDT Rudy Giuliani conference on casualties: 5,422 missing, 201 known dead, 135 identified. For the week to date, crime in New York City has been down 34 percent over the same week last year. 40,000 tons of debris have been removed. Conference of many Islamic leaders to meet in Afghanistan to determine their response to the U.S. ultimatum. The