1 00:00:04,308 --> 00:00:09,009 This guy...was crazy. He is crazy 2 00:00:09,052 --> 00:00:10,967 - He had come into the country to attack 3 00:00:11,011 --> 00:00:13,883 the United States on our own ground. 4 00:00:14,971 --> 00:00:16,320 [on the radio]: There's been an explosion 5 00:00:16,364 --> 00:00:18,801 at the World Trade Center parking lot. 6 00:00:18,844 --> 00:00:21,891 - It left a huge 200 foot wide crater... 7 00:00:21,934 --> 00:00:23,501 It's been obliterated. 8 00:00:25,851 --> 00:00:28,376 - This is the mastermind. Mr. Nobody. 9 00:00:28,419 --> 00:00:30,291 Somebody was living in that apartment. 10 00:00:30,334 --> 00:00:32,683 - This is basically a bomb factory. 11 00:00:32,728 --> 00:00:35,687 He had created a micro-bomb. 12 00:00:35,731 --> 00:00:37,863 - Every effort has to be made right now 13 00:00:37,907 --> 00:00:39,430 to figure out this plot. 14 00:00:40,518 --> 00:00:42,912 He left New York the night of the bomb. 15 00:00:43,652 --> 00:00:45,915 - He wants to assassinate the Pope and he wants to kill 16 00:00:45,958 --> 00:00:47,134 a quarter of a million people. 17 00:00:47,699 --> 00:00:50,702 He's going to come back and he's going to keep coming back 18 00:00:50,746 --> 00:00:53,357 - They told me to grab my team. We're going to get him. 19 00:00:59,494 --> 00:01:02,497 [narrator]: In the FBI, we make a lot of headlines. 20 00:01:05,239 --> 00:01:08,676 Drug busts, mob stings. 21 00:01:10,157 --> 00:01:11,288 Terrorist takedowns. 22 00:01:12,681 --> 00:01:14,291 [people shouting] 23 00:01:14,335 --> 00:01:16,728 We understand why people want to tell stories about us. 24 00:01:16,771 --> 00:01:18,208 [director]: Mark it. - Freeze! 25 00:01:18,252 --> 00:01:19,340 - FBI. 26 00:01:19,383 --> 00:01:20,776 - FBI! [man in the distance]: Action! 27 00:01:20,819 --> 00:01:22,299 [narrator]: But they don't know the half of it. 28 00:01:24,432 --> 00:01:25,301 What really goes down? 29 00:01:26,390 --> 00:01:28,914 We save that for each other, 30 00:01:28,958 --> 00:01:30,916 when we're talking agent to agent. 31 00:01:34,137 --> 00:01:36,661 This is FBI. True. 32 00:01:56,812 --> 00:01:59,597 - February 26, 1993. 33 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,034 Where were you when you heard there was an explosion 34 00:02:02,078 --> 00:02:03,906 at the World Trade Center? 35 00:02:03,949 --> 00:02:07,692 [narrator]: Kristy Kottis is a 24-year veteran of the FB. 36 00:02:08,084 --> 00:02:11,000 Kottis was the supervisor of the FBI's threat response 37 00:02:11,043 --> 00:02:15,526 squad, overseeing the bureau's response to terrorism threats in New York City. 38 00:02:16,832 --> 00:02:21,228 - I was down at 26 Federal Plaza, in New York. 39 00:02:22,011 --> 00:02:24,753 [narrator]: Frank Pellegrino has used his expertise 40 00:02:24,796 --> 00:02:27,495 in accounting and law to handle counter-espionage 41 00:02:27,538 --> 00:02:30,324 and terrorism cases at home and abroad. 42 00:02:32,500 --> 00:02:34,937 - So and the FBI office at 26 Federal Plaza 43 00:02:34,980 --> 00:02:37,244 is only about four blocks from the World Trade Center. 44 00:02:38,245 --> 00:02:39,507 It's very close. 45 00:02:39,550 --> 00:02:41,683 - Very close. People actually heard a rumble. 46 00:02:44,990 --> 00:02:47,863 [explosion in the distance] 47 00:02:47,906 --> 00:02:49,865 and then it came on the news pretty quick 48 00:02:49,908 --> 00:02:52,041 that something happened down at the Trade Center. 49 00:02:52,084 --> 00:02:53,651 It was chaos down there. 50 00:02:54,565 --> 00:02:55,740 [woman]: Watch out, watch out! 51 00:02:58,090 --> 00:03:00,658 [radio]: There's been an explosion at the exit ramp 52 00:03:00,702 --> 00:03:02,486 to the World Trade Center parking lot. 53 00:03:02,530 --> 00:03:04,532 There was a tremendous explosion. 54 00:03:06,273 --> 00:03:08,275 [woman on the radio]: I actually saw the walls shaking. 55 00:03:08,318 --> 00:03:10,842 It sounded like a bomb, or a bang, or something, like... 56 00:03:10,886 --> 00:03:13,410 or a pop, I can't really explain it. 57 00:03:13,454 --> 00:03:15,151 - It was chaos, because you didn't know whether the fire 58 00:03:15,195 --> 00:03:16,805 was below you, or above you. 59 00:03:16,848 --> 00:03:18,023 [man 1]: Where is the smoke? 