On this day, Jan. 8, 1998

Published January 6, 2009 5:00am ET



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.

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