13. Wasn’t The First World Trade Centre Bombing
September 11th was not the first date that an attack was orchestrated against the World Trade Centre towers. Long a symbol of the United States’ prosperity and the centre of the nation’s stock market, it’s no real surprise that it had been targeted in the past. On February 26, 1993, a bomb had been planted in a parking garage that blew a 100-foot crater that affected a number of floors. Six people were killed instantly, whereas over a thousand people were hurt (some seriously, with crushed limbs). The work of fundamentalist Islamist terrorists, the actual plan had been for the bombing to be serious enough to topple the first tower, which they believed would topple and hit the second one. It turned out to be a horrific testing ground for the now more famous second attack in 2001.
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