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DOUGLAS WALLER, a former congressional staff member, knows the defense industry from the inside out, having reported on everything from the U.S. invasion of Panama to the plan to thwart Osama Bin Laden. To bring us this week's story on the U.S. plot to oust Slobodan Milosevic, Waller, our State Department correspondent, canvassed officials in the intelligence community and the State Department, as well as nongovernment agencies that provide aid overseas. "No one person has all the information," he says. "There is not a silver bullet of a source." His experience suggests that covering the diplomacy...
...million bounty on his head and applied sanctions against his hosts, but accused superterrorist Osama bin Laden may be outspending Washington. Afghanistan?s rulers on Wednesday pooh-poohed the sanctions announced by President Clinton Tuesday to pressure them into ceasing their support for the Bin Laden network. And Bin Laden could well be in a position to handsomely compensate his hosts for some of their losses. While U.S. trade with Afghanistan amounted to little more than $28 million last year, Bin Laden is reported by the AP to have recently taken delivery of as much as $50 million in donations...
...only worrying because they?re going to the man accused of planning last summer?s terror bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; they?re reportedly coming from elements of the very business elite that the U.S. views as the most innately pro-Western constituency in Arab countries. Bin Laden may have been disowned by his wealthy family and stripped of Saudi citizenship, but his message evidently resonates with more than only impoverished and disenfranchised elements. "In the U.S. it is assumed that if Arabs are well-off and educated that they automatically love America," says TIME Middle East...
...correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "Pakistan may be tempted to defend the infiltrators by attacking Indian planes, but that would mean a full-scale war." Pakistan has denied responsibility for the incursion by heavily armed insurgents, some of whom may have been trained in the Afghanistan camps of alleged superterrorist Osama Bin Laden. But Islamabad's protestations of innocence are dismissed in New Delhi, which insists that an incursion of this scale could not have been undertaken without active Pakistani military involvement. Thursday's shoot-down is taken by India as further proof of Pakistani complicity. The countries have fought...
...India accused Pakistan of planning an incursion by some 600 heavily-armed guerrillas, including what the Indian authorities call "Afghan mercenaries." (Many Kashmiri Islamic fighters are trained in the Afghan camps run by alleged terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden, which were targeted by U.S. missiles last year.) Pakistan denies the charge. Tensions in Kashmir have mounted over the past year, but the air strikes mark a dramatic escalation. India and Pakistan have fought three wars in 52 years, two of them over Kashmir. A festering border dispute could take on new meaning now that both sides have nuclear weapons...