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...arrest warrant.' '' His two suitcases were left in Room 16 till dusk. Pakistani officials later announced that the bags contained bombmaking equipment, including two toy cars packed with explosives, as well as flight schedules for United and Delta airlines. Ali Mohammad, they said, was really Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, a man with a $2 million bounty on his head and the alleged mastermind of the 1993 attack on New York City's World Trade Center...
President Clinton hailed the arrest. ``This is a major step forward in the fight against terrorism. Terrorism will not pay. Terrorists will pay.'' Upon hearing news of Yousef's fall, James Fox, former director of the FBI's New York office, couldn't contain his elation. ``I just put my fist in the air and said, `Yes! At last!' '' Yousef was ``the key man'' in the bombing, Fox says. ``I doubt there would have been an explosion without him.'' At the first round of trials for the plotters last year, Yousef's name came up again and again...
...took the aid of another suspected terrorist to capture the elusive Yousef. In Islamabad the U.S. embassy's regional security officer was approached by an informant--apparently a Muslim whom Yousef had hired to launch future attacks against American airlines. But he decided to cash in instead. Seemingly aware of the $2 million reward promised by the U.S. government and advertised on posters, videos and even matchbooks, ``the snitch,'' said intelligence sources, ``tells the R.S.O. Yousef has just got back from Bangkok, and he's getting ready to leave for Peshawar.'' After Yousef was apprehended at the Su Casa Guest...
...Yousef's arrest came about as a result of unusually smooth coordination among several U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies, says TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller. On the U.S. side, the CIA, FBI and even the FAA worked together -- agencies that "don't always get along," Waller notes. But U.S. authorities were also helped by a close relationship they've built up in recent years with Pakistani authorities, Shannon says. "We had many dealings with them during the Afghan war against the Russians," says Shannon...
Marasco's research team--which includes postdoctoral fellows Si-Yi Chen and Yousef Khouri and Graduate student Jessamyn Bagley--announced its finding in the June 21 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...