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...past two months. "This is a way of telling people that al-Zawahiri isn't dead," says a White House aide. The U.S. believes the two may still be hiding in Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas. There have also been unconfirmed reports that al-Zawahiri somehow fled to Chittagong, Bangladesh, in March. A source in the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence, a Bangladeshi military intelligence agency, told Time last week that bin Laden's deputy left Bangladesh this summer, crossing its eastern border into neighboring Myanmar with the help of the country's Muslim rebels. U.S. intelligence, however...
...whole, they're better off without Afghanistan. They now have total global mobility." Probably thousands of al-Qaeda sympathizers escaped the bombing in Afghanistan and made their way back to their home countries, traveling to Europe through Iran and Turkey or to Southeast Asia through Pakistan and Bangladesh. French officials are convinced that many graduates of the camps were sent out of Afghanistan before Sept. 11. (The five men detained in Lackawanna allegedly trained in Afghan camps in the summer of 2001.) "You have to wonder," says a French antiterrorism official, "how many were dispatched to Europe, Africa...
...addiction is also South Asia's. These days, the game's beating heart is in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, where an estimated 1.5 billion cricket fans, or 90 percent of the international cricket audience, live. All those eyes are now focused on Sri Lanka, where the world's best teams have gathered to compete for the Champions Trophy, an 18-day extravaganza that began on Sept. 12. Tournament organizers expect the event to pull in more South Asian viewers than the football World Cup attracted in June...
...Dhaka, Bangladesh 12.3 million...
...week, the peak of the summer monsoon season, and in their wake came death, destruction, and the fear of much worse to come. Tens of thousands of homes have been flooded in northern Vietnam, and an estimated total of 23 million people have been displaced in Nepal, India and Bangladesh. China was the most dangerously poised: the mighty Yangtze River swelled ominously, and the government claimed to have mobilized a million soldiers and civilians to bolster dikes around Dongting lake. By week's end, there was little evidence of immediate danger, but if the lake breaks its banks, the homes...