On Feb. 26, 1993, terrorists drove a yellow Ryder van into a garage beneath the World Trade Center, killing six in a plot meant to inflict far more devastation. The swift capture of one suspect eased an illusion that normalcy had returned, but the first bombing was a dire warning that a new era -- a new fight against an ideology -- had emerged, not only in New York but also throughout the United States. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly recalls a Port Authority worker saying, 'At least we know these buildings could never come down.'
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