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POPSMugniyah, Senior Hezbollah Commander Killed In Damascus Mugniyah, one of Hizbullah's founders and its operational commander, is believed to be the mastermind behind the attacks against the Jewish embassy and the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in1994. He is also wanted for the hijacking of a TWA airplane in Lebanon in 1985 and the abduction of westerners in the country during the 1980s. The statement did not say how he was killed, but the announcement came a few hours after a late night explosion in Damascus destroyed a vehicle. Witnesses in Damascus said at the time that a passerby was killed as security forces sealed off the area.
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POPS 5 Myths About Rendition (And That New Movie) Beginning in 1995, the Clinton administration turned up the speed with a full-fledged program to use rendition to disrupt terrorist plotting abroad. According to former director of central intelligence George J. Tenet, about 70 renditions were carried out before Sept. 11, 2001, most of them during the Clinton years. One other safeguard: During the Clinton years, the United States required the country that received a rendered person to have some kind of legal process against the suspect -- an arrest warrant or indictment, for example.
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POPSDeVecchio Trial to Begin
---<<<(Scarpa JR) began passing the FBI a treasure trove of intel on alQaeda. Yousef had been passing notes to Greg Jr. through a hole in the wall between their cells with Greg Jr. to pass them to Yousef's co-hort, another al Qaeda terrorist named Abdul Hakim Murad (on the other side). Greg figured he could get some downward release time (if convicted on RICO charges) by informing them. For the next 11 months Greg Jr. furnished the FBI with an astonishing array of intelligence that revealed among other things:===• the presence of an active al Qaeda cell in NYC; • a link between al Qaeda and the June 1996 Khobar Towers bombing (thought to have been Iranian Hezbollah); • the location of Yousef's uncle Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) the so-called "mastermind" of 9/11 in Doha, Qatar; • a bin Laden plot to hijack a plane to free blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman ;• probative evidence that the crash of TWA #800 was the result of a Yousef inspired bomb placed over the center wing fuel tank-
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POPSScientists Doubt Kennedy Bullet Analysis In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald alone shot the two bullets that struck and killed President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Tobin was the FBI lab's chief metallurgy expert for more than two decades. He analyzed metal evidence in major cases that included the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island.
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