Word: yousef
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agents responding to a mock attack by terrorists supposedly using deadly VX nerve gas, which Iraq has produced in vast quantities. The following day, in Fairfax, Va., a jury convicted Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani, of assassinating two CIA employees in 1993. The day after that, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the "mastermind" of the World Trade Center bombing, and his driver were found guilty in a federal court in New York City...
...YORK: Six men down, one to go. After the conviction Wednesday of Ramzi Yousef and Eyad Ismoil in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing ? plus the four co-conspirators jailed back in 1994 ? prosecutors vowed they would not rest until the final suspect was caught: Abdul Yasin, a native of Bloomington, Indiana, who has been charged with mixing the chemicals for the bomb...
...will never be over, in a sense, until we track every single person who had any conceivable role," said U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White. She hasn't done too badly so far: This was the third victory for prosecutors in the World Trade Center conspiracy, and the first time Yousef has been tried as the mastermind of the bombing. The jury even saw through the plausible defense of the baby-faced driver Ismoil, who claimed he thought he was simply delivering detergents...
Miranda O. Yousef '98, leader of the Orthodox Christian Fellowship, said "I don't think a lot of Orthodox Christians are particularly aware of this," noting that it would not affect them because the Orthodox Church would not perform a religious rite for a same-sex couple...
...YORK: The trial of Ramzi Yousef is off to a slow start. After postponing opening statements until Tuesday after a juror called in sick, U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy dismissed another juror following a quiz session to determine whether jurors were prejudiced by last week's Brooklyn arrests. Duffy did not give a reason for dropping the juror but said it wasn't related to last week's events. Tensions over the hometown trial increased some more after a bomb scare Monday at the World Trade Center, which forced the evacuation of several hundred people. It turned out that...