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The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack carried out by Ramzi Yousef and associates against the United States on February 26, 1993, when a van bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in Manhattan, New York City.
On February 26, 1993, Ismoil, accompanied by Yousef, drove a van packed with explosives into the parking garage below the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York.The van exploded at 12:17 p.m., killing six people, causing numerous injuries, and inflicting an estimated five hundred million dollars' worth of damage to the WTC. [1]
From left, clockwise: Ramzi Yousef and other Islamic terrorists detonate a truck bomb in the subterranean garage of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing 7 also known as the World Trade Center bombing; the Russian White House is shelled during a constitutional crisis after Russian president Boris Yeltsin imposed a self-coup; Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved ...
The 1993 bombing both foreshadowed and was later overshadowed by the 9/11 attacks eight years later.
The key mastermind behind the bombing, Ramzi Yousef, met up with Ayyad and the other conspirators. They planned to drive a truck to the World Trade Center parking garage and detonate a bomb causing the Twin Towers to collapse, which would have caused thousands of deaths. Instead, the explosion did not go accordingly and did not cause the ...
Emad A. Salem (born circa 1950) is an FBI informant, who was a key witness in the trial of Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad, and Wali Khan Amin Shah, convicted in the World Trade Center bombing of February 26, 1993. He testified that the bomb was built under supervision from the FBI. [1]
The explosion, similar to the terrorist car bombing that killed six people and injured 1,000 at New York's World Trade Center in 1993, happened just after 9 a.m., when most of the more than 500 ...
The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing Memorial was created to commemorate the six lives lost during the February 26, 1993, bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City. . The memorial was commissioned by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Art Commission after the events of the bombing, and completed in 19