Have you forgotten? World Trade Center bombing, 17 years later
Did you remember? It has now been 17 years since the first World Trade Center bombing. The jihadi truck bomb exploded at 12:18pm, Feb. 26, 1993:
Four of the six people killed in the attack worked for the World Trade Center’s owner, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Most of the victims were having lunch in their basement office, adjacent to the parking garage where terrorists parked their explosives-laden van.
Bob Kirkpatrick, 61, Steven Knapp, 47, and Bill Macko, 57, were mechanical supervisors for the transportation agency. Monica Rodriguez Smith was Macko’s secretary. All were killed in the bombing.
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.
Another thousand people suffered injuries. It took 11 hours to evacuate some 50,000 people from the complex.
The blast from the homemade 1,500-pound urea-nitrate bomb blew a hole five stories deep and half-a-football field wide. The explosion badly damaged the tower’s inner support beams and caused $500 million in property damage. But the twin towers were repaired, cleaned, and reopened in less than a month.
Watch this. It’s a reminder of what it was like to take the famous elevator ride up the WTC to the “Top of the World.” I first rode the elevator on a visit to NYC when I was 8 years old. Still get goosebumps thinking about it:
Remembrance is worthless without resolve, as I’ve said before. We need both now more than ever.
Debra Burlingame, sister of Charles “Chic” Burlingame III, the pilot of the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 that the jihadis crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11 and board member of Keep America Safe, released the following statement on behalf of the organization to mark the 17th anniversary of the 1993 World Trade Center attack:
“On this day, 17 years ago, the World Trade Center was attacked when an Islamist cell ignited a 1,500 pound car bomb in the underground garage of the north tower. Six people and a seven- month-old unborn baby boy were killed and thousands were injured. The perpetrators were Ramzi Yousef and a handful of others, including Yousef’s uncle, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who allegedly provided financing for the plot.
“Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy wrote about our counterterrorism posture at the time in his important book, Willful Blindness: ‘In 1993, the United States Department of Justice was not merely the point of America’s counterterrorist spear. It was the spear. Period. The enemy was at war. Jihadists made that exquisitely clear, in word as well as deed. Our response was to call not the Marines, but the prosecutors.’
“We now know how well that worked out. The 1996 Khobar Towers attack, 19 killed; the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings, 225 killed; the 2000 USS Cole attack, 17 killed; September 11, 2001, 2,973 killed.
“This is our cautionary tale. Al Qaeda’s eight years of preparations to return and hit the World Trade Center with even more deadly force showed that while our government was in denial, the enemy was sharpening its weapons. Al Qaeda adapted, changing from suicide car bombs to hijacked commercial airplanes used as missiles.
“9/11 changed everything. We learned that the keys to prevailing in this war are actionable intelligence and our ability to be as agile as our adversaries.
“The Obama administration says it wants to ‘use all our counterterrorism tools’ in its defense of the decision to mirandize the Christmas Day bomber and to try foreign enemy combatants in civilian courts. But in creating a stated preference for criminal prosecutions, the administration has returned us to the same reactive posture which led to the string of deadly attacks that could not be stopped by the federal prosecutions of the 1990s. Suspending the CIA detention and interrogation program, closing Guantanamo Bay, and giving Constitutional protections to foreign terrorists who are trained and sent by Al Qaeda to kill Americans puts us at a deadly disadvantage. Allowing terrorists to ‘lawyer up’ robs us of the opportunity to acquire real-time actionable intelligence which saves lives.
“Critics have observed that the Obama administration’s national security policy is returning us to a September 10th mindset. In fact, the situation is worse. On September 10th, we either did not know or did not appreciate the nature of the threat we face. We know now. Returning to a pre-9/11 mindset in view of that hard-earned knowledge is to establish denial as formal policy. The Obama Administration’s repeated invocation of our nation’s ‘values’ to justify this denial is an insult the memory of those who died on this day, and to the thousands who perished in the years that followed.”
Debra Burlingame
Board of Directors
Keep America Safe
Lan astaslem: Arabic for “I will not submit/surrender”
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I remember the day very well. I had a group at my hotel in from a prominent company that had offices in WTC. They were shocked and appalled and distraught. Word spread throughout the day (this was prior to common cell phone usage). Their friends were on the news, shown coming out of the offices with smoke inhalation marks on their faces.
Very sad. Nobody would believe it could happen in the U.S. Then look what happened on 9/11/2001….