60 00:03:18,067 --> 00:03:19,851 [man 2]: It got thicker as you went down. 61 00:03:19,895 --> 00:03:21,636 [woman]: Makes it appear that something in the basement 62 00:03:21,679 --> 00:03:24,291 happened because the people that seem to be harmed 63 00:03:24,334 --> 00:03:26,075 were on the lower levels. 64 00:03:29,121 --> 00:03:32,341 - It's a lot of smoke, you can't breathe, you can't breathe! 65 00:03:32,386 --> 00:03:33,822 [journalist]: You can't breathe? - No! 66 00:03:35,998 --> 00:03:38,130 - The reports initially were that it was a transformer 67 00:03:38,174 --> 00:03:40,655 that had blown up, and that sounded reasonable. 68 00:03:44,441 --> 00:03:47,488 - This explosion in a sub-basement, B-2, 69 00:03:47,531 --> 00:03:51,492 in the middle of the building, and destroyed multiple floors 70 00:03:52,232 --> 00:03:55,235 [narrator]: Charlie Rasner is n expert in explosives 71 00:03:55,278 --> 00:03:57,149 and hostage rescue and a recipient 72 00:03:57,192 --> 00:03:59,543 of the FBI's shield of bravery. 73 00:04:00,762 --> 00:04:03,721 - That left a huge 200 foot wide crater. 74 00:04:03,765 --> 00:04:05,593 - Wow. - And it's been obliterated. 75 00:04:05,636 --> 00:04:08,552 [strong explosion] 76 00:04:08,596 --> 00:04:11,294 [firefighter]: Something blew. Something big blew. 77 00:04:12,382 --> 00:04:13,949 I've never seen anything like it in my life. 78 00:04:13,992 --> 00:04:16,430 You know, there was thousands of injuries, 79 00:04:16,473 --> 00:04:17,995 and there was also seven deaths. 80 00:04:18,692 --> 00:04:21,086 [narrator]: David Kelley has prosecuted organized crime 81 00:04:21,130 --> 00:04:24,699 and terrorism cases and served as U.S. attorney 82 00:04:24,742 --> 00:04:26,788 for the Southern District of New York. 83 00:04:27,354 --> 00:04:30,574 - The victims were essentially maintenance and service 84 00:04:30,618 --> 00:04:33,316 providers in the building who were, you know, 85 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,797 having their lunch break, and they were all killed 86 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:36,667 by the explosion. 87 00:04:37,929 --> 00:04:39,888 These were six employees, one of whom was pregnant 88 00:04:39,931 --> 00:04:40,976 with the seventh victim. 89 00:04:42,456 --> 00:04:47,504 [man]: John di Giovanni, Robert Kirkpatrick, Steve Napp, 90 00:04:47,548 --> 00:04:52,770 William Macko, Wilfredo Marcato, and Monica Smith, 91 00:04:52,814 --> 00:04:55,556 who was seven months pregnant at the time. 92 00:05:01,562 --> 00:05:03,259 [officer]: We're working with a massive explosion 93 00:05:03,303 --> 00:05:05,348 that the police department and federal authorities 94 00:05:05,392 --> 00:05:07,698 are investigating what they think it might be. 95 00:05:07,742 --> 00:05:10,875 [water flooding] 96 00:05:11,615 --> 00:05:13,748 - This was 1993. 97 00:05:13,791 --> 00:05:16,316 I mean, you wouldn't think that it was anything other than 98 00:05:16,359 --> 00:05:18,709 a bad accident that happened. 99 00:05:19,667 --> 00:05:23,148 - But, you look at the cars, the vehicles in the garage, 100 00:05:23,192 --> 00:05:26,151 you know, are they mangled? Are they flipped? Are they pushed? 101 00:05:26,195 --> 00:05:29,285 It's obvious, you know, that...it's a bomb. 102 00:05:29,329 --> 00:05:32,332 [riveting music] 103 00:05:34,725 --> 00:05:36,683 - There's a bit of a pit in your stomach. 104 00:05:38,468 --> 00:05:40,427 - Now that we know it's a bomb, our number one goal 105 00:05:40,470 --> 00:05:42,167 is to find the mastermind who built it. 106 00:05:43,255 --> 00:05:45,432 When you have a bomb, you have to have a container. 107 00:05:45,475 --> 00:05:47,433 In this case, because of the size of the bomb, 108 00:05:47,477 --> 00:05:50,306 the size of the crater, you had to have a big one. 109 00:05:50,350 --> 00:05:51,438 So, a truck. 110 00:05:52,526 --> 00:05:56,834 So you look for the most mangled piece of a truck in the vicinity. 