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...people were killed there from 1999 to 2001. After at least a year and a half of calm, masked gunmen recently murdered 12 Christian villagers in two attacks, with most of the killings happening on Oct. 12?the first anniversary of the Bali blasts. Jakarta launched a massive manhunt for the shooters, and the effort yielded quick results. Police killed six alleged gunmen in a firefight on Oct. 16 and arrested 17 others...
...captain in 1980, Boykin vainly tried to help rescue the 53 U.S. hostages held by Iran, a secret mission that ended in flames at Desert One, killing eight U.S. servicemen. Three years later, as a major, he helped invade Grenada. In 1992, as a colonel, he led the manhunt in Colombia for drug lord Pablo Escobar. The next year he advised Attorney General Janet Reno on what kind of gas to use to end the Federal Government's standoff with a religious group in Waco, Texas. But the experience that perhaps marked him most came six months later, in October...
...Meanwhile, Arroyo and the military must now track down scores of suspected JI terrorists, including Refke's dining chums. Arroyo says the Philippine military already has special teams "pouring into Mindanao for a manhunt that will not relent until all these fugitives are accounted for." The success of that mission will either help free the country of a dangerous scourge?or touch off another turn in the country's endless cycle of violence...
Though the object of a manhunt, Hambali managed to stay on the loose for almost a year. He probably chose to live in the cream-and-pink apartment in Ayutthaya precisely because of the anonymity it offered. Oh and other residents say he rarely left the place, never did laundry and ventured to the local 7-Eleven only at night. "He kept to himself," she says...
Eric Rudolph liked to think of himself as a great survivalist. And for more than five years, he managed to outfox a $24 million manhunt that included a $1 million bounty. The only alleged domestic terrorist on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list, Rudolph was a suspect in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta and bombings at a gay nightclub and an office complex that housed an abortion clinic, both in Atlanta, and at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala. His skills failed him early Saturday as police in the tiny mountain town of Murphy...