| Importance | Low |
 | Capturing Authority | FBI2 |
| Date of Capture | March 4, 19932 |
| Location of Capture | Jersey City, New Jersey, United States1 |
| Affiliation | First World Trade Center bombing cell |
| Role | Operative |
| Nationality | Palestinian |
| Date of Birth | Sept. 1, 19673 |
| Place of Birth | Nablus, Palestine3 |
| Gender | Male |
| Charging authority | United States |
| In connection with | World Trade Center truck bombing |
| Charges issued | 1993 |
| Case status | Convicted |
| Sentence | 240 years imprisonment |
| Case resolved | March 4, 1994 |
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| Reliable | Salameh is generally derided as the bumbler who led authorities to the members of the cell that bombed the World Trade Center in 1993.
He rented the Ryder truck used in the bombing and helped prepare the explosives it carried. He reported the truck stolen to police the day before the bombing, and in the weeks after, he repeatedly called the rental agency to get the $400 deposit back.
He was invited to the agency on March 4, 1993, and the FBI arrested him there.
Salameh comes from a family of Palestinians opposed to British, and later, Israeli rule. His maternal uncle served in a terrorist unit of the Palestianian Liberation organization.
He entered the United States on a six-month tourist visa in 1988 and stayed illegally for the next several years.1,2,3 |
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 | Possible | Reportedly attended Masjid al-Salam mosque in Jersey City.3 |
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| 1 United States vs. Yousef et. al., indictment. |
| 2 The 9-11 Commission Report. July 22, 2004, Chapter 3.1. |
| 3 Hudson, Rex. 'The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why?' Federal Research Division, Sept. 1999 |
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