111 00:06:00,229 --> 00:06:04,059 - And one of the items that was found still had the VIN number on it. 112 00:06:04,102 --> 00:06:08,019 [suspenseful music] 113 00:06:09,151 --> 00:06:12,284 We ran the VIN number. It was a Ryder van 114 00:06:12,328 --> 00:06:14,025 rented out of Jersey City. 115 00:06:14,069 --> 00:06:16,811 When agents went out to speak to Ryder about it, 116 00:06:16,854 --> 00:06:19,901 they found out a person named Mohammed Salameh rented the van. 117 00:06:24,732 --> 00:06:28,431 And they found out that Salameh had called in to 118 00:06:28,475 --> 00:06:31,478 the Ryder office saying that the van was stolen 119 00:06:31,521 --> 00:06:34,394 and that he wanted a refund of his deposit. 120 00:06:34,437 --> 00:06:36,047 - What? Were you like: "Oh, my God"? 121 00:06:36,091 --> 00:06:39,834 - Well, we had Ryder call him back, making a point for him 122 00:06:39,877 --> 00:06:41,183 to come down and get his money. 123 00:06:41,966 --> 00:06:45,056 - I remember thinking: "there's no f'ing way this guy's coming back." 124 00:06:45,579 --> 00:06:49,321 We had the place surrounded with agents and detectives 125 00:06:49,365 --> 00:06:51,933 and task force members. - Basically an arrest team, 126 00:06:51,976 --> 00:06:54,979 a surveillance team and sounds like an undercover team? 127 00:06:55,023 --> 00:06:56,067 - Yes. 128 00:06:57,547 --> 00:07:01,029 We actually had agents and detectives inside Ryder, 129 00:07:01,072 --> 00:07:01,899 behind the desk. 130 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:05,207 So, down the road, they see someone approaching. 131 00:07:05,250 --> 00:07:06,513 And it's Salameh. 132 00:07:08,732 --> 00:07:11,909 - The guy's coming back to get his $400 deposit. 133 00:07:11,953 --> 00:07:13,258 - This guy's nuts. 134 00:07:13,302 --> 00:07:16,392 Why would you rent the van in your real name 135 00:07:16,436 --> 00:07:20,440 and then go back for the deposit after you blew the van up? 136 00:07:20,483 --> 00:07:22,529 - But he went anyway. - He went anyway. 137 00:07:22,572 --> 00:07:25,140 A bunch of agents grabbed him, threw him in a van. 138 00:07:25,183 --> 00:07:26,620 - What was his face? Was he shocked? 139 00:07:26,663 --> 00:07:28,752 - I don't think we got a good look at his face 140 00:07:28,796 --> 00:07:30,624 because they got him in that van pretty quickly. 141 00:07:30,667 --> 00:07:32,582 He was back in Manhattan within minutes. 142 00:07:32,626 --> 00:07:35,672 They took him to 26 Fed for processing. 143 00:07:35,716 --> 00:07:36,804 He gets fingerprinted. 144 00:07:36,847 --> 00:07:38,457 - Is he cooperating at this point? 145 00:07:38,501 --> 00:07:40,677 - Cooperating no. But we try to find out who else 146 00:07:40,721 --> 00:07:43,419 he is connected to or what calls he makes. 147 00:07:43,463 --> 00:07:44,942 Does he make calls overseas? 148 00:07:45,421 --> 00:07:46,770 Uh, is there anybody else in the States 149 00:07:46,814 --> 00:07:48,250 we should be looking at? 150 00:07:48,293 --> 00:07:50,687 - And then we get the call from the storage facility. 151 00:07:50,731 --> 00:07:52,254 - Right. - The storage facility 152 00:07:52,297 --> 00:07:54,474 was interesting because it was a big piece. 153 00:07:55,344 --> 00:07:56,824 [Frank]: See, weeks before the explosion 154 00:07:56,867 --> 00:07:59,000 at the World Trade Center, staff at a storage facility 155 00:07:59,043 --> 00:08:02,351 in Jersey City noticed that there were a lot of suspicious-looking guys 156 00:08:02,394 --> 00:08:04,266 coming and going at one of their lockers. 157 00:08:04,309 --> 00:08:06,573 A lot of guys, bringing all kinds of stuff in. 158 00:08:07,051 --> 00:08:09,924 Staff thought it was weird, but you know, it's 1993, 159 00:08:09,967 --> 00:08:12,883 nobody's thinking about terrorism, so they weren't alarmed or anything. 160 00:08:13,667 --> 00:08:16,017 - When Salameh's picture gets put all over the news... 161 00:08:16,060 --> 00:08:18,019 - The guy who ran the storage facility said: 162 00:08:18,062 --> 00:08:19,281 "Oh, I recognize that guy", 163 00:08:19,324 --> 00:08:20,804 and you know: "let me make a phone call." 164 00:08:21,544 --> 00:08:24,721 The storage facility call came in, and obviously we go there 165 00:08:24,765 --> 00:08:27,768 - We send out bomb techs, ERT. They open it up. 166 00:08:27,811 --> 00:08:30,292 They see... - Chemicals and other stuff 167 00:08:30,335 --> 00:08:31,859 that was being stored there. 