"August 6, 2001- A federal appeals panel upholds the sentences of the four men who had been convicted [of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing]." CNN
5 weeks later on 9/11/2001, the job begun in 1993 was completed.
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Jersey City facts aren't "hate," they're just Jersey City facts:
The bombers rented two Jersey City apartments, a Jersey City storage unit, and a van from a Kennedy Blvd. Jersey City Ryder rental facility. They drove the loaded van from Jersey City into Manhattan.
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A Jersey City apartment was shared by 3 of the bombers:
"Mohammed Salameh and Abdul Rahman Yasin, who both lived in Jersey City, New Jersey. Yousef began living with Salameh."
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A Jersey City storage shed was used to assemble materials:
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"As the conspirators began to assemble the
chemicals necessary to carry out the plot, Salameh rented a storage shed at the Space Station Storage Company in Jersey City. All of the bomb making materials were delivered to the conspirators' shed." 1998 Senate hearing
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They rented another Jersey City apartment,
mixed some bomb components there:
"Abouhalima helped Salameh and Yousef find
a ground floor apartment in late December
1992 at 40 Pamrapo Avenue in Jersey City....
The Conspirators Mix Bomb Components
At 40 Pamrapo."
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The bombers drove the deadly cargo from
Jersey City to Manhattan in a van they
had rented in Jersey City from Ryder:
"The conspirators then drove the van and its
deadly cargo from Jersey City
to Manhattan,
eventually making their way into the
red parking lot on the B-2 level of the
World Trade Center Complex, where they
parked the van."...
"On February 23, 1993, Salameh rented a
yellow Ryder Ford Econoline cargo van."
Rented from
Ryder on Kennedy Blvd. in Jersey City, NJ.
Citation for Kennedy Blvd., Jersey City:
3/3/15, "How agents caught the first suspect in World Trade Center bombing in 1993," NY Daily News
"(Originally published by the Daily News on March 5, 1993. This story was written by Jerry Capeci and Tom Robbins.)"
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"1993 World Trade Center bombing Fast Facts," , Updated 10:08 AM ET, Fri February 13, 2015
"Here's some background information about the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing which killed six people and injured more than 1,000. Six suspects were convicted of participating in the bombing. The seventh suspect, Abdul Rahman Yasin, is still at large."
"Timeline:
February 26, 1993 - At 12:18 pm, a bomb explodes on the second subterranean level of Vista Hotel's public parking garage, below the 2 World Trade Center building.
February 28, 1993 -
The FBI confirms that a bomb caused the explosion. In the wreckage,
federal agents find shattered van parts with a vehicle identification
number.
March 4, 1993 - Mohammad Salameh is arrested after he claims a refund on a rented van authorities believe carried the explosives.
March 5, 1993 - Authorities seize bomb-making chemicals at a shed Salameh had rented.
March 10, 1993 - Nidal Ayyad is arrested at home in New Jersey.
March 18, 1993 -
Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman denies involvement in the bombing. Rahman is
an Egyptian cleric who emigrated to the United States. Some of the 1993
bombing suspects frequented the New Jersey mosque where he preached.
March 24, 1993 - Mahmud Abouhalima is arrested in Egypt and extradited to the U.S.
March 29, 1993 - The World Trade Center re-opens.
May 6, 1993 - Ahmad Ajaj becomes the sixth person charged in the bombing.
August 25, 1993 - Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman is indicted for involvement in a large terrorist plot that includes the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
October 4, 1993 - Trial opens for four of the defendants: Mohammed Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Mahmud Abouhalima, and Ahmad Ajaj.
March 4, 1994 - Four
defendants, Mohammed Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Mahmud Abouhalima, and Ahmad
Ajaj, are convicted. They are sentenced to prison terms of 240 years
each. In 1998, the sentences are vacated. In 1999, the men are
re-sentenced to terms of more than 100 years.
February 7, 1995 - Suspected WTC bombing mastermind Ramzi Ahmed Yousef is captured abroad by the FBI and State Department.
October 1995 - Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman is convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison.
January 8, 1998 - After being convicted, Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to 240 years in prison for his role in organizing the bombing. "I am a terrorist and proud of it," he tells the court.
April 3, 1998 - Eyad Ismoil is sentenced to 240 years. Ismoil drove the van loaded with a homemade bomb into the World Trade Center.
