WORLD TRADE CENTER . . . WAS CIA NEXT TARGET?

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Police in the Philippines suspect thatRamzi Yousef, the alleged ringleader in the World Trade Center bomb plot, also had plans to bombCIAheadquarters in Virginia, the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Manila and United Airlines jets crossing the Pacific. The accusations, detailed in just-released police reports, are based on records seized in a January raid on Yousef's Manila apartment. Police also believe Yousef had plans to assassinate Pope John Paul II, who visited the Philippines in January. Yousef, awaiting trial in New York for the1993 World Trade Center bombingthat killed six people and injured 1,000, also is suspected of planting a bomb that killed one passenger on a Philippine airliner in December.