On February 26, 1993, New York City experienced one of its darkest evenings. At 12:17 noon, a truck loaded with 1,500 pounds of explosives blew up in the underground parking lot of the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
30 years later, the United States does not forget the six deaths and more than 1,000 injuries left by the terrorist attack. The bomb was planted by Islamic extremists and represented a first failed attempt to bring down the Twin Towers of the WTC.
According to federal prosecutors, it was a retaliation for US policy in the Middle East, and although it is a memory overshadowed by the attack of September 11, 2001, what happened in 1993 represented a “warning” that the country could not contain for 8 years. after.
Six people were guilty of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center
Abdul Rahman Yasin and Ramzi Ahmed Yousef were the material authors of the attack on February 26, 1993. The first was captured and convicted by a jury in New York, already in 1997.
Then his relationship with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, architect of the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11, was confirmed.
For his part, Abdul Rahman Yasin managed to escape to Iraq and lived in freedom until 1994, being imprisoned by the same local authorities, who later released him after revealing the names and addresses of the rest of the suspects.
The explosion at the World Trade Center in 1993 opened a hole of approximately 30 meters, piercing up to four levels of concrete. The New York Fire Department (FDNY) lived one of its busiest days, rescuing hundreds of people who were trapped in the offices.
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