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Istanbul has now joined Riyadh - and Casablanca and Jakarta and Karachi and Mombasa, among others - as a new theater of al-Qaeda's global jihad. A brace of suicide bombings killed some 27 people at the city's British consulate and the headquarters of the London-based bank HSBC on Thursday, following on last Saturday's attacks on two synagogues that killed 25 people. The attacks, for which al-Qaeda affiliated groups have claimed responsibility are a reminder both of the group's resilience, but also of its new form. And the fact that Thursday's targets were British served...
...supporting al-Qaeda and plotting to attack the Brooklyn Bridge; by a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. U.S. officials said Faris, a Kashmir-born naturalized U.S. citizen, admitted to meeting Osama bin Laden at a camp in Afghanistan in 2000 and later talked with an al-Qaeda leader in Karachi, Pakistan about severing the suspension cables of the Brooklyn Bridge. In 2003 he sent a coded message to an al-Qaeda operative that "the weather is too hot," meaning he didn't expect the plot to succeed...
...infidels, until it was proscribed in 2002 by the government. He and his followers were implicated in the deaths of scores of Shi'as, including more than 50 killed in a July attack on a mosque in the southern city of Quetta, and six shot dead in Karachi on Oct. 6. Tariq had survived numerous assassination attempts. Critics say the administration of President Pervez Musharraf has no strategy to deal with the violence. It better find one soon. Tariq's party, the MIP, has demanded the government arrest his killers. If it doesn't, warned the MIP's Abdul Ghafoor...
...thinking during his nine days of captivity, take vivid dramatic license. Though he provides few hard truths, however, he raises intriguing questions. During his many visits to Pakistan, Levy interviewed police, pored over trial transcripts, met with Pearl?s contacts and retraced the former reporter?s footsteps in Karachi. He writes that the hotel Akbar in Rawalpindi, where Pearl was abducted, was ?controlled, almost managed? by the ISI; he says that the man Pearl was headed to see, a cleric named Sheikh Mubarak Gilani, is a ?spiritual guru? to alleged British shoebomber Richard Reid...
...Colleagues and Pakistani fixers who had worked with Pearl in Karachi, Rawalpindi and Bahawalpur deny that the Journal correspondent has been working on a story about Pakistani nukes. And while the ISI may well have been linked with the Kashmir-focused terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed, to which Sheikh belonged, it?s a stretch to extrapolate from there that the ISI backed or ordered Pearl?s killing. For one thing, sources say, it?s not the ISI?s style to hire hire Yemenis or Arabs, the nationalities of the accomplices, to do the job. And if the ISI didn...