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Militants show no
emotion as each faces
mandatory life
sentences. _
By Karen Matthews
Associated Press
NEW YORK — A Muslim mili
tant who allegedly masterminded the
1993 World Tfade Center bombing
was convicted Thursday with two other
men of plotting to destroyl2 U.S. jet
liners.
Ramzi Yousef and his co-defen
dants, Abdul Hakim Murad and Wali
Khan Amin Shah, face a mandatary
sentence of life in prison Dec. 5. In
addition, Yousef faces trial in the TVade
Center bombing.
The three men showed no emotion
and stared straight ahead upon hear
ing the verdicts, reached by the fed
eral jury in its fourth day of delibera
tions. "ff •"*
“Each and every one of you got an
extraordinarily feir trial,” U.S. District
Judge Kevin Dufly told the defendants.
The series of attacks was supposed
to take place over Asia in 1995 but was
never carried out.
Prosecutors said the bombings
would have killed 4,000 people in
planes headed to Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Honolulu and New York
City, and were aimed at farcing the
United States to pull out of fee Middle
East and stop supporting Israel.
The defendants were convicted of
all seven charges related to fee con
spiracy. Yousef also was found guilty
of killing a man with a bomb placed
aboard a Philippines Airlines jet in
1994. That bombing was a test run for
the plot, prosecutors said. Shah also
was convicted of escaping from prison.
During Hie four-month trial, Yousef
acted as his own lawyer. With a good
command of English, he argued that
evidence was fabricated by the Philip
pine government to curry favor with
the United States.
Yousefs self-defense put him face
to-face with witnesses such as a flight
attendant who said she saw him sitting
in the Philippines Airlines seat where
a bomb went off on a later flight.
Yousef and Murad both claimed
they were detained by police and tor
tured during the time prosecutors al
leged they were hatching the plot.
Prosecutors said the plot was
hatched in the Philippines, where
Yousef had turned his Manila apart
ment into a bomb factory.
Yousef, 28, was captured last year
in Pakistan with the help of a $2 mil
lion reward. He had fled the United
States hours after the World Trade
Center was bombed.
Yeltsin reveals heart problems, chooses surgery
MOSCOW (AP) — President
Boris Yeltsin said Thursday he will
undergo heart surgery at the end of
September, ending months of se
crecy about his health but raising
new concerns about his ability to
govern. •
Yeltsin, 65, made the announce
ment during an interview with the
RIA-Novosti Television.
Yeltsin said he underwent hospi
talization during which medical tests
revealed that he was suffering from
heart disease. The doctors gave him
two choices: an operation or a less
stressful routine.
“The recommendation of doctors,
our doctors was either an operation
or more passive work, so to speak,”
he said. “I have never been satisfied
by passive work and I will not be sat
isfied by it now.”
“Therefore, it’s better for me to
have an operation and fully recover,
as they promise, than engage in pas
sive work,” Yeltsin said.
The president said doctors were
preparing him for the operation that
will likely take place at the end of
September.
171-- pport
action m Iraq
• PARIS (AP) — Buoyed by
Britain’s strong support of
America’s military actions in Iraq,
Secretary of State Warren Christo
pher today won limited support
from France in patrolling no-fly
zones over Iraq.
French planes will not operate
in the newly expanded area in the
south, which reaches to the outskirts
of Baghdad. In this respect,
Christopher’s back-to-back meet
ings with President Jacques Chirac
and Foreign Minister Herye de
Charette fell short of U.S. objec
tives.
Beginning Monday, French
crews will join the United States and
Britain in making sure Iraqi war
planes do not enter the old zones
and menace Kurds and Shiites in the
safe havens below, the French For
eign Ministry announced.
“The United States welcomes
the continuation ofFrance’s partici
pation as an important member of
the coalition,” State Department
spokesman Nicholas Bums said.
The French statement said
Christopher had “confirmed the end
of the American operation ‘Desert
Strike’ in Iraq” —referring to the
attack of Iraqi military targets by
cruise missiles.
However, a senior U.S. official,
insisting on anonymity, said Chris
topher had not given any assurance
to the French ruling out any further
U.S.strikes.
“American policy and American
action will be based very much on
what Saddam Hussein does,” Bums
said. “ The United States does re
tain any option ... in the future to
counter the efforts of Saddam
Hussein.”
“The United States intends to
enforce the new zone,”Christopher
declared after meeting with de
Charette. France has been sharply
critical of the U.S. military actions
this week in Iraq.
French air crews not only have
refused to venture into die extended
Iraqi no-fly zone in the south, but
also have not flown the full expanse
of the old zone, according to a
French spokesman.
Bums said whatever the French
position, die United States would
pursue its current strategy.
“If we have to do it alone, or
alone with the British, we will do
it,” he said.
France has questioned the legal
basis for two American missile
strikes against Iraqi military targets.
While disapproving of Saddam's
blitz into northern Iraq’s Kurdish
region last weekend, France con
tends Iraq did not violate the no-fly
zone policed with the United States
and Britain in the north.
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Hurricane Fran follows Edouard with fury
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP)—Hurri
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as thousands of people scrambled for storm
supplies or the road out of town.
Fran accelerated and veered slightly to the
east on a path that would bring the eye over
Cape Fear, N.C., at about 6:30 pjn. CDT,
the National Hurricane Center said.
At 6 pm, Air Force hurricane-hunter
planes located Fran’s 25-mile-wide eye
roughly 20 miles south-southeast of
Southport, N.C., on the west side of the Cape
Fear river, whan gusts of 120 mph. were be
ing reported.
More than a half-million tourists and resi
dents had been ordered to evacuate the coast
in North and South Carolina as Fran drew
near, leaving a string of deserted beach towns.
“Believe you me, we wanted to get out of
there,” said Audrey Landers, who fled her
townhouse a block from the ocean with her
neighbors and their children. They took shel
ter at a high school in Conway, 15 miles in
land.
Hurricane warnings were posted from
Edisto Beach, S.C., to the Virginia line.
People living as fir inland as West Virginia
were warned to expect tropical storm-force
winds and 5 to 10 inches of rant:; i' < :
Waves were crashing 10 feet high along
the shore at Myrtle Beach, where the usually
bustling Ocean Boulevard was deserted and
driving wais inpossible with sheets of rain
blown horizontal by gusts readying 55 mph.
Eveni5miiesin6anthecoa^,treelimbs.
and flooded highways made moving around
hazardous. One motorist, a 66-year-old
woman from Conway, was killed when her
car hit standing water and flew down an em
bankment into a tree.
Thousands of others took refuge in hun
dreds of shelters in the Carolines.
Back in Calabash, Thomas Wynn’s neigh
bors heeded the mandatory evacuation, but
the 72-year-old World War II veteran decided
to ride out the storm in his wood frame house.
“I’ve been under fire before,” he said.
Lynn High, owner of Calabash Marina
and Storage, pulled boats out of the water,
put plywood over windows, then took off—
with memories of Hurricane Hugo on her
mind.
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in damage, mostly in South Carolina, and
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