Word: abu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Egyptian cleric, was convicted last year of plotting to blow up the U.N. and several other New York landmarks. He is serving a life sentence in Springfield, Missouri. Speculation also surrounds the hard-line Palestinian group Hamas, which has vowed to attack the U.S. for agreeing to extradite Musa Abu Marzouk, a top Hamas official, to Israel...
...example, in 1991 Isaac Yeffet, former director of worldwide security for El Al and a 30-year veteran of the Israeli secret service, sent a TV producer with a hidden camera to buy tickets, using cash, at New York airports under the names of several well-known terrorists, including Abu Nidal. The producer did so, with ease. Yeffet says he pleaded in vain during congressional testimony after the Lockerbie tragedy for a more effective airport-security plan. "Unfortunately," he says, "it is easier to talk to a wall than...
...terror cells that Saddam had deployed. By using the numbers on the Iraqi's passport as a guide, the computers determined passport numbers of other Iraqis working undercover as terrorists. Within a month, the agency had rolled up practically all of Saddam's terror network overseas. -->