The primary targets of Tuesday's terrorist plane attacks were two of the world's largest office buildings and nerve centers for national defense, commerce, and communication.

While few Americans would consider either the World Trade Center towers or the Pentagon as national icons on the order of the Washington Monument, the buildings are high-profile edifices that have always been on security experts' short list of potential targets.

The 110-story twin towers of the foot of Manhattan are the most prominent features of the New York skyline and house offices for a variety of private and government agencies, including an emergency command post for New York City.

The center was a terror target before, in 1993, when a bomb detonated in a parking garage beneath the towers, killing

The strategy of the attack on America symbolizes a strike of crippling blow on a specific branch of American society. It seems abundantly clear that the terrorists' primary goal was to destroy the economic, political, and military centers of America. By hijacking four commercial jets (an event which has never happened in American aviation history) which were bloated with jet fuel for

cross-country flights, the terrorists planned on using them as human guided missiles. The targets were a portion of the nerve center of the American military, the home of the government, and a major symbol of American economic power.

The immediate results were widespread pain and disorder. Billions of dollars were lost with the suspension of all flights by the FAA, the closing of countless businesses including the U.S. Stock Market, and demoralizing the nation. After the World Trade Center attacks, the worl

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