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==Manhunt== [[File:House Where Ramzi Yousef Captured - Photographed by US Embassy Staff.png|thumb|Islamabad guesthouse where Yousef was captured in February 1995]] [[Wali Khan Amin Shah]] was arrested at an apartment complex on January 11 after police saw that a pager called by Yousef was registered in the name of Shah's girlfriend. Shah escaped from custody about 77 hours later. Shah was found to be a conspirator after authorities saw photos of him scanned on the laptop that contained information about the plot, as well as cell phone numbers that led investigators to the apartment. Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were able to escape from the [[Philippines]] to [[Pakistan]].<ref name="brzezinski-bombshell"/> On January 31, 1995, Yousef flew from Pakistan to Thailand in an attempt to place suitcase bombs on a Delta Airlines and United Airlines aircraft. When that failed, he flew back to Pakistan. After receiving Murad's phone call, Yousef made plans to leave and flew to [[Singapore]] about five hours after Murad's arrest. One day after Bojinka was discovered, Yousef made his way to Pakistan.<ref name="cnn-convicted"/> Mohammed went to Pakistan days or weeks afterwards.<ref name="cnn-convicted"/> The Philippines forwarded details on the Bojinka plot to the United States in April 1995. [[Konsojaya]] was heard via [[Telephone tapping|wiretaps]] to be frequently in contact with Mohammed Jamal Khalifa's charitable organization until the plot was discovered. Yousef was arrested in the Su-Casa guest house in [[Islamabad]], Pakistan on February 7, 1995, after a 23-day manhunt. Yousef later boasted to [[United States Secret Service|Secret Service]] agent [[Brian Parr]] about his plan. [[Wali Khan Amin Shah]], the financier, was picked up in [[Malaysia]] in December 1995. His identity was revealed after he was fingerprinted. Shah was also extradited to the United States. All three conspirators received [[life sentence]]s for participating in the plot. Yousef also received a 240-year sentence along with his life sentence for the 1993 [[World Trade Center bombing]]. Yousef was sentenced on January 8, 1998, and Murad was sentenced on May 16, 1998. Shah has been cooperating with the government since August 1998. [[Mohammed Jamal Khalifa]], a [[Saudi Arabia|Saudi]] businessman from [[Jeddah]] who was married to one of [[Osama bin Laden]]'s sisters, was in the Philippines earlier in 1994. He was arrested in 1994 in [[Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California|Mountain View, California]], for conspiring in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He was financing the Bojinka plot, according to the content that the Filipino investigators forwarded to the United States. The [[United States Immigration and Naturalization Service]] deported Khalifa to [[Jordan]] in May 1995. He was acquitted by the Jordanian court and moved to [[Saudi Arabia]]. He was murdered in his hotel room in January 2007 in [[Madagascar]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Fielding |first=Nick |date=1 March 2007 |title=Gems, al-Qaida and murder. Mystery over killing of Osama Bin Laden's friend |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/02/alqaida.saudiarabia |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240506051537/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/02/alqaida.saudiarabia |archive-date=May 6, 2024 |accessdate=19 June 2012 |newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author1=Roggio |first=Bill |date=31 January 2007 |title=Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law, killed in Madagascar |url=http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2007/01/mohammed_jamal_khali.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240610043425/https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2007/01/mohammed_jamal_khali.php |archive-date=June 10, 2024 |accessdate=19 June 2012 |newspaper=[[FDD's Long War Journal]]}}</ref>
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