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PAKISTAN On June 14 a bomb-laden vehicle exploded outside the American consulate in Karachi, killing 11 and injuring 45 others. But there were successes as well. Officials say they detained Pakistani associates of American dirty-bomb plotter Jose Padilla. The Pakistanis also claimed that over the past few weeks, border raids had captured several more American al-Qaeda fighters, though U.S. officials denied the claim...
...return for standing aside, the King received the ceremonial role of "Father of the Afghan Nation." The only other serious challenger, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, also pulled out of the race. PAKISTAN Consulate Car Bomb A car bomb exploded outside the U.S. consulate in the southern city of Karachi, injuring more than 40 people and killing at least 11, including the bomber. The blast left a crater about 1.5-m deep and a 3-m-wide hole in the consulate's perimeter wall. The victims included security guards and drivers on the road. One U.S. Marine and five Pakistani consulate...
...maddening fuzziness of the Islamic-extremist terrorist network that makes it so hard to tackle. Throwing the term al-Qaeda like a blanket over all terrorist incidents can be misleading. "Who staged the Djerba attack?" asks a French Justice official. "Who financed the Karachi bombing? All we know is that they were Islamic extremists bent on the same sort of violence. Some groups are part of al-Qaeda, others associates of it. Still others are sympathetic fellow travelers." As if to confirm the analysis, Pakistani officials are cautious about ascribing the Karachi bomb to al-Qaeda, though they acknowledge that...
...haven't there been more attacks like those in Karachi and Djerba? Partly because of the fighting in Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda had become a state within a state. A senior Italian investigator in Milan is explicit. "The war," he says, "has been a serious blow to the network here." Robbed of their central facilities in the Afghan camps, Italian cells have had to get by with less logistical support, like false documents and ready cash; communications have been hampered; and, crucially, key figures have been killed. Abdel Kader Es Sayed, an Egyptian-born terrorist who authorities say was placed...
...KARACHI In the city where Daniel Pearl was murdered in February, a red Toyota Corolla with a bomb on the backseat pulled up beside a Pakistani bus on May 8 and exploded, killing 14. Authorities suspect the attack was the work of al-Qaeda. It was the third time in four months that foreigners in Pakistan had been murdered...