Word: yousef
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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...
According to an interview Bhutto gave to Reuter last Saturday, Yousef was busy scheming to assassinate her in the fall of 1993, seven months after the U.S. attack and shortly before she was elected Prime Minister. Armed with explosives, she recounted, he headed for her high-walled oceanside estate in Karachi intent on murder. But one of the devices detonated prematurely, injuring Yousef. Authorities did not catch up with him again until they nabbed him on Feb. 7 in Islamabad...
...workers were ambushed in Karachi and two of them slain. Some Pakistani officials theorize that the killings could have been meant as a warning against her trip. Pakistani authorities no doubt hope the latest arrests will help calm the atmosphere, even though there is no connection so far between Yousef's associates and the murders. To improve security, in the past week hundreds of militants have been detained...
...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 the heady...
Police in the Philippines suspect thatRamzi Yousef, the alleged ringleader in the World Trade Center bomb plot, also had plans to bombCIAheadquarters in Virginia, the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Manila and United Airlines jets crossing the Pacific. The accusations, detailed in just-released police reports, are based on records seized in a January raid on Yousef's Manila apartment. Police also believe Yousef had plans to assassinate Pope John Paul II, who visited the Philippines in January. Yousef, awaiting trial in New York for the1993 World Trade Center bombingthat killed six people and injured 1,000, also is suspected...