I made a serious error in today’s post extra on the World Trade Center bombing on Feb. 26 1993 obliquely referring to the terrorist attacks of America on 9/11 as happening on Sept. 12, 2001. Of course those attacks took place on Sept. 11. The original post has been corrected and the edited addendum is presented here.

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Say World Trade Center terrorist attack and your first thought probably goes to Sept 11, 2001. But that wasn’t the first terrorist attack on the New York skyscraper. That came 25 years ago today on 26 February 1993 when 15 people conspired and parked a rental van packed with 1200 pounds of explosives in the parking garage beneath the towers. Six people including a pregnant woman were killed and over 1,000 injured in the blast that also caused over $590 million in damage.

The FBI called the van bomb the “largest by weight and by damage of any improvised explosive device that we’ve seen since the inception of forensic explosive identification.” The World Trade Center’s sprinklers, generators, elevators, public address system, emergency command center, and more than half of the incoming electricity lines to the buildings were destroyed in the attack.

Sometime today please take a moment to remember the victims of the forgotten attack on the World Trade Center.

Photo: Jeff Mock via WikiMedia Commons