Shortly after passing a line of bombed out buses and trucks serving as a barricade, the reporters were intercepted by a small group of fighters, who covered their faces once they spotted cameras.
Until we reached the road out: totally blocked by a ragged barricadeof a dozen huge fallen trees, most of them old pines with their shallow root balls obscenely exposed.
Outside the Islamic center building, known as Park51, a police officer stood next to the door on Friday and a police barricade was set up to contain the many journalists who had gathered to try to see the piece ofthe plane.