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...Bush is talking as if he's about to get into some very tricky diplomatic corners as he expands his target list from terrorist groups with "global reach" to those with "global influence." Only semantics? Thursday, Bush put two new groups on his assets-to-be-freezed enemies list - Pakistani group Umnah Tameer E-nau and "stateless sponsor of terror" Lashkar E-Tayyiba (LAT), which India blames for the attacks on its parliament. LAT claims it's only interested in Kashmiri independence, and Pakistan didn't seem too interested in helping Bush go after them. Suffice...
...manner and judgment of a civilian. As an elder of the half-million-member Popolzai tribe in southern Afghanistan, he has leadership experience. Karzai's father was also chief tribal leader until July 1999, when the 75-year-old was shot to death on the street in the Pakistani city of Quetta, where father and son had both fled from the Taliban. The killing is presumed to have been carried out by Taliban agents. All but one of Karzai's siblings--he has six brothers and one sister--have built successful careers in business or academia...
...hole is to be found in the tightening alliance net, it will most likely be somewhere along the 1,510-mile Pakistani border. Earlier in the week rumors swirled that bin Laden had been successfully smuggled across, although radio intercepts and the ferocity of fighting in Tora Bora suggested that al-Qaeda was defending more than just snow-covered rock. The Pakistani government, having seen the devastation bin Laden's presence caused in Afghanistan and having been swayed by the promise of $1 billion in new U.S. aid, insists it is guarding against the possibility of border crossings. Arabs, Macedonians...
...Forty miles east of Tora Bora lies Pakistan's Tirah Valley, a semiautonomous tribal belt only nominally under government control. In the late 19th century the British established the area around and including the Tirah Valley as a buffer zone between Afghanistan and British India. The Pakistani government has never had an official presence there, and many of the tribesmen who rule Tirah are deeply conservative supporters of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. But of late, Pakistani military helicopters have been buzzing over the frontier while soldiers patrol on foot. State-run Pakistan Television has broadcast pictures of locals...
...approved jihadis in Kashmir, though it admits only to providing diplomatic and moral support. The jihadis are considered freedom fighters by Pakistan but employ what India refers to as "cross-border terrorism" in their drive to expel India from the territory that Pakistan also claims. After Sept. 11, the Pakistani intelligence service sent signals to the Kashmir saboteurs to cool it. Yet India believes one of the three main radical groups almost certainly dispatched the suicide gunmen last week on their brazen assault against the center of India's democracy. Pakistan may now have to confront its sponsorship of groups...