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...assisted the Koreans? U.S. officials suspect Pakistan. China and Russia also make centrifuges, but surely neither wants a nuclear-armed North Korea next door. Islamabad and Pyongyang, however, made natural partners: Pakistan had the Bomb but no missiles to deliver it, and North Korea is the world's most active missile proliferator, especially to customers who can't shop elsewhere. In 1998 Pakistan tested a homemade Ghauri medium-range ballistic missile that the U.S. believes originated in North Korea...
...theory, the government of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is committed to routing al-Qaeda elements from redoubts within Pakistan. But Islamabad holds little sway in the tribal regions of the northwestern frontier, which are largely autonomous and which just voted in district governments with Islamist agendas...
...feeling here," says a senior French investigator, "is that the Americans are doing an excellent job in police and intelligence terms." Not everything goes according to plan. High-tech listening devices are of no use if nobody sends an electronic message. "The bad guys," says a Western diplomat in Islamabad, "have been taught that talking on cell phones or sat phones is a no-no. Now they are delivering messages on motorcycles." Raids on Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan aimed at finding al-Qaeda men have been compromised by leaks from local police and intelligence services. And--as happened earlier...
...After visiting Guant?namo twice and interrogating the prisoners themselves, officials from Islamabad contend that only eight of the 58 Pakistani detainees had genuine links with al-Qaeda. Most, they say, were wannabe jihadis who were recruited from Pakistani mosques and crossed the frontier last October to join the Taliban after the war began. Their average age is between 20 and 22. "They broke down and cried when they saw us," says one Pakistani official. In Guant?namo, the Pakistani envoys say they asked the American jailors: "Why did you waste your time and money bringing them to Cuba when you could...
...Islamabad, insiders say that both countries were often only a few steps away from all-out war over the past eight months. There was a constant rain of artillery fire on both sides of the border, and both armies were placed on highest alert in March following riots?Muslim-Hindu riots in Gujarat and last month when Muslim gunmen besieged a Hindu temple in the same western Indian state. These sources say that the U.S. played a key role in keeping the two nations at bay. On at least one occasion, the Pentagon's spy satellites picked up a sudden...