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PAKISTAN Three Strikes Against Terrorism Pakistan and the U.S. scored a victory against al-Qaeda with the arrest of Ramzi Binalshibh. Two other suspected al-Qaeda members were killed and at least 10 were detained in a series of raids in Karachi. Officials believe Binalshibh, a Yemeni who belonged to al-Qaeda's Hamburg cell, helped plan the Sept. 11 attacks. He had been denied a visa to enter the U.S. four times. Germany said it would request his extradition. Elsewhere, Dutch police arrested the head of a Kurdish group suspected of links with al-Qaeda, while Italian authorities took...
Wang said many other students and residents—about 50 in total—have said they will also risk arrest if negotiations show little progress...
Meanwhile, rumblings of concern are coming from some of Washington's more influential precincts, where not everybody is happy with Padilla's incarceration. Senator Tom Daschle has publicly questioned Ashcroft's motives for waiting an entire month before informing the public of Padilla's arrest. Senator John McCain has called on the Attorney General to explain his rationale for detaining Padilla--after all, if the feds have enough evidence to charge Padilla formally, why don't they do it? Intelligence officials have acknowledged that Abu Zubaydah's reliability is uncertain at best, and an Associated Press report in August...
...districts of Kupwara and Baramulla, have put their lives on the line at a time when the tide of assassination is rising. But New Delhi is taking chances too, sending soldiers to protect the same activists whose cries of azadi (freedom) would a few months ago have met with arrest, even execution...
...through a wiretap that a bomb is about to be set off, it cannot instantly tip off a criminal squad, so the would-be villains can be rounded up. Also, the "spitting on the sidewalk" strategy is undermined; evidence produced by FISA wiretaps cannot be used to support an arrest for a mundane crime like credit-card fraud. Ashcroft and his aides regard the situation as silly and dangerous. "We've been trying to break the wall down so we can deal with this threat that is always crossing the wall," says an Ashcroft aide, "and this is putting walls...