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Jury Finds Port Authority Negligent In 1993 WTC Bombing
The Associated Press ^ | October 26, 2005 | AP

Posted on 10/27/2005 12:49:55 AM PDT by Westlander

NEW YORK -- A jury has found the New York Port Authority negligent in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

The verdict says the Port Authority, which owned the World Trade Center, failed to properly guard the parking garage where terrorists set off a half-ton of explosives in a rental van.

The verdict is a victory for victims of the attack that killed six people and wounded 1,000. Other trials will now be held to determine money damages.

The explosion filled the building with smoke, wrecked the towers' power and emergency systems, and spread fear across New York. Plaintiff attorneys showed the Port Authority's own security officials warned in 1985 that the 400-space garage was a likely target.

The jury took just one day to reach its verdict.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 1993; 1993wtc; bombing; jury; nyc; portauthority; wtc
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1 posted on 10/27/2005 12:49:55 AM PDT by Westlander
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To: Westlander
the attack that killed six people and wounded 1,000.

How does smoke inhalation constitute a wound?

2 posted on 10/27/2005 12:53:13 AM PDT by adamsjas
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To: adamsjas

It's called a Kerry diagnosis.


3 posted on 10/27/2005 12:54:54 AM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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Damn straight!! Sue em!! That'll teach those taxpayers to let terrorist attack buildings!!


4 posted on 10/27/2005 12:59:36 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Westlander

Who, in 1993, would have predicted that somebody would bomb the WTC parking garage?

Parking garage owners nationwide had best install expensive security measures NOW!


5 posted on 10/27/2005 1:01:12 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Westlander
Plaintiff attorneys showed the Port Authority's own security officials warned in 1985 that the 400-space garage was a likely target.

Yeah, and stupid lawsuits like this is exactly why people in charge are afraid to say that something could stand to be improved, because it could come back and bite them on the rear later.

6 posted on 10/27/2005 1:03:18 AM PDT by drlevy88
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To: Westlander

Since Bush bears a huge responsibility for 9-11, according to leftist moonbats, shouldn't this suit be shared by the Clintons?


7 posted on 10/27/2005 1:03:53 AM PDT by DakotaRed
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To: Westlander

Ummmm . . . . I'm not sure how to tell either the jurors or the prosecutor this but . . ummm, the WTC towers are gone . . . . no longer there . . . . missing in action . . . lost in NY . . . . DUST.

There's no money to collect from something that another group of terrorists have totally destroyed.

The whole effort would have been put to better use if the prosecutor had gone after al-Qaeda for some of their wealth instead of the Port Authority.


8 posted on 10/27/2005 5:26:56 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: DakotaRed
Since Bush bears a huge responsibility for 9-11, according to leftist moonbats, shouldn't this suit be shared by the Clintons?

You can bet youir "bippy" the pissers' and moaners won't be looking back at the Clinton fiasco presidency which left this nation unprotected from it's enemies while these two scumbags went about their lascivious and lying ways!

Wake up America and reject this trash out right before they take this nation on another wild ride down the road of destruction!

Say no to scumbag Bill and scumbagguete Hillary now before it is too late to stop this juggernaught of filth, evil and deception!

9 posted on 10/27/2005 5:42:37 AM PDT by VOYAGER
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