168 00:08:31,902 --> 00:08:34,991 - The storage facility employees tell us the fact that people 169 00:08:35,036 --> 00:08:38,212 came in with a van, the fact that they loaded, 170 00:08:38,256 --> 00:08:40,736 the fact that they had hydrogen tanks delivered. 171 00:08:40,780 --> 00:08:42,957 And in fact, the storage facility employee comes out 172 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,133 and says: "hey, wait a second, you can't put those hydrogen 173 00:08:45,176 --> 00:08:47,048 tanks in the storage facility, they'll blow up!" 174 00:08:49,224 --> 00:08:52,227 - Charlie, when you hear about the ingredients, 175 00:08:52,270 --> 00:08:54,185 what does that conjure in your mind as a bomb tech? 176 00:08:54,229 --> 00:08:56,579 - This is basically a bomb factory. 177 00:08:56,623 --> 00:08:58,799 And it sounds like they were trying to make an ANFO bomb, 178 00:08:58,842 --> 00:09:01,802 initially, ammonium nitrate fuel oil, but it didn't pan out 179 00:09:01,845 --> 00:09:03,455 so they went with this urea nitrate. 180 00:09:03,499 --> 00:09:06,110 - And that was boosted by hydrogen. 181 00:09:06,154 --> 00:09:08,591 - Yeah. Boosters really make a big difference 182 00:09:08,635 --> 00:09:10,158 in the, uh, explosive train. 183 00:09:10,201 --> 00:09:12,726 The better the boosters, the larger the explosion, 184 00:09:12,769 --> 00:09:14,031 more devastation. 185 00:09:14,597 --> 00:09:16,599 It was the biggest bomb that we had had to date 186 00:09:16,643 --> 00:09:18,993 since we started keeping records back in the 1920s. 187 00:09:19,036 --> 00:09:20,081 - Wow. 188 00:09:22,126 --> 00:09:24,738 [Frank]: At the storage facility, everything is checked 189 00:09:24,781 --> 00:09:27,392 for fingerprints, and there were hits coming up. 190 00:09:28,002 --> 00:09:31,832 [David]: Salameh's fingerprint was found on a yellow-page book, 191 00:09:32,963 --> 00:09:36,184 and the page in the Yellow Pages was for rental vans. 192 00:09:37,228 --> 00:09:39,187 - So, Salameh rented the truck? 193 00:09:39,230 --> 00:09:42,016 - We certainly knew he was one of the people involved. 194 00:09:42,059 --> 00:09:44,671 But we just didn't think that he would be the one to be 195 00:09:44,714 --> 00:09:47,456 directing everybody on how to do such a thing. 196 00:09:47,499 --> 00:09:52,592 - You know, you look at him and like: "I'm not sure he's the mastermind," but who was? 197 00:09:53,418 --> 00:09:55,899 - He's still in the wind. [Franck]: Still in the wind. 198 00:09:57,466 --> 00:09:59,816 We did find other latent prints that were unidentified, 199 00:09:59,860 --> 00:10:01,383 that we weren't able to match. 200 00:10:01,426 --> 00:10:03,385 - So that's a lead. - Yeah. 201 00:10:03,428 --> 00:10:05,779 I mean, you're running the prints now against everything. 202 00:10:06,997 --> 00:10:10,697 We searched every database, but we came up with nothing. 203 00:10:12,176 --> 00:10:17,225 - So we've got fingerprints that belong to Mr. Nobody. Unidentified. 204 00:10:18,835 --> 00:10:21,533 Agents working on Salameh's apartment did find 205 00:10:21,577 --> 00:10:25,320 a letter in the apartment addressed to someone 206 00:10:25,363 --> 00:10:28,279 about an asylum claim that he made when he entered 207 00:10:28,323 --> 00:10:30,673 the country. Ramzi Yousef. 208 00:10:30,717 --> 00:10:33,197 [riveting music] 209 00:10:33,241 --> 00:10:36,592 So we went to the, uh, lawyer 210 00:10:36,636 --> 00:10:38,333 who was working the asylum claim. 211 00:10:38,855 --> 00:10:41,684 Fortunately, when Ramzi came in, because he was filing 212 00:10:41,728 --> 00:10:44,165 an asylum claim, he was photographed, 213 00:10:44,208 --> 00:10:46,471 and his fingerprints were taken for immigration purposes. 214 00:10:47,821 --> 00:10:50,867 So we ran the prints against those latent prints 215 00:10:50,911 --> 00:10:53,261 that were unidentified from all the bomb-making material 216 00:10:53,304 --> 00:10:55,480 that was in the storage place. At this point we were able to 217 00:10:55,524 --> 00:10:57,918 confirm that they were the same fingerprints. 