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...Selamah arrived in the Philippines in or around 1992. Philippine intelligence sources believe him to have been a close associate of Mohammad Jamal Khalifa, brother-in-law and Philippines point man of Osama bin Laden. A veteran of the Afghan jihad, Khalifa is believed to have first visited the southern Philippines in 1988, setting up Islamic charities and a rattan business while recruiting Muslim youth to fight in Afghanistan. In Cotabato, his Islamic Relief Organization (IRO) opened offices in town opposite the bishop's residence. Embarrassingly for the MILF?which has angrily denied links with international terror?Khalifa's associate...
There are pockets of resistance, however. One is the Heather Hill subdivision in Randolph, N.J., where my sister and brother-in-law are rearing three kids. It's a neighborly enclave that has redirected its children from distant sleepover camps to their own backyards. Each day this summer most Heather Hill kids will take just a few hours of community recreational programs. That will leave plenty of time for the neighborhood's traditional yard-to-yard water-gun battles...
Camps in rural areas say they are safer for kids today. But Heather Hill parents don't buy it. "Safer?" snaps my brother-in-law. "'Rural area' is a euphemism for a meadow filled with poison ivy and snakes." He likes the idea of all those Tom Sawyers and Becky Thatchers running from yard to yard this summer...
...custody, has been waiting months for the CIA to talk to him. The former deputy interior minister of the Taliban says he has valuable information to share with U.S. intelligence--and claims he may be able to help locate former Taliban leader Mullah Omar. (Khaksar's brother-in-law is a top aide to Omar and may be on the run with the fleeing leader.) But until TIME alerted the U.S. military in Kabul in late January of Khaksar's desire to talk, no American officials had spoken with him. Two weeks later, Khaksar met with an American general...
...According to Khaksar, the reason the U.S. hadn't been able to find Mullah Omar so far is that it has been relying on "liars" and tribal chieftains who were using U.S. firepower to wreak revenge on their ancient enemies. (Khaksar's brother-in-law is Mullah Salaam, one of Omar's closest advisers; indeed, Salaam may be on the run with Omar.) What does Khaksar want for his hoard of information? Safe passage for his family to a location of his choice. Not Pakistan, he says - too dangerous and too full of ex-Taliban and ISI agents who want...