PAKISTAN : EXTRADITED BOMBER HAD TRIED TO ASSASSINATE PRIME MINISTER BHUTTO IN 1993

Record ID: 358451

  • Title: PAKISTAN : EXTRADITED BOMBER HAD TRIED TO ASSASSINATE PRIME MINISTER BHUTTO IN 1993
  • Date: 18th March 1995
  • Summary: KARACHI, PAKISTAN (MARCH 18, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SCU PAKISTAN'S PRIME MINISTER BENAZIR BHUTTO SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 1.00 2. SV INTERVIEW 1.04 3. SCU BHUTTO SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 1.28 SEQUENCE 1 TRANSCRIPT: BHUTTO :"I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE NOW FOUND OUT THAT MR RAMZI YOUSEF WAS SENT HERE IN KARACHI IN OCTOBER, 199
  • Embargoed: 2nd April 1995 13:00
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  • Location: KARACHI, PAKISTAN
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  • Country: Pakistan ASIA
  • Reuters ID: LVADUO29QK42JO1603DDNPM6RU1Q
  • Story Text: Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said on Saturday (March 18) that extradited bomb plot suspect Ramzi Ahmed Yousef had tried to kill her in 1993.

    "I want you to know that we have now found out that Mr Ramzi Yousef was sent here in Karachi in 1993 to assassinate me," she told Reuters in an interview.

    "He came here in a car towards this house where we are sitting today," she said in her Bilawal House in Karachi. "But one of the explosives went off accidentally, wounding Ramzi and he was subsequently taken to a hospital in Karachi." "We would like to have the United States investigate Ramzi and this assassination attempt on me. If need be we will send our own investigative police to the United States to investigate this," she said.

    "The question that arises is who was the mastermind that saw that the World Trade Center should be bombed and that I should be eliminated from the (October 1993) elections." The alleged plotter, accused of being the brains behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, was arrested in Pakistan on February 7 and extradited the next day to the United States.

    Bhutto also reaffirmed her government's determination to stamp out militancy, saying the only way to achieve influence in the world was through the markets, not militancy.


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