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...posthumous twist. Through Niazi's good intelligence work, authorities were able to find a fifth al-Qaeda man, also an Uzbek, who is now in U.S. custody. But the scene of the roadside shoot-out resembles a makeshift shrine to fallen al-Qaeda fighters. Graffiti glorifying Osama bin Laden have been painted on the rocks, and pilgrims flock to the spot in busloads. Some say they can smell the fragrance of martyrs' paradise wafting from the bloodstains in the dirt. And Niazi's father considers his son a traitor to Muslims. He refused to say the customary funeral rites...
...months U.S. and Afghan officials have speculated that bin Laden has sought refuge over the border, though Pakistani intelligence officials tell TIME that the Qaeda boss was last definitely seen on Nov. 17 in a 25-vehicle convoy, heading from Jalalabad into Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains. Since then, the Pakistanis say, there have been no credible sightings. But thousands of al-Qaeda fighters did cross into Pakistan in two waves. According to Pakistani intelligence officials, the first exodus came in November, when al-Qaeda fled into the remote Tirah Valley to escape the U.S. bombardment of Tora Bora...
Karachi police chief Syed Kamal Shah told TIME that investigators believe the kidnapping and murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl was patronized by "foreigners"--a standard code word for al-Qaeda. Pakistani investigators say al-Qaeda's fingerprints are hard to detect, but they believe that bin Laden's network may have been behind the May attack that killed 11 French technicians on a bus in Karachi and the June bombing of the U.S. consulate in Karachi that killed 12 Pakistanis...
Pakistani intelligence officials believe these bombers and Pearl's killers were carrying out the attacks as part of a broader strategy of terror that has the signature of bin Laden's network. "These terrorists are smart. They had fire walls between the different cells, so that if anyone got caught, the trail would stop there," says an investigator. "Some people provided them with money, the equipment and a plan. And we think those people are connected to al-Qaeda...
...Bin Laden's network is far from finished. As an extremist detained by Pakistani authorities recently told his interrogators, "Al-Qaeda is nowhere, and it is everywhere. If Americans are after us, we are after them." That chilling threat is what makes the hunt for al-Qaeda's latest Pakistan hideouts so urgent...