Word: bhutto
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...accused mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was himself arrested in Pakistan and quickly extradited to the U.S. The six were suspected of conspiring with Yousef in his skein of terrorist plots, but only after they had been questioned last week did Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto learn that she too had been a target of the terrorists...
According to an interview Bhutto gave to Reuter last Saturday, Yousef was busy scheming to assassinate her in the fall of 1993, seven months after the U.S. attack and shortly before she was elected Prime Minister. Armed with explosives, she recounted, he headed for her high-walled oceanside estate in Karachi intent on murder. But one of the devices detonated prematurely, injuring Yousef. Authorities did not catch up with him again until they nabbed him on Feb. 7 in Islamabad...
...Bhutto's revelation, which could not be independently confirmed, heightened the popular perception that Pakistan is a growing haven for terrorists and criminals. The arrests of more alleged conspirators confirmed that the terrorist trail continues to span the breadth of the country, from the fundamentalist cells of Peshawar to the violence-riddled commercial capital of Karachi, where the U.S. State Department last week ordered the evacuation of all school-age children of American officials. U.S. agents are still hunting for Mir Aimal Kansi, wanted for the murders of two CIA officers in Langley, Virginia, two years ago. He is believed...
...truly a human dimension to politics, policy and diplomacy." Her agenda will take her and daughter Chelsea to schools, mosques and villages where she can cast a spotlight on issues of women, education and health care. The real diplomacy of repairing tattered U.S.-Pakistan relations will be left to Bhutto, who will come to the U.S. for two weeks in April...
...matter how much Bhutto's government tries to crack down on troublemakers, though, Mrs. Clinton is visiting a country that has grown bitterly anti-American since the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989. Once-moderate Pakistan resents being left awash in drug and arms traffic--and trained Islamic fighters--built up with U.S. support during the Western campaign to oust the Soviet army from Afghanistan. In 1990 the U.S. Congress passed a resolution denying all economic and military aid to Pakistan over suspicions that it was developing nuclear weapons. Three years later, Washington threatened to place Pakistan on the list...