There was a first plan to destroy the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, which failed in 1993. Eight years later, on September 11, 2001, the attack was carried out.Photo by MikeGoad on Pexels
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There was a first plan to destroy the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, which failed in 1993. Eight years later, on September 11, 2001, the attack was carried out.

Notícias de Coimbra11 September 2026 at 11:31

There was a first plan to destroy the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, which failed in 1993. Eight years later, on September 11, 2001, the attack was successfully carried out.

Before that attack, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center had already been the target of a first attempt at destruction. This first attempt took place in 1993 and did not achieve its goal.

The initial plan consisted of exploding the Twin Towers, but something went wrong and the attempt was unsuccessful. Only eight years later, the September 11, 2001 attacks would finally carry out what had been previously planned.

This context shows that the attack on the Twin Towers was not a new idea, as there had been a first failed attempt years before the tragedy that changed the world in 2001.

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