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Gunmen shot and killed two U.S. diplomats and wounded a third in Karachi. The Americans, all U.S. consulate employees, were driving to work when the killers, armed with assault weapons, pulled up alongside the Americans' van and sprayed it with bullets. In Washington officials speculate that the shootings were revenge for the arrest and extradition of Ramzi Yousef, a suspect in the World Trade Center bombing. In a separate attack, terrorists exploded a bomb outside a Karachi mosque, killing a dozen people--many of them children...
President Clinton sent a four-man FBI anti-terrorism team to Pakistan to investigate the killings today of two U.S. diplomats in Karachi. The Americans, consulate staff members Jackie Van Landingham and Gary Durell, were on their way to work this morning in a van with U.S. markings when two gunmen jumped out of a yellow taxi, spraying the van with automatic gunfire. A third 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...
...front desk. ``Where is Room 16?'' one demanded. A hotel clerk pointed the way, and the posse ran up the stairs and knocked on the door. When Ali Mohammad opened it, they burst in. ``It was like a hurricane, a big panic,'' said Khalid Sheikh, a Karachi businessman who was staying in a room on the ground floor. ``They were dragging him downstairs. He was blindfolded, barefoot and had his hands and legs bound, and was shouting, `I'm innocent; why are you taking me?' and `Show me the arrest warrant.' '' His two suitcases were left in Room 16 till...
...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's offer to carry his luggage up to Room 16. Staff members remember...
...operation in 1991, weren't present to help pay up. One of them, 71-year-old founder Aga Hasan Abedi, is now ensconced in his native Pakistan, on good terms with local officials and unlikely to face extradition. "He's the mastermind, and he's sitting up there in Karachi," says TIME correspondent S.C. Gwynne, who has investigated the scandal. "It appears that the Abu Dhabians believe that $9 billion was the order of magnitude of the theft. Good luck, guys. Nobody else can find that money...