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...seems, is completely safe in Pakistan. On March 11, police quietly captured six men in the Islamist stronghold of Peshawar who had talked by telephone to Ramzi Yousef just before the accused mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was himself arrested in Pakistan and quickly extradited to the U.S. The six were suspected of conspiring with Yousef in his skein of terrorist plots, but only after they had been questioned last week did Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto learn that she too had been a target of the terrorists...
...states supporting terrorism--a move that would have cut the country off from most outside investment and lending. Bhutto's recent efforts to improve relations by cooperating with the U.S. on terror and drug investigations have outraged even moderate Pakistanis, who felt their government kowtowed to Washington by extraditing Ramzi Yousef within 24 hours of his arrest. Wrote commentator Ayaz Amir in the respected national newsmagazine the Herald: "The U.S. may do as it pleases in Pakistan--cut off aid, pressure it on its nuclear program, twist its arms over the drug trade, use it as it did during...
...reward includes $2 million from the State Department and $1 million apiece from the Air Line Pilots Association and the Air Transport Association. The largest previous award was $2 million claimed in last month's arrest ofWorld Trade Center bombing suspect Ramzi Yousefin Pakistan...
...wounded a third in Karachi. The Americans, all U.S. consulate employees, were driving to work when the killers, armed with assault weapons, pulled up alongside the Americans' van and sprayed it with bullets. In Washington officials speculate that the shootings were revenge for the arrest and extradition of Ramzi Yousef, a suspect in the World Trade Center bombing. In a separate attack, terrorists exploded a bomb outside a Karachi mosque, killing a dozen people--many of them children...
...gunmen jumped out of a yellow taxi, spraying the van with automatic gunfire. A third consulate employee in the van was wounded. Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said it was "part of a well-planned campaign of terrorism," possibly retaliation for the arrest in Pakistan last month of Ramzi Yousef, an Iraqi-born resident of Kuwait and a chief suspect in theWorld Trade Center bombingin New York. But State Department and other government sources tell TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller they're not so sure. "Karachi is like the Wild West," says Waller. "It's just riven with political...