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===February 26, 1993 Bombing===

===February 26, 1993 Bombing===

[[Image:1993attack.jpg|right|thumb|Damage Done By 1993 Truck Bombing]]

[[Image:1993attack.jpg|right|thumb|Damage Done By 1993 Truck Bombing]]

On the morning of February 26, 1993, at 12:17 PM a Ryder truck truck filled with approximately 1,500 pounds of explosives was planted by Ramzi Yousef and detonated in the underground parking garage of Tower One opening an approximately 100 foot hole in 5 sublevels of concrete.  The objective of the Islam extremist was to destabilize the base of Tower One and send it crashing into Tower Two, destroying the complex.  Mass panic sent people running out of the tower.  After this terrorist attack, the Port Authority installed emergency stairwell lighting.  As a memorial to the bombing and those lives that were lost that day, a reflecting pool, including the names of those killed, was installed at the center of Tobin Plaza (also known as the World Trade Center Plaza).

On the morning of February 26, 1993, at 12:17 PM a Ryder truck truck filled with approximately 1,500 pounds of explosives was planted by Ramzi Yousef and detonated in the underground parking garage of Tower One opening an approximately 100 foot hole in 5 sublevels of concrete.  The objective of the Islam [[extremist]] was to destabilize the base of Tower One and send it crashing into Tower Two, destroying the complex.  Mass panic sent people running out of the tower.  After this terrorist attack, the Port Authority installed emergency stairwell lighting.  As a memorial to the bombing and those lives that were lost that day, a reflecting pool, including the names of those killed, was installed at the center of Tobin Plaza (also known as the World Trade Center Plaza).

The attack was the first attack on US soil since the attack on [[Pearl Harbor]], and was clearly an act of war. It was planned by a group of conspirators including [[Ramzi Yousef]], [[Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman]], El Sayyid Nosair, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Ahmad Ajaj, and Abdul Rahman Yasin. They received financing from [[al-Qaeda]] member [[Khaled Shaikh Mohammed]], Yousef's uncle, who was the mastermind behind the 9-11 attacks.  The explosion caused 6 deaths, 1,042 injuries, and nearly $600 million in property damage. [[President Bill Clinton]] never visited the World Trade Center sight after the attack, and during his weekly radio address, advised Americans to “not over react.” <ref>[http://www.newmediajournal.us/guest/k_miller/04282007.htm Bill Clinton's Disastrous Record of Fighting Terror], Kathy Miller, April 28, 2007.  Retrieved from the ''New Media Journal'' 05/22/07.</ref>

The attack was the first attack on US soil since the attack on [[Pearl Harbor]], and was clearly an act of war. It was planned by a group of conspirators including [[Ramzi Yousef]], [[Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman]], El Sayyid Nosair, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Ahmad Ajaj, and Abdul Rahman Yasin. They received financing from [[al-Qaeda]] member [[Khaled Shaikh Mohammed]], Yousef's uncle, who was the mastermind behind the 9-11 attacks.  The explosion caused 6 deaths, 1,042 injuries, and nearly $600 million in property damage. [[President Bill Clinton]] never visited the World Trade Center sight after the attack, and during his weekly radio address, advised Americans to “not over react.” <ref>[http://www.newmediajournal.us/guest/k_miller/04282007.htm Bill Clinton's Disastrous Record of Fighting Terror], Kathy Miller, April 28, 2007.  Retrieved from the ''New Media Journal'' 05/22/07.</ref>