That bombing scheme was broken up by the Philippine authorities, and Mr. Yousef was arrested in February 1995 in Pakistan.
His father referred to him as a "true angel," and an acquaintance suggested that he may have been roped into a bombing scheme by his older brother.
"You've had all shapes and sizes, which is a challenge for law enforcement," Mr. Hoffman said, citing a shooting at a Little Rock military recruitment center, synagogues targeted for attack in the Bronx and foiled bombing schemes in Illinois and Texas, among others.
Or maybe it was the time bomb DRM scheme that detonated your episode after so many days?
The F.B.I. was warned in 1995 by Philippine police that Ramzi Yousef, who planned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, had schemes to hijack and blow up a dozen U.S. airliners on the same day and to hijack a plane and dive it into the C.I.A.
The person arrested on Thursday, the prosecutor asserted, was carrying out an "Israeli scheme" to bomb oil companies and other vital institutions, according to state news media.
The plan collapsed, they said, as the Algerians turned to inexperienced expatriates to carry out a scheme to bomb the Los Angeles airport.
A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y.; and a fanciful idea to fly explosive-laden model planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol was hatched in Massachusetts.
However, even with the high visibility color scheme, the bomb fell about 1700 yards off-target, exploding above the attack transport instead.
Encouraging employers to take on young people is good news but with nearly one million under-25s out of work and a pensions time bomb to fund, new schemes must not become a mask for cost-cutting.
