Word: murad
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...test run, the co-conspirators had planted a small bomb on a Philippine Airlines flight that killed one passenger. Officials finger Ramzi Yousef--the wanted leader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing--and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the plot's masterminds. An accomplice of Yousef's, Abdul Hakim Murad, who learned to fly at a U.S. flight school, tells interrogators he and Yousef discussed a plan to fly a small plane packed with explosives or a hijacked jumbo jet into the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters or into other American targets...
...group to clear the way for peace talks in Kuala Lumpur. Salamat is credited with bridging the nationalist and pan-Islamic elements within the MILF. Three weeks before he died, he formally renounced terrorism, a condition for attending the talks. He is succeeded by former deputy Al-Haj Murad Ebrahim, who headed the group's military wing. "We are still determined to achieve lasting peace and our commitment to resume peace talks has not changed," a MILF spokesman said...
...Chechnya. What the Russians really want is to reimpose some degree of control over Georgia, whose strategic location was recently underlined by its agreement with Turkey and Azerbaijan to build an oil pipeline to the West that completely bypasses Russia. When the film's director and male lead, Murad Mazayev, a 25-year-old exile from the Chechen capital of Grozny, was filming in Pankisi, his main concerns were squaring the local mafiosi and allaying the fears of his actresses. His 35-minute feature aims to tell the story of the second Chechnya war through one family. The oldest...
...BERN, N.C. Abdul Hakim Murad, who authorities said trained at flight schools here and in three other states, confessed in 1996 that he was part of an elaborate plot that included bombing U.S. jetliners in midair and flying a small craft loaded with explosives into CIA headquarters...
...that just isn't so. In 1995, authorities in the Philippines scuppered a plan--masterminded by Ramzi Yousef, who had also plotted the 1993 World Trade Center bombing--for mass hijackings of American planes over the Pacific. Evidence developed during the investigation of Yousef and his partner, Abdul Hakim Murad, uncovered a plan to crash a plane into CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. And as long ago as 1994, in an incident that is well known among terrorism experts, French authorities foiled a plot by the Algerian Armed Islamic Group to fly an airliner into the Eiffel Tower. "Since...