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Show Al4 __ The SaltLakeTribune WORLDSunday, May 28, 1995 Terrorists’ Massive PlanUnravels LOS ANGELES TIMES MANILA, Philippines — They called the project Bojinka, ‘the explosion.” The plan was devastating in its complexity and technicalbrilliance. If it had not been foiled, it might have been the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, Project Bojinka was a plan to blow up 11 U.S. airliners over the Pacific in a day of rage at the United States. According to investigators, it called for five Muslim terrorists to plant virtually undetectable bombs aboard the planes, all jumbo jets, in an intricately synchronized plan that had the bombers changing planes as many asfour timesin a day. The U.S. government has accused Ramzi Ahmed Yousef,the Pakistani suspectedof engineering the New York World Trade Center bombing, of being the mastermind behind the Bojinka plot. Yousef was capturedin Pakistan in February and is awaiting trial in New York on charges of planning both attacks. If convicted, he faces the death penalty. Also charged in theairliner plot is a 27- year-old Pakistani named Abdul Hakim Murad, who was arrested by police in an apartment here on Jan, 6. Police said they found pipe bombs, bomb-making manuals and a computer with details of the Bojinka pilot squirreled away onits hard disk. Murad was extradited to New York Both men have pleaded innocent. While the 14-count federal indictment in New York accused the two of conspiring to “set fire to, damage, destroy, disable and wreckaircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States," the massive scope of the plan has never been disclosed. The two were also accused in the Philippines of planning to assassinate Pope John Paul II while he visited that country in January. That plan is now believed to have been designed to confuse authorities and deflectattention from their plan to blow up the planes Philippine and Westernintelligence experts said in interviews that the investigation into the Bojinka plot also has provided disturbing evidenceof the existence of a worldwide net- work of terrorists who received weapons training and firebrand religious indoctrination during the decade-long international effort to defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. The international brigades of Afghan ‘‘moujahedeen,” or resistance fighters, were recruited throughoutthe Islamic world as part of a covert, $4 billion effort in the 19708 and "80s by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and Saudi Arabia to drive the Soviets from Afghanistan. Since the Soviet-installed governmentfell in 1992, many of the fighters have returnedto their home countries as converts to radical Islam determined to overthrow secular regimesand attack the “Satan” United States for its supportof Israel. “There is a worldwide organization of Muslims espousing extremism to pursuetheirreligious and political ends," said a Philippines interiorofficial. A recent study by Jane’s Intelligence Review, a British publication with a wide circulation in the intelligence community, estimated that there are about 14,000 foreign veterans of the Afghan war.It said they have taken commandingrolesin terrorist groups in Algeria, Egypt, Yemen,Jordan, the West Bank and as far afield as China and the Philippines. Another Lesson in Losing For Mexico’s Ruling Party THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GUANAJUATO,Mexico — The party that never used to loge suddenly is struggling to break even, ‘The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) appears unlikely to win back the governorship of central Guanajuato state in today’s electionsandis fighting to hold on to the post in the southeastern state of Yucatan. PRIheld every governorship in Mexico for 60 years until 1989. But economic hardship and rampant cynicism about government corruption is making the conservative National Action Party (PAN)a serious threat. The opposition ney already has governorsin four of Mexico's 31 states, Vicente Fox, a charismatic businessman and PAN's gubernatorial candidate in Guanajuato, speaks of winning Sunday "by a knockout,” He carries a 2-1 lead in the polls over PRi candidate Ignacio Vazquez Torres, PANtrounced PRIlast February in neighboring Jalisco state and its capital of Guadalajera, Mexico's second-most-populous city. 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