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  World Trade Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On February 13, 1975, the WTC North Tower was beset by a fire, which "burned at temperatures in excess of 700°C for over three hours and spread over some 65 percent of the 11th floor, including the core, caused no serious structural damage to the steel structure.
On February 26, 1993 at 12:17 PM, a Ryder truck filled with 1,500 pounds (682 kg) of explosives was planted by Ramzi Yousef and detonated in the underground garage of the North Tower, opening a 100 foot (30 m) hole through 4 sublevels of concrete.
As a memorial to the victims of the bombing of the tower, a reflecting pool was installed with the names of those who had been killed in the blast.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Trade_Center   (3531 words)

  
 SecurityInnovator - Terrorism & Counterterrorism - Truck Bombing Shifts Into High Gear
In many ways, the September 11, 2001 attacks were the mother of all VBIED attacks – with the vehicle delivering the deadly payload escalating from truck to jumbo jet, and instead of packing a plane with explosives, the perpetrators harnessed the vehicles’ own full fuel tanks as the explosive agent.
In the 1990s, there were: 1 attack in 1999, 4 in 1998, 2 in 1997, 4 in 1996, 6 in 1995, 2 in 1994, 6 in 1993, 2 in 1992, and 1 in 1990.
In the 1980s, there were 4 VBIED attacks in 1989, 3 in 1988, 5 in 1987, 3 in 1986, 5 in 1985, 1 in 1984, 9 in 1983, 4 in 1982, and 3 in 1981.
securityinnovator.com /index.php?articleID=6355§ionID=27   (3492 words)

  
 Al-Qaeda
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda (or al-Qa'ida, pronounced al-KYE-da) surpassed the IRA, Hamas, and Hezbollah as the world's most infamous terrorist organization.
In response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the WTC and Pentagon, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 to dismantle al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
Four bombs exploded in three subway stations and on one double-decker bus during the morning rush hour, killing at least 52 and wounding more than 700.
www.infoplease.com /spot/terror-qaeda.html   (2219 words)

  
 LASD - Industry Station
This vigilance is not limited to officers developing intelligence and gathering evidence against conspirators – and virtually all such bombings involve networks of conspiracy – but also of bus drivers who have keyed onto the nervous signs of the terrorist and have been able to wrestle him to the ground.
In the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) and the 1995 attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, chemicals used in the manufacture of the explosive device were overtly purchased by the terrorists.
Timothy McVeigh, the perpetrator of the attack on the Murrah Federal Building, used a combination of theft and small purchases over a six (6) week period to amass the necessary ingredients for his device.
www.lasd.org /stations/for3/industry/epn.html   (4350 words)

  
 Awoken Research Group - 2006©   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
WTC- 7 was not engulfed in flames nor hit by an airplane
ARG: 1976 military study considered explosives, planned WTC air attacks to be piggy-backed on top of "training excercises"
Maintenance workers saw evidence of apparent bombings in the WTC basement prior to the collapse
valis.cjb.cc   (1935 words)

  
 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
Yemeni; co-conspirator arrested in Yemen for the USS Cole attack
Yemeni; al Qaeda co-conspirator arrested in Yemen for the USS Cole attack
Saudi intelligence chief prior to 9/11 (a.k.a.Abdul Basit) Pakistani; convicted mastermind of and co-conspirator in 1993 WTC bombing and Manila air (Bojinka) plots
www.911commission.gov /report/911Report_App.htm   (2338 words)

  
 Previous Terror Attacks - the DOSSIER
NEW YORK TIMES_Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast
FOX NEWS_Government Had Intelligence Suggesting Oklahoma City Attack Weeks Before McVeigh Struck
FOX NEWS_Ex-Navy Official: 1967 Israeli Attack on US Ship Was Deliberate
www.thedossier.ukonline.co.uk /previous_terror_attacks.htm   (295 words)

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