New York City landmark bomb plot: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

The New York City landmark bomb plot was a planned "sequel" to the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing that would have inflicted hundreds of American casualties on their own soil.

The plot was concocted by blind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, a radical Muslim cleric in New York City, and by some of his followers. The attacks were to take place on July 4, Independence Day in the United States.

The first target was the UN Building; it was to be destroyed by a suicide bomber driving a truck bomb. Also to be destroyed by car bombs were the Lincoln Tunnel and the Holland Tunnel, two busy underground roadways in the city. The George Washington Bridge would be bombed next, as well as the FBI's main office in New York, New York. There was also some talk of bombing Jewish targets in the city as well as assassinating the Jewish U.S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

They were arrested in June 1993, a capture announced June 24, 1993. At the time they were arrested, the conspirators were mixing fertilizer and diesel fuel to create an ANFO bomb like the one used on the World Trade Center. Rahman and nine others were convicted in a public trial October 1, 1995.