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...Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists. A Western law-enforcement official in Kabul who is tracking Khan says agents in Pakistan and Afghanistan, after a tip-off in May, turned up evidence that Khan is employing a fleet of cargo ships to move Afghan heroin out of the Pakistani port of Karachi. The official says at least three vessels on return trips from the Middle East took arms like plastic explosives and antitank mines, which were secretly unloaded in Karachi and shipped overland to al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Khan is now a marked man. "He's obviously very tightly tied...
...revenues to purchase weapons and explosives. A Western law-enforcement official in Kabul who is tracking Khan says that after a tip-off in May, agents in Pakistan and Afghanistan turned up evidence that Khan is employing a fleet of cargo ships to move Afghan heroin out of the Pakistani port of Karachi. The official says that on return trips from the Middle East, at least three vessels brought back arms, such as plastic explosives and antitank mines, which were secretly unloaded in Karachi and shipped overland to al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Khan is now a marked...
Just outside Dras, a road sign warns: "Caution?you are under enemy observation." Being watched by the enemy is not nearly as unsettling as being bombed by them. This time last year, Pakistani troops were lobbing shells at the Indian army camps that appear along this highway with the regularity of gas stations in more civilized parts of the world. But then, this is the Kargil road, where nothing is ordinary...
...spreading among members of Russia's ethnic-minority communities. Just four days before Girenko's assassination, a group of neo-Nazis killed an Azeri passerby in Saratov, some 1,400 km south of St. Petersburg; and in May, human-rights groups claim a neo-Nazi gang beat a Pakistani student to death in Ulyanovsk, 350 km northeast of Saratov. According to the Moscow-based daily Izvestia, neo-Nazis have violently assaulted at least 15,000 people over the past seven years. A recent report by the Moscow Bureau on Human Rights says 20 to 30 victims a year die from...
...When Pakistani police nabbed Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the Tanzanian al-Qaeda operative wanted for his alleged role in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa, they also brought in two South African men. Or did they? South African officials in Pakistan have yet to interview the detainees, who were carrying passports identifying them as Feroze Ganchi, 30, and Zoubair Ismail, 20. The families of two South Africans also named Ganchi and Ismail say the passports must have been stolen from their relatives, who went to Pakistan for religious studies. The families have not heard from the men in over...