Word: passport
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...then Tim is called back to his former office to be grilled and told something astonishing: Larry and his last KGB contact have somehow stolen some L37 million from the Russian government. His ex-bosses think the high-living Tim may have shared in the booty. They demand his passport and order him to talk to no one but them...
Innocent people, especially those as well known as O.J. Simpson, do not run from the police. Nobody can ever forget O.J.'s attempt to escape with his passport and a bundle of money during the famous Night of the White Bronco. However, with so many African Americans on the jury, the worst that can happen to O.J. is a hung jury...
...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 applied for political asylum...
...traveling companion was not so lucky. Ahmad Ajaj, a Palestinian, was arrested when he tried to enter the country with a bogus Swedish passport and bombmaking books in his luggage. According to the federal prosecutors, Ajaj was ``carrying formulae regarding how to destroy buildings, bridges and other properties, and videotapes which called for war on the United States and portrayed scenes of explosions, including depictions of American facilities being bombed.'' Yousef, standing at the next counter, remained impassive as Ajaj was led away. The government now says Yousef's fingerprints were found on Ajaj's bomb manuals...
...travelers, the wait was over all too soon. One traveler, an Algerian policeman identified during the passport check, was ordered by the hijackers to the front of the plane. Passengers heard him plead, "Don't kill . me, I have a wife and child!" The terrorists shot him in the head and dumped him outside onto a baggage cart, where he lay in agony for some time. The second victim was Bui Giang To, 48, a commercial attache at the Vietnamese embassy in Algiers. "They asked the Vietnamese man sitting in the rear to come forward," recounted one of the passengers...