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...ARRESTED. MERANG ABANTE, alleged middle-ranking leader of the Abu Sayyaf Muslim extremist group; in Zamboanga. The Philippine government had offered an $18,500 bounty for Abante's capture. Abu Sayyaf has conducted a spree of kidnappings for ransom and is suspected of being behind a recent series of bombings in the southern Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/6/2003 | See Source »

...Numbers 23 women were attacked by a crazed monkey that went on a two-day biting spree in the Japanese town of Shimosuwa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...biggest standout from Harvard coach Frank Sullivan’s recruiting spree is the one who stands biggest...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rookie Shows 'Worth as M. Hoops Rolls | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...much as 100,000 rupees [$1,700], and the rest of us got either 5,000 rupees [$83] or 10,000 rupees [$170]," Shah Hakim Mizhdua, a local resident, told TIME before another man interrupted, barking, "Shut up! I haven't been paid yet." Told of the spending spree, Afghan intelligence officials had no doubt where the cash came from. "While we're broke, the Taliban and al-Qaeda are flush," says an intelligence officer in Afghanistan's Paktika province, which includes Angurada. Officials in Islamabad say the Frontier Corps has orders to grab any terrorist suspects but hasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to al-Qaeda Town | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

EXECUTED. MIR AIMAL KASI, 38, Pakistani man jailed since 1997 for gunning down two CIA officers and injuring three others during a bloody shooting spree outside the agency's Virginia headquarters in 1993; by lethal injection; at the Greensville Correctional Center in Virginia. Warning of a global backlash against Americans if Kasi was executed, Pakistani politicians lobbied U.S. authorities to spare Kasi's life. In his hometown of Quetta, protesters demonstrating against Kasi's execution took to the streets, chanting "Aimal is our hero." Before losing consciousness, Kasi's final words were "There is no god but Allah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

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