Posted on 09/19/2005 5:34:19 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
It was one of the most terrifying moments in the city's history — a massive car bombing that ripped through an underground garage, killing six and injuring over a thousand.
And now, 12 long years later, a jury will decide whether the Feb. 26, 1993 terror attack on the World Trade Center could have been prevented.
After more than a decade of maddening delays and appeals, jury selection is expected to begin today in legal actions by hundreds of victims of the first attack on the Twin Towers against the buildings' owner, the Port Authority.
The suits charge the bi-state agency's negligence made the site an easy and likely terror target, and that a jury should find it liable. The Port Authority contends the attack was not "foreseeable" because the building had never been bombed before.
Two of the victims didn't live to see their day in court — they were killed at the Twin Towers on 9/11.
Victims and their lawyers contacted by The Post declined to discuss the case, citing a comment by the judge who presided over the case until earlier this year, Stanley Sklar. He'd threatened to postpone the trial for months longer if they spoke publicly because that could taint a potential jury pool.
Port Authority spokesman Steve Coleman also declined comment, saying it's the agency policy not to comment on "pending litigation."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
lawyers are a different type of cat.
This is what comes of treating a terrorist attack like a law-enforcement problem.
Yes. If that bomb had gone off as designed it would have toppled one tower into the other and destroyed both.
"This is what comes of treating a terrorist attack like a law-enforcement problem."
My thoughts, exactly! And why are these people suing The Port Authority? I guess hindsight really IS 20/20.
This is the only article I've found on this. Wonder why the media is so hush-hush on this? Could it have something to do with who was President during that time and the fact that his hag of a wife might be damaged by a reminder of the incompetency of that co-Presidency?
Man, what a pig in a poke some were sold with that two-for-one deal. Grrrrr!
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