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The World Trade Center, located in the heart of Manhattan in New York City,<\/a> was built in 1966 and instantly became an iconic landmark for the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Twin Towers, as they were known, stood over 1,360 feet above ground \u2014\u00a0each holding 110 floors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On this day in history,<\/a> Feb. 26, 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed \u2014 injuring more than 1,000 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A LOOK INSIDE ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER, ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST SYMBOLIC LANDMARK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The morning of Monday, Feb. 26, 1993, was a winter day just like any other in New York, cold and windy, as thousands of people went to work, according to many reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Approximately 50,000 people were inside the World Trade Center complex<\/a> \u2014 more than 40,000 of them in the Twin Towers \u2014 according to the 9\/11 Memorial website.<\/p>\n

At around 12:00 p.m., a group of terrorists, including a man named Ramzi Yousef, drove a van into the public parking garage below the Towers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The van exploded roughly 17 minutes after noon \u2014 creating a 100-foot crater within the north tower, according to the FBI’s website.<\/p>\n

Six people near the bomb site were almost immediately killed: John DiGiovanni, Robert Kirkpatrick, Stephen A. Knapp, William Macko, Wilfredo Mercado and Monica Rodriguez Smith.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stock trader Timothy Lang was parking his car in the garage when the bomb exploded.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“I was physically lifted off my feet and thrown through the air \u2026 My entire body was compressed as though being squeezed completely,” he recalled to the 9\/11 Memorial Museum.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hundreds of people were injured from smoke inhalation<\/a> and broken bones.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The mastermind behind the bombing was Ramzi Yousef, who arrived in New York nearly five and a half months prior after learning how to make a bomb in Afghanistan, according to the 9\/11 Memorial.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was working with six other terrorists.<\/p>\n

He visited the World Trade Center multiple times leading up to the attack, reports the 9\/11 Memorial.<\/p>\n

In July 1993, the Department of State offered a $2 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Yousef, according to the U.S. Department of State’s website.<\/p>\n

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By this time, Yousef had disappeared underground.<\/p>\n

“U.S. law enforcement officials believed that Yousef had escaped to Pakistan, but they had little reliable information about his location,” the State Department website notes.<\/p>\n

Yousef was later captured in Feb. 1995 and convicted two years later, says the FBI’s website.<\/p>\n

This would not be the only attack on the Twin Towers, however.<\/p>\n

Almost 3,000 people were killed on Sept. 11, 2001,<\/a> in terrorist attacks that shocked the world and triggered major U.S. initiatives to combat terrorism, notes History.com.<\/p>\n

The 1993 attack on the World Trade Center was a deadly precursor to the larger attacks of 2001.<\/p>\n

“We later learned from Yousef that his Trade Center plot was far more sinister,” notes the FBI.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He wanted the bomb to topple one tower, with the collapsing debris knocking down the second.”<\/p>\n

The site continues, “The attack turned out to be something of a deadly dress rehearsal for 9\/11; with the help of Yousef\u2019s uncle Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al-Qaeda would later return to realize Yousef\u2019s nightmarish vision.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/this-day-history-feb-26-1993-world-trade-center-bombed-horrific-attack <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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