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Article: World Trade Center, 1993 Terrorist Attack
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World Trade Center, 1993 Terrorist Attack
The World Trade Center (WTC) bombing of 1993 has 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 one thousand.
The law enforcement response to the tragedy involved a massive forensic investigation designed to determine the cause of the blast, the identities of
those responsible and, ultimately, to ascertain why, although Trade Tower One sustained a great deal of damage, it did not collapse. The ...