AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
In retrospect, the scenario seems chillingly prophetic. Imagine "ordinary New Yorkers or Washingtonians, asleep in their homes," wrote the author of a November 14, 1999 New York Times essay. "Then, in a flash, hundreds perish in explosions at the Watergate, or at an apartment complex on Manhattan's West Side. Thousands are injured, some horribly disfigured. Panic engulfs a neighborhood, then a nation."
"Russians do not have to imagine such a calamity' continued the author, Russian Prime Minister (and future President) Vladimir Putin. "More than 300 of our citizens in Moscow and elsewhere suffered that fate earlier this year when bombs detonated by terrorists ...