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Ramzi Yousef

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Ramzi Ahmed Yousef (Arabic: رمزي احمد 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 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 4,059,153 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ramzi Yousef is the 202nd most popular extremist (down from 188th in 2019), the 302nd most popular biography from Iraq (down from 11th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Iraqi Extremist.

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  • 25

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  • 3.50

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Ramzi Yousef ranks 202 out of 209Before him are Ahmed Jabari, Mildred Gillars, William Bonin, Francis Parker Yockey, Howard Marks, and Abdul Quader Molla. After him are Robert Pickton, Abubakar Shekau, Ziad Jarrah, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, Dawood Ibrahim, and Vlado Taneski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Ramzi Yousef ranks 226Before him are Carlos Latuff, Chad Stahelski, Anto Drobnjak, Rachel Griffiths, Laura Leighton, and Hikaru Midorikawa. After him are Gianni Morbidelli, Luke Goss, Claudio Suárez, Jorja Fox, Matteo Garrone, and Shin-ichiro Miki.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Ramzi Yousef ranks 302 out of 338Before him are Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (1948), Abdul Aziz al-Hakim (1952), Shlomo Hillel (1923), Mullah Krekar (1956), Paulos Faraj Rahho (1942), and Jalal Dabagh (1939). After him are Ahmed Radhi (1964), Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi (1954), Jafar Salmasi (1918), Charles Saatchi (1943), Sajida al-Rishawi (1970), and Avi Shlaim (1945).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Iraq

Among extremists born in Iraq, Ramzi Yousef ranks 4Before him are Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (1971), Taha Yassin Ramadan (1938), and Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (1976).