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Afghans "have not been a major component of the transnational jihadi network," says Kamran Bokhari, director of Middle East analysis at the intelligence firm Stratfor. Afghan jihadis have tended to join the Taliban, which has traditionally limited its attentions to Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. But Robert Grenier, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, believes the Taliban's worldview has changed a great deal since the government it ran was overthrown by the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. "The Afghan Taliban see themselves quite differently now from 9/11: many of the leaders now see themselves as part of the global...
...know if the Taliban has been specifically recruiting Afghans for international operations. If the charges against him are true, Zazi may be no more than "an instrument of opportunity, someone who got in touch with them, who shared their ideology, and whom they thought they could use," says Bokhari. According to the Associated Press, a government document filed in connection with the case states that Zazi on Sept. 6 and 7, tried on multiple times to communicate with another person "seeking to correct mixtures of ingredients to make explosives." "Each communication," the AP quoted the document as saying, was "more...
...Pakistani officials claim that Ghafoor had ties to Amjad Farooqi, a suspected al-Qaeda operative killed in September who was wanted in connection with the 2002 killing of journalist Daniel Pearl as well as two assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf. Deputy inspector general of police Javed Ali Shah Bokhari said Ghafoor "had a role in all terrorist activities orchestrated by [Farooqi...
...criticism of Musharraf is getting louder. His newfound moderation in Kashmir--he has at least temporarily choked the flow of militants into India--has further eroded his popular support among hard-liners. "He abandoned Afghanistan, claiming it was necessary to save other Pakistani interests, including Kashmir," says Farhan Bokhari, a member of the radical Islamic group Hizb ut-Tehrir. "Now he's abandoning Kashmir." India distrusts Musharraf utterly, and its battalions remain poised on the border. His embrace of Washington has earned him the sneering nickname at home of "Bush-arraf." While publicly supportive of the President, the U.S. doesn...
...rotated among royalty every five years. RETIREMENT ANNOUNCED. Of DICK ARMEY, 65, the House of Representatives Republican majority leader since 1995; in Washington, D.C. Armey, extolled by fellow Texan George W. Bush for his tax-cutting agenda, will step down after completing his term in January 2003. AWARDED. SHAHNAZ BOKHARI, 45, a Pakistani psychologist and publisher, the Weimar's Human Rights Prize for sheltering and tending to victims of domestic violence; in Weimar, Germany. Bokhari, outspoken about women's rights, is seeking to abolish the Pakistani tradition of condemning to death women who commit adultery. DIED. LARRY COSTELLO...