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Ramzi Yousef

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Ramzi Ahmed Yousef (Urdu: رمزى احمد يوسف; born 27 April 1968) is a Pakistani convicted terrorist who was one of the main perpetrators and the mastermind behind 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, 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. He received two life sentences plus 240 years for his part in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and Bojinka plot. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Ramzi Yousef is the 255th most popular extremist (down from 242nd in 2024), the 24th most popular biography from Kuwait (down from 23rd in 2019) and the most popular Kuwaiti Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Ramzi Yousef ranks 253 out of 283. Before him are Yang Xinhai, Richard B. Spencer, Yvan Colonna, and Howard Marks. After him are Mokhtar Belmokhtar, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Eric Rudolph, Charles Ng, Hiroshi Maeue, Vlado Taneski, Fazlullah, and Stuart Christie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Ramzi Yousef ranks 399. Before him are Janine Lindemulder, Jean-Philippe Gatien, Martin Max, Ljubinko Drulović, Michael Obiku, and Joe Cornish. After him are Luke Goss, Katarina Barley, Danny Jacobs, Grace Poe, Necrobutcher, and Oleh Luzhny.

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In Kuwait

Among people born in Kuwait, Ramzi Yousef ranks 24 out of 42. Before him are Alaa Hussein Ali (1949), Waleed Al-Jasem (1959), Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (1956), Jihadi John (1988), Faisal Al-Dakhil (1957), and Faiza Al-Kharafi (1946). After him are Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah (1955), Fehaid Al-Deehani (1966), Yasser Al-Habib (1979), Jasem Yaqoub (1953), Fathi Kameel (1955), and Abdullah Al-Buloushi (1960).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Kuwait

Among extremists born in Kuwait, Ramzi Yousef ranks 1. 

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