Word: ramzy
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...Before coming to Washington in 1996, Pickard spent much of his career in the bureau's flagship New York office, where he played a crooked accountant in the Abscam undercover case and later supervised the World Trade Center bombing investigation, the extradition and prosecution of terrorist mastermind Ramzi Yousef and the espionage case against FBI turncoat Earl Pitts...
...April last year on Sipadan, a famous diving site on the Malaysian coast?they collected an estimated $25 million in ransom. But even before the Sipadan raid, the name Abu Sayyaf raised alarm among Western intelligence agencies. Abu Sayyaf kept surfacing in connection with various plots by Islamic terrorist Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, now serving a life sentence for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City. Both Yousef and Abu Sayyaf founder Janjalani may have received training in the early 1990s at a commando camp near Khost, in Afghanistan. It was run by a professor of Islam Abdur...
...Another Afghan jihad graduate also turned up: bomber Ramzi Yousef. Philippine police sources believe Yousef may have tried to recruit Abu Sayyaf for two bloody schemes in 1995: the assassination of Pope John Paul II in Manila and a plan to plant bombs on U.S. airliners flying out of the Philippines. Plagued throughout his terrorist career by clumsiness, Yousef managed to set fire to his apartment just a week before the Pontiff's arrival, and police found timing devices, 12 fake passports and a business card belonging to bin Laden's brother-in-law, Khalifa. There is no evidence, local...
...Ramzi S. Cotran, a longtime Harvard Medical School (HMS) professor and internationally recognized expert in pathology, died of cancer at his Brookline home last Monday...
...city of contrasts and extremes arises to another day of confrontations. After the morning reports from the summit, I was preoccupied with the question of whether the Palestinians really want peace as well as whether they were capable of exerting control over the streets. I am thinking of Abu Ramzi, the Palestinian Brigade commander here, a proud and straight man. The instructions he received put him into an impossible situation, and he was compelled to allow gunfire by Tanzim activists in the direction of the Israeli Defense Forces position and the Jewish community. During our last meeting, he could...