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  New York City landmark bomb plot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New York City landmark bomb plot was a planned followup to the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing that could have inflicted hundreds of casualties on American soil.
The plot was espoused by the blind sheikh, Omar Abdel-Rahman, a radical Muslim cleric in New York City, to be carried out by some of his followers.
On October 1, 1995, Rahman and nine others were convicted by a New York jury on 48 of 50 charges, including seditious conspiracy, solicitation to murder Mubarak, conspiracy to murder Mubarak, solicitation to attack a U.S. military installation, and conspiracy to conduct bombings.
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 List of prisoners at ADX Florence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ibrahim Elgabrowny - involved in the New York City landmark bomb plot
Dandeny Munoz-Mosquera - chief assassin for Pablo Escobar, responsible for the bombing of Avianca Flight 203
Mutulu Shakur- an acupuncturist turned self-professed freedom fighter for the group Republic of New Afrika, sentenced to 60 years for bank robbery, conspiracy and murder (during the robbery, a policeman and two guards were killed.) Stepfather of late rapper Tupac Shakur, brother of Assata Shakur
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 New UN Tower Could Sit Atop Another Target
He pointed to the foiled New York City Landmark Bomb Plot, a project of the blind sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, planned as a sequel to the sheikh's 1993 attack on the World Trade Center.
The plot, unraveled between 1993 and 1995, called for simultaneous truck bomb and car-bomb attacks on the United Nations and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels.
Another opponent of the expansion, City Council Member Simcha Felder, a Democrat of Brooklyn, said he, too, was unaware that the new building would rest on top of the tunnel but was not surprised to learn of it.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/New York City landmark bomb plot
The New York City landmark bomb plot was a planned "sequel" to the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing that would have inflicted hundreds of American casualties on American soil.
The plot was concocted by the blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel-Rahman, a radical Muslim cleric in New York City, and by some of his followers.
At the time they were arrested, the conspirators were mixing fertilizer and diesel fuel to create an ANFO bomb like the one used on the World Trade Center.
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 Blue's News: Edit Message   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
* 1993 July 5 the IRA detonate a 1500lb car bomb (the largest used in Northern Ireland) in the centre of Newtownards in Northern Ireland, no one is killed but massive property damage is caused to the town centre.
* 1993 Mumbai car bombings in India * 1993 IRA bomb in Warrington kills two children (Warrington Bomb Attacks) * 1993 IRA detonate a huge truck bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate, killing two and causing approximately £350m of damage.
News script copyright © 1999-2005 James "furn" Furness and Blue's News.
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 ipedia.com: World Trade Center bombing Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Yousef's complex 600 kilogram bomb was made of urea pellets, nitroglycerin, sulfuric acid, aluminum azide, magnesium azide, and bottled hydrogen.
On March 4, 1993 authorities announced the capture of one of the suspected bombing conspirators Mohammad Salameh and exactly one year later four terrorists were convicted for their roles in the bombing.
Salem claims to have informed the FBI of the plot to bomb the towers as early as February 6, 1992, information he was privy to possibly because he himself initiated the plot.
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 World Trade Center bombing -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The bomb exploded in the underground garage at 12:17 P.M. generating a pressure estimated over one GPa and opening a 30 meter wide hole through four sublevels of concrete.
A recovered fragment from the 1993 bombing memorial with the word "John" is being used as the centerpiece of a new memorial honoring the victims of the 2001 attack.
Salem claims to have informed the FBI of the plot to bomb the towers as early as February 6, 1992.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/World_Trade_Center_bombing   (1705 words)

  
 Defense Tech: "Open Source" Insurgents Rise
In this way, the new Iraqi "non-insurgency" may be tougher to beat, ultimately, than the more ideological guerillas of the past.
The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS The Sullivans sinks.
Bombings in France by a GIA unit led by Khaled Kelkal kill seven and injure more than 100.
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 The Wide Awakes » Islamofascist Suicide Bomber in OK City Identity Revealed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
October 12: IRA bomb in the Grand Hotel Brighton: 5 are killed in an attempt to kill members of the British cabinet.
April 24: IRA detonate a huge truck bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate, killing two and causing approximately £350m of damage.
July 5: the IRA detonate a 1500lb car bomb (the largest used in Northern Ireland) in the centre of Newtownards in Northern Ireland, no one is killed but massive property damage is caused to the town centre.
thewideawakes.org /archives/2005/10/03/islamofascist-suicide-bomber-in-ok-city-identity-revealed   (10362 words)

  
 Articles - World Trade Center bombing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The World Trade Center bombing was the February 26, 1993 attack in the garage of the New York City World Trade Center.
There were dozens of bomb-making manuals and documents related to terrorist plots found in the apartment, but they had not been translated from Arabic into English.
In the course of the trial it was revealed that the FBI had an informant, an Egyptian man named Emad Salem, a former army officer.
www.pointgathering.com /articles/World_Trade_Center_bombing   (1396 words)

