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Tracing Terror's Roots. Chitra Ragavan.

by Ragavan, Chitra; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 64Institutions. Publisher: U.S. News & World Report, 2003ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Conspiracies | Governmental investigations | September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) | Terrorism -- United States | Terrorists | World Trade Center (New YorkDDC classification: 050 Summary: "It's been 10 years now, but for New York police detective Tom Corrigan and his colleagues, the memories are still chilling. On a snowy afternoon, terror came home to America. The date was Feb. 26, 1993. A powerful fertilizer bomb exploded in the parking garage of the World Trade Center. Six people died. More than a thousand were injured. Rescue workers evacuated more than 50,000 workers from the city's financial district. That night, Corrigan found himself standing at the edge of the enormous blast crater. 'I remember being cold,' says Corrigan. 'It was pitch black, all those sirens from the car alarms, streams of water pouring all over the place--my shoes were sopping wet. It was like The Poseidon Adventure.' " (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT) This article chronicles the events leading up to Sept. 11 [2001] by providing an account of what transpired in 1993, the year the World Trade Center was first attacked.
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Originally Published: Tracing Terror's Roots, Feb. 24/March 3, 2003; pp. 28+.

"It's been 10 years now, but for New York police detective Tom Corrigan and his colleagues, the memories are still chilling. On a snowy afternoon, terror came home to America. The date was Feb. 26, 1993. A powerful fertilizer bomb exploded in the parking garage of the World Trade Center. Six people died. More than a thousand were injured. Rescue workers evacuated more than 50,000 workers from the city's financial district. That night, Corrigan found himself standing at the edge of the enormous blast crater. 'I remember being cold,' says Corrigan. 'It was pitch black, all those sirens from the car alarms, streams of water pouring all over the place--my shoes were sopping wet. It was like The Poseidon Adventure.' " (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT) This article chronicles the events leading up to Sept. 11 [2001] by providing an account of what transpired in 1993, the year the World Trade Center was first attacked.

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