World Trade Center Bombing

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World Trade Center Bombing
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When

• Occurred on
• February 26, 1993

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Who
                                                     

• Terrorists included,
• Ramzi Yousef, Mahmud
• Abouhalima, Mohammad
• Salameh, Nidal A. Ayyad, Abdul
• Rahman Yasin and Ahmad Ajaj
• They received financing from Khaled Sheikh
  Mohammed

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How

• In 1991 Ramzi Yousef (from Kuwait) started this
  plan to bomb the US
• He traveled to the US illegally from Pakistan.
• Yousef began assembling the 1,500 lb urea
  nitratehydrogen gas enhanced bomb once he arrive
  in the US

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Why

• Days before the attack Yousef sent letters to
  multiple newspapers.
• These letters made three demands end to all US
  aid to Israel, an end to US diplomatic relations
  with Israel, and a pledge by the United States to
  end interference with any of the Middle East
  countries' interior affairs.
• He stated that the attack on the World Trade
  Center would be merely the first of such attacks
  if they didnt do what he said.
• In his letters Yousef admitted that the World
  Trade Center bombing was an act of terrorism, but
  this was justified because, "the terrorism that
  Israel practices must be faced with a similar
  one."

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What

• On February 26, 1993 the attack happened.
• They drove a Ryder van to the World Trade
  Centers parking garage below the towers around
  12 p.m.
• At 1217 the bomb was ignited

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What Continued

• The bomb cut off all of the WTC power including
  emergency lights.
• The smoke rose all the way up to the 93rd floor
  filling stairwells and hallways.
• Evacuation was very
• difficult.

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Casualties

• 6 killed
• 1,042 injured

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What Continued.

• They hope of this is that the North Tower would
  collapse onto the South Tower.
• Ultimately that plan did not work.
• The garage was damaged by the tower did not
  collapse.

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Aftermath

• Yousef fled to Pakistan a few hours after the
  bombing.
• They thought at first it was a transformer
  blowing up, but the explosion was too bug for
  that to be true.
• While searching in the rubble they found a VIN
  number on the van and soon found out it was
  rented by Yousef.

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Aftermath

• The capture of Salameh and Yasin led authorities
  to Ramzi Yousef's apartment, where they found
  bomb-making materials and a business card from
  Mohammed Jamal Khalifa

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Arrest/Cost

• He was finally arrested on February 7, 1995
• On November 13, 1997 he officially convicted of
  the 1993 WTC bombing
• Got 240 years in prison for the crime he
  committed
• To repair cost 500 million

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Test

• 1.Date to bombing took place?
• February 26, 1993
• How many killed?
• 6
• Who was the main terrorist?
• Ramiz Yousef
• Where were the terrorists from?
• Kuwait
• How big was the bomb?
• 1,500 lbs.