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SOUTH ASIA Tit for Tat Relations between nuclear neighbors India and Pakistan further soured as India expelled four Pakistani diplomats for spying and Pakistan retaliated in kind. The first expulsions followed New Delhi's allegation that whenever Sudhir Vyas, its most senior diplomat in Islamabad, tried to leave his home, he would be boxed in by Pakistani agents in their cars. Pakistan has also alleged that its diplomats suffer harrassment in New Delhi...
...forged American Express and Thomas Cook checks, a state-of-the-art counterfeiting operation complete with silk-screen equipment, ink stamps like those used by consular officials, and stacks of high-grade fake passports and other identity documents. Hamdani was tagged as the suspected mastermind. A Pakistani emigre, he had a rap sheet stretching as far as Brunei and was on the lam from a 1996 U.S. indictment for dealing in phony passports in New York...
...other words, he was a skilled underworld artisan--just the kind of guy al-Qaeda likes to work with. Fearing the worst, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police gave the case national security status, called the FBI and started grilling Hamdani. Around Christmastime, the Pakistani spilled a tantalizing tale. He said he had been paid thousands of dollars to cook up travel documents for 19 men who had traveled from Pakistan through London to Toronto in early December. He thought they had reached the U.S. on Christmas...
Hamdani never claimed his customers were terrorists, and there is no evidence he or they had any connection to al-Qaeda. But his story arrived in Washington as U.S. security officials were going on full holiday alert. Pakistani authorities came up with information about an alien-smuggling scheme that dovetailed with the forger's account. On Dec. 27, Islamabad gave the FBI photos and names or aliases of five men thought to be among the 19 smuggled aliens Hamdani had served. The U.S. quickly put out an unusually prominent all-points bulletin for the five. "We don't have...
...weapons and explosives did not belong to Besseghir, but a sniffer dog detected traces of explosives on the back seat of his car. PAKISTAN Anti-U.S. Anger Thousands joined Islamist-led protests against a possible war on Iraq and a disputed U.S. bombing on the border with Afghanistan. Pakistani politicians claimed the U.S. had bombed a disused Islamic seminary inside Pakistan, but U.S. officials said that the incident took place on the Afghan side of the frontier. IVORY COAST Fragile Truce President Laurent Gbagbo promised to expel foreign mercenaries and stop aerial bombings, after government helicopters attacked a fishing...