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...Ahmad Khan Leghari to gain his government's approval of the operation. Islamabad's decision to let the U.S. in was politically risky; in 1995 Pakistani government officials, then led by Benazir Bhutto, suffered harsh criticism from local extremists for allowing the U.S. to extradite World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef. Now, however, "they recognize that it's in their own interest to be supportive on terrorism issues like this," says a senior Administration official. "Undoubtedly they are hoping for some improvement in bilateral relations as a result...
...McVeigh was only tangentially associated, if at all. Jones has sent investigators to Europe, the Middle East and Asia. For months, he has talked about a German named Andreas Strassmeir, who met McVeigh in 1993; about Richard Snell, a white supremacist who was executed April 19, 1995; and about Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the man accused of organizing the World Trade Center bombing, who was in the Philippines at the same time as Nichols (Nichols' second wife is a Philippine mail-order bride...
...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...
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...