Never forget who the enemy without and within is.
Never forget that they will never stop:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704479404575088111782246950.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
May God bless the families and friends who still grieve today, and the people who try to warn our government about radical Islam (Andy McCarthy, Debra Burlingame, Michelle Malkin and others).
May God protect our country now and always, and give us leaders soon who we can trust to protect us.
I worked for a company headquartered in WT2 from 1997 to 2000. Even that many years later, the bombing, and subsequent bomb threats throughout the city over the years, were current topics of conversation.
I remember arriving at a mid-town office building as the bomb-sniffing dogs were leaving. They gave it the all clear, but we had the option of leaving if we wanted to. We stayed, but my co-worker was a nervous wreck through the afternoon.
It’s because of that first bombing that everyone from my company made it out safely on 9/11. There were enough people who had been there at the time that they evacuated immediately instead of listening to announcements.
I remember the elevator ride well, although it wasn’t as much fun after celebrating too much at Windows on the World.
I had nightmares for quite a while after 9/11 imagining what it was like for those poor people trapped in the building.
Congrats on the Democrats’ timing for their use of stealth.
Thanks for the reminder, Michelle (and Debra).
We are not safe. Obowmao only cares about his healthcare legacy.
A damn shame that no one – Republican or Democrat – took it seriously until 8 years later.
There seems to be a number of Americans (many who populate the current Administration, Congress, and the Courts) who can’t, or choose not to, “remember” Sept 11, 2001. I’m sure they don’t “remember” this event either.
The actions of the Democrats in the House yesterday in their sleazy attempt to modify the Intelligence Bill only amplifies the apparent blindness (or is it treason?)of those people.
Thanks for the reminder Michelle and Deborah. On Sept. 12, 2001, I would not have believed that a few short years later a great many people in this country would have returned to a 9/10 mindset. I guess I overestimated them. This would be funny, if there weren’t so many kernels of truth.
Sorry — Debra. (I’m “Deborah.”)
Same here. Two tireless ladies.
It’s a damn shame that Democrats only took it seriously for a few years.
It’s a damn shame that taking it seriously was then labeled “fear mongering” by Democrats.
In the timeless, immortal words of John Wayne… “Not hardly”.
In the left-nut paradigm, 9-11 was the result of Bush’s neocon/nazi regime, and Now The One will get it all worked out. So how come the first WTC attack was when Clintoon was POTUS? The Iran hostage crisis – Jimmeh the Peanut’s watch. Hmmmm. Maybe it’s something more than political idealogy. Ya think?
Three days later, I was living a block away having to walk past the WTC every day for a month on my way to training sessions with Shearson. One night (3am), a bunch of us were walking home and just walked into the parking area without being confronted by security. It was still smoldering. We were awed by the sheer scale of the damage and how it was clear that the objective was to bring the WTC down.
We discussed that possibility for a while trying to imagine what it would be like for a building that big to collapse. We never imagined that in less than ten years, both towers (and more) would come down.
The first WTC bombing has thus been a big event in my life. My office zip code since 1992, 91101, also serves as a daily reminder of the second bombing.
Meanwhile the Danish haven’t forgotten….their place!
I have not, nor will I, till I die forget that day. I have that sign on my front door window, along with my NRA sign, for all to see. God, please bless our Republic.
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As if Osama Bin Laden was on Bush’s rader before 9/11.
And keep in mind the millenium plot to blow up LAX was thwarted under the Clinton administration. Not that I think Clinton’s response to Al Qaeda was as vigorous as it should have been, but if there was one administration that took AQ seriously pre-9/11, it wasn’t Bush’s.
On February 26th, 2010 at 3:06 pm, CO2 Producer said something Michelle brought up the day before. Scroll down, CO2, scroll down…
Hey kids, it’s quiz time again!
John F’n Kerry reported for duty as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee from 1993 to 2001. They conduct public hearings and private hearings. Attendance is made public only for the public hearings not the private/closed hearings so we only know how many times John F’n Kerry attended the public hearings. (He has consistently DENIED requests to allow his private attendance record to be released which tells us…?)
There were four public Senate Intel hearings in 1994 and there was testimony at some of those hearings regarding the 1st WTC attack and how to prevent another attack. John F’n Kerry attended how many of those hearings?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. ZERO
In the 2004 presidential campaign, John F’n Kerry promised, “I will immediately reform the intelligence system.” but what did John F’n Kerry do within one year of the 1st WTC attack?
