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...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...
...were some of the militants looking for a pause? "Ramzi," a figure in the military wing of Hamas, says even hard-liners like himself are weary of being excluded from negotiations. "Arafat should not be the only one who decides what is good and bad for the Palestinians," he says...
...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...
...rushed to telephones to issue instructions. One of the first orders, State Department and Pentagon officials tell Time, was to begin immediately monitoring the passports presented by passengers wishing to travel overseas from airline terminals at Oklahoma City's airport. The FBI did not want a repeat of the Ramzi Yousef debacle, when the accused mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing managed to flee the U.S. just hours after that attack...
...World Trade Center in New York City. The connections have been detailed in recent weeks by Edwin Angeles, once Abu Sayyaf's military strategist, who surrendered to Philippine authorities in February after a falling out with his fellow fighters. Angeles, backed by military intelligence, has linked Abu Sayyaf with Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the World Trade Center attack...