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New aerial NYPD photos of 9/11 attack released

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Newly released photo of 9/11
In this Sept. 11, 2001 photo made by the New York City Police Department and provided by ABC News, Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010 smoke and ash rise above downtown high-rise buildings and engulf lower Manhattan after terrorists flew two airliners into the World Trade Center towers.
AP Photo/NYPD, via ABC News, Det. Greg Semendinger

Newly released aerial photos of the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attack show the towers coming down from a dramatic new angle.

The photos were obtained by ABC News, which filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the National Institute of Standards and Technology last year. The NIST collected the images as part of its investigation into the terrorist attack.

ABC said it was provided 2,779 pictures on nine CDs. Many of the photos, taken from police helicopters, have never been released before.

One photo shows a close-up of the upper floors of the burning towers. Others show the towers' dramatic collapse in a thick plume of smoke and debris and sweeping views of billowing smoke clouds.

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Sept. 11 attacks
In this Sept. 11, 2001 photo made by the New York City Police Department and provided by ABC News, Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010 smoke and ash engulf lower Manhattan after terrorists flew two airliners into the World trade Center towers.
AP Photo/NYPD, via ABC News, Det. Greg Semendinger
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Newly released photo of 9/11
In this Sept. 11, 2001 photo made by the New York City Police Department and provided by ABC News, Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010 smoke and ash rise above downtown high-rise buildings and engulf lower Manhattan after terrorists flew two airliners into the World Trade Center towers.
AP Photo/NYPD, via ABC News, Det. Greg Semendinger
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Aerial view of Sept. 11 attack
In this Sept. 11, 2001 photo made by the New York City Police Department and provided by ABC News, Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010 the first World Trade Center tower begins to implode in New York, after terrorists flew two airliners into the towers.
AP Photo/NYPD via ABC News, Det. Greg Semendinger