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...with an AK-47 rifle. Sixteen gunshots later, Gary C. Durell, 45, a CIA communications technician, was dead, and Jackie Van Landingham, 33, a consulate secretary, was fatally wounded. A third employee, postal clerk Marc McCloy, 31, was shot in the ankle. The gunmen spared the Pakistani driver and sped away. Said a stunned Karachi resident, Mohammad Ismail Said, an office clerk: "The barbarians have arrived...
...Durell, pointing out that only he was directly fired upon. Van Landingham died because she was sitting beside Durell and came in the line of fire. Yet another theory is that Prime Minister Bhutto's Mohajir opponents may have planned the killings to disrupt a recent warming in U.S.-Pakistani relations: the Prime Minister will visit Washington next month, and Hillary and Chelsea Clinton are expected to arrive in Pakistan-though not in Karachi-on March 26 at the beginning of a 10-day Asian trip...
...Americans, consulate staff members Jackie Van Landingham and Gary Durell, were on their way to work this morning in a van with U.S. markings when two gunmen jumped out of a yellow taxi, spraying the van with automatic gunfire. A third consulate employee in the van was wounded. Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said it was "part of a well-planned campaign of terrorism," possibly retaliation for the arrest in Pakistan last month of Ramzi Yousef, an Iraqi-born resident of Kuwait and a chief suspect in theWorld Trade Center bombingin New York. But State Department and other government sources...
...room on the ground floor. ``They were dragging him downstairs. He was blindfolded, barefoot and had his hands and legs bound, and was shouting, `I'm innocent; why are you taking me?' and `Show me the 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...
...been known by many names, but he signed himself in as ``Ali Mohammad'' on Su Casa's pink registration form. Through his wanderings, he had a way of being unaccounted for, of vanishing into speculation. Last week in Islamabad, he told the desk clerk that he was visiting the Pakistani capital from Karachi, the huge port city in the south. He promptly put down a deposit of $31.50 for a room at the two-story boarding house, did not say how long he would be staying and declined a porter's offer to carry his luggage up to Room...