THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE

AFTER AN INFERNAL GLOBAL ODYSSEY AND AN EPIC CHASE BY U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, THE MASTERMIND OF THE TRADE CENTER BOMBING IS CAPTURED IN PAKISTAN

The man with the two suitcases arrived at the Su Casa Guest House on Monday, sometime before 4:30 in the afternoon. He was unshaven, but without a beard or mustache. In his travels he had 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...

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