218 00:10:58,875 --> 00:11:01,356 [narrator]: But when agents question Mohammed Salameh's 219 00:11:01,399 --> 00:11:06,666 associates about Yousef, they hear yet another unfamiliar name. 220 00:11:08,058 --> 00:11:10,887 - This other person had come into the country recently. 221 00:11:12,019 --> 00:11:14,238 And everybody was referring to him as "Rashid." 222 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,112 I don't think they really knew who he was. 223 00:11:18,155 --> 00:11:21,245 They have nicknames that they give each other, and he was "Rashid." 224 00:11:21,289 --> 00:11:23,465 - What are they saying that this guy is doing? 225 00:11:23,508 --> 00:11:24,858 Like, why is he important? 226 00:11:24,901 --> 00:11:28,165 - Rashid was the one who was leading the charge. 227 00:11:28,209 --> 00:11:32,604 That knew how to mix the chemicals and knew how to create the bomb. 228 00:11:32,648 --> 00:11:36,304 But they had told the interviewers that Rashid 229 00:11:36,347 --> 00:11:38,436 had gone to the Pakistani consulate to get 230 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:40,438 a new passport before the bombing. 231 00:11:41,788 --> 00:11:45,879 So we went to the consulate, spoke to the consul general. 232 00:11:46,923 --> 00:11:51,101 We asked if he could see who came into the embassy 233 00:11:51,145 --> 00:11:53,147 for maybe a two-week period before the bombing 234 00:11:53,190 --> 00:11:55,279 and applied for a new Pakistani passport. 235 00:11:55,323 --> 00:11:57,629 So he actually left for a little while, 236 00:11:57,673 --> 00:11:59,806 he came back with a document, but not Ramzi Yousef. 237 00:11:59,849 --> 00:12:01,024 Not that name. 238 00:12:01,068 --> 00:12:02,112 - What was the name? 239 00:12:02,156 --> 00:12:04,593 - Abdel Basset Mahmoud Abdul Karim. 240 00:12:04,636 --> 00:12:05,899 And he actually had a picture. 241 00:12:08,118 --> 00:12:10,817 A different picture, much younger picture, 242 00:12:10,860 --> 00:12:13,907 clean shaven of the person we knew as Ramzi Yosef 243 00:12:13,950 --> 00:12:15,125 from the immigration record. 244 00:12:15,996 --> 00:12:18,781 So now we know, Ramzi Yousef is Rashid. 245 00:12:24,526 --> 00:12:27,616 - Bingo. - This is the mastermind. 246 00:12:27,659 --> 00:12:29,009 This is our guy. - Right. 247 00:12:29,052 --> 00:12:31,185 So then we were able to take his real name, 248 00:12:31,228 --> 00:12:34,884 and we ran that through departure records and the airlines. 249 00:12:34,928 --> 00:12:36,451 - Yeah. And we actually found out 250 00:12:36,494 --> 00:12:39,846 that Ramzi Yousef left New York the night of the bombing. 251 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:44,111 [plane engines] 252 00:12:46,330 --> 00:12:49,116 - Yousef had come into the country to, attack 253 00:12:49,159 --> 00:12:52,467 the interests of the United States on our own ground. 254 00:12:52,510 --> 00:12:56,079 How can we make sure he's not going to go do something else 255 00:12:56,123 --> 00:12:57,777 equally as bad or worse? 256 00:12:58,778 --> 00:13:00,344 He was put on the ten most wanted list. 257 00:13:00,388 --> 00:13:03,565 The motors are running and we've got to go find this guy. 258 00:13:09,527 --> 00:13:12,095 So, there was a sense of urgency there. 259 00:13:12,139 --> 00:13:14,141 How can we get our hands on him, and quick? 260 00:13:14,184 --> 00:13:15,925 - Where do we think Yousef is now? 261 00:13:15,969 --> 00:13:18,232 - Yousef's plane ticket was to Quetta. 262 00:13:18,275 --> 00:13:21,148 Which is right near the border with Afghanistan. 263 00:13:24,064 --> 00:13:28,024 So we still weren't, you know, sure, was he still in Pakistan? 264 00:13:28,068 --> 00:13:30,984 And then, I came into the office on a Monday 265 00:13:31,027 --> 00:13:36,032 and there was a teletype that came from the Philippines. 266 00:13:40,123 --> 00:13:41,777 [narrator]: The pope's visit to the Philippines 267 00:13:41,821 --> 00:13:43,779 draws millions to the streets of the capital. 