Wrinkle

According to a new book by an Atlantic Monthly writer, some New York firefighters were busy looting stores even before the towers fell.

In the recently released, "American Ground," [author William] Langewiesche writes about a fire ladder truck recovered from the pile of fallen debris.

"Its crew cab was filled with dozens of new pairs of jeans from The Gap," he writes. "It was hard to avoid the conclusion that the looting had begun even before the first tower fell, and that while hundreds of doomed firemen had climbed through the wounded buildings, this particular crew had been engaged in something else entirely."