# Was the World Trade Center bombing a failure or a success?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 3, 2001, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-world-trade-center-bombing-a-failure-or-a-success/56657 "2001-03-03T20:46:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-world-trade-center-bombing-a-failure-or-a-success/56657/1 "2001-03-03T20:46:07Z")

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In the view of the terrorists of course.

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-world-trade-center-bombing-a-failure-or-a-success/56657/2 "2001-03-03T21:12:55Z")

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The goal of terrorists is to terrorize and bring attention to their “cause,” so in that sense, it was certainly a success. I believe the actual goal was to destroy both buildings completely (via dominoes) and obviously that didn’t happen.

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**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-world-trade-center-bombing-a-failure-or-a-success/56657/3 "2001-03-03T22:08:10Z")

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Let’s leave it to the terrorists to ponder the success of their scheme while their @sses rot in prison! I’m sure that more than a few inmates in the general population will have some pretty choice thoughts on the matter. Here’s hoping.

As to success, all that they really accomplished is to make it even more acceptable to limit our freedoms in the name of preventing their terrorism. For that reason alone, they should spend their remaining lives in some hell-hole.

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-world-trade-center-bombing-a-failure-or-a-success/56657/4 "2001-03-03T23:01:02Z")

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Does anybody have any, you know, cites in answer to this question? Surely some of the accused and/or convicted have made statements about the “success” of the event.