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The Truth in Painting 1993: The World Trade Center Bombers (last edited: 2024)

Martin Lang
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1993 was the year of the first Islamist terrorist attack on American soil. The World Trade Center was bombed on the twentieth anniversary of its construction. Most of the bombers were apprehended and now reside in US maximum security prisons (you can check which prison houses who online). Some have since died of natural causes. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is currently in Guantanamo Bay for his role in the 9/11 attack. He was not initially charged with the 1993 attack, but confessed to masterminding it. During his interrogation by the CIA, Mohammed was subjected to waterboarding more than 180 times. He is generally believed to have bankrolled the 1993 bombing, but his nephew, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, is believed to have masterminded it. Yousef was also implicated in the 1993 Benazir Bhutto assassination attempt. Abdul Rahman Yasin is the only convicted WTC bomber to escape justice. The Iraqi authorities informed the Americans of his capture and that he had crucial information regarding the bombing. Inexplicably, the US did not respond, and he was subsequently released (he remains on the FBI most wanted list). The Twin Towers, representing global trade, were a symbolic target for religious indignation long before 9/11. Could the bombing have been a religious rejection of the New World Order described above?
typeresearch exposition
keywordsPainting, portraiture, Investigative art, post-truth
date08/06/2022
last modified01/01/2024
statusin progress
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copyrightMartin Lang
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urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2433828/2433829


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nameThe Banker (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed). 30cm x 42cm
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nameThe Blind Sheik (Omar Abdel-Rahman). 30cm x 42cm
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nameThe Driver (Eyad Ismoil). 30cm x 42cm
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nameThe Egyptian (Mahmud Abouhalima). 30cm x 42cm
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nameThe Explosives Expert (Nidal A. Ayyad). 30cm x 42cm
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nameThe Mastermind (Ramzi Yousef) 30cm x 42cm
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nameThe One Who Got Away (Abdul Rahman Yasin). 30cm x 42cm
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nameThe Drifter (Mohammad Salameh). 30cm x 42cm
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nameThe Failed Forger (Ahmed Ajaj). 30cm x 42cm
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