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Jailed '93 WTC bomber claims he's now a Christian
by Genghis Khan on Oct 14, 2007 10:10 AM

WASHINGTON - Muslim terrorist Ramzi Yousef once bombed the World Trade Center for Allah, but now he purports to have found Jesus and converted to Christianity, according to new reports.

The Daily News recently learned that Yousef has shaved his beard, stopped reading the Muslim holy book, the Koran, and now eats pork, which is forbidden in Islam.

Yousef, the nephew of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, was convicted and is serving a life term for detonating a truck bomb under the twin towers in 1993 and plotting to blow up U.S.-bound airliners over the Pacific.

But since his capture in 1995, the Muslim extremist has given up his religion, CBS' "60 Minutes" will report on Sunday.

The revelation came when the TV news show was allowed unprecedented access to the Supermax federal prison in Florence, Colo., which houses hardened terrorists such as Yousef, Al Qaeda hijacking plotter Zacarias Moussaoui, shoe bomber Richard Reid and "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski.

Told of the alleged religious conversion, former New York federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wondered, "Does Christianity get a vote" on whether to accept him?

McCarthy, who put Yousef on the stand as a witness in the terrorism prosecution of the "Blind Sheik," Omar Abdel-Rahman, said the Pakistani thug has lived a "bad life of barbarity."

"It could be sincere. On the other hand, the Prophet Muhammed said war is deceit," he said.

Robert Hood, who served as warden from 2002 to 2005, told CBS that Yousef has a "C

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