Baluchi grew up in Kuwait but spent most of teenage years in Iranian Baluchistan , but is a citizen of Pakistan . Trained as a computer technician , he dressed in Western clothes and " introduced himself as a businessman " , but had been " groomed ... since boyhood " by his cousins and uncles " to join their clandestine war , " according to journalist Debra Scroggins . According to a U.S. government biography , his " chief mentor " was his cousin and 1993 World Trade Center bombing orchestrator Ramzi Yousef , " who taught him in the early 1990s in Iran about the important of war against the West . " He is fluent in English and worked at Mohammed 's honey-processing company in Karachi for a while before being hired in 1998 as a computer technician for '' Modern Electronics Corporation '' in Dubai . According to some evidence given at the Combatant Status Review Tribunal , he was " very open-minded and western-oriented " , while his ex-wife told investigators he was " a very strict Muslim " who opposed his wife 's leaving the home
1993 World Trade Center bombing
1993 World Trade Center bombing
Ammar al-Baluchi