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terrorists planned to blow up multiple planes at once while they were in the air. After an accident with some of the explosive chemicals, Filipino police raided Yousef’s apartment. He and Mohammed managed to get away, but the FBI gathered evidence that showed someone named Khalid Sheikh had been part of the planning. KSM, as Mohammed would later be called, was on the radar of both the FBI and the CIA, but they had no idea where he was, even after US officials were able to arrest his bomb-making nephew.

Filipino anti-terrorist forces like these helped break up one of KSM’s early attempts at terror.

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