Nidal Ayyad (1968-) was a Kuwaiti-Palestinian jihadist and al-Qaeda member who, in 1993, was imprisoned for his role in the New York City landmark bomb plot, in which the followers of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman planned to bomb the United Nations headquarters, the Lincoln Tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, the George Washington Bridge, two hotels, and the FBI's main New York City office and assassinate US Senator Al D'Amato, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and State Assemblyman Dov Hikind. Born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, he moved to the United States in 1985, became a US citizen in 1991, and worked as a chemical engineer at AlliedSignal in New Jersey before risking his job to join Ramzi Yousef's plot to bomb the World Trade Center. He was sentenced to 240 years in prison in 1994.