268 00:13:45,302 --> 00:13:48,349 As police prepare for the even, an emergency call 269 00:13:48,392 --> 00:13:50,481 puts them on high alert. 270 00:13:52,527 --> 00:13:54,790 There is a fire or smoke condition that draws 271 00:13:54,834 --> 00:13:57,880 the authorities to this apartment that's right on the Pope's route. 272 00:13:57,924 --> 00:14:01,057 - The fire department came, and they found some chemicals 273 00:14:01,101 --> 00:14:03,364 and a lot of bomb-making materials in this apartment. 274 00:14:05,409 --> 00:14:07,411 Somebody had left all kinds of stuff. 275 00:14:07,455 --> 00:14:10,980 - And ultimately, there are things connecting Ramzi Yousef to that apartment. 276 00:14:11,024 --> 00:14:13,287 You know, there's some identification material 277 00:14:13,330 --> 00:14:15,680 and so forth. The thing was to get boots on the ground 278 00:14:15,724 --> 00:14:16,812 and sort through this thing. 279 00:14:16,856 --> 00:14:19,075 - Ramzi might still be in the area. 280 00:14:19,119 --> 00:14:19,946 - Right. 281 00:14:24,037 --> 00:14:26,517 We met with the Philippine National Police. 282 00:14:27,823 --> 00:14:30,608 They allow us to view the information that they took. 283 00:14:30,652 --> 00:14:34,961 There was a computer, other documents, two fake ID cards 284 00:14:35,004 --> 00:14:37,659 that actually had photographs of Ramzi Yousef. 285 00:14:39,617 --> 00:14:41,663 And a chemical dictionary. 286 00:14:43,621 --> 00:14:44,971 Somebody had fingered through that quite a bit. 287 00:14:47,669 --> 00:14:50,019 And we got Yousef's prints off a lot of the stuff. 288 00:14:50,063 --> 00:14:53,805 So now, now we know Yousef is fully engaged in this. 289 00:14:53,849 --> 00:14:56,286 I mean, there's all kinds of bomb-making material. 290 00:14:58,593 --> 00:15:01,378 Including Casio watches that they were going to change up 291 00:15:01,422 --> 00:15:03,206 a little bit and use as timers for bombs. 292 00:15:06,427 --> 00:15:10,735 It's scary because it just made you realize that Yousef 293 00:15:10,779 --> 00:15:13,303 is going to come back and he's going to keep coming back. 294 00:15:13,913 --> 00:15:18,613 [narrator]: In fact, Ramzi Yousef is already back in action. 295 00:15:19,744 --> 00:15:23,096 - The Japanese police got in touch with the Philippines 296 00:15:23,139 --> 00:15:26,664 and us, about the PAL 434 bomb. 297 00:15:27,361 --> 00:15:29,885 [narrator]: The Philippine authorities tell the FBI 298 00:15:29,929 --> 00:15:33,019 that four weeks prior to the Manila apartment fire, 299 00:15:33,062 --> 00:15:37,849 Philippine Airlines flight 434, en route from Cebu to Tokyo, 300 00:15:37,893 --> 00:15:43,159 suffered a powerful and fatal explosion, in the middle of its passenger cabin. 301 00:15:48,469 --> 00:15:49,992 - The plane made an emergency landing. 302 00:15:50,036 --> 00:15:52,777 [suspenseful music] 303 00:15:57,434 --> 00:16:00,872 One...Mr. Ikegami was killed in that event, 304 00:16:03,484 --> 00:16:04,572 and 10 people were injured. 305 00:16:06,487 --> 00:16:09,794 The Japanese police were able to determine that the item 306 00:16:09,838 --> 00:16:12,797 used for that bomb to ignite was a Casio watch. 307 00:16:13,276 --> 00:16:15,800 - So then, the Japanese police said: "well, wait a second, 308 00:16:16,497 --> 00:16:19,326 in the Manila apartment, they had Casio watches. 309 00:16:21,937 --> 00:16:24,070 We had a Casio watch here. 310 00:16:26,420 --> 00:16:28,726 - Ramzi had created a micro-bomb. 311 00:16:28,770 --> 00:16:32,643 The way that he used the Casio watch was to attach 312 00:16:32,687 --> 00:16:36,734 microfilament wires, to a bottle full of nitroglycerin, 313 00:16:36,778 --> 00:16:39,085 which he had stabilized using wool and cotton. 314 00:16:40,303 --> 00:16:42,479 He had as a power source, two nine-volt batteries. 315 00:16:44,873 --> 00:16:48,181 The plan was when they took it onto the plane, it was not a bomb. 316 00:16:48,224 --> 00:16:50,792 It was parts of a bomb. 317 00:16:50,835 --> 00:16:55,188 But he had them secreted in various areas, even, of his body. 318 00:16:55,231 --> 00:16:58,887 He did, in fact, smuggle nine-volt batteries 319 00:16:58,930 --> 00:17:00,976 in the heels of his shoes. - Yeah. 320 00:17:01,020 --> 00:17:02,978 The gun cotton was, you know, in the dress of a doll. 321 00:17:07,069 --> 00:17:09,028 And he wore the watch on his wrist. 