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...DIED. ASIM GHAFOOR, Islamic militant allegedly linked to the outlaw group Harakatul Mujahideen; after being shot by police; in Islamabad. 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...
...Tariq had survived numerous assassination attempts. Critics say the administration of President Pervez Musharraf has no strategy to deal with the violence. It better find one soon. Tariq's party, the MIP, has demanded the government arrest his killers. If it doesn't, warned the MIP's Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem at a Karachi rally: "We know how to take revenge." Building a Case SWEDEN A Stockholm court ruled that the main suspect in the murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh could be held for two more weeks. Police said DNA tests conducted in the U.K. on the knife used...
...reckless foes unafraid of their own obliteration. In Kandahar last Thursday, on the eve of U.S. ground attacks there, the local mood brimmed with contempt for the Taliban and their terrorist guests and with anticipation that their hold may soon disintegrate. "Taliban and [Afghan] Arabs are fools," said Abdul Ghafoor, 45, a Kandahar resident. "Fools don't think when they burn themselves." If so, they had better watch out, because the fire has started...
...deserted its homes and offices?the group's ever-busy Department of Vice and Virtue was damaged in the last two weeks?and has relocated to mosques or occupied the houses of ordinary people in congested neighborhoods. "They know the U.S. won't hit a mosque," says Abdul Ghafoor, 45, a truck driver. Locals claim that Arab allies of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban have lodged themselves in buildings left empty by various NGOs and U.N.-affiliated organizations, which were vacated when the U.S. attacks seemed inevitable...
...reckless foes unafraid of their own obliteration. In Kandahar last Thursday, on the eve of U.S. ground attacks there, the local mood brimmed with contempt for the Taliban and their terrorist guests and with anticipation that their hold may soon disintegrate. "Taliban and [Afghan] Arabs are fools," said Abdul Ghafoor, 45, a Kandahar resident. "Fools don't think when they burn themselves." If so, they had better watch out, because the fire has started...
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