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Sultan insisted that the raid was "not at all to please the Americans or anyone else." Nor, he said, was it a response to last week's release of a tape in which Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called for the overthrow of Musharraf's government. A Western diplomat in Islamabad also viewed the raid--which involved hundreds of Pakistani soldiers, two of whom were killed--as an indication that Pakistan is getting more serious in the fight against terrorism: "It was quite a bold move, because this is an area where the government has rarely operated...
...Sultan insisted that the raid was based on intelligence and "was not at all to please the Americans or anyone else." Nor, he said, was it a response to the release of a tape last week in which Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called for the overthrow of Musharraf's government. A Western diplomat in Islamabad also viewed the raid?which involved hundreds of Pakistani soldiers, two of whom were killed?as an indication that Pakistan is getting more serious in the fight against terror: "It was quite a bold move, because this is an area where...
...traditionally doubted the possibility of a Saddam-Osama alliance, is now much less skeptical about such collusion. Stephen Hayes reports in the Weekly Standard: “The CIA has confirmed, in interviews with detainees and informants it finds highly credible, that al Qaeda’s Number 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, met with Iraqi intelligence in Baghdad in 1992 and 1998. More disturbing, according to an administration official familiar with briefings the CIA has given President Bush, the Agency has ‘irrefutable evidence’ that the Iraqi regime paid Zawahiri $300,000 in 1998, around...
...Islamic militants, possibly even al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. U.S. intelligence believes he is hiding somewhere near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, 150 miles of which snake along Waziristan's frontier. Last week the Qatari TV network, al-Jazeera, aired a videotape of bin Laden walking with his lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri in rugged hills that look like those in much of the border area. Neither the video nor an accompanying audiotape of what the CIA says are probably bin Laden's and al-Zawahiri's voices contained any certain clue as to when they were recorded...
...Pounce on the Americans just as lions pounce their prey, and bury them in Iraq's graveyard." AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, Osama bin Laden's deputy, in a new alleged al-Qaeda tape broadcast by al-Jazeera satellite-television network...