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...Americans in both countries are between two fires: if they continue they bleed to death and if they withdraw they lose everything." AYMAN AL-ZAWAHRI, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, in a videotaped broadcast on al-Jazeera, predicting defeat for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan...
...Musharraf's deadly bout with al-Qaeda, the latest round has decisively been his. But a victory bell isn't expected soon. Bin Laden is still at large. "There is a perception that we have Osama hidden somewhere," the President said, "and we'll bring him out close to the American elections. We can't. We don't have any idea where Osama is." Al-Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, announced on a video released last week that holy warriors, or mujahedin, were winning the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Pakistan has arrested more than 550 al-Qaeda...
...prodding by the U.S., Musharraf has clamped down on some of the country's 13,000 registered madrasahs, or seminaries, which are al-Qaeda's richest recruiting ground in Pakistan. A prominent imam at Islamabad's Lal Mosque, Maulana Abdul Aziz, disappeared on Aug. 13 after police captured bin Laden's former chauffeur, who had borrowed the religious leader's car, according to police. The Arab driver was allegedly involved in the Independence Day rocket plot. "This is significant," says one Washington official. "Pakistan's engagement in the war on terror is all the more visible with these detentions...
...mastermind, he says, was a Libyan named Abu Faraj Farj who is hiding "somewhere in the mountains," probably near Afghanistan. But Musharraf has been forced to delay taking on domestic extremists because of their complicated history with the Pakistani government and army. Some militant organizations now allied to bin Laden were once clandestinely funded and supported by Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), to wage war in Afghanistan and Indian-controlled Kashmir. (In the case of the Kashmir conflict, Pakistan has always denied giving anything but moral support to the cause of Kashmiri self-determination, but militants...
...meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants, and give it to him so he leaves you in peace?" VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian President, sarcastically rejecting calls for dialogue with Chechen separatists following the school siege that left more than 350 parents, teachers and children dead...