February 7, 1995

In early 1995, Istaique Parker, an associate of Ramzi Yousef's living in Pakistan, contacts the United States embassy in Islamabad to offer himself as an informant. FBI agents abroad work closely with the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to apprehend Yousef. On February 7, using intelligence from Parker, Pakistani and American law enforcement officers arrest Yousef as he prepares to leave Islamabad for the city of Peshawar, Pakistan. Almost six months later, Jordanian officials also apprehend his accomplice in the World Trade Center bombing, Eyad Ismoil.

The U.S. government extradites Yousef to New York. In a helicopter flight past the World Trade Center on February 8, 1995, an FBI agent reminds Yousef that the towers are still standing. Yousef responds that they would not be if he had had enough money.