Two Seconds under the World - Tapa blanda

Chronicling the tragic 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, which claimed six lives and injured numerous others, an inside story summarizes the terrorist conspiracy behind the bombing and the successful capture of the responsible parties. Reprint.

ORTANT BOOK...[THAT] TELLS US WHY ATTENTION MUST BE PAID."

--New York Newsday

At 12:17 p.m. on February 26, 1993, a 1,500 pound bomb tore into the underbelly of New York City's World Trade Center. Six people were killed, numerous others injured, the city's economy traumatized. The blast took just two seconds, but in that instant America's sense of security was destroyed forever. Now, for the first time ever, here is the complete, authoritative, inside story of the conspiracy and its origins, the bombing and its aftermath. Written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who first broke much of the story, TWO SECONDS UNDER THE WORLD reveals, in a vivid and gripping narrative, just how vulnerable America remains to terrorist attack...

* The internal squabbles that may have prevented the FBI from catching the fanatics before they had a chance to act

* How the bombers nearly succeeded in actually knocking down the Twin Towers

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