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...Musharraf started slowly, banning the two organizations that India linked to the Dec. 13 attack, Jaish-e-Muhammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba, and freezing their bank accounts. Then, under U.S. pressure, he had the groups' leaders, 22 of their henchmen and more than 100 other extremists arrested in the name of domestic security, and instructed his intelligence agency to scale back its support of insurgents going into Kashmir...
...previous week, Afghan militiamen had claimed to be closing in on fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar in Helmand province, but then the one-eyed cleric simply vanished. A month earlier at Tora Bora, local fighters claimed to have surrounded Osama bin Laden and some 2,000 of his henchmen in the cave complex, but by the time the last grotto fell, some 1,800 of those fighters - and bin Laden himself - were nowhere to be found...
...Musharraf started slowly, banning the two organizations that India linked to the Dec. 13 attack, Jaish-e-Muhammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba, and freezing their bank accounts. Then, under U.S. pressure, he had the groups' leaders, 22 of their henchmen and more than 100 other extremists arrested in the name of domestic security, and instructed his intelligence agency to scale back its support of insurgents going into Kashmir...
...Central Command chief, General Tommy Franks, said Friday. A Kandahar eyewitness told TIME that early in the week Omar was spotted heading into the hills around Argandhab, west of Kandahar, with five bodyguards. He was said to be riding on the back of a motorcycle, with his henchmen around him. On Friday Karzai told TIME, "I consider Omar a criminal, an associate of terrorists. He's a fugitive from...
...Central Command chief, General Tommy Franks, said Friday. A Kandahar eyewitness told TIME that early in the week Omar was spotted heading into the hills around Argandhab, west of Kandahar, with five bodyguards. He was said to be riding on the back of a motorcycle, with his henchmen around him. On Friday Karzai told Time, "I consider Omar a criminal, an associate of terrorists. He's a fugitive from...