The 1993 World Trade Center bombing occurred on February 26, 1993 when Ramzi Yousef parked a rented van with of explosives in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center. The explosion claimed six victims, and over one thousand people were wounded. The explosion created a six-story crater through the basement levels of the World Trade Center, with damage reaching up to the Marriott Hotel. Ramzi Yousef, the nephew of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, had trained in Afghanistan. Yousef worked in cooperation with the blind sheikh Abdul Rahman who was living across the Hudson, in Jersey City, at the time of the attack. The FBI later turned up evidence that Osama bin Laden provided financial support to the blink sheikh Abdul Rahman.[1]