A. Introduced a bill to bolster our National Security.
B. Did nothing
C. Worked to cut the intelligence budget by 6 billion dollars.
In total, there were 49 public hearings of the Senate Intel Committee during the eight years that John F’n Kerry was a member. How many hearings did he attend?
A. 45
B. 35
C. 25
D. 15
E. 11
Bonus question, where was John F’n Kerry when he was absent from hearings? Hint.
This bombing is just another moon god worshiping terrorist act along a long line of moon god worshiping POS terrorists acts!
This is another example of why I profile.
Why on Earth are you paying any attention to the former junior senator from Massachusetts when the president of the United States himself did nothing at all before 9/11 in anticipation of another Qaeda strike?
Wrong. It’s not as if Osama Bin Laden was on Bush’s radar before 9/11.
Maybe you need to reread my statements.
Really? Which one was it?
I hope MM does a book on how a terrorist attack with a nuclear bomb (bought/donated from Iran or N.K. years prior to erase fingerprints) would alter law and life in this country. I’m hearing from too many shrugging foreigners that we weren’t really “hurt enough” by 9/11 to feel it like it’s small potatoes next their WWII experience; that on 9/12 folks in L.A. and St. Louis still went to Macys and ordered pizza. Terrorist nuclear blackmail with the threat of a second donation somewhere in the U.S. unless we jump through their hoops can alter everything in this country like nothing we’ve ever known. What U.S. city will risk incineration by not demanding Washington to dump Israel or to completely open our borders to the 3rd world or yes, even install Islam as our state religion? You laugh but remember “better Red than dead”? The political/social consequences of handling a terrorist nuke attack/blackmail has not been explored. Maybe those as MM and Sean or Levin should take a crack at this.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Really? Which one took it seriously post-9/11?
Which one was blamed for fear mongering for taking it seriously?
Did anybody really think these people were any more than a bunch of isolated crackpots with a marginal capacity for damage prior to 9/11?
Good point. No one at all.
I’ll go with E, C and E Alex.
Can I have “Famous Quotes From A Swiftboat Vet Degrading The Intelligence Of Servicemen” for $500 please?
Correction – he couldn’t do much of anything thanks to nitwit elitists like John F’n Kerry who wasn’t just a ‘junior senator’ BTW, he was the ‘best’ the democrats could come up with for a 2004 presidential nominee, (and their ‘best’ then picked the ‘best’ he could find as a running mate – JOHN EDWARDS).
Bush did as much as Clinton could have before the African Embassy bombings or the USS Cole attack.
I never blamed Clinton for not doing enough before those attacks or others on his watch, (with people like Kerry in charge of intel – how can you blame presidents for what they are not told about?) … But I DO blame Clinton for not doing the right thing after the attacks, (like his bombing of an aspirin factory that killed an innocent night watchman.)
Clinton’s administration found enough linkage to IRAQ in the African Embassy bombings to include them in an indictment against bin Laden…
Clinton response: Indict them.
Bush response: Kill them.
Yes. Richard Clarke took it seriously enough to recommend a meeting to discuss the threat, strategy, 2002 budget, and helping the Northern Alliance.
It’s a shame he didn’t recommend something that would have prevented 911.
It’s also interesting that Richard Clarke claims that the Clinton administration deliberately tabled these issues for Bush.
In 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by
a. Superman
b. Jay Lenno
c. Harry Potter
d. Just an isolated crackpot
Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 402. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by
a. Olga Corbett
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwarzenegger
d. Just isolated crackpots
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 403. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Just isolated crackpots
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 404.During the 1980′s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Just isolated crackpots
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 405. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Just isolated crackpots
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 406. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davy Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Just isolated crackpots
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 407.In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Just isolated crackpots
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 408.In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
d. Just isolated crackpots
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 409. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Just isolated crackpots
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 4010.In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill’ s women problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Just isolated crackpots
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 4011.On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed
into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers.Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d. Just isolated crackpots
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 4012.In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a. Bonnie and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremist s mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
14. 2004 – Spain Railwayy bombings.
Just isolated crackpots
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 4015. 2005 London Railway bombings
Just isolated crackpots
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40(oops – missed one.)
Maybe foreign policy? Reagan pulled us out of the Middle East, but Clinton bombed them more than Bush did. It was a running joke back then that you could tell when Monica was scheduled to speak because Clinton would start dropping bombs like crazy in an attempt to divert attention away from her.
