Terry Nichols took many trips to the Philippines in the years before the bombing and raises the possibility that he received explosives training from Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
Yousef and Nichols were in Cebu City, a hotbed of activity by the radical Filipino group Abu Sayyaf, on the same days, and that Nichols continued to make phone calls to Cebu for some time afterwards.
There is a possibility that US investigators missed a valuable opportunity to pursue leads that could have helped them prevent the September 11th attacks, since at least two of the suicide-hijackers were based in the Philippines.
Supposedly, there are similarities between the Oklahoma City bomb and the devices used in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and in the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia in 1996. Does this mean that Nichols's true purpose in visiting the Philippines repeatedly during the early 1990s was to obtain explosives training?
Angeles was beginning to give plenty of embarrassing information about officials in his own country and challenging the FBI's theory of the Oklahoma City bombing when he disappeared.
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