Word: brooklyn
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About 11 p.m. on Wednesday, a frantic man flagged down a police car in Brooklyn, N.Y. Something terrible was about to happen, he tried to tell the cops, using broken English and sign language. At one point he flung his arms apart to indicate an explosion. When a translator arrived at the local precinct house, the man reported a plot by men he was living with to set off an explosion in New York City's subways that could have matched in carnage the blast that had just devastated Jerusalem's busiest market...
...native of Bronx, N.Y., she graduated from Brooklyn College...
...wants to abolish the troubled agency, dividing its duties between the State and Justice departments. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani continues to escalate his feud with the INS over its release of a Palestinian asylum-seeker who last week was charged with plotting a terrorist bombing in Brooklyn. Police sources say evidence includes a note threatening a series of attacks on American and Jewish interests. Meanwhile, Congress is embracing the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform's proposal to abolish the INS, as state officials complain that the agency is unable to keep criminal aliens out of the country...
...YORK: The trial of Ramzi Yousef is off to a slow start. After postponing opening statements until Tuesday after a juror called in sick, U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy dismissed another juror following a quiz session to determine whether jurors were prejudiced by last week's Brooklyn arrests. Duffy did not give a reason for dropping the juror but said it wasn't related to last week's events. Tensions over the hometown trial increased some more after a bomb scare Monday at the World Trade Center, which forced the evacuation of several hundred people. It turned out that...
JERUSALEM: The FBI has linked two suspects in a Brooklyn suicide-bombing plot to the militant Mideast group Hamas, in part by tracing calls they made from Brooklyn to Hamas members. TIME's Jamil Hamad reports there are plenty of indications that Hamas may indeed be branching out. "Hamas has traditionally kept its battle at home and aimed only at Israelis," says Hamad. "In the last year, though, Hamas activists have begun to talk about hitting American targets as well." The reason: U.S. financial support of Yasser Arafat. Hamas sees him as a corrupt traitor who is selling out Palestinian...