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While his origins are still murky--reports have him either as native Iraqi or Kuwaiti, educated in Swansea, England, perhaps raised in Pakistan--Yousef's alleged terroristic record in America has emerged from court papers and books. The scrawny 25-year-old arrived in New York City on Sept. 1, 1992, on an Iraqi passport, having moved through Jordan and Pakistan before landing at J.F.K. airport. According to Two Seconds Under the World, an account of the Trade Center bombing authored by New York Newsday columnist Jim Dwyer, Yousef said he had been tortured by the Iraqi military and successfully...
...which reportedly targeted U.S. airlines. Two Pakistani men allegedly involved in the plot were arrested last Friday near the residence of the Vatican ambassador. Police sources told Manila reporters that the men had bomb-making materials in their hotel rooms. Police reportedly are now seeking a 26-year-old Kuwaiti-born "electronics expert" believed to be the ringleader. The conspirators are thought to have slipped into the country in small groups over a period of weeks, entering through the southern island of Mindanao, a Muslim enclave...
...munitions factories, and that much of its war machine -- some 2,500 tanks, 1,800 artillery pieces and 300 combat planes -- had survived Desert Storm. Two weeks ago, when Saddam dispatched 20,000 of his elite Republican Guard south to join 50,000 regular army troops on the Kuwaiti border, Pentagon officials did not share the view of many diplomats that it was all part of a bluff to pressure the U.N. to ease economic sanctions. They were surprised at how efficiently the troops could be deployed. "This just wasn't some innocent exercise," argued General John Shalikashvili, Chairman...
...mean at minimum allowing an intrusive monitoring system to ensure that he built no more weapons of mass destruction and recognizing Kuwait's sovereignty and borders. Administration officials also called on Baghdad to halt its attacks on the Kurds in the north and Shi'ites in the south, return Kuwaiti prisoners and property and improve its human- rights record...
...face of a rapid deployment of American force in the Persian Gulf, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ordered a retreat of the well-equipped Republican Guard divisions that had been menacing the Kuwaiti border. The pullback was not complete, however, and the U.S. announced it would deploy a total of 36,000 ground troops to the Gulf and began to search for a permanent solution to Iraqi aggression against Kuwait...