Word: ramzi
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...leader of the Eagle Scout troop that included son Jeremiah. During Nicholson's two years in Kuala Lumpur, one of the main jobs for American intelligence agents was tracking leads in the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City. The suspected mastermind of the bombing, Ramzi Yousef, had passed through Malaysia. While in Kuala Lumpur, Nicholson had got agency permission to meet with a Russian agent by telling his CIA superiors he thought he could recruit the man. According to the FBI affidavit, in June 1994, one day after Nicholson's last reported meeting with...
...independence that accounts for both her successes and failures. It has helped restore public confidence in the justice system and attracted a new crop of young lawyers to public service. Her department's prosecutors have won convictions of high-profile criminals ranging from airline-bomb-plot mastermind Ramzi Yousef to Mexican drug tycoon Juan Garcia Abrego. And she has revitalized Justice's antitrust, civil rights and environment divisions. But she has also failed to harness her popularity to win important legislative battles, such as expanding the FBI's wiretap authority. Her darkest day remains the deadly assault on the Branch...
...there is another way that a terrorist might have been able to breach security and get a bomb on board. Security experts call it the "Ramzi Yousef method," even though other terrorists have used it in the past. Yousef was arrested by U.S. agents in Pakistan in February 1995 for allegedly plotting an attack on U.S. airliners in the Pacific, as well as an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. Federal prosecutors allege that on Dec. 11, 1994, Yousef tested his larger plan for attacking the U.S. carriers by boarding a Philippine Airlines flight on the first leg from...
Tracing this sentiment led investigators to a variety of suspects, any of whom may--or may not--be responsible. Among the candidates are Ramzi Yousef and his supporters. Yousef belongs to a new breed of Islamic zealot trained in the Afghan war. He was captured in Pakistan and extradited to the U.S. last year. Accused of masterminding a fiendishly elaborate plot to blow up U.S. passenger planes over the Pacific, Yousef is now entering his eighth week of trial in New York City. Counterterrorism experts fear remnants of his group may still be active...
...Barak rules it out altogether. "Their objectives so deeply contradict the very existence of Israel that [conciliatory] gestures can only be interpreted as an attempt at manipulation," he says. "They will pursue terrorism as long as they can, and they should be answered in a determined way." In reply, "Ramzi" says, "One day we will force Israel to change its approach." Both sides should brace for new blows...