Word: yousef
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...some of the Islamic fighters supported by the CIA in Afghanistan brought their jihad to America. Ramzi Yousef, who planned the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, was trained in Afghanistan. The war left Afghanistan desolated; an estimated 1 million people died in the conflict. And what happened afterward? The warring factions fought one another, the Taliban took over, and guess whom they allowed in to train terrorists on their soil...
...Qaeda's first venture in SE Asia was a 1995 plot to simultaneously detonatbombs on 11 U.S. jetliners over the Pacific. The operation was thwarted, and several of the participants arrested, including Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the February 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. At the time, both Western and Asian security agencies did not understand that the Ramzi Yousef cell was part of a wider, regional network; they believed he had gone to the Philippines for this one operation. As a result, no serious attempt was made to unravel the front companies and detect the militants buttressing...
Rita Hamad ’03 is a chemistry concentrator in Eliot House. Shadi Hamid is an undergraduate at Georgetown University. Yousef Munayyer is an undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst...
...Washington for more agents, more linguists, more clerical help. He got nowhere. O'Neill was a legend both in New York, where he hung out at famous watering holes like Elaine's, and in the counterterrorism world. Since 1995, when he helped coordinate the arrest in Pakistan of Ramzi Yousef, the man responsible for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, O'Neill had been one of the FBI's leading figures in the fight against terrorism. Brash, slick and ambitious, he had spent the late 1990s working closely with Clarke and the handful of other top officials...
...Mohammed really was the brains behind Sept. 11, he might well have been trying to finish Yousef's mission. If so, it would be nice if he soon joined his old friend...