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“...U.S officials would have been caught unaware (of the plot to blow up U.S bound airliners in 2006) without the British discovering the plan”, the FBI said in a recent AP article.

But didn’t the U.S try Ramzi Yousef for just that, in 1996? Ramzi was in the NY Met jail, and Gregory Scarpa, Jr., was in the cell between him and his friend Murad. (Peter Lance, in “Triple Cross”)

Ramzi thinks the Mafia hates the U.S as much as he does. He offers to show Scarpa how to sneak a bomb on to a plane, and make it blow up later, in mid air. Ramzi had done it himself on a Philippines airliner, but the seat he put the bomb under, was not above the center wing fuel tank. So only the man in that seat was killed, and the plane managed to land.

Ramzi figures out what he did wrong. He wants “his people” to blow up another plane while he is in jail, so he can ask for a mistrial. He asks Scarpa to pass his drawings, instructions, etc. to Murad, in hopes of getting them out. Scarpa tells his lawyer, who tells the FBI, who give Scarpa a tiny camera.

Scarpa passes on info for 11 months. The FBI sets up phony “Roma Corp.” so Ramzi can telephone while the Feds listen. But Ramzi speaks Baluchistan. Flight 800 blows up, and Scarpa is sentenced to hard solitary time. His info is declared a hoax, and a VIP asks that all reference to the fake company, be redacted. Lance shows a copy of it.

While Scarpa’s in Supermax, Terry Nichols tells him the FBI, in 3 searches, missed a huge stash of explosives in his house in a residential area.

Labels: "Triple Cross", Gregory Scarpa, Jr., Peter Lance