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...time," she says. "They don't even make the newspaper." Bonnie patrols Benson with a police scanner, banking on her belief that mothers still enjoy some diplomatic immunity on the streets. "If I won a million dollars tomorrow, I'd buy a few buses, fill them with kids and flee Omaha," she says. Flee where? "I hadn't thought of that," she responds...
...March deportation order empowered the INS to detain the sheik, who had been on parole ever since. One reason for revoking parole is suspicion that the suspect might flee. Abdel Rahman obligingly provided grounds for such suspicion by leaving his apartment in Jersey City Wednesday night and leading federal agents who had been watching him on a car chase before holing up in the Brooklyn mosque...
...tracking the case in New York, told Reno that the sheik seemed to be trying to wriggle out of the net. He and his followers had left his apartment the night before and sped away in their car, nearly losing the FBI agents following behind. The effort to flee finally provided Reno with a legal justification. She gave the O.K. for immigration agents to apprehend the sheik and told her top aides Webb Hubbell and Phil Heymann to work out the legal details...
Finally, the gang proceeded to actual assembly of the bombs. Last Wednesday two men brought to the Queens safe house diesel fuel from a gas station in Yonkers, a northern suburb, operated by one of the suspects, Mohammad Saleh. Some of the gang also reportedly made specific preparations to flee the country within a few days. The FBI and city police, who had been watching the assembly through concealed television cameras (which later pictured their own raid on the factory) and listening through monitoring devices, decided they had better move immediately. Said FBI special agent in charge James...
...started with an assault on Pakistani U.N. peacekeepers in Mogadishu and escalated into a bombing campaign against the attack's instigator, Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. Finally, U.N. troops stormed Aidid's stronghold, forcing him to flee, and to remain separated from most of his supporters. Five U.N. troops and over 100 Somali militia were killed; 46 peacekeepers and more than 100 Somalis were wounded...