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With the iconic leader back vowing high-level terrorism, Americans are left to wonder why the No. 1 target of the war's original manhunt is still at large. Democrats, pummeled by Bush during the midterm elections for being soft on terrorism, saw a chance for payback. "We can't find bin Laden. We haven't made real progress in finding key elements of al-Qaeda," said soon to be Senate minority leader Tom Daschle. "They continue to be as great a threat today as they were one and a half years ago. So by what measure can we claim...
When the FBI was frantically seeking him in an international manhunt after he began distributing the Pentagon Papers to national newspapers, Ellsberg said he spent the 12-day period before his surrender hiding in Cambridge...
...week FBI manhunt finally located Dabord in a San Diego--area hospital, comatose and in critical condition after an apparent drug overdose. Dabord had been found five days earlier, unconscious and without identification, on a street in Tijuana, Mexico. The hospital called in police, who made the ID and charged him with fraud. Dabord may be the only person who can explain just what happened aboard Dele's boat. "We presume that the bodies of these people must be in the sea--the ocean--and will probably never be found," says prosecutor Michel Marotte in Tahiti. The 55-ft. boat...
Within hours of the Tiananmen massacre on June 4, 1989, the Beijing government launched the largest manhunt in the history of the People's Republic. Citizens were called on to assist the army and police in rounding up the 21 "masterminds" of the so-called "counter-revolutionary upheaval," and "Most Wanted" posters were splashed on street corners. Authorities boasted that the criminals would find nowhere to hide. At first, the pursuit of the student leaders seemed a surreal exercise in totalitarian theater, a face-saving exercise by the party elders who had ordered troops to crush the democracy movement...
...Armed with this intelligence, Moroccan agents began combing identity rolls, immigration records and other sources in a manhunt for Zuher. The breakthrough came when they discovered the family of Zuher's late wife, who provided his real name and gave the description for a composite sketch that police circulated throughout the country. Within three days, sources say, an informant had positively sighted Al Tbaiti. Intensive surveillance of his movements eventually led police to his two accomplices. In addition, TIME has learned, authorities arrested three Moroccan women as possible accomplices: Tbaiti's wife Bahija Haidour, his sister-in-law Houria Haidour...