[duxup]

I really don't want to go down the endless list of comparisons but I don't think anyone warned the civilians in the world trade center just before it was hit. But in the case of the AP office:

"We received a warning that the building would be hit. "

And I think civilian casualties was was intended goal of the World Trade Center attack....

It's a bad comparison IMO.

[Context_free]

I could give other examples, but if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's 1993 WTC bombing was not enough of a warning that that complex was a target, I don't know what would be. Mohammed succeeded on his second try.

John P. O'Neill of the FBI headed that investigation and he left the FBI and was head of WTC security on the day of the attack. He told people he thought he expected another attempt.

[detaro]

The WTC was targeted for being the WTC, not for having a CIA office in it.