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Ramzi Yousef

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Ramzi Ahmed Yousef (Arabic: رمزي أحمد يوسف, romanized: Ramzī Ahmad Yūsuf; born 27 April 1968) is a convicted terrorist who was one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, also the mastermind, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ramzi Yousef has received more than 4,469,073 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ramzi Yousef is the 240th most popular extremist (down from 202nd in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Kuwait (up from 300th in 2019) and the most popular Kuwaiti Extremist.

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  • 4.5M

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  • 45.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Ramzi Yousef ranks 240 out of 283. Before him are Francis Parker Yockey, Yvan Colonna, Abdul Quader Molla, Howard Marks, Robert Pickton, and Bobby Joe Long. After him are Zacarias Moussaoui, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, Yang Xinhai, Eric Rudolph, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, and Hamza bin Laden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Ramzi Yousef ranks 280. Before him are Matt Le Tissier, Parker Posey, Bertrand Bonello, Tricky, Sebastian Bach, and Georgi Gospodinov. After him are Marie-José Pérec, Florence Devouard, Chris Gueffroy, Luke Goss, James Frain, and Chae Shi-ra.

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In Kuwait

Among people born in Kuwait, Ramzi Yousef ranks 23 out of 42. Before him are Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (1956), Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah (1953), Mishary Rashid Alafasy (1976), Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah (1955), Jihadi John (1988), and Faisal Al-Dakhil (1957). After him are Faiza Al-Kharafi (1946), Fathi Kameel (1955), Yasser Al-Habib (1979), Jasem Yaqoub (1953), Fehaid Al-Deehani (1966), and Bashar Abdullah (1977).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Kuwait

Among extremists born in Kuwait, Ramzi Yousef ranks 1. 

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