Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Muslim Brotherhood:
On February 26 1993, a powerful explosion tore through
the foundations of the World Trade Center in Lower
Manhattan, killing six people, including a woman who was
seven months pregnant, and injuring over 1000.[84] Fifty
thousand people were evacuated from the damaged buildings.
The blast left a crater 200 by 100 feet wide and five
stories deep, and caused the ceiling of the mezzanine of the
adjacent Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) train station to
collapse.[85]
An FBI expert on explosives described the blast as "the
largest improvised explosive device that's been in the U.S.
since we started doing forensic explosive investigations in
1925." [86]
Explosives experts estimate that the bomb which caused
the explosion weighed approximately 1000 pounds, and the
price of the chemicals used to make it cost slightly more
than $400.[87]
Several days after the explosion occurred, police and
federal officials made their first arrest in the case.
Tracing the VIN (vehicle identification number) found on a
piece of metal at the site of the explosion, investigators
were led to Mohammed Salameh, a 25-year-old illegal alien
from Jordan who allegedly rented the yellow Ford Econoline
van which was used in the bombing.[88]
Salameh, together with the two other suspects who were
arrested - Nidal Ayyad and Ibrahim Elgabrowny - all
participated in demonstrations on behalf of El Sayyid
Nosair. A fourth suspect who fled this country, Mahmud Abu
Halima, is believed to be head of a HAMAS terrorist cell.
[89] Halima is believed to have fled to Pakistan.[90]
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