Bombing of World Trade Center in NYC (10 Years Ago Tomorrow: Feb. 26 1993)

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[Recovering_Democrat]

On 26th February 1993, at approximately 12.18 p.m., an improvised explosive device exploded on the second level of the World Trade Center parking basement.

The resulting blast produced a crater, approximately 150 feet in diameter and five floors deep, in the parking basement. The structure consisted mainly of steel-reinforced concrete, twelve to fourteen inches thick. The epicenter of the blast was approximately eight feet from the south wall of Trade Tower Number One, near the support column K31/8. The device had been placed in the rear cargo portion of a one-ton Ford F350 Econoline van, owned by the Ryder Rental Agency, Jersey City, New Jersey. Approximately 6,800 tons of material were displaced by the blast.

The main explosive charge consisted primarily of approximately 1,200 to 1,500 pounds of a home-made fertilizer-based explosive, urea nitrate. The fusing system consisted of two 20-minute lengths of a non-electric burning type fuse such as green hobby fuse. The hobby fuse terminated in the lead azide, as the initiator.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Early in Clinton's administration, he had an opportunity to declare war on these terrorists. Did he? No.

What were Bill Clinton's priorities in early 1993? Socializing medicine, promoting gays in the military, and not delivering on his tax cut promise to the middle class.

Is it any wonder I am a
Recovering_Democrat?

[WaveThatFlag]

I read the whole article and I never got to the part about the White House response to the attack.

[PetroniDE]

I believe his priority was doing interns at that time.

[taxed2death]

You can actually go to expertwitnessradio.com and down load a recording of an FBI handler turning down a request from an informant for money when he tells the FBI guy he knows who's making the bomb, and where, right at that moment. The imformants information was subsequently proven correct.

The FBI guy blows him off.

Kinda chilling listening to the complete telephone conversation and knowing the whole debacle could have been avoided.

[mbynack]

Thanks to our quick and decisive response this group never bothered us again. < /sarcasm>

[Recovering_Democrat]

exactly. because there was none.

[WaveThatFlag]

</sarcasm>

[mr.pink]

Kinda chilling listening to the complete telephone conversation and knowing the whole debacle could have been avoided.

Even more chilling if you consider if that attack had suceeded as planned/envisioned, the devastation and death tolls would have made 9-11 look like a picnic by comparison.

[WarSlut]

You got that right, Pink.

For the uninitiated... Who Is Ramzi Yousef? And Why It Matters

As far as I'm concerned, Laurie Mylroie's book is THE smoking gun.

[Republicus2001]

since Sirhan Sirhan killed JFK how many Americans have died at the hands of middle eastern extremists?

they once threw an elderly American in a wheelchair into the sea, and on and on and on - they just want us dead

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Hard to believe that it's been 10 years already.

I remember Clinton and Cuomo were talking about hunting down and punishing those responsible (crickets chirping in background....)

[pgkdan]

I read the whole article and I never got to the part about the White House response to the attack.

Because there was no White House response...too busy leaking DNA on interns.