Mohammed A. Salameh

Mohammed A. Salameh
Born September 1, 1967 (1967-09-01) (age 44)
Residence ADX Florence, the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.[1]
Known for 1993 World Trade Center bombing

Mohammed A. Salameh (Arabic: محمد سلامة‎) (born September 1, 1967) is a convicted perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing. He is currently an inmate at ADX Florence in Florence, Colorado.[1]

Salameh's 1978 Chevy Nova was used to ferry the nitric acid and urea used to construct the bomb used in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.[2]

On March 4, 1993, the FBI arrested Salameh after Salameh, having reported that his rental van was stolen, met with undercover FBI agent Bill Atkinson posing as a Ryder "loss prevention analyst". Earlier, the FBI traced the Ford Econoline van used in the World Trade Center bombing via vehicle identification number.[3]

Despite failing his driving test four times, Salameh was the driver for the group. On January 24, 1993 he jumped a curb and tore the undercarriage from his car, injuring himself and Ramzi Yousef. He was checked out of Rahway Hospital the following day, and went to the garage to clean his car while Yousef was in hospital for four more days.[2]

With his Nova in for repairs, Salameh got Nidal Ayyad to use his corporate account with Allied Signal to rent him a new car; although he got in a car accident again on February 16, colliding with a car.[2]

Salameh's family fled the West Bank in 1967, owing to the Arab-Israeli War. [1]

Possible linkage to the Rabbi Meir Kahane murder

Per an article in the Jerusalem Post of August 15, 2010, which, in turn, is quoting from the mid August issue of Playboy, El Sayyid Nosair, who had been acquitted of the murder of Meir Kahane, nevertheless had claimed that he had two partners with him.

"He (Mr. Nosair) added that on the night he shot Kahane dead, he was accompanied by two co-conspirators to the Marriot Hotel in Manhattan where Kahane was speaking – one of whom was also carrying a gun.

"The men, Bilal al-Kaisi of Jordan and Mohammed_A._Salameh, a Palestinian illegal alien later involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, have never been charged for their part in the slaying." [4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Locate a Federal Inmate: Abdul Hakim Murad". Federal Bureau of Prisons. 2009. http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&FirstName=Mohammed+&Middle=&LastName=Salameh&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=70&y=19. Retrieved 2009-08-17. 
  2. ^ a b c Benjamin, Daniel & Steven Simon. "The Age of Sacred Terror", 2002
  3. ^ Graff, Garrett M. (2011). The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 169–170. ISBN 9780316068611. http://books.google.com/books?id=vVVLVEApMLkC. 
  4. ^ http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=184761

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