"The WTC was chosen as his [mastermind Yousef] target because it was the greatest symbol of American finance and imperialism. He felt that it was kind of like a state of war. He compared it to the United States atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki where he said 1/4 of a million people were killed and he felt that if he could topple one of the towers into the other he would kill that many people."