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...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...
...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 of $31.50 for a room at the two-story boarding house, did not say how long he would be staying and declined a porter...
...took the aid of another suspected terrorist to capture the elusive Yousef. In Islamabad the U.S. embassy's regional security officer was approached by an informant--apparently a Muslim whom Yousef had hired to launch future attacks against American airlines. But he decided to cash in instead. Seemingly aware of the $2 million reward promised by the U.S. government and advertised on posters, videos and even matchbooks, ``the snitch,'' said intelligence sources, ``tells the R.S.O. Yousef has just got back from Bangkok, and he's getting ready to leave for Peshawar.'' After Yousef was apprehended at the Su Casa Guest...
That interest remained keen after Burton moved back to Hong Kong to take up a regional reporting beat that entails travel from Islamabad to Borneo, from Rangoon to the disputed Spratly Island of Layang Layang. With the collaboration of current TIME Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz and correspondent Mia Turner, Burton kept current on the Chinese environmental saga, and the Three Gorges piece, which appears in this issue, is the result...
...reports of worrisome weapons deployment by American clients. William Hartung, author of a recent book on the U.S. weapons trade, says American arms are playing a role in 39 of the globe's 48 conflicts. The U.S. in 1990 halted exports of F-16s to Pakistan, but not before Islamabad may have secretly modified some to deliver its handful of nuclear weapons. A Senate committee recently noted it had received reports "that U.S. military equipment, including helicopters, has been used in attacks against civilians in southeastern Turkey." Turkey, a NATO ally, denies it has attacked its Kurdish minority with...