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Ramzi Yousef Got Iraqi Help: INS Official
NEW YORK: The accused mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing claimed to have received help from the Iraqi consulate when he boarded a plane bound for New York without a visa, a federal agent testified last week.
Immigration and Naturalization Service official Mark Cosine said Ramzi Yousef arrived from Pakistan on Pakistan Airlines flight at New York's Kennedy International Airport September 1, 1992, and asked for political asylum.
Yousef, a Muslim militant, is on trial in federal court for allegedly building and planting the bomb that exploded in an underground parking garage...