Here’s what Reagan said: “In the weeks immediately after the bombing, I believe the last thing that we should do was turn tail and leave. Yet the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics forced us to rethink our policy there. If there would be some rethinking of policy before our men die, we would be a lot better off. If that policy had changed towards more of a neutral position and neutrality, those 241 marines would be alive today.”
Today, he’d be decried as a crazy liberal, accused of aiding the terrorists and hating America.
Bush was in office less than eight months, the Demonrats were dragging their feet confirming some of his national security and foreign policy personnel, but Red State Skeptic blames Bush and gives Bill Clinton a pass? Based on a generic memo 3 weeks earlier that al Qaeda has shown interest in airplanes.
8 months versus 8 years. 8 years that allowed Jamie Gorelick to put up her famous wall between the FBI and CIA (possibly to keep the FBI and CIA from figuring out Al Gore (working for Clinton) was knowingly taking bribes from the Peoples Republic of China’s dictators in exchange for nuclear weapon information and missile targetting technology, aka, Treason. Buddhist Temple, ring a bell? Did Clinton/Gores capital crime of treason against the US lead to almost 3,000 deaths, and potentially millions more if we are ever attacked by China?))
RSS, should Bush have gone to code red, and started pat down searches on every person boarding every plane? Suspended all commercial air traffic?
Imagine the pre-September 11th reaction to that.
Someone should ask the African embassy victims, the ones still alive, about that. BTW, supposedly if they had parked the truck in a slightly different location, they might have indeed toppled a WTC tower, and killed 10,000+ people.
here’s a look back–if you can stand the 80′s music…
Why are the p.o.s.-es who did this are still living off of the American taxpayer while Timothy McVeigh was quickly dispatched to hell? Watch, KSM will either walk or get to be cellmates with these bastards, exchanging Tweets with Lynne Stewart.
There is a great deal to discuss in Burlingame’s statement. What I will say is that there is more than one way to skin a cat.
Each President since Reagan has dealt with terrorism in their own way. Each future President will deal with it in their own way. And, we will all ‘armchair quarterback’ each of them.
Had Clinton done something after the bombing other than chasing Monica around, we might not have the events of 9/11.
It was during the trials in NYC of the perpetrators of the first attack that expert testimony revealed what it would take to bring down the WTC towers.
Can’t see any problem with trying KSM and pals in NYC/sarc
Seventeen years already…
Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord,
And let Perpetual Light shine upon them.
May their Souls
And the Souls of all the faithful departed
Through the Mercy of God
Rest in Peace.
Amen.
No, its when I said, we’ve seen terror events all over the world, what makes US territory exempt and why should they stop here?
Their “own way” should be the right way.
Many of us know the right way, but I certainly understand if you don’t feel confident to count yourself among us.
That idiot also phoned his friends to warn them we had spotted bin Laden and were going to bomb him.
And Gorelick made sure the FBI and CIA (and even different groups within the FBI) couldn’t share intelligence. Before she helped wreck the economy.
Excellent.
Would he have said those things 9/12?
Oops, hadn’t seen your Gorelick post.
That particular poster is NOT one of us. And his posts are usually empty, meaningless and garbage. I don’t know why he bothers.
I pray we find a strong national defense conservative as our candidate in 2012. We desperately need someone to stand up and protect us. Obama took an oath to do that, but so far is doing the opposite. And yes, I DO consider him a filthy traitor.
I will never forget my one trip to the top of the WTC! It was an amazing trip to the top of the city.
I will also never forget seeing those buildings collapse on 9/11. I was beside myself with grief because I knew how many people worked in those buildings. I could hardly bring myself to think of 50,000 people trapped in those buildings. Thank God there weren’t that many people there that day.
I hope we are better prepared when the next attack comes…
The point was that Clinton deeply altered our foreign policy with regard to the Middle East, so a better question might be, “Would the towers have been attacked again if Clinton had continued the Reagan trajectory with regard to our Middle East foreign policy?”
And, of course, the media won’t show us the “falling people” from 09/11/2001 because it will “distress” some people and “inflame” others. Let me tell you, I’m still inflamed, and the people “explaining” that it was our own fault that this happened to us and whining about what we’ve done since thend inflame me even more.
