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...thatRamzi Yousef, the alleged ringleader in the World Trade Center bomb plot, also had plans to bombCIAheadquarters in Virginia, the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Manila and United Airlines jets crossing the Pacific. The accusations, detailed in just-released police reports, are based on records seized in a January raid on Yousef's Manila apartment. Police also believe Yousef had plans to assassinate Pope John Paul II, who visited the Philippines in January. Yousef, awaiting trial in New York for the1993 World Trade Center bombingthat killed six people and injured 1,000, also is suspected of planting a bomb that...
...judge in Johannesburg today threw out search warrants that were used bySouth African police to raid Winnie Mandela's Soweto homethree weeks ago. Police were investigating whether the deputy Cabinet minister and estranged wife of President Nelson Mandela took bribes to secure government contracts for a firm that she wanted to take over. The judge ruled that a local magistrate improperly acted on a police request for the warrants. He ordered police to return documents seized in the raid. But they still have papers seized from the firm. "Police said this makes no difference to the probe that's going...
Winnie Mandela's government post as Deputy Minister of Culture, Science and Technology may be in jeopardy. Cutting short a trip to West Africa, the controversial wife of South African President Nelson Mandela returned to a police raid on her home and an investigation into her possible involvement in fraud, bribery and corruption. Furiously fighting back, Mrs. Mandela scheduled a court hearing on March 14, challenging the seizure of documents from her home...
However, in April 1993, just as Q was getting started in Birmingham, the FBI launched the probe that led to the network's systematic dismantlement--its ``takedown,'' in the parlance of narcotics cops. First Denver was shut down, then Cleveland and last, in a surprise raid that had the suspects fleeing just minutes before the police arrived, Birmingham. The technique of ``letting it walk''--allowing drug shipments and couriers to proceed unhindered in order to keep suspected criminals ignorant of a wiretap--was used at every location. ``That strategy was the key,'' says lead investigator Steven Gomez. ``To the very...
...allegations of bumbling. On Jan. 24, two jeeps burst through the fence of the Brink's-Allied depot in northern Dublin. The five masked occupants, encountering no resistance, bagged $4.2 million and sped away. Following Justice Ministry assurances that all precautions had been taken to prevent such a raid, embarrassing revelations emerged. Not only did police fail to beef up surveillance after a warning that a security-company robbery was being planned, but when the theft took place, most of the Brink's-Allied security staff were caught off guard in the canteen. The fiasco nearly turned tragic a week...