9/5/1996

“Fourteen weeks from the start of the trial, on 5 September 1996, [World Trade Center bomber] Ramzi Yousef and his conspirators Abdul Hakim Murad and Wali Khan Amin Shah were all convicted of plotting to bomb United States-based airliners in Asia. Yousef was also convicted of the [December 1994] PAL bombing and the death of [Japanese businessman] Haruki Ikegami.”

 – Simon Reeve, The New Jackals, Page 239