This is the point in my rant where some m*r*n asks himself, “Well, why didn’t you join the Army?” I had already been retired from the United States Army for six years and eleven days on 09/11/2001. I called DOA on 09/12/2001 and was told by a very polite young sergeant that the Army wasn’t “currently accepting applications from members of the Retired Reserve to return to active duty.” Every time the Army did ask for volunteers, I was skipped. I guess they needed people young enough to be “door kickers.”
Seventeen years since the first bombing and more than eight years since 09/11/2001 hasn’t dimmed the images in my memory. Add the Khobar Towers, the USS Cole, the embassy bombings, the shootings at the Recruiting office in Little Rock, AR, and Fort Hood, TX, and the “inflammation” hasn’t improved.
ECS
… or a desire to help the enemy.
How many people know that Bill Ayers bombed the pentagon?
How many people know that Bill Ayers gave his two sons Islamic names?
How many people know that Bill Ayers’ office door is decorated with pictures of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Che Guevara and Malcolm X?
How many people know that Bill Ayers said,
and that those words were printed in the NEW YORK Times on the VERY SAME DAY the planes hit the towers – September 11, 2001?
If there was anyone in this country with foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks, I’d say Bill Ayers is the most likely candidate.
Oh, but he’s just “some guy” in Obama’s “neighborhood”.
I lost a friend in the WTC on 9/11/2001. I will never forget, and I will not ignore the verifyable FACTS no matter how ugly a picture they paint.
Question: When Did Unprovoked Muslim Terrorism Against the U.S.A. Begin?
Answer: Before our first President even took office.
In 1990, three years prior to the first bombing, jihadis assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane in New York. When the NYPD searched the apartment of the triggerman, they found Al-Qaeda literature. Before they could translate and act upon this literature, the FBI stepped in and seized it. As far as I know, none of these contents has ever been made public or disclosed to our intelligence services or other branches of law enforcement. And since Rabbi Kahane was the Jew the news media loved to hate, nobody treated this incident with the gravity it deserved.
Bent the MSM won’t even pick up on it.
Sadly the 1993 bombing was another example of our atrocious open-borders immigration policy.
Too bad the republicans did not attempt to tighten up immigration and security while they had power.
What’s to prevent another attack such as this? The republicans are worthless. They, unlike the democrats, know about the absurdity of our current policy yet do nothing to fix it.
This holds true with so many things!! Not only our “immigration” policy (none), but our energy “policy”…no drilling, no nuclear power, no new coal mines, etc. We the People MUST stand up to this tyranny and insist that our country once more takes a lead in these issues. We have allowed ourselves to be held hostage to environment wackos and open-border nutjobs for way way too long!! The U.S. can’t survive much longer if we don’t change course soon!
At the end of the elevator clip, it shows the view from 107 stories high to the ground. And I imagine the mind numbing horror of those poor souls on 9-11 who, looking down on that terrifying view, had to choose; either burn alive or jump and die from the flaming WTC towers. Then my blood boils when I hear about terrorists being Mirandized, or given taxpayer funded attorneys; and it boils more when I hear democrats argue in favor of a law that would imprison CIA employees for 15 years for “exploiting the phobias” of terrorists they are interrogating.
To the terrorists and the jihadi sympathizers in the democrat party: I hope that you all rot in hell.
I made that trip as well and I will never forget the dizzy feeling I got standing on the observation deck with my toes against the windows that went to the floor and looking down–
Give Clinton a break. Him and Janet Reno were busy killing kids in Waco, TX to be much concerned with Jihad.
Like many Americans my life was impacted directly by 9/11. My company essentially went out of business because of the events of that day. And though I did not know anyone personally who died on that day, I had seven friends brutally murdered by Islamic terrorists 6 weeks prior to 9/11.
I still drive by some of the landmarks associated with the event. The 7/11 where several of the terrorists made their connections for Virginia drivers licenses is still packed with day-laborers every day. And the local police do nothing about it.
The monument to those who died in the Pentagon on that day is now open to the public and the damage to the building is long since repaired.
And the same idiotic policies that permitted this attack on America are still operative and the morons running the government today are more sympathetic to the terrorists who perpetrated these acts than to American citizens.
I wonder what it will take to wake up Americans and lead us to throw these people out of office. I don’t think we have reached that point yet. We may be closer now than a few years ago but I still don’t think we are ready to take back out nation from these lunatics.
Branch Davidians, one of the few politically incorrect sects or religions that we’re allowed to comment on and that the Democrats were concerned about.
Still a hole in the ground. Thank you, NY & NJ pols!