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To: Ben Mugged; lugsoul

Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the first WTC bombing in 1993, is in Colorado, which is where Moussaoui will go.

Yousef has continued to correspond with jihadists since his incarceration.

Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed of the 1993 WTC bombing and the Operation Bojinka plots, is in a maximum-security prison, sentenced to hundreds of years of prison time for his plots. However, he can communicate with Gregory Scarpa Jr., a mob figure in the cell next to him. The FBI sets up a sting operation with Scarpa’s cooperation to learn more of what and whom Yousef knows. Scarpa is given a telephone, and he allows Yousef to use it.

However, Yousef uses the sting operation for his own ends, communicating with operatives on the outside in code language without giving away their identities. He attempts to find passports to get co-conspirators into the US, and there is some discussion about imminent attacks on US passenger jets. Realizing the scheme has backfired, the FBI terminates the telephone sting in late 1996, but Yousef manages to keep communicating with the outside world for several more months. [Lance, 2003; New York Daily News, 10/24/2000; New York Daily News, 2/21/2002]

Still think it's a good idea that Moussaoui got life?


160 posted on 05/03/2006 3:26:59 PM PDT by Peach
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To: Peach
Yes.

The Daily News? I'm sure they know everything there is to know about the situation.

Moussy needs the Ricky Reid sentencing speech read to him, then he needs to disappear into a supermax black hole forever.

He's wrong. We won. The system worked. Not even his silly lies skewed the system. It'd be nice to believe we snagged a guy who really was doing everything he claimed. But do you really believe this guy and Mr. Fire-Extinguisher-to-the-head were going to pull off an 'operation'?

We don't need his mug on a martyr recruiting poster.

187 posted on 05/04/2006 5:28:50 AM PDT by lugsoul ("Crash" - the movie that teaches we are all incurable racists, except when we are not.)
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