[Stout:] You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines. Now two large convoys reportedly have crossed the border from southern Libya into Niger. A Nigerian military captain is telling CNN that one convoy is on its way to the capital. And an interior ministry official says another rolled into the capital city yesterday. Now the investigation into the phone hacking scandal that led to arrests, high level resignations, and the end of a 168 year old British tabloid, The News of the World, is far from over. News Corp. CEO Ruperb Murdoch and his son James were questioned by UK lawmakers in July. And today, another round of questioning has begun. Now four former executives from the company's UK arm, News International, are testifying. Now Turkey is getting tougher on Israel as their feud continues. Today, Turkey's prime minister said his country will stop all defense industry trade relations with Israel. That follows a similar move to downgrade diplomatic ties with the country last week. A UN court has handed down a 27 year sentence for this former Yugoslav army chief Momcilo Perisic. He was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the Srebeninca massacre. Now Bosnian-Serb forces murdered some 8,000 men and boys there in 1995. Now few days have changed the world so drastically as September 11, 2001 did. And this was a scene that confronted New Yorkers early that day after two planes slammed into the World Trade Center. Now a third hit the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. And all this week, CNN is bringing you special coverage ahead of Sunday's 10 year anniversary. Now the haunting images of the attack on the Twin Towers have become synonymous with that day, but without the heroic efforts of the passengers on board, United Airlines Flight 93, it could have been even worse. They fought back against the hijackers, leaving the plane to crash in this field in Pennsylvania. And while they lost their lives, it is widely believed they saved countless more. Drew Griffin reports one former United Airlines dispatcher is still pained by the warning he sent to Flight 93 shortly before it crashed.
[Drew Griffin, Cnn Correspondent:] For six year, Ed Ballinger has been sailing away from his memories. His refuge, this boat named the Great Old Broad. He's been afloat with his wife, trying to escape the memory of a few brief words, "beware, cockpit intrusion."
[Ed Ballinger, Former United Airlines Dispatcher:] Tries to lock the so and so door. So I said hijacking alert, hijacking. I should have a possible hijacking.
[Griffin:] Ballinger is footnote 69. 10 years ago on September 11, he was a dispatcher for United Airlines in Chicago handling 16 flights leaving the east coast and heading west, including United's flights 175 out of Boston and 93 from Newark.
[Ballinger:] All I know was that there was trouble and I wanted to warn everybody.
[Griffin:] One of those flights Ballinger tried to warn are the airline's version of an e-mail, United Flight 93.
[Ballinger:] And I was sending out messages, one after the other, and I got sent 122 messages in a short time an hour, two I don't know what it was. But like screaming on a keyboard. And at that time, these huge TVs that we have came on with
[Cnn. Unidentified Female:] This just in, you are looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there. That is the World Trade Center and we have...
[Ballinger:] And I saw the second airplane, which I didn't know at the time was my airplane 175, hit the second tower. And I thought the most succinct method of doing it with the least amount of words was "beware, cockpit intrusion" and I sent it to all my 16 flights. And before I got that one off, 93 called up and said they had some [inaudible] going off and they're flying.
[Griffin:] So at that moment, 93 was routine.
[Ballinger:] Yeah, routine.
[Griffin:] So you send out your note and you know they got that.
[Ballinger:] It came out, hey, yeah, confirmed. I confirmed back with him by telling him two airplanes at the World Trade Center, which I sent to all the other flights.
[Griffin:] But the confirmation came too late. Investigators say two minutes after Flight 93's pilot, Jason Dahl requested clarification, hijackers stormed his cockpit.
[Ballinger:] Does "beware cockpit intrusion" say it all? Can you say it faster, quicker? And I wanted to quickly get the message out.
[Griffin:] It's 10 years later, you're still thinking that.
[Ballinger:] Yeah. Yeah. Maybe [inaudible] dissertation on the thing and sent it to everybody. But I had to send them the quickest, fastest I could. I could ask you, how would you do it faster? But I keep asking myself that question.
[Griffin:] Isn't that the real reason you're out on this boat?
[Ballinger:] Yeah, it could be. Yeah.
