Word: diplomat
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...teeming slums of Lahore and Karachi may no longer be safe; the night before the raid on Binalshibh's safe house, according to a Pakistani law-enforcement official, intelligence operatives picked up 15 men for questioning on terrorist activities in raids on two neighborhoods in eastern Karachi. A Western diplomat in Islamabad thinks it is now sufficiently dangerous for al-Qaeda members to move around Pakistan and communicate with each other that the network's strength has been affected...
...were aggressively dismissive of the terrorist threat a year ago--are now actively involved in the crackdown. They've done a "fantastic job," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism analyst at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, "unearthing cells, sharing intelligence, doing pre-emptive arrests and raids." An American diplomat in Europe adds that law-enforcement authorities in Southeast Asia are cooperating with the U.S. far more than before. "The effort worldwide and in Afghanistan," the diplomat says, "did a better job of tearing the guts out of al-Qaeda than we give ourselves credit...
...event that Iraq failed to comply. Instead, Saddam's offer revived uncertainty. France and Russia, two pivotal Security Council members that had begun to shift toward the U.S. hard line, now hailed a triumph for diplomacy and questioned the need to place new demands on Baghdad. Says a French diplomat: "You cannot threaten someone before you have started...
...Karzai, have survived attempts. Given the country's ethnic rivalries and chronic warlordism, the loss of Karzai--a popular member of the majority Pashtuns--could send Afghanistan reeling back toward the chaos that bin Laden found so hospitable. "Karzai has no real power base of his own," says a diplomat in Kabul. "But as a Pashtun leader who has earned real respect in Afghanistan and internationally, he is close to irreplaceable. His loss would be a catastrophe." With each day, it is one that is getting harder to prevent. --Reported by Anthony Davis/Kabul, Phil Zabriskie/Kandahar and Massimo Calabresi/Washington
Administration officials say they're studying the idea. But other Security Council members are wary of arming inspectors. A senior British diplomat says the Iraqi army would probably treat military-backed inspectors as a hostile force. "You can begin an arms spiral," says the official. "Where does it end?" The answer, as in so many scenarios involving Iraq, is war. --By Romesh Ratnesar. With reporting by Massimo Calabresi and Mark Thompson/Washington and Stewart Stogel/U.N...