A man allegedly involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing told an interviewer that he and his accomplices originally wanted to target Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn. In an interview with CBS-TV’s “60 Minutes” conducted in Iraq, Abdul Rahman Yasin said the conspirators changed their minds and targeted the twin towers because they believed that most of those who worked there were Jewish.
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