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...remained unknown. But there were clues. Portworkers that night said they saw five motor launches ferry in large groups of men from the boat wearing black turbans, long beards and traditional Islamic salwar kameez. Their towering height suggested these travelers were foreigners, and the boxes of ammunition and the AK-47s slung across their shoulders helped sketch a sinister picture. Then in July, a senior member of Bangladesh's largest terrorist group, the 2,000-strong al-Qaeda-allied Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), told TIME the 150 men who entered Bangladesh that night were Taliban and al-Qaeda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deadly Cargo | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...Bazar, as able to accommodate a force of 2,500 between them. The biggest, he claims, has 26 interconnected bunkers complete with kitchens, lecture halls, telephones and televisions concealed beneath a three-meter-high false forest floor that stretches between two hills. Weapons available for training there include AK-47s, heavy machine guns, rifles, pistols, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars. Mantraps and mines, which can be triggered by spotters hiding in tree houses, protect approaches to the camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deadly Cargo | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...east of Dalicharbolak, a village headman says his is the only settlement out of 38 nearby that has potable water?in effect, a single half-meter-wide well must provide for 60,000 people. The headman claims that anyone is welcome to use his well, but the guards fingering AK-47s and a mounted heavy machine gun around the borehole suggest otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wasted: the Drought That Drugs Made | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pataki: New York's Bleeding-Heart Republican | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...Trail In FL, Dubya to the Rescue SD's Big Senate Race Gray Davis Leads By Default PA's Blue Dog Hangs Tough NY's Bleeding-Heart Republican Paul Wellstone: 1944-2002 Iowa: Dialing for Dollars AZ Governor: Being Themselves IN House: By Foot and Humvee What Kennedy Mystique? AK Senate: The Family Business CT House: Goliath vs. Goliath More Stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iowa House Race: Dialing for Dollars | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

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