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Nation & World

Tracing terror's roots

How the first World Trade Center plot sowed the seeds for 9/11

By Chitra Ragavan
Posted 2/16/03
Page 6 of 6

Siddig Siddig-Ali, Rahman's translator, masterminded New York City landmarks plot

Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, blind cleric

El Sayyid Nosair, Rabbi Kahane assassin

Rabbi Meir Kahane murder, Nov. 5, 1990

World Trade Center Bombing, Feb. 26, 1993

Mohammed Salameh, rented Ryder truck for WTC bombing

Mahmoud Abouhalima, Mixed chemicals for WTC bombing

Nidal Ayyad, obtained key chemicals for the bomb

Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Yousef's uncle, involved in 9/11 attacks

Ramzi Yousef, WTC bomb maker, plotted to assassinate Clinton and pope

Manila Airliner Plot, Jan. 21, 1995: Foiled

Embassy Bombings in Africa, Aug. 7, 1998

Ali Mohamed, Scouted bombing sites for bin Laden, gave Nosair U.S. military manuals

Wadih el-Hage, Bin Laden's secretary, Kenya cell leader, visited Nosair in prison in Attica, obtained weapons for Abouhalima

With Nancy L. Bentrup, Ann M. Wakefield, Sheila Thalhimer and Monica M. Ekman

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