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First thought after '93 WTC blast wasn't bomb

It had to be an accident.

Hard to imagine now, but that was the prevailing theory moments after an explosion rocked the World Trade Center around noon on a chilly Feb. 26, 1993.

The truth -- that a cell of Islamic extremists had engineered a car-bomb attack that killed six people, injured more than 1,000 and caused more than a half-billion dollars in damage -- "was incomprehensible at...

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