1993 WTC bombing

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Contents 1 Overview 1.1 loose ends 2 Links 2.1 Reference 2.2 Filed Links

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On 1993-02-26, a car bomb was detonated below tower 1 of the World Trade Center (WTC1) in New York City. The bomb was apparently intended to topple WTC1 and send it crashing into WTC2, destroying them both; WTC1 remained standing and was repaired and returned to service not long afterward.

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[edit] loose ends

We haven't yet found the evidence or explanation of how they determined that the bomb was intended to topple the tower, although this claim in the Wikipedia article does have citations (one is a book; need to read the internet link more carefully, and perhaps obtain the book.

It is often mentioned that the FBI was aware of the plot well in advance and actively failed to prevent the bombing, but so far we only have one source for this (the 1993 NYT article, based on testimony from an informer/infiltrator). Are there any other sources?

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• Wikipedia

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• 2002-06-03 /S/D/ US 'refused Iraq's terror suspect offer' “The United States refused Iraqi offers to hand over a suspect in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Iraq's foreign minister says. .. Tariq Aziz told the American news programme 60 Minutes that Iraq had twice offered to hand over Abdul Rahman Yasin, who is in prison in Iraq and is on the FBI's list of most-wanted terrorists. .. And Mr Yasin himself told 60 Minutes that the FBI let him go after interrogating him in the days following the 1993 bombing - even driving him home.”
• 2002-06-02 /S/D/ Transcript: The Yasin Interview “

YASIN: After a while Ramzi Yousef told us to go to the World Trade Center. So we went there, walked around the parking garage and he said afterwards I have an idea that we should do one big explosion rather than do small ones in Jewish neighborhoods.

STAHL: Now you switch to the World Trade Center. What did that have to do with Jews?

YASIN: The majority of the people who work in World Trade Center are Jews.

STAHL: So, in other words, the purpose was still to kill Jews.

YASIN: In general, yes.

STAHL: You know that Muslims work there that people of all religions worked there. All nationalities.

YASIN: Yes.

YASIN: I am very sorry for what happened. I don’t know what to do to make it up. My father died because of pain and sadness. It caused many troubles. I don’t know how to apologize for it.

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• 1993-10-28 /S/D/ Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast (alt) “ Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast. .. The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad A. Salem, should be used, the informer said.”