Ramzi Yousef

Ramzi Ahmed Yousef رمزي احمد يوسف
FBI photo of Yousef
Born	Abdul Basit Mahmoud Abdul Karim (1968-04-27) 27 April 1968 (age 56) Kuwait
Other names	Ramzi Ahmed Yousef[2] Ramzi Ibraham Yousef Ramzi Mohammed Yousef, and many others[3]
Citizenship	Pakistani[1]
Criminal status	Incarcerated at ADX Florence, Colorado
Children	2
Parent	Mohammad Abdul Karim
Relatives	Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Zahid Al-Sheikh (uncles), Ammar al-Baluchi (cousin)
Conviction(s)	Conspiracy to bomb a building used in interstate and foreign commerce (18 U.S.C. § 844) Conspiracy to bomb property and vehicles owned, used, and leased by an agency of the United States (18 U.S.C. § 844) Conspiracy to transport explosives in interstate commerce (18 U.S.C. § 844) Conspiracy to bomb or destroy a vehicle used in interstate commerce resulting in death (18 U.S.C. §§ 33 and 34) (2 counts) Conspiracy to assault federal officers (18 U.S.C. § 111) Conspiracy to use and carry a destructive device during a crime of violence (18 U.S.C. § 924) (2 counts) Conspiracy to traveling and using facilities in interstate and/or foreign commerce to commit crimes of violence (18 U.S.C. § 1952)
Criminal penalty	Two life sentences plus 240 years without parole
Date apprehended	7 February 1995 (in Islamabad, Pakistan)
Imprisoned at	ADX Florence

Ramzi Ahmed Yousef (Arabic: رمزي احمد يوسف, romanized: Ramzī Ahmad Yūsuf; born 27 April 1968) is a convicted terrorist who was one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434; he was also a co-conspirator in the Bojinka plot. In 1995, he was arrested by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and U.S. Diplomatic Security Service at a guest house in Islamabad, Pakistan, while trying to set a bomb in a doll,^[4][5][6] then extradited to the United States.

Yousef was tried in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York along with two co-conspirators and was convicted of planning the Bojinka plot.^[7] He received two life sentences plus 240 years for his part in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and Bojinka plot.

Yousef's maternal uncle is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, with whom he allegedly planned the Bojinka plot. Mohammed is a senior al-Qaeda member accused of being the principal architect of the September 11 attacks in 2001. Yousef is serving his life sentences at ADX Florence, located near Florence, Colorado.^[8] He shared a cell block that is commonly referred to as "Bombers' Row" with Terry Nichols, Eric Rudolph, and Ted Kaczynski, before his transfer in late 2021.^[9] In 2007, Ramzi Yousef claimed to have found Jesus and converted to Christianity.^{[10][11][12][13]}