After masterminding the World Trade Center bombing, Youssef would temporarily hide out in the Phillipines and join with several other terrorists to plot an intricate series of terrorist attacks on the United States, code named “Project Bojinka.”
In order to carry out his terror campaign, the complaint alleges Yousef recruited potential terrorists at Southwest College in Cebu City, including Terry Nichols. Witnesses say Nichols went to the Phillipines for the expressed purpose of learning how to build a bomb.
Nichols’ passport records show he was indeed in the Phillippines at the same time as Youssef. In fact, Phillipine intelligence believed Nichols was a Pakistani, Arab or U.S. national. Further, Nichols would eventually marry a Filipino woman who lived for a time at the same boarding house as Youssef.
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