August 4, 1998 -
A federal appeals court upholds the 1994 convictions of four men
convicted in the bombing but orders them to be re-sentenced because they
did not have lawyers when they were originally sentenced.
August 6, 2001 - A federal appeals panel upholds the sentences of the four men who had been convicted."
(5 weeks later the World Trade Center came down for good.)
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Three of the 1993 bombers shared a Jersey City, New Jersey apartment:
"Mohammed Salameh and Abdul Rahman Yasin, who both lived in Jersey City, New Jersey. Yousef began living with Salameh."
Feb. 24, 1998, "Before the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information Hearing on "Foreign Terrorists in America: Five Years After the (1993) World Trade Center," February 24, 1998"
"In the end, the evidence overwhelmingly
established that Ramzi Yousef, Mohammed Salameh, Nidal Ayyad,
Mahmud Abouhalima, Ahmad Ajaj (coordinated with Yousef from jail) and Abdul Rahman Yasin conspired to
bomb targets in the United States and that, as part of their
terrorist scheme, they participated in the February 26, 1993
bombing of the World Trade Center."
"2. September Through December 1992: The Conspirators Obtain Money, Chemicals, A Storage Locker, And Other Items For The Bomb Plot. Upon entering the United States, (Ramzi) Yousef quickly began to work with other trusted co-conspirators on the bomb plot. Within two days of his arrival, Yousef had made contact with defendants
Mohammed Salameh and Abdul Rahman Yasin, who both lived in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Yousef began living with Salameh and became known to his coconspirators as "Rashed.". Ajaj Continues to Assist With The Bomb Plot While Incarcerated. Ajaj was incarcerated from September 2, 1992, when he was detained by INS officials at Kennedy Airport. Nevertheless, Ajaj remained in contact with Yousef and other co-conspirators and continued to be involved in the bomb plot during this period. During his time in federal custody, Ajaj never contacted Yousef directly. Rather, Ajaj used a friend in Dallas as an intermediary. Specifically, Ajaj would call Dallas from prison, and his friend would then either relay messages to Yousef or patch three-way calls through to Yousef, thereby rendering law enforcement efforts to detect contact between Ajaj and Yousef far more difficult....
Salameh And Ayyad Provide Money For The Bomb
Plot; The Conspirators Look For The Chemicals
Called For In Ajaj's Terrorist Manuals.
Meanwhile, the other coonspirators proceeded
with the plot. In mid October, Salameh opened
a joint bank account with co-defendant Nidal
Ayyad, who worked as a chemical engineer.
Together they deposited approximately $8,500
into the joint account to fund the bomb plot.
A week later, Salameh and Ayyad withdrew the
money from their joint account and transferred
the cash to an individual bank account opened
by Salameh that same day.
By mid November, Salameh and Yousef began to
call a series of chemical companies to obtain
what Ajaj's blue books described as the raw
materials for urea nitrate: commercially
manufactured urea (often used for fertilizer)
and nitric acid. After they succeeded in
obtaining urea and nitric acid for the
"main charge" of the World Trade Center bomb,
the conspirators began to build
"boosters" and detonators for that bomb, again
following the formulae described in Ajaj's
blue books and handwritten materials.
C. Salameh Rents A Shed To Store Bomb
Components; Yousef Orders Chemicals For
Explosives For Delivery To The Shed;
And Abouhalima Buys Smokeless Powder To Make
Boosters.
Specifically, Yousef went to City Chemical
Corporation, where, he purchased 1,000 pounds
of technical grade urea and 105 gallons of
nitric acid to make urea nitrate for the
bomb's main charge, as prescribed in Ajaj's
materials. Yousef also purchased: 60 gallons
of sulfuric acid, packaged in 15-gallon
carboys, to make nitroglycerin for boosters;
one gallon of ethyl alcohol to stabilize
nitroglycerin so that it could later be
transported; and a 25-pound bag of sodium
carbonate to neutralize acids during
the mixing process. In mid December,
Abouhalima, who was in daily contact with
Salameh and Yousef, purchased a 16-ounce can
of smokeless powder to make detonators for
the World Trade Center bomb.
As the conspirators began to assemble the
chemicals necessary to carry out the plot,
Salameh rented a storage shed at the Space
Station Storage Company in Jersey City.
All of the bomb making materials were
delivered to the conspirators' shed.
By the end of January, Yousef had placed two
more orders with City Chemical for delivery
to the Shed....
