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slang · 02-13-2008, 09:38 AM

Here's another.

The officer in charge is named Mario Ignacio and he was in the US to testify against Ramsey Yousef in 1996 for the WTC I bombing.

Peter Lance had a chapter on Ignacio's involvement of Yousef's investigation and trial in his book "1000 Years for Revenge".

Link to the book

"The FBI had sufficient intelligence to capture Yousef before he built the first World Trade Center bomb in 1993. In 1995, they learned that he had already set the 9/11 suicide-hijacking plot in motion from Manila -- that he was planning "to return to the U.S. to attack the World Trade Center a second time." Yet each time the FBI missed the opportunity to stop him."

Officer Ignacio is a bomb expert here in the Philippines and was lead investigator for one of Yousef's bombings here in Manila.

Certainly an interesting guy with a lot of experience with terrorism. He said that he'd be willing to talk with me more about the trial and the book sometime in the future. I'd like to have a copy of the book to read before we talk about it in more detail.

02-13-2008, 09:38 AM	#918
slang St Petersburg, Florida Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,423	Here's another. The officer in charge is named Mario Ignacio and he was in the US to testify against Ramsey Yousef in 1996 for the WTC I bombing. Peter Lance had a chapter on Ignacio's involvement of Yousef's investigation and trial in his book "1000 Years for Revenge". Link to the book "The FBI had sufficient intelligence to capture Yousef before he built the first World Trade Center bomb in 1993. In 1995, they learned that he had already set the 9/11 suicide-hijacking plot in motion from Manila -- that he was planning "to return to the U.S. to attack the World Trade Center a second time." Yet each time the FBI missed the opportunity to stop him." Officer Ignacio is a bomb expert here in the Philippines and was lead investigator for one of Yousef's bombings here in Manila. Certainly an interesting guy with a lot of experience with terrorism. He said that he'd be willing to talk with me more about the trial and the book sometime in the future. I'd like to have a copy of the book to read before we talk about it in more detail.