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...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...
...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...
...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...