Islamic terrorist Ramzi Ahmed Yousef was sentenced to life in prison for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people and injured 1,000.
On Feb. 26, 1993, Yousef rented a Ryder van, loaded it with explosives, and parked it in the garage of the World Trade Center. The bomb exploded and Yousef fled to Pakistan, where he was hunted down and captured two years later at an al Qaeda safe house.
He was extradited to the United States. While flying by helicopter past the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, Yousef told the FBI agents, “With just a little more money, they would have come down, it is not yet finished.”
In court, Yousef said, “I am a terrorist, and I am proud of it as long as it is against the U.S. government.”
Yousef, who is the nephew of senior al Qaeda member Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, remains in solitary confinement at Supermax prison in Colorado. The handcuffs Yousef wore when he was captured are displayed at the FBI Museum in Washington, D.C.
