“In February [26, 1993], after at least one false start…a bomb [terrorist Ramzi] Yousef built for $3,000 blew up in the basement of the World Trade Center’s North Tower, killing six people, injuring 1,000, and causing $300 million in damage.” – Terry McDermott, Perfect Soldiers, Pages 132-133 […]
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2/26/1993
“On February 26, 1993, a rented Ford Econoline van entered the World Trade Center’s massive basement parking garage. Inside the truck was [terrorist] Ramzi Yousef. It is unclear if bin Laden sent him, but he was a product of an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, where he had learned his bomb-craft. He had come to America […]
2/26/1993
The opening staff statement of the 9/11 Commission’s hearing on May 18, 2004 “…gave an overview of the World Trade Center complex: how the [February 26] 1993 bombing revealed serious shortcomings in preparedness, as it took nearly ten hours to completely evacuate the buildings, and how the Port Authority provided $100 million in upgrades after […]
2/26/1993
According to a New York Times article on October 5, 1993, in his opening statement in the trial against Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and his World Trade Center bombing co-conspirators, Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Gilmore Childers said: ” ‘February 26, 1993 would become a day that would mark, for all time, the single most destructive […]
2/26/1993
“In the hours before the [World Trade Center] attack on February 26, 1993, the perpetrators, members of a radical Islamic sect, sent a letter to New York media outlets outlining three demands: an end to U.S. aid to Israel, an end to U.S. diplomatic relations with Israel, and a pledge by the United States to […]
2/26/1993
“The bombing [of the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993] took six innocent lives. It also caused 1,042 injuries and more hospital casualties than any other event in domestic American history apart from the Civil War.” – Simon Reeve, The New Jackals, Page 15 […]
2/26/1993
“…the FBI eventually concluded [the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was the ‘largest by weight and by damage of any improvised explosive device that we’ve seen since the inception of forensic explosive identification–and that’s since 1925.’ ” – Simon Reeve, The New Jackals, Page 154 […]
2/26/1993
“…it was not until after Neil Herman’s FBI team began investigating the February [26] 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center that the CIA really identified bin Laden as a major problem. The initial investigation into [terrorist Ramzi] Yousef’s gang of conspirators–which revealed that many militants in New York had fought in Afghanistan with US […]
2/26/1993
“A more serious FBI and CIA investigation was conducted into the suggestions that Iraq was involved in [terrorist Ramzi] Yousef’s career, or that Yousef was actually an Iraqi agent from the beginning of his terrorist career… 26 February [1993], the date of the [World Trade Center] bombing, was the second anniversary of the liberation of […]
2/26/1993
“On February 26 [1993], [terrorist Ramzi] Yousef and Ismail Najim, an associate who had flown up from Texas to take part in the operation, drove a rented white Ford Econoline van to the World Trade Center and parked it in the B-2 level of the underground garage. At 12:17 pm, the device exploded. It killed […]