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Article: World Trade Center, 1993 Terrorist Attack
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World Trade Center, 1993 Terrorist Attack
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JUDSON KNIGHT
The World Trade Center (WTC) bombing of 1993 has long since been overshadowed by the attack that brought the twin towers down on September 11, 2001. Yet, at the time it occurred, the attack loomed as large on the American landscape as the towers themselves once did on the Manhattan skyline. The attack killed six people and injured more than a thousand, the first casualties from foreign terrorists on U.S. soil. American authorities identified at least eight perpetrators, but questions remain as to the ultimate cause of the attack.
The attack and its aftermath.
At 12:18 p.m. on Friday, February 26, 1993, an ...
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