[Stout:] And join us as we take a closer look at the people who became some say footnotes to the 911 terror attacks. They were the ones who went to work as they always did, and they became a part of history. And it is a CNN documentary11. That's at 10:00 pm Tuesday in New York, 10:00 am Wednesday in Hong Kong. And now that Osama bin Laden is dead, though, is this where it ends? Now that could it signal that the war in Afghanistan will soon be over? Now our Nick Paton Walsh, he went back to Abbotabad, Pakistan where a team of U.S. Navy SEALs found and killed bin Laden.
[Nick Paton Walsh, Cnn International Correspondent:] The army now surrounds bin Laden's house, we're told, as we approach down the same back streets we freely roamed months earlier. From down this road is the only physical reminder of the life of 911's mastermind, but the Pakistani army is keen to keep it out of sight, perhaps out of embarrassment, or maybe by now a little paranoia. It's eery quiet, though. We catch a glimpse of the house, bushes growing thick around it, almost like they're trying to swallow this secret again. But out of nowhere, we're stopped by a soldier. Well, we have been pretty quickly stopped by the police here, asked for our passports and were told to leave. In fact, we've been asked to stay with them for a little while. All quite surprising, really. Even only a few months ago, this place was teaming with journalists and quite open. Things have obviously definitely changed.
[Stout:] And soon after the death of bin Laden, seen now as a troop withdrawal, U.S. president Barack Obama announced that the 10 year war on terror had cost the country $1 trillion, not to mention, of course, thousands of lives. As the scale of the terror attacks unfolded, it was mobile phones that people turned to for information, not Twitter or other social media web sites as is so often the case today. But now technology that didn't even exist 10 years ago is helping people remember the past in a new way. Laurie Segall reports.
[Unidentified Female:] I woke up. And I a friend of mine said she slipped up, she called and she said we're at war...
[Laurie Segall, Cnn Correspondent:] You're listening to memories of 911 in a storytelling app called Broadcaster. Using GPS, it pinpoints your location showing audio posted around you. In this case, the stories of Ground Zero.
[Unidentified Female:] You could see Manhattan and then not see Manhattan. And all of a sudden I looked up and there was just this explosion.
[Segall:] Technology that didn't exist 10 years ago is helping us remember the events of that tragic day in ways we could never imagine.
[Jake Barton, President, Local Stories:] There are 911 stories within each of us. And so essentially what we're doing is using technology to knit together all of those collective memories.
[Segall:] Jake Barton is the president of Local Stories, a New York tech firm that created an app called explore 911 in conjunction with the 911 memorial museum.
[Barton:] 911 is arguably the most widely documented event in human history. We're essentially using different social media platforms to reach out to people around the world to tell their own stories about 911.
[Segall:] For many, the images of 911 tell the story best. The app also uses an emerging technology known as augmented reality11 as you stand at Ground Zero today.
[Barton:] What you're doing, essentially, is your capturing photos from around the area and it basically overlaps them with the different landscapes around you.
[Segall:] And that was the landscape that day
[Barton:] That's exactly right.
[Segall:] Basically as you would have seen it on 911.
[Barton:] That's exactly right. And so you can call up something like firemen, smoke, 911 itself or the World Trade Center and it will capture all the photographs that are location in this area and allow you to actually overlay them on top of what you're looking at.
[Brian August, 110 Stories Creator:] And now it's telling me to raise my phone in that spot.
[Segall:] Photographing the towers as they once stood may soon be a reality with an app in development called 110 Stories.
[August:] It's using GPS. Bring up the phone. We're right under the Brooklyn Bridge. There's the buildings coming up. They're big now, because we're close.
[Segall:] Creator Brian August hopes the app will invoke memories of the skyline before the terrorist attack. This high tech app started with a low tech idea.
[August:] It started as me just being fascinated by the idea that the buildings are not there anymore. I'm saying to somebody, here they are, here they were. I'm bringing them back for you in some small way.
[Segall:] It's not just about the technology.
[Barton:] I think it's really important to basically meet people where they are in their daily life. And so you don't think about history as just ending up on books. It's critical that we use new technology to connect people to the meaningful aspects of the past so they can apply them in the future.
[Stout:] And we will have much more on the attacks all week culminating of course in the 10 year anniversary on Sunday. But in the meantime, you could check out the special September 11 attack section online at CNN.cominternational. Now still ahead on News Stream disaster turns into despair in Japan. And we look at efforts to bring down a spike in suicides nearly six months after the devastating quake and tsunami. Meanwhile, western Japan is cleaning up after Tropical Storm Talas. Two days after it hit dozens of people are still missing.