Word: alie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cars pulled up to Su Casa, and 10 men in plain clothes, three or four of them Americans, rushed up to the front desk. ``Where is Room 16?'' one demanded. A hotel clerk pointed the way, and the posse ran up the stairs and knocked on the door. When Ali Mohammad opened it, they burst in. ``It was like a hurricane, a big panic,'' said Khalid Sheikh, a Karachi businessman who was staying in a room on the ground floor. ``They were dragging him downstairs. He was blindfolded, barefoot and had his hands and legs bound, and was shouting...
...with the two suitcases arrived at the Su Casa Guest House on Monday, sometime before 4:30 in the afternoon. He was unshaven, but without a beard or mustache. In his travels he had been known by many names, but he signed himself in as ``Ali Mohammad'' on Su Casa's pink registration form. Through his wanderings, he had a way of being unaccounted for, of vanishing into speculation. Last week in Islamabad, he told the desk clerk that he was visiting the Pakistani capital from Karachi, the huge port city in the south. He promptly put down a deposit...
...suit and silver tie. He refused a translator, waived his right to have his 11-count indictment read, and replied ``Not guilty'' when the judge asked him for his plea. He was then led back to his maximum-security cell. The capture of Yousef and the admissions of Siddig Ali will bring to an end the case of the Tower bombing. But it may not answer the nagging questions of just who were their sponsors and whether they intend to strike again...
...thought to be the chief hit man for Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal has been arrested in southern Lebanon. Security officials there disclosed today that they had seized Mahmoud Khaled Eintour, 48, also known as Abu Ali Majed, the man who allegedly headed the assassination branch of Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council. Lebanese officials, who plan to try Eintour on kidnapping and murder charges, blame him for hijacking a French yacht off Gaza in 1987 and arranging the killing of a top Jordanian diplomat last year. Nidal himself tops most wanted lists in the U.S., Europe and the Mideast...
...mostly for scrapes and bruises. The rear cabin was filled with smoke, riddled with stray gunfire and rocked by grenade blasts. "The bullets were flying all around me," recounted one passenger, an Algerian merchant marine captain. "We expected death, we were waiting for the explosion," said another Algerian passenger, Ali Kalak. "We never thought there would be such a successful intervention...