In all, the conspirators ordered and had
delivered to the Shed a total of enhance the
bomb's 1,500 pounds of urea and approximately
1,672 pounds of nitric acid. They used 1,200
pounds of urea and almost all of the nitric
acid to make the World Trade Center bomb.....
3. January And February 1993: The Conspirators
Mix Bomb Components At 40 Pamrapo.
Mindful of the admonition in Ajaj's materials
that, in order to facilitate escape, terrorist
operations should be conducted out of ground
floor apartments, Abouhalima helped Salameh
and Yousef find a ground floor apartment
in late December 1992 at 40 Pamrapo Avenue in
Jersey City.
After Salameh and Yousef moved into the 40
Pamrapo apartment, the conspirators used that
apartment in January and February 1993 to mix
the chemicals they had obtained
from City Chemical and stored at the shed
to create explosives for the World Trade
Center bomb, including urea nitrate,
nitroglycerin, ammonium nitrate dynamite,
lead azide,and others. They mixed these
chemical concoctions in a manner consistent
with the formulae and other specifications
in Ajaj's materials. The conspirators also
prepared explosive mixtures containing
smokeless powder at 40 Pamrapo. Once the
explosives were mixed, the conspirators
transported them to the shed, to be stored until needed. While the conspirators mixed explosives at 40
Pamrapo, they also attempted to calculate
the size and type of bomb they would need
in order to achieve the desired destructive
impact on the World Trade Center. For these
calculations, Abouhalima, who frequently
joined his co-conspirators at 40 Parmapo
after finishing work for the day as a livery
car driver for various companies, studied a
book - identical to one of Ajaj's - titled
"Rapid Destruction And Demolition." That book
contained a formula not the destruction of buildings. In the course of the mixing process, the
conspirators spilled chemicals on the floors
and walls of 40 Pamrapo, on their clothing,
as well as on other items, thereby leaving
telltale traces of their illegal activities.....
On February 23, 1993, Salameh rented a yellow
Ryder Ford Econoline cargo van. At the time,
he said that he would need the van until at
least February 29, 1993....
The next day, February 25, 1993, AGL Welding
delivered the three hydrogen tanks ordered
by Ayyad the previous day. Salameh accepted
delivery. The AGL truck driver tried to bring
the tanks into the storage facility but was
stopped by a employee, who initially would not
allow the tanks inside the facility because
of their potential to explode. Only when
Salameh advised that a van was coming to pick
up the hydrogen tanks within minutes did
the employee permit the tanks to be brought
into the facility. A short while later,
Salameh helped load the hydrogen'tanks into
the Ryder van he had rented on February 23,
and then left the storage facility.
C. The Conspirators Begin To Build A Defense:
Salameh Reports The Ryder Van Stolen.
The night before the bombing in order to
distance himself from the Ryder van, Salameh
falsely reported to the police that it had
been stolen. In making this false report,
Salameh proffered a handwritten piece of paper
which incorrectly represented the license
number of the van. Without the correct
information, the police could not register
a stolen vehicle report for the van.
5. The February 26, 1993 Bombing of The
World Trade Center Complex....
The conspirators then drove the van and its
deadly cargo from Jersey City to Manhattan,
eventually making their way into the
red parking lot on the B-2 level of the
World Trade Center Complex, where they parked
the van."...
http://fas.org/irp/congress/1998_hr/s980224c.htm
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More Jersey City apartments searched, may or
may not have been connected to WTC:
"Three hours later, SWAT team executed
simultaneous raids on apartments in
Jersey City and Brooklyn linked to Salameh.
In Jersey City, more than two dozen federal agents and police broke
down the door of an apartment on Weldon St., where they arrested three
occupants and seized several bags of evidence.At the same time, police and FBI agents members of a joint anti-terrorist team swooped down on Salameh’s apartment on Prospect Park Southwest in Brooklyn’s Windsor Terrace, armed with a search warrant.
The address was well-known to member of the Task Force. It was also home to El-Sayed A Nosair, an Egyptian-born militant who was convicted of gun charges stemming from the November 1990 slaying of Jewish extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane - one of the murders Sheik Abdel-Rahman is suspected of helping to plot.
In another raid, at an apartment on Kensington Ave., Jersey City, agents said they found evidence of a bomb factory including technical manuals, tools and wiring as well as physical evidence - detected by a trained dog - that explosives had been present.
Agents also found a letter from the resident, Josie Hadas, to Salameh."
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