There have been few, very minor, attacks directly against Americans on American soil by foreign adversaries. On January 25, 1993, an illegal Pakistani immigrant, Mir Aimal Kansi, opened fire near the entrance to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters in Virginia. The attack killed 2 employees and injured others. Apparently, the Central Intelligence Agency was a target due to its interference in Pakistani affairs during the war in Afghanistan. (Kephart, 2005)According to the Encyclopedia of New York State, at 12:18 p.m. on Friday, February 26, 1993, a powerful explosion shook the earth and knocked out power to Lower Manhattan, New York. Most would say it sounded like an earthquake. This marked the beginning of a new phase of terrorism involving the killing of innocent civilians. A bomb weighing between 1,200 and 1,500 pounds had exploded in the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center (WTC), the tallest building in the Manhattan complex. The explosion created the building's dark, smoke-filled staircases and forced an immediate evacuation of about 50,000 people from the 110-story WTC, which took more than six hours. The bomb created a crater approximately 150 feet in diameter and five stories deep and killed 6 people who were in the area. More than 1,000 people were injured and treated for smoke inhalation. Damage was estimated at $500 million that day. (2005. Pg.1723.) About two months before the bombing, the conspirators had gathered the materials they needed to create this explosive device. Living in New Jersey, the terrorists had rented storage space where they set up an area to build the device, then loaded the bomb into a rented van... middle of paper...... Rahman Yasin has not yet been captured. The bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 was just a minor situation in history that could have been major. If the criminals had been able to obtain more funding for the chemicals they needed to make a bigger bomb, the damage caused would have been greater. Works Cited “1993 World Trade Center bombing.” Encyclopedia of New York State. Syracuse University Press, 2005. 1723. Academic OneFile. Internet. March 16, 2014. Tucker, Jonathan. “Bombing of the World Trade Center in New York in February 1993.” James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Np, and Web. September 12, 2001. Web. March 15, 2014. .Kephart, Janice. "Immigration and Terrorism | Center for Immigration Studies." Center for Immigration Studies. Np, and Web. March 14. 2014. .