A website has published what it says are 573,000 intercepted pager messages sent during the 9/11 attacks in the United States.

Wikileaks says it will not reveal who gave it the messages – some of which are from federal agencies as well as ordinary citizens.

Read the TEXT HERE at Wiki Leaks (911)

Internet analysts say they believe the messages are genuine but federal authorities have refused to comment.

The attacks on 11 September 2001 left nearly 3,000 people dead.

The messages are being published over a 24-hour period, ending at 0800GMT on Thursday. They are being released simultaneously on Wikileaks and social networking site Twitter.

‘Live’ broadcast

The website is broadcasting each message at the time it was sent originally in 2001.

The first message was from 0300 local time (0800 GMT), five hours before the first attack in New York and the last 24 hours later.

The messages are not all about the attacks. Some are mundane questions about what people are having for lunch.

However many are about the deadly plane attacks and range from people trying to find out if their loved ones are safe, to government messages, to computer server errors.

They include messages such as

* This is Myrna, I will not rest until you get home, the second tower is down, I don’t want to have to keep calling you after every event. Pls just go home

* President has been rerouted won’t be returning to Washington but not sure where he will go

* Bomb detonated in World Trade Ctr. Pls get back to Mike Brady w/a quick assessment of your areas and contact us if anything is needed

New York’s fire and police departments said they could not comment on whether messages purportedly sent from them were genuine while the US Secret Service refused to comment.

Pager company USA Mobility said it was troubled by the alleged interceptions, the Associated Press news agency reported.

Wikileaks allows people to anonymously post documents on the web, saying its aim is to promote transparency.

It was created in 2006 by dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and technologists from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa.

Wikileaks spokesman Daniel Schmitt said the messages were submitted anonymously to the site several weeks ago.

He told Associated Press: “From the context information that the source provided we have strong reasons to believe that this is valid data.”

He said the messages would help provide a fuller picture of what happened that day.

BBC NEWS

Some people witnessing the attacks reached out to loved ones out of fear there might have been more attacks coming and they might die.

“The only thoughts I have are of Nicholas, Ian and you,” read one text message. “I am terrified. I needed to tell you that I truly love you. always, diane.”

“I want to hold you now,” one text message a minute later reads.

“I know you have a new relationship and do not care about me. But just in case anything happens know I love you hon. Missed Ya good bye.”

The first indication of a problem comes at 8:50 a.m., five minutes aft.er the first plane hit the World Trade Center.

“An aloha call is starting. This is for a fire at 2wt …”

Another text message references “a bomb detonation” in the World Trade Center and asks recipients of the message to report back assessments of their areas.

A minute later, firsthand reports started flooding in.

“The world trade center has just blow up, we seen the explosion outside our windows. Teresa …”

At 8:53 a.m. a message from the New York Police Department’s operations division mobilizes officers toward the World Trade Center, telling them to meet at Church and Vessey streets.

At 9:03 a.m. the second plane hit the World Trade Center.

“It’s a deliberate attack … a second plane just few into the second tower,” a message said 52 seconds later.

By 9:25 a.m. the personal messages have grown more frequent and more frantic.

Companies begin sending out messages asking for head counts on all employees.

People begin sharing reports of what they are seeing and hearing on TV,­ including early reports of people jumping from the World Trade Center.

Family members panicked, struggling to get through jammed phone lines to find out if their loved ones were OK.

9:25:40 a.m.

“Please call my work as soon as you get in the office. Need to know you’re safe.”

9:29:38 a.m.

“Wondering where you are. Are you okay. Give me a call back asap. I just need to know these things. Even if it’s collect. Call me. Darryl”

11:32:56 a.m.

“if i do not hear from you by high noon, i am going to pick laura up at school and tell her her father is dead.”

“goodbye my sweety…..im going to miss yo,” another said.

“Honey wanted to tell you how much i love you,” one sender wrote. “I was a little worried. I Don’t want to lose you now that I got you back. You mean everything to me. You have my whole heart and life. I love you so much.”