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...first came to the attention of American investigators as they searched for Yousef after the 1993 bombing. A man named Khaled al-Shaikh Mohammad attended Chowan College in North Carolina in 1984, but the FBI isn't certain he is the man they want. In 1995 Mohammed was in Manila, where Yousef planned the so-called Bojinka (Serbo-Croat for explosion) plot to blow up airliners as they flew from Asia to the U.S. The scheme was uncovered when a fire broke out in an apartment doubling as a bomb factory. Yousef escaped, only to be captured in Pakistan...
...gone badly wrong. Martin Burnham, 42, a Christian missionary from Kansas, lay dead in the jungle. The nurse, Ediborah Yap, 48, had been shot in the back and died moments later. A bullet passed through the leg of Gracia Burnham, 43, and she had to be airlifted to Manila for treatment. Four Abu Sayyaf gang members also died in the shoot-out, but about two dozen others, including the group's leader, Abu Sabaya, escaped back into the jungle that has so successfully shielded them for years...
...mission in the Philippines. Now that there no longer are American hostages, there is less reason for military advisers to be on the ground. But they were sent as part of President Bush's war on terror, not only to help free the Burnhams but also to assist in Manila's pursuit of kidnapping gangs like Abu Sayyaf and fundamentalist Muslim separatist groups with links to al-Qaeda's web of terror. Washington was in no mood to second-guess the Philippine army's efforts. "The Burnhams have not been well, and they lived in captivity a long time," said...
...yearlong hostage drama now frees the Philippine army, with or without U.S. assistance, to pursue Abu Sayyaf more aggressively. Although the group is thought to have only about 200 members, it has bedeviled successive Philippine governments in recent years, carrying out kidnappings and otherwise terrorizing local residents. Manila has sent reinforcements to the region, hoping that a final showdown is near. But Abu Sayyaf has shown an uncanny ability to evade capture in the jungle ? and continue its reign of terror...
...cash to buy Unitrust by selling unregistered bonds in Japan. He loaned the proceeds to dummy local owners to make the purchase, says Inoue, in order to sidestep Philippine laws prohibiting majority foreign ownership of banks. Ogami announced his September 2001 takeover by posting his face on billboards around Manila and running a two-page newspaper ad offering jobs at three times the going salaries. He ordered Citibank pamphlets photocopied, its logo replaced with that of the new "Bank of Ogami." He demanded fat personal loans, says Inoue, threw parties on the bank's dime, and had Genta Ogami figurines...