322 00:17:10,159 --> 00:17:13,467 - He could assemble it in the aircraft, probably a lavatory. 323 00:17:13,510 --> 00:17:16,818 And it was tiny, and he could plant it anywhere on a plane. 324 00:17:16,861 --> 00:17:18,253 He got on in Manila. 325 00:17:18,298 --> 00:17:21,474 He got off in Cebu, and then it blew up in the air. 326 00:17:21,518 --> 00:17:25,174 [ominous music] 327 00:17:25,218 --> 00:17:28,047 [explosion] 328 00:17:29,831 --> 00:17:32,355 Because his plan wasn't just to kill one passenger, 329 00:17:32,399 --> 00:17:38,057 it was to disrupt the jet fuel tank below it, 330 00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:40,407 where the seat was, because it did blow a hole, 331 00:17:40,450 --> 00:17:43,497 a gaping hole, underneath Mr. Ikegami's seat. 332 00:17:46,717 --> 00:17:49,938 [suspenseful music] 333 00:17:49,981 --> 00:17:53,594 He had plans that showed where the fuel tanks were located, 334 00:17:53,637 --> 00:17:55,117 and what seats were over those. 335 00:17:55,161 --> 00:17:57,859 Thankfully, that plane, the seats had been reconfigured 336 00:17:57,902 --> 00:18:02,255 and the jet fuel tank was not underneath that seat on that particular flight. 337 00:18:02,298 --> 00:18:04,561 Because if it had ruptured the fuel tanks underneath, 338 00:18:04,605 --> 00:18:06,389 they would have no doubt blown that plane up. 339 00:18:06,433 --> 00:18:09,349 - Wow. - What's even more chilling 340 00:18:09,392 --> 00:18:11,960 is the information about all the flights. 341 00:18:12,178 --> 00:18:14,005 - All the diagrams and the information, 342 00:18:14,049 --> 00:18:15,877 to my understanding, is in the laptop. 343 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:19,446 They want to bomb 11 more planes. 344 00:18:19,489 --> 00:18:24,668 - They were targeting airliners going to the United States from Southeast Asia. 345 00:18:25,713 --> 00:18:27,106 Now you're really worried. 346 00:18:31,153 --> 00:18:35,201 - A plot to set off bombs on all these airliners, 347 00:18:35,244 --> 00:18:40,206 killing thousands of people, to say it was chilling is an understatement. 348 00:18:40,249 --> 00:18:43,339 - Every effort has to be made right now to find Yousef. 349 00:18:43,383 --> 00:18:45,646 We got a call from Pakistan. 350 00:18:45,689 --> 00:18:49,258 A source said that Ramzi was in Islamabad. 351 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,915 [upbeat mysterious music] 352 00:18:56,352 --> 00:19:02,010 [narrator]: The source is a University of Islamabad student named Ishtiaque Parker. 353 00:19:02,053 --> 00:19:07,320 Ramzi Yousef has been trying to enlist Parker as a bomber. 354 00:19:08,103 --> 00:19:11,150 - He kind of went along with it, I think, out of fear at first, 355 00:19:11,193 --> 00:19:14,718 but Yosef was asking him to do things that he did not want 356 00:19:14,762 --> 00:19:17,199 to do, including, you know, travel to Bangkok 357 00:19:17,243 --> 00:19:20,115 and put some bombs on cargo planes. 358 00:19:20,159 --> 00:19:23,466 And it wasn't something that I think ideologically 359 00:19:23,510 --> 00:19:27,992 he had any thought ever of being involved in anything like that. 360 00:19:28,036 --> 00:19:30,995 The source said: "I've had enough of this." 361 00:19:31,039 --> 00:19:33,302 And he told the authorities in Pakistan. 362 00:19:33,346 --> 00:19:35,609 We also in this apartment at this location. 363 00:19:37,611 --> 00:19:39,003 I was a team leader. 364 00:19:39,047 --> 00:19:40,353 They told me to grab my team. 365 00:19:40,396 --> 00:19:42,877 Report to Dulles, there'll be a private plane... 366 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:44,183 We're going to get him. 367 00:19:46,097 --> 00:19:47,403 This was dark, when we landed. 368 00:19:48,535 --> 00:19:50,493 - So we have an individual. 