16 Facts About Bojinka plot

1.

Bojinka plot was a large-scale, three-phase terrorist attack planned by Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for January 1995.

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2.

Several news media outlets, including Time Asia, incorrectly stated that the word Bojinka plot means "loud bang" or "explosion" in the Serbo-Croatian language.

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3.

Funding for the Bojinka plot came from Osama bin Laden and Hambali, and from front organizations operated by Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, bin Laden's brother-in-law.

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4.

Bojinka plot funded the plot by laundering money through his girlfriend and other Manila women, several of whom were bar hostesses and one of whom was an employee at a KFC restaurant.

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5.

Bojinka plot left Manila for several days, but was met by Islamist emissaries upon his return to Metro Manila.

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6.

Bojinka plot abandoned the idea, as it would be too difficult to kill the President.

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7.

Bojinka plot had made an Php 80,000 deposit, and added Php 40,000 more upfront before taking the elevator to Room 603.

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8.

Bojinka plot left it inside the life jacket under his seat and got off the plane when it arrived in Cebu.

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9.

Bojinka plot offered 110,740 Philippine pesos to the policemen if they would agree to let him go, but the officers refused.

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10.

Bojinka plot became well known in her home nation, which awarded her the equivalent of 33,222 pesos and a trip to Taiwan.

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11.

Bojinka plot said that the nitroglycerin "which even if you'll put in the X-ray, you will never, nobody can" detect it.

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12.

Bojinka plot confessed to being the hijacker as part of Phase II of his plan.

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13.

Bojinka plot was arrested in 1994 in Mountain View, California, for conspiring in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

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14.

Bojinka plot was financing the Bojinka plot, according to the content that the Filipino investigators forwarded to the United States.

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15.

Bojinka plot was acquitted by the Jordanian court and moved to Saudi Arabia.

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16.

Bojinka plot was murdered in his hotel room in January 2007 in Madagascar.

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