“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 […]
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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 […]
2/26/1993
“On February 26, 1993, a huge bomb went off underneath the two towers of the World Trade Center…The ensuing explosion opened a hole seven stories up. Six people died. More than a thousand were injured. An FBI agent at the scene described the relatively low number of fatalities as a miracle.” – 9/11 Commission, The […]
2/26/1993
On February 26, 1993, terrorist Ramzi Yousef and his cell brought their 1,500-lb. bomb to the World Trade Center. “Moments after they sped out of the World Trade Center garage, the device detonated with the force of 150,000 pounds per square inch, obliterating the van and blowing through four floors of eleven-inch-thick rebarred concrete.” Six […]
2/26/1993
Regarding al Qaeda-related deaths in the U.S. and tying bin Laden to them: “There were six more on February 26, 1993, when [terrorist Ramzi] Yousef’s bomb went off below the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Bin Laden’s links to those deaths could have been proven easily by examining his direct ties to [Islamists] […]
2/26/1993
Following the bombing of the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993, terrorist Ramzi Yousef, “disappointed that the device hadn’t snapped the building at its base…vowed to return and finish the job. …Yousef wanted [co-conspirator] Nidal [Ayyad] to type a new ending to the letters [claiming responsibility for the attacks] and resend them. In fact, […]