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Today in History: Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing goes on trial

New Delhi: The World Trade Center bombing on February 26, 1993 was intended to kill thousands of people but It failed to do so and took six lives though thousands of people got injured.The blast

PTI Published : Aug 04, 2013 14:36 IST, Updated : Aug 05, 2013 7:18 IST


As per reports, Yousef flew into the U.S. six months before the February 1993 bombing. He arrived with a fake Iraqi passport, requested political asylum and took up with a handful of Muslim extremists in New Jersey. Then he started ordering chemicals to make a bomb.






Yousef ordered 1,000 pounds (454 kgs) of urea and 100 gallons (378.5 liters) of nitric acid which, when mixed together "makes a powerful explosion." He later ordered hydrogen "which gave the bomb an extra kick."

Then he called Ismoil, a childhood friend from Kuwait who was living in Dallas, to come help drive the bomb in a rental van into the Trade Center garage.






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