  
 Verdict Reached in Millennium Bomb Plot
It was never clear whether the bombs were intended for four different targets or whether they were intended to be set off in rapid succession in or around the same target.
This, together with the arrest of two additional Algerians suspected in involvement in the plot, lead to the cancellation of public millennium celebrations in Seattle were canceled as a precaution.
Several other suspects in plotting to execute millennium attacks are still awaiting trial around the world.
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 Channel 4 - History - The Road to 9/11: A chronology
Saudi support for the US and Israel (which suffered some bombing by Iraq) during the war outrages many Muslims, especially radicals, such as Osama bin Laden, both within and outside Saudi Arabia.
A number of Islamic extremists are convicted in 1997 and 1998 for plotting the attack, though no one has been convicted of actually carrying it out.
Two aircraft are flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York, bringing them crashing to the ground.
www.channel4.com /history/microsites/H/history/n-s/road91105.html   (1637 words)

  
 BHHRG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The News of the World reported on its “joint operation” with the Metropolitan police: “Three men were arrested at a London hotel after a joint operation between the News of the World and Scotland Yard's elite Anti-Terrorist Branch.
Watkins, by contrast, used the style of news reporting not as a tribute to what that generation of established news reporters were doing but “to subvert the authority of the very genre I was using.
Nuclear weapons were generally designed as air-burst bombs because that would spread blast and radioactivity much more effectively than a ground blast - with, of course, the effectiveness of a ground blast, thermo-nuclear device almost infinitely greater than a truck bomb with nuclear materials wrapped around a semtex or other conventional explosive core.
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 Elevated Voices - Florence’s Supermax: “No Pretense of Rehabilitation”
Elevated Voices is 5280's daily blog of the latest news, gossip, and commentary from the Mile-High City.
Omar Abdel-Rahman - New York City landmark bomb plot
I wonder if the victims of these people are still psychologically tortured by the impact they’ve had on their lives and their families lives…that is those that have lived through the impact.
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 Varifrank: July 2005 Archives
While our English cousins were being bombed in their homes with iron provided to the Nazis from the Soviet Union, our government, many celebrities and “progressives” worked day and night to stop our President from aiding the English in their struggle against Nazi tyranny.
The illusion that car bombs being set off in the streets of Baghdad means that we’ve lost, belies the fact that for several decades Israel has been beset by bombs, yet they too go on insisting that they have a country.
We went to school with people who had been evacuated from Vietnam, who escaped the new 'peoples socialist paradise' on rickety rafts only to be attacked by pirates, sold into slavery or killed in the south china seas.
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 Blue's News: News Comments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As the electrifying news of the Boston "tea party" spread, other seaports followed the example and staged similar acts of terrorism.
Look at the rainbow worrior incident, French agents placed a bomb on a green peace boat, cause green peace was against French nuclear tests.
Frence put sanctions against New Zealand exports, crippling the economy...They turned to the worlds super powers and no one did anything so they had to release the terrorist to save their economy.
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 Varifrank: Question of the Day: Is London Really Bush's Fault?
It seems the Worlds Leftists and the media are now working overtime to find a way to blame the London bombing on President Bush and the Iraq war.
November 19: Bombing of Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan kills 19.
In two further attacks on 30 April, suspected accomplices detonate a bomb and spray a tourist coach with gunfire.
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 Untitled
For me THE FAIR was something of a dream, as well as an actuality that spoke of the future, "the world of tomorrow." It remains a monument to those who dream and who "dare to do their dreams" (as I would discover in the words of Samuel Silas Curry decades later).
Robert Moses and the Shaping of New York was an exhibit that was shown at the Paine Webber Gallery in NYC and the Museums at Stony Brook (516) 751-0066.
The broadcasts were between studios in Newark, NJ and the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York City, NY, it consisted of her and seven other dancers in ethnic Hungarian costumes.
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 Lone Star Times » Friday Open Comments Thread   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
You haver a city that is 75 miles N to S and 40 miles E to W. Over priced, over populated, over polluted, over taxed, over liberal and under mannered.
He and his wife are looking for a new house, and b/c of those Methodists, the only time they have to look is at nitght.
These 4 bombs were designed to cause as much damage as the 7 July 2005 London bombings, but the explosives had deteriorated and failed to detonate.
lonestartimes.com /2006/02/24/friday-open-comments-thread-7   (10373 words)

  
 Chief Blogging Officer
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Among the presses represented are those of Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cornell, Duke, the University of Chicago, the Universities of Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, the State University of New York.
The last Vatican document of landmark proportions on Jewish relations was a 1965 statement that came out of the Second Vatican Council under Paul VI and said
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 New U.N. Tower Could Sit Atop Another Target - January 19, 2005 - The New York Sun - NY News
New U.N. Tower Could Sit Atop Another Target - January 19, 2005 - The New York Sun - NY News
January 19, 2005 edition of The New York Sun
January 19, 2005 Edition > Section: New York
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 User Posts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
1997 A terrorist opened fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself.
It was one thing when Rush was talking about this today...but when the liberal news network is on it--the jig is up.
It's not some ill-timed remark from President Bush or even the title of a new book from Ann Coulter.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/user-posts?id=42660   (6414 words)

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