Word: afghanistan
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ARRESTED. TWO NEW SUSPECTS being questioned in the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; for attempting to cross the Pakistani border into Afghanistan without proper papers. Pakistani officials say they are interrogating the two, a Saudi and a Sudanese, over possible links to Osama bin Laden, the millionaire Islamic fundamentalist waging a holy war against the U.S. who is thought by many to be behind the bombings...
...long way from Afghanistan to Detroit, Jersey City and Brooklyn. But that's the route a federal grand jury says Osama bin Laden's money took when the exiled Saudi millionaire started funding Islamic extremists in the United States. According to counterterrorism officials, the New York jurors handed down a sealed indictment for Bin Laden as long ago as June -- two months before he became the prime suspect in the African embassy bombings...
...suggests that backlash from last week's U.S. missile strike may originate in quarters far outside the super-terrorist's own networks. A group calling itself Muslims Against Global Oppression said the Tuesday evening blast that killed two people and wounded 21 was in retaliation for the strike on Afghanistan and Sudan. A group of the same name had protested against President Clinton's visit to the city earlier this year, which suggests the attackers may have been part of the tiny radical element of the city's minority Muslim community...
...hearing anything from Osama bin Laden for a while -- if the Taliban is to be believed. After the exiled Saudi millionaire put out the word that America could expect retaliation for last week's cruise missile attacks on his camps, Afghanistan's Islamic leaders had a few quiet words with him. "I am angry because Osama is making anti-American statements from our soil and I stressed on him not to do so," said Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban militia's supreme leader. Bin Laden had agreed to "obey" the instructions and lie low, Omar added...
...upset at the terrorist chieftain? The Taliban is deeply dependent on financial aid from Saudi Arabia and on political and military support from Pakistan, and both nations are leaning on the ruling militia to rein in Bin Laden. The Taliban also wants to be recognized by the U.N. as Afghanistan's official government, especially now that it's squaring up for a confrontation with Iran. Bin Laden doesn't exactly have that many places to rest his head, so he will probably be persuaded to speak softly, although never letting go of his big stick...