Nidal Ayyad
Nidal A. Ayyad (
Early life and education
Ayyad was born in 1968 in Kuwait to Palestinian parents after they fled Palestine due to the Six-Day War, he moved to the United States in 1985, became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1991, graduated from Rutgers University and worked as a chemical engineer at AlliedSignal in New Jersey.[2]
Role in World Trade Center bombing
He was the most well educated out of all the men in the terrorist group. Given his successful career, he risked a good life in America by participating in the plot.[3]
The key mastermind behind the bombing, Ramzi Yousef, met up with Ayyad and the other conspirators. They planned to drive a truck to the World Trade Center parking garage and detonate a bomb causing the Twin Towers to collapse, which would have caused thousands of deaths. Instead, the explosion did not go accordingly and did not cause the building to collapse but rather destroyed the parking garage killing 6 people. Ayyad had helped with coordinating the bombing and helping the group succeed with the scheme.[4]
Arrest and sentencing
Ayyad was arrested on March 10, 1993 the FBI matched his DNA to traces of saliva found on the letter's envelope.
References
- ^ "World Trade Center Bombing 1993". FBI.com. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
- ISBN 9780262201285. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
- New York Times. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
- ^ Enforcement Memorial Fund, The National Law (February 26, 2021). "28 Years Later: The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing". nleomf.org. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
- ^ Staff, 9/11 Memorial. "Putting Together the Fragments: The Investigation of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing". 911memorial.org. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Staff, 9/11 Memorial. "1993 World Trade Center Bombing Investigation". 911memorial.org. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Randolph, Eleanor (May 25, 1994). "TRADE CENTER BOMBERS GIVEN 240 YEARS EACH". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
- ^ "1993 World Trade Center Bombing Fast Facts". 5 November 2013. Archived from the original on April 19, 2015. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
- ^ "4 men convicted in 1993 WTC bombing have had sentences cut". ABC News. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
- ^ Norman, Joshua (February 26, 2013). "The 1993 World Trade Center bombers: Where are they now?". CBS News. Retrieved August 23, 2022.