So....Ramzi Yousef, the charmer who masterminded the first attack on the World Trade Center (1991?) ..... and declared war on the United States and its people - promising the use of bombs in his jihad, got jammed up in prison --solitary confinement in fact, for a sentence of life, plus 240 years.

Of course, the first hundred years are the hardest.

After that...it's cake.

I'm sure that being in lockdown 23 hours a day in a cell the size of a cedar closet brings a certain amount of tedium, but I would think more of it as a chance -for at least two centuries-to catch up on ones reading...at the very least.

He is now suing the U.S.A. to get out of solitary.

I am very glad that he has come to realize that one of the freedoms we prize here, is the American judicial system, in which everyone is entitled to "their day in court."

Perhaps he's come to realize that this isn't that bad a place after all!

All of this must be very difficult for him, after all, jail is no place for a relatively young man with his entire life ahead of him...there's no advancement.  No real future...and a sentence of two and a half centuries is certain to pour cold water on your ambitions.......

However, there are advantages to his present situation.

He has sheets and eats courtesy of Uncle Sam ad infinitum.

Free medical care, books, TV movies etc, work, a small stipend...

So, be of good cheer, Ramzi, after all if you are a model prisoner, they could take five or six years off your sentence for good behavior!

Shep out