In Manila, Philippines, on January 7, 1995, World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef’s cohort, Abdul Hakim Murad, takes off running from police. When officer Aida Fariscal searches Murad’s room, she is “shocked to find a picture of the pope [John Paul II], priest’s cassocks, a map of the pontiff’s [upcoming] parade route, and a laboratory […]
1/7/1995
World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef’s cohort Abdul Hakim “Murad’s confession [following his January 7, 1995, capture by Filipino police] about a plan to hijack a civilian airliner and crash it into the CIA received little attention at the FBI because that plot was not part of the evidentiary case the bureau was building for […]
1/6/1995
On January 6, 1995, Philippine police confiscated a computer from the apartment of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef. “It held an amazing series of documents. One document revealed that the International Relations and Information Center…was a front to fund al Qaeda activities. Its leader was Mohammed Jamal Khalifa…brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden. More shocking […]
1/6/1995
In Manila, Philippines, on January 6, 1995, Ramzi Yousef and Abdul Hakim “Murad accidentally started a small chemical fire in their apartment while mixing the ingredients for a bomb. They managed to extinguish the fire and escape before police and firefighters were called in, but they left behind a trove of incriminating evidence. After the […]
1/6/1995
“In January [6] 1995, a Philippine National Police raid turned up material in a Manila apartment suggesting that [terrorists] Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Murad, and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed planned, among other things, to crash an airplane into CIA headquarters.” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Page 190 […]
1/5/1995
“As part of a long review of global terrorism circulated by the FBI, classified Secret, the bureau’s analysts assessed the emerging threat under the heading ‘Ramzi Ahmed Yousef: A New Generation of Sunni Islamic Terrorists’ [in a document written in early January 1995 and quoted in the June 6, 2002, edition of The Washington Post]. […]
1/5/1995
“At the 1996 Bojinka trial of [bombing conspirators Ramzi] Yousef, [Abdul Hakim] Murad and Wali Khan [Amin Shah] in the Southern District [of New York], the Feds restricted their disclosure of the [Yousef’s] laptop’s contents to the nonsuicide Bojinka plot and to the initial plan to pilot a Cessna-like plane into CIA headquarters. But a […]
12/24/1994
On December 24, 1994, an event similar to the 9/11 attacks occurred when “four members of Algeria’s Armed Islamic Group (GIA) [a group bin Laden had funded] slipped on board Air France Flight 8969 posing as Air Algiers employees. They quickly commandeered the cockpit and overpowered the crew of the A-300 Airbus. Before their three-day […]
12/24/1994
“On December 24, 1994, four Algerian terrorists dressed as policemen took control of Air France’s flight 8969 as it prepared for takeoff at Houari Boumediene International Airport in Algiers. On board were 220 passengers and 12 crew members bound for Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris… French counterterrorism authorities learned that the terrorists were planning […]
12/24/1994
On December 24, 1994, “members of the bin Laden-funded Armed Islamic Group (GIA), boarded Flight 8969 [in Algiers, Algeria]…storming the cockpit and wiring the airliner with explosives. After a hostage standoff, they flew to Marseilles [France] and demanded that the Airbus be fully fueled. When the GIA terrorists killed two hostages, the plane was stormed […]