In the noon of Febrary 26, 1993 a car bomb was detonated below Tower One of the World Trade Center in New York City. The plan was to knock the North Tower into the South Tower so that both fall. The plan fail, but it do kill six worker of the building and 1,042 persons where injured. The attack was make by a group of terrorist which include Ramzi Yousef, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Abdul Rahman Yasin and Ahmad Ajaj. Ramzi Yousef and Eyad Ismoil, drove a yellow Ryder van into the parking garage of the WTC, twelve minutes later the bomb exploded opening a hole of 30 m wide. The bomb instantly cut off the center’s main electrical power line, and cause smoke to rise up to the 93rd floor of both towers. Hundreds of people were trapped in elevators and others were injured because of so much smoke inhalation. Also as a result of the loss of electricity most of New York’s radio and television stations lest their over-the-air broadcast signal for almost a week. The tower did not collapse, but the explosion damage the garage badly.
Ramzi Yousef was the master mind of the attack and he mailed some letters to various New York newspaper just before the attack. Originally they plan to attack a United Nations building, but for some difficulties, they preferred the WTC. In the letter he send he claimed to be a Israeli soldier and he demanded 3 things: an end to all US aid to Israel, an end to US diplomatic relations with Israel, and a demand for a pledge by the United States to end interference with any of the Middle East countries’interior affairs. He said that if they do not obey his demands, this will be just the first of many attacks like that. In Marck 1994 four men were convicted for carrying out the bombing, and on November 1997, two more were convicted.
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ReplyDeleteOH MY!! I love this theme, I find it very interesting but, also I find it very sad. I still remember all the disaster that this attack caused. It is incredible all the disaster they caused and justo because of power. I can´t believe how people can make this kind of things, killing people and causing damages whenever they feel like. I totally disagree with israelie because they chose a bad way of figthing for what they want. They killed many innocent people that had nothing to do with them.
This is a very interesting attack that happen in America. This make me feel scared and amazed about all the bad things that people can do to hurt others. I feel so disappointed when I hear this kind of stuff because it is very sad how people that has nothing to do get hurt. I don't understand why they always chose fighting, wars, and all cruel things to gain power. Yes, I am learing more information because I hadn't heard about this attack. I don't like to know about this things because I feel scared and so dissappointed. America, especially the US, has been the target of other countries because they are the most powerful and have more things that others can claim for.
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ReplyDeleteWell, I also love this topic becasue it was and is one of the worst disasters that have occured in the States. It was very sad becasue of all the secondary effects it caused, becuase of all the injured persons, and also because that bulidings were very important for the economy of that city. Although it was an important building becuase of the economics they were also important monuments though the fact that they were in the list of the most tall buildings in the world. This will be an event that we will never forget becuase of the tragedy that cuased all of us.