12th Anniversary Of ’93 World Trade Center Terrorist Attack

Today, family and friends of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing victims will dedicate a temporary memorial on the 12th anniversary of the terrorist attack. The previous memorial was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Rescue workers managed to recover a piece of the original memorial, which was used to make the new one.

On February 26, 1993, a car bomb was planted in an underground garage below World Trade Center Tower One. The bomb, planted by Islamic terrorists with ties to Al Qaeda, exploded at 12:17 p.m., opening a 30 meter wide hole through 4 sublevels of concrete. Six people were killed and at least 1,040 others were injured.

Killed were Bob Kirkpatrick, 61, Steven Knapp, 47, and Bill Macko, 57, mechanical supervisors for the Port Authority and Monica Rodriguez Smith, Macko's secretary. The fifth and sixth victims were Wilfred Mercado, 37, who worked for the Windows on the World restaurant atop the North Tower and was checking in food deliveries in the basement, and John DiGiovanni, 45, a dental salesman who was in the parking garage when the bomb exploded.

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Let’s not forget the Iraq - al Qaeda connection to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

"There's no question Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties." U.S. intelligence officials, meanwhile, have confirmed that fact once again. Abdul Rahman Yasin, a suspect in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was being harbored in Iraq; documents recently found in Tikrit indicate that Saddam provided Yasin with monthly payments and a home. According to federal authorities, the Ramzi Yousef-led terror cell that carried out the 1993 bombing received funding from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the 2001 attack.