The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing is suing the government — because he’s lonely in solitary confinement.
Ramzi Yousef — who, when sentenced to life in prison, declared: “Yes, I am a terrorist and proud of it” — is seeking an end to his confinement at a Colorado federal supermax prison.
“I request an immediate end to my solitary confinement and ask to be in a unit in an open prison environment where inmates are allowed outside their cells for no less than 14 hours a day,” he wrote in confidential government records obtained by The Los Angeles Times.
Yousef doesn’t even get to see the prison’s guards because they push his meals through a small slot between two steel doors, the newspaper reported.
Yousef, 45, was captured in Pakistan in 1995 and convicted of planning and taking part in the trade center bombing that killed six people. He was also a conspirator in a failed plot to blow up several jetliners and assassinate Pope John Paul II.