Should America have made more of a deal about the World Trade Center attack in 1993?

I don’t think the memorials have anything to do with the issue of security. Most people don’t think about 9/11 except once a year, but the realization of security is ongoing.

A lot was done after 1993 with respect to security, but it was kept low key. I was peripheral involved in some of the planning at my work, we did a lot to minimize the possibility of a car bombing, and after Oklahoma City, worried about truck bombs.

@zenvelo Years before 9/11 I was driving around the baggage level of Miami airport waiting to pick up my husband. I passed an empty parked car in the drive around twice, and on the third I called airport security. The person who answered when I told her said, “so?” Idiot. When I got married I thought to myself taking my husband’s name meant I was the first one shot dead on a hijacked plane. That also was before 9/11. I don’t get how people can be so naive. I feel like Americans need to be reminded they too can be targets. I don’t know if there is more terrorism in the world since 9/11, but for me, my whole life I believed there are people who will kill masses of people because they hate or fear, that has always been my reality.

@JLeslie ; they even say “So?” after 9/11. I had someone skip out on an apartment the day after Osama Bin Laden was killed. He was from Pakistan and had all sorts of anti American Muslim newspapers in his apartment. The police said they didn’t see anything to worry about, the FBI ignored me, and finally, I got someone at Homeland Security to send someone out. I practically had to beg them to look into it.
It seems the guy fled to Dubai.
Hey, I wonder if he was one of the terrorists that they were looking for recently. Weren’t they coming into the US via Dubai?

@Judi Holy crap. So many stupid people work security and are answering the phones at 911 and the police station. Unbelievable. How can it be? People worry about wire tapping and our freedoms, and the agencies don’t even follow up on legitimate leads. Just like the people at the flight school reporting people were taking flying lessons, but not interested in landing lessons, and our authorities did nothing. Later those same students flew planes into the towers and pentagon. Hindsight is 20/20 is not a good enough excuse, it is blatant incompetence.

Great Caesar’s ghost, around here you can’t seem to escape 9/11. You can’t do this; 9/11. You have to do this; 9/11. Can’t board this on a train; 9/11. Signs all over BART and the transit system, _”See any suspicious packages, call a station agent,” etc. People seem to almost forgotten the Oklahoma bombing of the Federal building. Timothy McVeigh was a disappointment, he was home grown, that would not set up a bogus pretext to go stomping someone in the Middle East, and being a former soldier it was if the Army trained him how to inflict the would he did. That bombing only lingered in the US consciousness because of the photo of the little dead girl, whose name I can’t even remember anymore..

@Hypocrisy_Central Miami airport has always had announcements that you must keep your belongings with you, and you cannot park your car through the drive around, for as long as I can remember for security reasons. In Spanish and English. All major airports have since way before 9/11. Yet, some idiot working in security had no awareness.

Hell, that people think it is shocking to fly a plane into a building to blow it up obviously forgot about Kamikazi pilots.

@JLeslie; when they finally came out, we were chastised for touching stuff but we had already been told they were not interested in it. When they got there they were happy to take the computers, literature and disk drives, but it took about 10 phone calls to different agencies before anyone would listen.

@Judi A guy from Pakistan was reading newspapers from his home country and then he took a flight to Dubai? I’m not surprised the authorities showed no interest.

@flutherother Are you being serious? Did you read @Judi‘s first answer? She didn’t say the newspapers were from his home country, just that the periodicals were antiAmerican. Anyway, if an American neo nazi skinhead was reading antisemitic and racial materials I hope Homeland security is keeping track of that guy too.

@flutherother, he was reading anti American newspapers written in English. “Our goal is too destroy the west” was one line I remember, and he suddenly skipped town the day Bim Laden was killed.
It MSY have been innocent but it was certainly worth investigating.