“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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 […]
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, […]
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
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
“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 […]