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...Afghanistan from Pakistan and continuing to help the Americans as they rounded up Taliban and al-Qaeda remnants, Musharraf has earned powerful enemies. But never have the threats to him been more evident than now, three months after al-Jazeera aired an audiotape in which Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, exhorted followers to overthrow the Pakistani leader. The two attempts on Musharraf's life, plus another assassination plot uncovered by Pakistani authorities in April 2002, have left U.S. officials deeply troubled. So invested is the U.S. in Musharraf, American officials are providing technical assistance and intelligence to help...
...figure) and 70,000 (Pakistan's figure) have died in the violence since 1989, largely in the Kashmiri valley. Moderate Kashmiris warn that the past few years in the valley have seen a rapid spread of the hard-line Islamic faith of Wahhabism?the chosen creed of Osama bin Laden, among others?in an area previously dominated by the moderate Sufi tradition. Yasin Malik, 38, a former militant commander who now campaigns for peace and independence, warns that Kashmir's latest generation of militants might simply refuse to give up the gun. These young insurgents are not fighting...
...past few years have seen a resurgence in militant Islam among the country's impoverished youth. This time, he believes, their fight is for a more grandiose cause. "[They are] in line with the global jihad... These kids have watched the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. They worship Osama bin Laden," he says. "When we've arrested them they've said they are doing...
...believe it will be the unexpected defeat of George Bush and the failure to capture or kill Bin Laden. I believe he will continue to outsmart this Administration. He's far more intelligent than the Butcher of Baghdad. Tom Plummer Bourbon...
...Rumsfeld's world, all that was long ago. For weeks he has been itching to get back to wrestling his real nemesis, not Saddam or Osama bin Laden but what he sees as the need to remake the military to fight villains like them for the next 25 years. Known as transformation, the initiative was the first fight he picked when he returned to Washington in 2001. At the time, he wanted to shrink the military and reduce its footprint overseas, in part by cutting the Army by two or three divisions. There was talk of killing cold war weapons...