World Trade Center bombing (1993)

The World Trade Center bombing ocurred on February 26, 1993; in New York City when a car bomb was detonated below Tower One on the World Trade Center. The urea nitrate-hydrogen gas was intended to knock the Tower One into Tower Two bringing them both down and killing thousands of people, but it failed and killed 6 people and injured 1,042. The attack was planned by a group of conspirators including Ramzi Yousef, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Abdul Rahman Yasin and Ahmad Ajaj. They received financing from Khaled Shaikh Mohammed. They mailed letter two various New York newspapers just before the attack, saying it belong to Israel's army.

Ramzi Yousef and a Jordanian friend, Eyad Ismoil drove a yellow van into Lower Manhattan, parking it in the lower paarking in World Trade Center, when it detonated the bomb cut the electricity also knocking the emergency lighting and the smoke rised 93rd floors in the two towers.