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| FBI May Want to Speak to First WTC Bomb Inmate |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 09/14/2001 |
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The U.S. attorney for Colorado said Wednesday he expected FBI agents would want to question the architect of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who is serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Colorado. Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, 33, the mastermind of the Feb. 26, 1993 bombing that killed six people and injured more than 1,000, is serving his sentence at the maximum-security SuperMax federal prison at Florence, Colorado. What federal authorities would ask Yousef about Tuesday's air attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Virginia was unclear. 'I would certainly expect it,' U.S. Attorney John Suthers when asked if he expected federal authorities to try to question Yousef. When U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy sentenced Yousef in January 1998 for the trade center explosion and an additional life term for a plot to bomb airlines he called him an 'apostle of evil.' The judge imposed restrictions on Yousef that amounted to solitary confinement in which only proven family members can visit him. An FBI spokeswoman in Denver and a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman in Washington, D.C. would not comment on whether Yousef has been questioned or will be questioned. Prison spokeswoman Traci Billingsley also would not say whether any special measures have been taken regarding Yousef. She would say only that 'all necessary security precautions have been taken to ensure that the institutions (all federal prisons) and inmates remain secure.' |
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