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Article: Suspects' lives probed for clues to bomb plot
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 3, 1997
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NEW YORK Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer doggedly tried to sneak into the
United States in what his Palestinian family says was an innocent
pursuit of the American dream.
But authorities say Abu Mezer and another Palestinian man were
actually plotting to carry out a suicide bombing on a crowded New
York City subway.
Investigators worked Saturday to piece together evidence that
included a possible suicide note that ranted against Americans and
Jews.
The Mideast terror group Hamas denied any involvement with Abu
Mezer, 23, and Lafi Khalil, 22, both arrested Thursday on charges
they were hours away from detonating nail-studded pipe bombs in a
Brooklyn subway station.
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