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  terrorismfiles.org : Ramzi Yousef
Ramzi Yousef is the convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Yousef and Murad were high school friends who grew up in a village in Kuwait, and later lived together in Pakistan and the Philippines.
Yousef is incarcerated at the federal "supermax" prison in Florence, Colorado, where Yousef has been cooperating with the government and has yet to be sentenced.
terrorismfiles.org /individuals/ramzi_yousef.html   (602 words)

  
  Ramzi Yousef - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The father of Yousef and the father of Yousef's uncle, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, are believed to be from the Baluchistan province of Pakistan.
Yousef is believed to have returned to Pakistan, and soon began plotting to fulfill part of his unsuccessful Bojinka plot.
On November 12, 1997 Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing and in 1998 he was convicted of "seditious conspiracy" to bomb the towers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ramzi_Yousef   (1018 words)

  
 Ramzi Yousef Gets 240 Years
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the terrorist convicted of masterminding and helping to carry out the deadly 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was sentenced in New York to 240 years in prison with the highly unusual recommendation from the judge that he be kept in solitary confinement for the rest of his life.
Ramzi Yousef, 29 year old Pakistani (?), is considered to be one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world, and in the view of FBI investigators, he was involved in the planning of many terror acts in different countries.
Yousef was also sentenced today to another life term for a 1994 plot to plant bombs abroad 12 U.S. airliners operating in the far east and for exploding a bomb abroad a Philippine airliner as a trail run, killing one passenger.
www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=5   (269 words)

  
 Ramzi Yousef - Wikinfo
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef or Ramzi Mohammed Yousef (also transliterated as Ramsi Yousef, Ramzi Youssef, and other ways), birth name possibly Abdul Basit Karim is believed to be the mastermind behind the first World Trade Center attack.
Yousef's plan was discovered on a notebook personal computer inside his apartment, two weeks before it would have been implemented.
On November 12, 1997 Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing and in 1998 he was convicted of "seditious conspiracy" to bomb the towers.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Ramzi_Yousef   (2728 words)

  
 Ramzi Yousef
Ramzi Yousef's most recent distinction is his status as the resident of the most expensive studio apartment in the history of the world.
Yousef's nationality is a matter of some dispute, but it's believed he was a native of the Baluchistan area of Pakistan, a wild lawless border region with deep and broad ties to terrorism and al Qaeda.
Yousef was convicted in a New York courtroom for both the WTC bombing and the Bojinka plot, and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/terrorists/ramzi-yousef   (2152 words)

  
 The Hatfill Deception
Her book Study of Revenge focuses on Ramzi Yousef and the question of whether or not he is Abdul Basit, an individual who was born and raised in Kuwait, and received his higher education in the United Kingdom.
Yousef, the out-of-town mastermind, is by all accounts a streetwise 'operator' or 'wise guy.' A skilled liar and manipulator as well as a brilliant explosives expert, he has a track record of seducing and using naive Islamic idealogues, then leaving them to take the fall after the event.
Ramzi Yousef’s bombing of the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993 was the prototype for September 11, which was itself the handiwork of Yousef’s 'uncle,' Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
hatfill.blogspot.com /2004_04_01_hatfill_archive.html   (16547 words)

  
 Review of The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama Bin Laden, and the Future Of Terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Yousef (born 1968) grew up as a second-class citizen in Kuwait, while bin Laden (born 1957) is the 17th son of one of Saudi Arabia's richest men.
Yousef is described as an "evil genius" who invented new and undetectable kinds of bombs; bin Ladin, inspired by an extremist vision of Islam, used his huge fortune to create a personal army.
Yousef, now a lifelong guest at the Florence Correctional Institute in Colorado, is considered the most dangerous prisoner in the entire U.S. penal system; bin Laden, living out of animal-infested caves in Afghanistan, ranks as America's most dangerous criminal still on the loose.
www.danielpipes.org /article/906   (871 words)

  
 Did Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef meet? |
Yousef trained Abu Sayyaf fighters in the south of the Philippines during this visit, an effort that led directly to the testimony that is most — and least — damning in the case of the Oklahoma City bombing.
Ramzi Yousef was known to have associates on the campus, and he visited the campus throughout the fall and winter of 1994.
Yousef is documented to have visited Cebu on at least two specific occasions during this period, while testing explosives in November and December 1994, once to set a bomb in a shopping mall and the second time to set a bomb on a Philippines Airlines flight which killed a Japanese businessman in early December.
intelwire.egoplex.com /2005_04_01_exclusives.html   (3578 words)

  
 On Ramzi Yousef   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It concerns the identity of Ramzi Yousef, ringleader of the 1993 attempt to topple the WTC, and KSM's co-conspirator on Project Bojinka, a forerunner of 9/11.
Yousef, currently serving a 240 year sentence in a "supermax" prison in Florence, Colorado, is a man with many identities.
Ramzi Yousef claimed that there was no special significance to his selection of February 26 for the WTC bombing, even though that happens to be the day Kuwait celebrates the defeat of Saddam Hussein and the end of the Gulf War.
www.angelfire.com /ex/projecthatfill/on_ramzi_yousef.html   (8200 words)

