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Ramzi Yousef

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Underwear bomber to join list of ten most notorious prisoners at Supermax?

    Big photos below.​Disgraced ex-Illinois governor Rod "Blago" Blagojevich isn't the only infamous convict likely to be Colorado bound. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, dubbed the Underwear Bomber after a failed attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airplane on Christmas 2009, has been sentenced to life ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    Anwar al-Awlaki, reportedly killed in Yemen, joins list of terrorists with Colorado connections

    Anwar al-Awlaki.​ Anwar al-Awlaki, a cleric with alleged ties to the Fort Hood shootings and the underwear bomber, was reportedly killed in Yemen, but his death strikes close to home. Born in New Mexico, he attended Colorado State, where he studied civil engineering and attended a mosque near ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    9/11 anniversary: Top 10 terrorists with Colorado connections

    No. 3.​The 9/11 events being memorialized on Sunday, ten years after they shook the world, didn't take place in Colorado. But our state has no shortage of connections to terrorists -- and not only because plenty of them are housed at Florence's Supermax facility. Below, we look at the most pr ... More >>

  • News

    March 3, 2011

    Moammar Gadhafi will always be a part of Colorado history

    No. 3.​The 9/11 events being memorialized on Sunday, ten years after they shook the world, didn't take place in Colorado. But our state has no shortage of connections to terrorists -- and not only because plenty of them are housed at Florence's Supermax facility. Below, we look at the most pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    Thomas Silverstein: After 26 years in solitary, "Terrible Tommy" wins a round in court

    Thomas Silverstein at Atlanta's penitentiary (inset) in the 1980s and at ADX in 2007.​When you've spent your time since the early days of the Reagan years in a cell smaller than some people's closets, progress tends to get measured in small, small increments rather than sweeping events. But T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2007

    "60 Minutes" in the Slammer

    Thomas Silverstein at Atlanta's penitentiary (inset) in the 1980s and at ADX in 2007.​When you've spent your time since the early days of the Reagan years in a cell smaller than some people's closets, progress tends to get measured in small, small increments rather than sweeping events. But T ... More >>

  • News

    August 16, 2007

    The Caged Life

    Is Thomas Silverstein a prisoner of his own deadly past — or the first in a new wave of locked-down lifers?

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2007

    Muzzling the Messenger: A Supermax Story

    Is Thomas Silverstein a prisoner of his own deadly past — or the first in a new wave of locked-down lifers?

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2006

    Terrorist Likes Us, He Really Likes Us

    Is Thomas Silverstein a prisoner of his own deadly past — or the first in a new wave of locked-down lifers?

  • News

    August 14, 2003

    Off Limits

    A tale of two Arnolds

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    The Long Silence

    Federal prisoners' fight to get the word out reaches unprintable extremes.

  • News

    August 29, 2002

    Off Limits

    Prison break

  • News

    June 27, 2002

    Our Fair City

    Denver is such a world-class town that even terrorists want to visit!

  • News

    May 17, 2001

    The Hit Man Nobody Knows

    The government says he killed more people than Tim McVeigh. He lives in a cell a hundred miles from Denver. So how come you've never heard of La Quica?

  • News

    February 17, 2000

    Look for the Union URL

    At the federal supermax, it isn't just the inmates who think management is unfair.

  • News

    October 21, 1999

    Off Limits

    Stood up...

  • News

    February 18, 1999

    Off Limits

    Stood up...

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