From Super Mario Brothers (1993)
On 26th Februrary 1993, Ramsey Yousef's Ryder Truck Bomb (TM) went off in Basement Sub-Level 2 of the World Trade Centre.
Due to the pressence of an illegally parked car, Yousef (and his brainless patsy Mohammed Salameh) were unable to park the bomb sufficiently flush to the core columns of the South Tower (which was untenanted at the time) and the building failed to collapse - 6 people died in the sub-basement staffroom, over 1000 people were injured, mostly requiring treatment for smoke inhalation and the 40 m (spherical) hole in the basement inflicted over $1 Bn in property damage.
Yousef joined the hapless fools working out of Sheikh Omar Abdul Rhaman (The Blind Sheikh)'s amateur hour Jersey City Jihadi cell in November or December of 1992 (immediately following George Bush's electoral defeat), and it was his bomb and his design that was used rather than any built by the (now famous) FBI informant, former Egyptian Army Col. Emad Salem - it appears his bombs did not work, and he was building them not to work.
Which is the point at which Ramsey Yousef was summoned from Baluchistan and left immediately following the bombing.
Brainless Patsey Mohammed Salameh was arrested in Newark at the Ryder Rental Office a week later when attempting to reclaim his security deposit on the truck.
Yousef later hooked up with Terry Nichols in Indonesia and taught him how to make bombs that worked in late 1993 - early 1994.
Yousef then went to hide out in a "safe house" owned (or at least paid for) by Usama Bin Laden on the Afghan-Pakistani border, where he was arrested by FBI Special Agent in Charge (and how) John O'Neill in early 1995, weeks prior to the Oklahoma City Bombing (which incorporated a Ryder Truck Bomb, built (possibly) by Terry Nichols according to Ramsey Yousef's specifications.
Ramsey Yousef was never meant to get caught and is an intelligence asset - likely an officer - of the highest calibre. Although who exactly he takes his instruction from is unclear.
When being flown by helicopter to his trial in the Southern District of New York, the Deputy Director of the FBI chaperoning him nodded towards the Twin Towers and remarked to Yousef,
"You see - they're still standing."
Yousef's reply was variously reported prior to September 11th 2001 to have been either:
"They wouldn't be if I had had more money"
and/or
"Next time we'll bring them both down...."
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