Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 23

ICE Deports Egyptian Linked To ’93 WTC Bombing

WASHINGTON, D.C.—ICE officers have deported Mohammed Abouhalima, a 41-year-old Egyptian national who was convicted as an accessory after the fact for helping a 1993 World Trade Center bomber escape the United States following the attack.

Abouhalima, who resided in New York City prior to his conviction, was removed October 25 under escort by Philadelphia-based ICE deportation officers and arrived in Cairo, Egypt the following day.

“This individual endangered the national security of the United States by helping a terrorist flee after a vicious attack on our country,” said ICE Director of the Office of Detention and Removal Operations John P. Torres. “His criminal conviction gives him no legal right to remain in this country and ICE removed him expeditiously.”

Abouhalima was convicted in December 1998 and served an eight-year prison term (with credit for time served prior to conviction). He was convicted for helping his brother, Mahmoud, flee New York to Saudi Arabia following the Feb. 26, 1993 terrorist attack that killed six people and wounded more than 1,000. His brother was later extradited to the U.S. and sentenced to 240 years confinement with no chance of parole.

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