On Feb. 26, 1993, a deadly bombing at the World Trade Center killed six people, one of them pregnant, and injured more than 1,000 — becoming a harbinger of terror at the twin towers.
Unsure what was happening, she joined thousands of other office workers on a harrowing trek down dark, smoky stairs, emerging onto the scene of a terror attack.It wasn’t Sept. 11, 2001. This was Feb.
“Today, 30 years later, we still feel the impact of that event,” said Stanley Brezenoff, who survived the bombing as then-head of the government agency that owns the World Trade Center. “The grief we hold for the ones we lost — we feel and share the hurt that the families have felt these many years. That will not change, even years into the future.”
“The ‘93 World Trade Center bombing was the powder keg for the 9/11 attacks,” said Andrew Colabella, a cousin of bombing victim John DiGiovanni. Colabella said he feels the earlier attack is largely remembered as “a blip,” rather than a siren, in the history of international terror. “Every part of our effort has considered the ‘93 bombing as a part of the story that we are telling,” museum Director Clifford Chanin said.
The idea of razing the skyscrapers endured. A message found on another convicted conspirator’s laptop warned that “next time it will be very precise, and the World Trade Center will continue to be one of our targets.”
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