38 Facts About Ramzi Yousef

Ramzi Ahmed Yousef is a Pakistani convicted terrorist who was one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434; he was a co-conspirator in the Bojinka plot.

Ramzi Yousef was tried in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York along with two co-conspirators and was convicted of planning the Bojinka plot.

Ramzi Yousef received two life sentences plus 240 years for his part in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and Bojinka plot.

Ramzi Yousef is serving his life sentences at ADX Florence, located near Florence, Colorado.

Ramzi Yousef was born in Kuwait to parents who were both from Pakistan.

Ramzi Yousef's father is Mohammed Abdul Karim from Balochistan, Pakistan.

Ramzi Yousef's mother is believed to be the sister of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

When his family returned to Pakistan in the mid-1980s, Ramzi Yousef was sent to the United Kingdom for education.

Ramzi Yousef studied at the Oxford College of Further Education to improve his English.

Ramzi Yousef left the United Kingdom after completing his studies and returned to Pakistan.

Ramzi Yousef began to learn bomb making in a terrorist training camp in Peshawar, before traveling to the United States in 1992.

Ramzi Yousef sent a letter to The New York Times after the bombing that expressed his motive:.

On 1 September 1992, Ramzi Yousef entered the United States with an Iraqi passport of disputed authenticity.

Ramzi Yousef's companion, Ahmed Ajaj, carried multiple immigration documents, among which was a crudely falsified Swedish passport.

Ramzi Yousef was held for 72 hours and repeatedly interrogated, but INS holding cells were overcrowded.

Ramzi Yousef, requesting political asylum, was given a hearing date of 9 November 1992.

Ramzi Yousef told Jersey City Police that he was Abdul Basit Mahmoud Abdul Karim, a Pakistani national born and brought up in Kuwait, and that he had lost his passport.

Ramzi Yousef traveled around New York and New Jersey, during which time he made calls to Abdel-Rahman via cell phone.

Ramzi Yousef ordered chemicals from his hospital room when he had been injured in a car crash, one of three accidents caused by Salameh in late 1992 and early in 1993.

Yasin added that after touring Crown Heights and Williamsburg, Ramzi Yousef had changed his mind.

Yasin alleged that Ramzi Yousef was educated in bomb-making at a training camp in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Ramzi Yousef rented a Ryder van and on 26 February 1993, loaded it with powerful explosives.

Ramzi Yousef packed four cardboard boxes into the back of the van, each containing a mixture of paper bags, newspapers, urea, and nitric acid; next to them he placed three red metal cylinders of compressed hydrogen.

Ramzi Yousef decided to abort the bombing and it blew up as he was trying to recover the device.

Ramzi Yousef escaped and went into hiding during the investigation.

On 11 December 1994, Ramzi Yousef conducted a trial run of the plan by boarding Philippine Airlines Flight 434 from Manila to Tokyo, Japan, with a stopover in Cebu.

The cabin crew for this leg of the flight later told investigators that Ramzi Yousef changed seats several times during the relatively short flight, with his last seat change coming after a return from the lavatory.

Ramzi Yousef assembled a bomb in the lavatory, set the timer to detonate four hours later, and placed it in the life vest pouch under seat 26K on the right-hand side of the fuselage.

The domestic flight attendant Maria Delacruz had noticed that Ramzi Yousef kept switching seats during the course of the Manila to Cebu flight, but did not warn the new cabin crew boarding at Cebu of his behavior.

Ramzi Yousef then returned to Manila, where he began preparing at least a dozen bombs, each with more explosive materials.

Ramzi Yousef told Parker to check two suitcases filled with bombs, one on a Delta Air Lines flight and another on a United Airlines flight.

Ramzi Yousef, wanting to get the bombs on a plane bound for the US, called a friend with diplomatic immunity in Qatar who was willing to take the suitcases to London and check them on a flight to the US The plan was that they would explode mid-flight and destroy the plane.

Ramzi Yousef planned to use the friend's diplomatic immunity to ensure the suitcases would be loaded on the plane.

Ramzi Yousef was sent to a federal prison in New York City and held there until his trial.

Ramzi Yousef recommended that Yousef's entire sentence be served in solitary confinement.

You, Ramzi Yousef, came to this country pretending to be an Islamic fundamentalist, but you cared little or nothing for Islam or the faith of the Muslims.

Ramzi Yousef is held at the high-security Supermax prison ADX Florence in Florence, Colorado.

In 1997, Osama bin Laden said during an interview that he did not know Ramzi Yousef, but claimed to know Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is the mastermind behind the September 11,2001 attacks and Ramzi Yousef's uncle.