Word: yousef
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Among them, he says, are Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing, and Timothy McVeigh. One can only imagine this bombing trio's conversations. Kaczynski says McVeigh (who has recently been transferred to another prison) lent him one of the most interesting books he's read lately, Tainting Evidence: Inside the Scandals at the FBI Crime Lab, by John F. Kelly and Phillip K. Wearne. "I mean, I knew from my own experience that they were crooked and incompetent," Kaczynski says, shaking his head and laughing. "But according to this book, they're even worse than what...
...Miranda Yousef '98, a ticket agent at the box office, said at one point the line snaked from one end of the Holyoke Arcade to the other, and then back again...
...another only twice a week, for an hour each session. That's when they are allowed into an exercise space to roam within the tight confines of individual wire enclosures 10 ft. from each other. And thus Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Timothy McVeigh (of Oklahoma City infamy) and Ramzi Yousef (mastermind of the World Trade Center attack) get a break from solitary confinement and a chance to be neighborly at the federal maximum-security prison in Florence, Colo.--a.k.a. Supermax. The repartee isn't exactly Firing Line. "They bulls___," says Dennis Hartley, one of McVeigh's new lawyers. "Nobody...
...camaraderie is awkward--they have to shout to be heard. Still, according to Beau Friedlander, a publisher who has corresponded with the jailed Unabomber, Kaczynski, who speaks Spanish, French and German and is interested in learning Turkish, has discussed languages with the polyglot Yousef. Otherwise the banter is "factual things, small talk," says Michael Mello, author of a book on Kaczynski that Friedlander is publishing. "Ted is a sponge for information." The three inmates talk about what's piped into the 13-in. black-and-white TV sets in their cells. Says Bernard Kleinman, Yousef's lawyer: "It's absurd...
...garrulousness is unimpeded by the 23-hr. solitary lockup, which, despite the term, is interrupted by the prisoners' yelling brief messages to one another. They are close enough to be heard. Kaczynski is two doors down from McVeigh, who is next to Yousef. Once, in mid-February, McVeigh the Oklahoma bomber spotted a news brief on the Unabomber and shouted for him to watch. Kaczynski, despite his techno-aversion, tuned in to the 3-min. segment. Kaczynski says he doesn't watch TV unless he feels there is a specific reason for it, according to Friedlander...