12 Facts About Mahmud Abouhalima

Mahmud Abouhalima was born on December 14,1958 and is an Egyptian citizen who is convicted as perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Mahmud Abouhalima is currently serving a 78-year and 4-month sentence at ADX Florence in Florence, Colorado for his role in the bombing.

Mahmud Abouhalima briefly attended Alexandria University, but dropped out and left Egypt altogether in 1981, moving to Germany.

Mahmud Abouhalima divorced Soika three years later but in short order married another woman named Marianne Weber in a Muslim ceremony.

Mahmud Abouhalima flew to Brooklyn with his new wife and after his American tourist visa expired, applied for amnesty claiming to be an agricultural worker and was accepted as a permanent resident under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

Mahmud Abouhalima worked as a New York City cabdriver for five years from 1986 to 1991, though he saw his license suspended ten times during that period, for failing to attend traffic court for cab violations including traffic violations and an attempt to overcharge a customer.

Mahmud Abouhalima travelled to Afghanistan in 1988, saying he wanted to prove he "was a Muslim, not a sheep", and received combat-training in Peshawar.

When Nosair assassinated Meir Kahane, Mahmud Abouhalima was driving the purported getaway car, although Nosair accidentally jumped into another cab by mistake.

Mahmud Abouhalima was the subject of an FBI investigation through January 1993, at which point the investigation was called off, shortly before the World Trade Center bombing.

In March 1994, Mahmud Abouhalima was sentenced to 240 years in prison.

In 2021, one of Mahmud Abouhalima's convictions were overturned, cutting his sentence by 30 years.

Mahmud Abouhalima is currently an inmate at ADX Florence in Florence, Colorado.