Bombing of the World Trade Center (1993)

    In 1993 a group of Muslim terrorists attempted to bomb the World Trade Center. They wanted to do this because they did not approve of the United States helping Israel. They sent a letter to many New York newspapers before the attack with three demands: that U.S. aid would stop coming to Israel, that the U.S. would stop having relations with Israel, and they wanted the U.S. to stop interfering with any Middle East country's affairs. The terrorists said that if their demands were not met they would continue the attacks on the United States.

This is a photo taken of the underground damage after the
first attack on the World Trade Center

    The terrorists plan for the attack was to knock the North Tower into the South Tower, killing thousands of people inside the buildings. Little did they know that their plan did not succeed they way they thought it would. They constructed the bomb and put it in a yellow van. They drove the van into the public parking garage beneath the World Trade Center. They ignited the fuse, and ran. Twelve minutes later, there was an explosion in the garage. The bomb created a 98 ft. hole through four levels in the building. Immediately, the building's electricity went out and smoke rose to many floors. With smoke in the stairwells and no electricity, it was very hard for the people to evacuate the building, but the bomb only caused 6 deaths and 1,042 injuries.