369 00:19:50,537 --> 00:19:53,061 - He's in the apartment. - The Pakistani authorities 370 00:19:53,104 --> 00:19:56,978 spoke to the source and said, you know, we want you 371 00:19:57,021 --> 00:20:00,111 to go in and if he's in the apartment, come out of 372 00:20:00,155 --> 00:20:02,201 the apartment, run your hand through your hair, 373 00:20:02,244 --> 00:20:04,638 and then we'll know that, that he's in there. 374 00:20:06,553 --> 00:20:10,034 [narrator]: Assault teams watch as parker exits the building, 375 00:20:10,078 --> 00:20:13,690 and raises an arm, to run his hand through his hair. 376 00:20:16,867 --> 00:20:19,740 - At that point, the Pakistani authorities went in and cleared 377 00:20:19,783 --> 00:20:21,045 the apartment and grabbed Yousef. 378 00:20:27,095 --> 00:20:28,531 - Pakistani intelligence had him. 379 00:20:28,575 --> 00:20:30,751 And they said, as soon as it's daybreak, 380 00:20:30,794 --> 00:20:31,969 they're going to give him to you. 381 00:20:32,796 --> 00:20:35,886 There's one guy standing there, a Pakistani ISI official. 382 00:20:36,844 --> 00:20:38,019 He's all happy. 383 00:20:38,062 --> 00:20:41,022 - Yeah. And there's this bag of bones 384 00:20:41,065 --> 00:20:44,852 in terrible-looking clothing, filthy, with a bag over 385 00:20:44,895 --> 00:20:48,072 his head, a burlap bag-potato sack or whatever and 386 00:20:48,116 --> 00:20:50,858 some shackles from, like, the 1850s. - Oh wow! 387 00:20:50,901 --> 00:20:52,903 - He had leg irons the whole deal. 388 00:20:52,947 --> 00:20:55,819 And, uh, he says: "here's your package, sir. 389 00:20:55,863 --> 00:20:57,473 Thank you very much." 390 00:20:57,517 --> 00:20:59,780 When we took him on the plane, We had a medic, we had the medic 391 00:20:59,823 --> 00:21:03,305 to inspect, make sure it was no broken bones or damage. 392 00:21:03,349 --> 00:21:06,221 We got the bag off his head, took the shackles off. 393 00:21:06,265 --> 00:21:09,355 I took a brand new orange jumpsuit out of a bag. 394 00:21:09,398 --> 00:21:12,183 Gave it to him to, you know, put on. 395 00:21:14,316 --> 00:21:16,318 I ask you if you need anything, he said: 396 00:21:16,362 --> 00:21:19,321 "I want to be able to, when we land, get cleaned up, 397 00:21:19,365 --> 00:21:21,845 shape around a suit so I can meet the media 398 00:21:21,889 --> 00:21:23,543 and give them my story. 399 00:21:23,586 --> 00:21:26,372 I want to tell them why we are doing what we're doing. 400 00:21:26,415 --> 00:21:29,157 I said: "what are you doing? Why did you do this? 401 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:30,506 - Yeah. - And he looked at me 402 00:21:30,550 --> 00:21:33,204 and he said: "Because you help 403 00:21:33,248 --> 00:21:36,512 the Jews and we hate the Jews, and so we hate you" 404 00:21:36,556 --> 00:21:40,255 That was his whole key, his whole beef with 405 00:21:40,299 --> 00:21:43,345 the United States and why he wanted to kill a quarter of a million people. 406 00:21:43,389 --> 00:21:44,738 That was his reasoning. 407 00:21:46,609 --> 00:21:49,090 This guy was crazy. He is crazy. 408 00:21:51,266 --> 00:21:52,528 We landed in New York. 409 00:21:53,921 --> 00:21:56,402 We turn him over to the New York SWAT guys who are waiting. 410 00:21:56,445 --> 00:21:59,274 They grab him, put him on a helicopter. 411 00:22:00,623 --> 00:22:01,929 He has a bag on his head. 412 00:22:03,017 --> 00:22:05,585 They did a flyover of the city of New York, 413 00:22:05,628 --> 00:22:07,195 pulled the mask off, 414 00:22:07,238 --> 00:22:08,892 just to show him that he had failed. 415 00:22:09,806 --> 00:22:10,981 The towers were still standing. 416 00:22:11,025 --> 00:22:16,335 [screeching music] 417 00:22:36,485 --> 00:22:38,574 He had no regard for human life. 418 00:22:38,618 --> 00:22:40,663 And he believed in this crazy cause of his. 419 00:22:40,707 --> 00:22:45,364 So thank God that the FBI did such tremendous work and all 420 00:22:45,407 --> 00:22:48,018 the other agencies that worked together on the task force. 421 00:22:48,062 --> 00:22:52,371 A life of hell in a little hole is what he ended up with. 422 00:22:52,414 --> 00:22:54,329 He got his punishment. 423 00:23:05,645 --> 00:23:08,430 Subtitling: difuze