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Ramzi Yousef, one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Ramzi Yousef
Pakistani terrorist (born 1968)
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef 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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
1993 World Trade Center bombing
Terrorist attack in the United States
On February 26, 1993, Ramzi Yousef and associates carried out a van bomb terrorist attack below the North Tower of the New York World Trade Center. The 1,336 lb (606 kg) urea nitrate–hydrogen gas enhanced device was intended to make the North Tower collapse onto the South Tower,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Philippine Airlines Flight 434
1994 aircraft bombing in Japan
Philippine Airlines Flight 434, sometimes referred to as PAL434 or PR434, was a scheduled flight on December 11, 1994, from Manila to Tokyo with a quick stopover in Cebu on a Boeing 747-283B that was seriously damaged by a bomb, killing one passenger and damaging vital control…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Islamabad
Capital of Pakistan
Islamabad(; Urdu: اسلامآباد, romanized: Islāmābād, ; transl. 'City of Islam') is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's tenth-most populous city with a population of over 1.1 million and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)