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- <title>
- Mar. 08, 1993: Fire and Smoke
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 08, 1993 The Search for the Tower Bomber
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- NATION
- Fire and Smoke
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- <body>
- <p>A powerful bomb explodes underneath the World Trade Center
- </p>
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- <p> It wasn't supposed to happen here. Not in America. Not in New
- York City. But it did. On Friday, just past noon, what is believed
- to be a car bomb exploded in an underground garage beneath Manhattan's
- 110-story World Trade Center. The blast and the resulting smoke
- and fire killed at least five people and injured 1,042. It forced
- tens of thousands of people to evacuate the buildings. It snarled
- traffic, stopped train service and knocked TV stations (many
- had antennas on the roof) off the air. The blast created a 200-ft.
- by 100-ft. crater. It also forged heroes. A woman in a wheelchair
- was carried down 66 stories by two friends. A pregnant woman
- was airlifted from a tower roof.
- </p>
- <p> New York City police commissioner Raymond Kelly cited three
- indicators pointing toward a bomb: traces of nitrate, the magnitude
- of the explosion and the amount of heat generated. Although
- talk of a terrorist attack was immediate, the FBI and the police
- refused to speculate publicly on who might be responsible. Authorities
- received 19 phone calls claiming responsibility, but all came
- more than an hour after the explosion, and none offered any
- details that would have been known only to the bomber and police.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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