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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION C Date of trancription 2/14/95 ABDUL BASIT MAHMOUD ABDUL . ' KARIM, (hereafter referred to as BASIT), also known as RAMZI AHNED YOUSEF, was interviewed at 4.'— ?. .t .1.. .3 r' 4.... . — .. 1.. — a. use, T 4 •_ 4— 4 ...4.. ... . o .c iv i ... ew 2. C (SDNY), in Manhattan, by Special Agents (SAs) FRANCIS 3. PELLEGRINO and CHARLES B. STERN of the FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI),"ad SA BRIAN G. PARR of the United States Secret Service (USSS). Also present for the interew were Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) 3. GILMORE CHILDERS, LEV DASSIN and MICHAEL 3. GARCIA, of the SDMY, and BASIT's attorney, AVRAHAN MOSKOWITZ. A written proffer agreement was signed by AUSA CHILDERS and MOSKOWITZ immediately prior to the start of the interview, 4 • arid the interview was conducted pursuant to that agreement. It j was also agreed between CHILDERS and MOSKOWITZ that the substance of the interview would be limited to the participation of YOUSEF and those already convicted in the World Trade Center (WTC) bombing. BASIT thereafter provided the following information: • Basit began by discussing the type of explosive he utilized in the bombing at the WTC on February 26, 1993. He described the main charge a!; urea nitrate, contained in a wooden box of his own construction. The box was largest in its horizontal dimensions; the sides of the box were not as large as its top and bottom dimensions. The main charge was boosted by three separate boosters, each with its own detonator. He described the boosters as follows: 1) Thirty (30) kilograms (kg) of dynamite, which he manufactured from 70% ammonium nitrate, 29% nitroglycerine, and 1% nitroce]..lulose. Inve%ugation on 2/13/95 at New York, New York File # SAs FRANCIS 3. PELLEGRINO, FBI, CHARLES 13. STERN, FBI, BRIAN G. PARR. USSS./FJP:pg Datedictated 2/14195 Qocument contains neither recommendations nor coflClusjons of the FBI. It is he property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency: t and its contents are not to be distributed outside our agency.
j jev. F 11—1 5—83) ttflu&tIOfl of FD-302 ABDUL BSIT, AKA RANZI YOUSEF pg 2 2) Twenty (20) kg. of a mixture of ammOfliUm nitrate, and 6% analine mixed, nitromethafle, and analifle (94% nitromethafle then 1/3 of this mixture added to 2/3 of ammofliU1 nitrate, by voluBle, not by weight). by him by 3) Fift (50) kg. of therinite, manufactured mixing ferric trioxide, magnesium powders aluminum powder and some glycerine. The dynamite and amirtofliUm itrate/nitr0metha/a1e mixture had a detonator made of j,icric acid and lead azide, housed in a metal tube, which was in turn, contained in a plastic outer container. 0onsistiflg of The theritlite had a separate detonator, surrounded by black powder lead azide and a stick of dynamite, alid magnesium powder. The detonators were all connected with nitrocellUlose, nitrOcellulose was of heavy tape. The which was housed inside a clear plastic tube, ignited by a fuse, with a plastic bag affixed Ol the end which was 1igited. The tube served to contain any smoke generated by the plastic bag and burning fuse. BASIT from the front passenger The fuse was lighted by seat of the van; the fuse was twelve minutes in burning time. this material would When the fuse reached the nitroCellulose, each of the detonators jstantaneously, activating ignite almost at the same time. The detonators would then detonate the booster the main urea nitrate charges, which would, in turn, detonate charge. BASIT noted that he wished to focus as much of the to the "beam" in the tower, in order to cause blast as possible However, he related the tower to fall. that most of the blast was directed up and down, as the surface area of the box containing the main charge was greatest in the horizontal plane. had he been able to obtain additional He indicated that, construct the device in financing, he would have been able to focus more of the blast horizontally, against such a way as to and would have been World Trade Center tower, the "beam" of the tower into the other. able to topple one C - which was affixed inside
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nitric acid and were noted undernea
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weights would have to be different
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where they had purchased urea or ni
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Although defense counsel's question
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