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Bojinka plot
The
Bojinka plot
(; ) was a large-scale, three-phase attack planned by
Islamists
Ramzi Yousef
and
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
for January 1995. They planned to assassinate
Pope John Paul II
, blow up 11
airliners
in flight from Asia to the United States with the goal of killing approximately 4,000 passengers and shut down air travel around the world, and crash a plane into
the headquarters
of the
CIA
in
Fairfax County, Virginia
.
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