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Pakistani intelligence officials believe al-Qaeda is attempting to regroup by linking up with Pakistani graduates from Afghan terrorist training camps who came home to continue their lethal struggle. Officials think al-Qaeda is now contracting out terror assignments to Pakistani militant groups, especially the banned extremist groups Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Muhammad. "These are branch offices. They are using Pakistanis as servants," says a Pakistani terrorism expert...
...Laden's network is far from finished. As an extremist detained by Pakistani authorities recently told his interrogators, "Al-Qaeda is nowhere, and it is everywhere. If Americans are after us, we are after them." That chilling threat is what makes the hunt for al-Qaeda's latest Pakistan hideouts so urgent...
That loyalty, however, is being tested. By going moderate, Musharraf has alienated many of his former supporters and fomented the bitter sense that he is merely America's lackey. Just listen to an active member of Jaish-e-Muhammad, an extremist group implicated in attacks in India-controlled Kashmir. "Musharraf has crossed all limits," he says, insisting on anonymity. "There will be more suicide attacks. We are ready to sacrifice our lives." Pakistan police say groups like Jaish-e-Muhammad, which possibly have links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, want Musharraf's whole Yankee-loving crowd eliminated. Such...
...covered the city's Latino street-gang culture. So when the Jose Padilla story broke last week, I felt as though I knew this guy. What I wasn't as familiar with, however, was the Muslim culture Jose had embraced here in Florida in the early '90s, especially the extremist brand of Islam he later adopted. As a result, to explain this tragic turn his life took, I relied on Islamic community leaders in Broward County and colleagues like Hasnain to help me understand the thuggish subculture that is perverting Islam--which turned out to be just another, albeit deadlier...
HASNAIN "Back home in Karachi, where I was born and raised, Muslim extremist groups always eye mosques and seminaries for the new talent. When I was asked to help report the Padilla story last week while visiting the U.S., it was both shocking and painful to hear and see the same thing happening thousands of miles away in Florida. Amazingly, the tactics they employ in Florida to recruit future terrorists are similar, and the victims match the same profile. But unlike Karachi, where people take these things for granted, here in Florida the Muslim community is now awake...