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...terror highlights the tinderbox that western Pakistan has become since 9/11. U.S. forces find themselves restrained by political and diplomatic concerns from pursuing enemy targets inside Pakistan, while the loyalties of Pakistan's security forces are clearly divided. Those forces - especially the Frontier Corps that guards the border - can be crudely characterized as being pro-Taliban (the Afghan Islamist movement is based in the Pashtun ethnic group found on both sides of the border) but hostile to al-Qaeda, which is composed of foreigners. But both organizations are found in Pakistan's lawless Federally Administered Tribal Areas, where Osama...
...Pakistan yet, but recent exchanges involving American and Pakistani forces along the Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier are sounding like a sputtering fuse that's growing ever shorter. The latest series of "pops" occurred Thursday, when Pakistani forces fired on a pair of U.S. OH-58 scout helicopters buzzing along the border, and U.S. and Pakistani ground troops then exchanged fire. Pakistani officials insisted the choppers had crossed into their airspace, but U.S. officials said the incident occurred more than a mile inside Afghanistan - and the mountainous region is so poorly mapped that both sides likely believe what they are saying...
...York, Pakistan's new president, Asif Ali Zardari, said his country's forces had fired only warning flares at the choppers. "Sometimes the border is so mixed that they don't realize they have crossed the border," he told reporters before a session with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. But the disquieting clash comes as U.S. forces have stepped up attacks on safe havens just inside Pakistan that have been used by militants to stage attacks on U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. Just this week, Pakistan's army claimed to have found the wreckage of a U.S drone...
...Department was "de-escalate." General David Petraeus, who has just stepped down as head of U.S. troops in Iraq and who in a month will become head of U.S. Central Command, which includes Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, says Pakistan's very existence is threatened by the turmoil along its border with Afghanistan. "Pakistan faces a threat that certainly seems to be an existential threat," he told reporters Thursday in Paris. Echoing a growing Pentagon refrain, Petraeus likened the enemy in western Pakistan to a "syndicate" made up of "some true al-Qaeda, some Taliban, and in between different forms...
...kept telling them I was just a cameraman." Al-Hajj believes his arrest in Afghanistan was largely a result of bad timing. As the Taliban's control over Kandahar evaporated in December 2001, the Jazeera man joined dozens of other journalists attempting to enter Afghanistan from Pakistan. Pakistani border officials singled him out, he says, telling him there was a problem with his passport. But even when an intelligence officer arrived to take him away, the cameraman had little sense of danger - he felt sure his arrest was a mistake. He believes that U.S. officials had ordered the arrest...