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...that he nearly dwarfs the conference table where he's seated. Before him is a large piece of paper and several black markers. In the center of the paper he's drawn a tiny boxing ring with two tiny stick figures. The larger one is labeled MUHAMMAD ALI, and it's delivering a solid punch to the much smaller one, labeled JOE FRAZIER...
...response from the so-called axis, not surprisingly, was hostile. Iran's religious leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, joining Bush in a name-calling standoff, said it is the U.S. that is "evil." North Korea said the speech was "little short of declaring war." And Iraq said, "Such threats do not scare...
Pakistan's roster of chief suspects includes operatives of Jaish-e-Muhammad and Pir Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, the leader of Jamaat al-Fuqra, an obscure extremist group that has branches in the U.S. The group is thought to have cultivated the shoe bomber Richard Reid's incipient fanaticism while he studied Islam in Pakistan. Pearl, it turns out, had hoped to interview Gilani for a story he was developing about Reid. Last week police raided the home of Pearl's liaison to Gilani, a man who goes by the alias "Arif." But inside they found his relatives mourning...
...IRAN Warring Words Iran responded angrily to continued U.S. claims that it is developing weapons of mass destruction. One military leader warned of "another Vietnam" if the U.S. struck Iran, and former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that the U.S. would find itself in a "bloody swamp." Amid the rhetoric was one sign of detente: after U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell accused Iran of trying to destabilize the interim Afghan government, Tehran said it may deport an Afghan warlord who opposes the Kabul regime...
...PAKISTAN Prime Suspect Authorities identified British-born militant Sheik Omar Saeed as the main suspect in the Jan. 23 kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl. Saeed allegedly set a trap for Pearl by posing as a representative of Sheik Mubarak Ali Gilani, a radical religious leader the reporter wanted to interview. Saeed has a history of abduction; in 1994, India jailed him for kidnapping tourists in Kashmir. He was released five years later in exchange for passengers on a hijacked airliner...