  
 Context of 'Late 1980s: Ramzi Yousef Recruited by CIA?'
Yousef is believed to have masterminded a series of bombings in the early 1990s, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the planned Bojinka attack, before being captured in 1995 (see February 7, 1995).
If Yousef was recruited by the CIA, it may have been in the late 1980s when the CIA recruited and trained thousands of people around the world to fight in Afghanistan (see 1986-1992).
Additionally, Ramzi Yousef trained in Afghanistan near the end of the Afghan war, and there are claims he was recruited by the CIA (see Late 1980s).
www.cooperativeresearch.org /context.jsp?item=a1980syousefcia   (1857 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism: Books: Simon Reeve   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He argues that Ramzi Yousef, who masterminded the bombing of the World Trade Center, acted from a mixture of political and religious motives and shows that he was captured only through the hard work (and a little luck) of the FBI and other intelligence agencies around the world.
Yousef, an Islamic educated in Great Britain and the man behind the 1993 bombing of the world trade center (WTC), is reported to have said while detained and while flying over the WTC that �the next time it won't be there".
Ramzi Yousef, who has been described as what Osama bin Laden would like to be, did not run and hide after he engineered the first bombing of the WTC.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1555534074?v=glance   (1977 words)

  
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Ramzi Yousef - who has also gone by the aliases Najy Awaita Haddad, Paul Vijay, Adam Sali, Adam Adel Ali, Adam Khan Baluch, Doctor Adel Sabah, Doctor Richard Smith, and Abdul Basit Karim (which is probably his birth name) - currently resides in a cell at Colorado's Supermax Prison.
During his stay in Pakistan, Yousef plotted the assassination of the that country's then-President, Benazir Bhutto (the plot failed), and a violent sectarian attack in Iran in which he succeeded in killing some Shiites.
Yousef had actually tested one of his bombs on a flight from Manila to Tokyo on December 11, 1994.
www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1735   (1099 words)

  
 Lost Chance: The Oslo Era, 1993-1995
Ramzi Yousef tests the detonation device he's invented by setting off a bomb in a Philippines Airlines flight to Tokyo, killing a Japanese businessman and injuring 10 other passengers.
Yousef and KSM were also working on plots to assassinate President Clinton and to blow up cargo flights.
Ramzi Yousef, the organizer of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is apprehended in Islamabad as he is about to board a bus for Afghanistan.
cnparm.home.texas.net /911/Backg/Backg3.htm   (2811 words)

  
 Context of 'January 31-February 2, 1995: Ramzi Yousef Attempts to Blow Up Airliners over US'
But despite these leads, Ramzi Yousef is the only other person successfully arrests based on all this data (and Yousef’s arrest will largely be due to an informant responding to an existing tip off program (see February 7, 1995)).
Yousef had just told Parker that Parker’s name was on Yousef’s laptop that he left behind in the Philippines after the foiled Bojinka plot (see January 7-11, 1995).
Yousef also soon admits to ties with Wali Khan Amin Shah, who fought with bin Laden in Afghanistan, and Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, one of bin Laden’s brothers-in-law, who is being held by the US at the time.
www.cooperativeresearch.net /context.jsp?item=a013195yousefqatar   (2727 words)

  
 Ramzi Yousef, Schema-Root news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, entered the United States carrying a stolen Iraqi passport.
Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, bragged that his most expensive outlay was in long-distance phone calls.
Terror plotters Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed used Manila as a testing ground for deadly plane bombings, which was ultimately used in the 9/11...
schema-root.org /people/political/activists/religious/islamic/fundamentalists/al-qaeda/ramzi_yousef   (1014 words)

  
 Ramzi Yousef and Ihsan Barbouti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Further investigations have raised the possibility that the 'Ramzi Yousef' mentioned by Lysandrou was actually working for Barbouti and acting as an intermediary between Lysandrou and Libya.
Lysandrou was quoted as claiming that the 'Ramzi Yousef' he knew had previously worked for the government of Iraq, specifically the Iraqi National Oil Company (INOC), prior to working with Barbouti, and had flown in and out of Houston several times with an individual extremely close to Barbouti.
The conclusion of the source, based on the phone taps and his agency's investigations, was that the 'Ramzi Yousef' who knew Barbouti was Ramzi Yousef the terrorist.
www.angelfire.com /ex/projecthatfill/Yousef_And_Barbouti.html   (1584 words)

  
 THE WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMB: Who is Ramzi Yousef? And Why It Matters - The National Interest, Winter, 1995/96
Yousef was a man of many passports; he had three on his person when he was arrested in Pakistan.
Rather, it seems that Ramzi Yousef risked going to the Pakistani consulate with such flimsy documents because he wanted investigators to conclude that he was in fact Abdul Basit, and so would stop trying to determine his real identity.
As before, those who have the information about Ramzi Yousef and his bombing conspiracies are not concerned with the question of state sponsorship, or at least consider it secondary to their trials; while those who are concerned with state sponsorship are denied the information that they need to investigate the question properly.
www.fas.org /irp/world/iraq/956-tni.htm   (7399 words)

  
 CNN - Mastermind in trade center bombing to be sentenced - January 8, 1998
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Ramzi Yousef, the convicted mastermind of the 1993 bombing at New York's World Trade Center, was to be sentenced Thursday and could receive a maximum term of life in prison without parole.
After three days of deliberation in November, a federal jury convicted Yousef and Eyad Ismoil on murder and conspiracy charges for their roles in a plot by Islamic extremists to topple the trade center's two 110-story towers to punish the United States for its support of Israel.
Yousef also will be sentenced on an earlier conviction for his failed plan to plant bombs on U.S. airliners flying out of the Far East.
www.cnn.com /US/9801/08/yousef/index.html   (331 words)

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