, where Shah was incarcerated The Bojinka plot was discovered by police on January 6, 1995. He was arrested by
Manila police at an apartment on Singalong Street, which Yousef had set up in case the plot failed, on January 11, but he escaped police custody roughly 77 hours later. After obtaining a fraudulent passport bearing the name
Osama Turkestani, he lived on the nearby island of
Langkawi until his December 1995 re-arrest in Malaysia. After the re-arrest, he was handed over to
United States authorities. Khan's capture was initially a closely guarded secret, but
ABC News correspondent John Miller revealed the news of his arrest during a 1998 interview with
Osama bin Laden at an
al-Qaeda training camp in
Afghanistan.
FBI Special Agent
John P. O'Neill was initially suspected of leaking the information to his friend Christopher Isham and was nearly indicted by Assistant U.S. Attorney
Patrick Fitzgerald, but ABC denied that O'Neill was the source of the information. Shah was reported to have made an unsuccessful escape attempt from the
Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. Shah was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison having spent his first 14 years in
solitary confinement under very severe conditions due to
Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) in
ADX Florence, and was later transferred to the Communication Management Unit (CMU) a little less severe in
Marion,
Illinois.On February 15, 2023, Shah was deported to Qatar. ==See also==