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Cato Institute (blog)
April 17, 2018
Ramzi Yousef was born in Kuwait to Pakistani parents, has Pakistani citizenship, and entered the United States in September 1992 at the age of 24 on a pending asylum claim. At the U.S. airport, he had no visa, having bribed a Pakistani official to allow him to board the plane, so he claimed asylum and wasÃâà...
The Press, York
April 4, 2018
Tributes had poured in for Mr Lionel Digby Whitehead, chairman of the Whitehead Iron and Steel Co, who had been found dead in his car between Brecon and Sennybridge at the age of 61. Mr Whitehead, the son of the late Mr George Whitehead, of Deighton Grove, York, had spent his boyhood in YorkÃâà...
Ledger Independent
April 4, 2018
Ramzi Yousef was convicted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Six people were killed and over a thousand injured when he drove a van beneath the tower and detonated a bomb. Theodore Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, killed three people and injured 24 others over a 17 year period.
Portsmouth Daily Times
April 3, 2018
Ramzi Yousef was convicted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Six people were killed, and more than a thousand were injured when he drove a van beneath the tower and detonated a bomb. Theodore Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, killed three people and injured 24 others during aÃâà...
Inquirer.net
March 31, 2018
Among the successful intelligence work being credited to Mendoza was the interrogation of terror suspect Abdul Karim Murad, which led to the arrest of another suspect, Ramzi Yousef, in Pakistan in February 1995. Yousef was part of a group of terrorists behind the Feb. 26, 1993, World Trade CenterÃâà...
The Manila Times
March 28, 2018
The assassination plot against the Pope was later found out to be part of “Oplan Bojinka,” a terror attack planned by Ramzi Yousef, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and Abdul Hakim Murad in the 1990's. Aside from the assassination plot, Mendoza also served as consultant on several investigations involvingÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 24, 2018
A 1,336-pound truck bomb planted by Ramzi Yousef and other terrorists killed six people and injured more than 1,000. There were reports of possible loss of life or injury to Treasury agents that our office was busy checking out. Not having appointees in office months into a presidential transition raises theÃâà...
KPRC Click2Houston
March 22, 2018
Former U.S. State Department Counterterrorism agent Fred Burton has first-hand experience in the pursuit of a bomber. He was hot on the trail of Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Burton is now based in Austin as chief security officer for Stratfor Enterprises.
WPIX 11 New York
February 27, 2018
NEW YORK — The Ryder Rental truck packed with 1,600 pounds of explosives was positioned near a pillar on the B2 level of the World Trade Center underground garage, beneath the mammoth Twin Towers. The intention of the bomb maker, Ramzi Yousef, was to pull off a blast so massive that one towerÃâà...
Las Vegas Review-Journal
February 26, 2018
Six bombing suspects were convicted and are in prison, including accused ringleader Ramzi Yousef — a nephew of self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. A seventh suspect in the bombing remains at large. An estimated 50,000 people fled the blacked-out twin towers, some gropingÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 14, 2017
According to an interview with Kleinman in the Sentinel, published by the Combatting Terrorism Center at West Point, Ramzi Yousef "has devoted his efforts to this project solely … on the basis that he believes that ISIS does great harm to Islam throughout the world." Yousef is serving a life sentence for hisÃâà...
CNN International
February 17, 2013
Ramzi Yousef has been locked away in solitary confinement at the federal "Supermax" prison in Florence, Colorado, since 1998. A 15-page list of rules sets limits on his contact with relatives, lawyers and other inmates. He can read books and watch television, but newspapers and magazines are censoredÃâà...
Crimeola
December 31, 1999
There, he is rubbing shoulders with the “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski and Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Rudolph's attacks, which occurred from 1996 to 1998, killed two people and wounded more than 120. He spent five years on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted FugitivesÃâà...
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