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...indictment sketched out the case, the plotters allegedly intended to kidnap and/or murder supposed enemies of Islam much as they had gunned down Meir Kahane, the virulent leader of the rightist Kach organization. The targets named included a New York state assemblyman ally of Kahane's, the state judge who sentenced Nosair, and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. Two months ago, Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali boasted that the conspirators had recruited a pilot willing to bomb Mubarak's presidential palace in Cairo. In the U.S. future bombing targets allegedly included unspecified military installations as well as the George Washington Bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snared in The Terrorist Web | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

...North Korea (no casualties, but why go?) are advertising their supposed charms. "Be a Chinese soldier for a day" gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "military tour." "Visit Shibam, famous for its exquisite Yemenite architecture." Oops, forgot to mention the bands of armed tribesmen who routinely kidnap Westerners. "Revel in the spectacular scenery of Vietnam's China Beach." Regret that most hotels are Stalinist-style tenements built by the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holidays In Hell | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...would seem. While Saddam's hold on power appears secure, his subjects are hungry, his weapons of mass destruction are dismantled, and his economy is a shambles. "They just don't have the ability to retaliate," says a diplomat. "If they didn't blow up planes and embassies or kidnap Americans during the Gulf War, they're not going to start now. Saddam has realized he has to come to some sort of modus vivendi with the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broken Spirits | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

Life in the apartment changes when Treat decides to kidnap a well-dressed drunk, but Harold (Ted Kazanoff), also an orphan, turns out to be a professional gangster with a taste for whisky who has fled trouble in Chicago...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Intimate, Intense Orphans | 1/15/1993 | See Source »

...smuggled in from Egypt, bought from Israeli criminals or stolen from soldiers. Head-on clashes with Israeli troops became more common. The events that provoked last month's deportations and mass arrests included two machine-gun attacks on army jeeps, resulting in the deaths of four soldiers and the kidnap and murder of a border policeman inside Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victims Or Victors? | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

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