Word: peshawar
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...seems, is completely safe in Pakistan. On March 11, police quietly captured six men in the Islamist stronghold of Peshawar who had talked by telephone to Ramzi Yousef just before the accused mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was himself arrested in Pakistan and quickly extradited to the U.S. The six were suspected of conspiring with Yousef in his skein of terrorist plots, but only after they had been questioned last week did Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto learn that she too had been a target of the terrorists...
Bhutto's revelation, which could not be independently confirmed, heightened the popular perception that Pakistan is a growing haven for terrorists and criminals. The arrests of more alleged conspirators confirmed that the terrorist trail continues to span the breadth of the country, from the fundamentalist cells of Peshawar to the violence-riddled commercial capital of Karachi, where the U.S. State Department last week ordered the evacuation of all school-age children of American officials. U.S. agents are still hunting for Mir Aimal Kansi, wanted for the murders of two CIA officers in Langley, Virginia, two years ago. He is believed...
...decided to cash in instead. Seemingly aware of the $2 million reward promised by the U.S. government and advertised on posters, videos and even matchbooks, ``the snitch,'' said intelligence sources, ``tells the R.S.O. Yousef has just got back from Bangkok, and he's getting ready to leave for Peshawar.'' After Yousef was apprehended at the Su Casa Guest House, he was bundled on to a military 707 jet and flown to Stewart Airport in Newburgh, New York. He made the quick flight into Manhattan on a Port Authority Sikorsky S-76A, finally returning to the scene of his most infamous...
...less than $3,000, so the monies involved in carrying out these kinds of plots are not extensive.'' He adds that a lot of money was raised during the anti-Soviet jihad--or holy war-- movement in Afghanistan, and these efforts, which are believed to be still active in Peshawar, have evolved into organizations with quite a bit of money. Money floats freely among wealthy Islamic fundamentalist patrons. ``This guy may have had a private network of backers with dollars,'' says a U.S. intelligence source. For today's terrorists, says Emerson, ``money is not a problem...
Abouhalima's training site was the frontier city of Peshawar in Pakistan, near the Afghan border, where the major mujahedin parties had their headquarters and where more than 50 Arab relief agencies and unofficial groups had offices. The mujahedin received an estimated $3.5 billion in financial support from the CIA as well, which bankrolled training for the Muslim warriors in the use of explosives and modern weapons. Abouhalima settled in one of the many transit houses known as the House of Friends, where young Arabs were often crammed four to a room...