Word: pakistan
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President Clinton sent a four-man FBI anti-terrorism team to Pakistan to investigate the killings today of two U.S. diplomats in Karachi. The Americans, consulate staff members Jackie Van Landingham and Gary Durell, were on their way to work this morning in a van with U.S. markings when two gunmen jumped out of a yellow taxi, spraying the van with automatic gunfire. A third consulate employee in the van was wounded. Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said it was "part of a well-planned campaign of terrorism," possibly retaliation for the arrest in Pakistan last month of Ramzi Yousef...
...secure three government construction contracts. The offices of Mrs. Mandela's anti-poverty program and the homes of other suspects also were searched. In addition, TIME South Africa correspondent Peter Hawthorne reports that police are searching for evidence of whether Mrs. Mandela improperly used a $100,000 donation from Pakistan to the African National Congress. "This would seem, possibly, to be the death rattle for Winnie Mandela as a member of the government," says Hawthorne. In 1991, Mrs. Mandela was fined for a kidnapping conviction and recently was reprimanded for criticizing her husband's government...
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...
...drove it to the basement of the World Trade Center. The eventual explosion killed six people and injured more than 1,000. Within days the main suspects in the bombing were arrested--except for Yousef, who, using the name Abdul Basit, escaped on a plane to Pakistan just hours after the explosion. Says Dwyer: ``He masterminded every detail of the plot, including his own escape, which he pulled off more expeditiously than anyone else.'' Yousef's capture was the culmination of one of the most extensive and painstaking manhunts in U.S. history. If he is found guilty...
...Current State of Pakistan-U.S. Relations. Dr. Maleeha Lodhi, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the United States. Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, 5:45 p.m. 17 February Friday...