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- ↑ Amnesty International, November 12, 1998 backgrounder
- ↑ Arabic News, Three extremists join list of suspects in Pakistan embassy bombing Archived 2008-09-05 at the Wayback Machine , November 20, 1998
- ↑ al-Sharq al-Awsat, Seventy one 'terrorists' referred to military court, July 7, 1999
- ↑ Human Rights Watch, Black Hole: The Fate of Islamists Rendered to Egypt, May 2005