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Michael Fortier, a friend of bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, may plead guilty to limited charges in theOklahoma City bombingin return for his testimony against McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the only men charged so far in the case. Prosecutors say Fortier will testify, but that he is trying to bargain for the best deal possible. "This guy wants something for everything he says," an unnamed federal official told the Associated Press. Fortier could plead guilty to lesser charges of having knowledge of the conspiracy and lying to federal officials. One possible stumbling block to a plea bargain is Fortier's perceived...
...consulate employee in the van was wounded. Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said it was "part of a well-planned campaign of terrorism," possibly retaliation for the arrest in Pakistan last month of Ramzi Yousef, an Iraqi-born resident of Kuwait and a chief suspect in theWorld Trade Center bombingin New York. But State Department and other government sources tell TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller they're not so sure. "Karachi is like the Wild West," says Waller. "It's just riven with political and ethnic factions." Over the last 15 months, he says, groups with varying motives have killed...
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