Ramzi Yousef Loses High Court Appeal
Ramzi Yousef, convicted of being the mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center attacks, lost his bid to have the Supreme Court throw out his conviction.
Justices refused to consider whether the government overstepped its reach in prosecuting Ramzi Yousef in the bombing and for plotting to blow up a dozen U.S. jumbo jets over the Far East. "The opportunity for this court to review the extent of extra-territoriality that the U.S. and its courts can exercise to punish 'terrorist' acts must not be passed by as the issue becomes of ever more immediate importance in the world of the 21st Century," Bernard V. Kleinman, one of his attorneys, wrote in the appeal.
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