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...embassy in Paris, along with five other Algerians. Further arrests are made in Bosnia Sept. 29, 2001 Police in Wiesbaden, Germany take Talip Tolgay and two other terrorist suspects into custody. Weapons, fake identity and credit cards and an invoice for a return air ticket to Islamabad via London are seized Oct. 1, 2001 Sulayman Balal Zain-ul-abidin (a.k.a. Frances Etim) apprehended in London. Zain-ul-Abidin was linked to Sakina Security, the company that reportedly offered Muslims combat training in Afghan camps Oct. 8, 2001 Bensayah Belkacem, suspected ringleader of Bosnian cell, arrested in Zenica, Bosnia...
...days before Ze'evi's death, India, in retaliation for a suicide bombing that killed 42 people in Srinagar, launched a bombardment across the Line of Control into Pakistani-held Kashmir. The attack took place on the very day that Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Islamabad to pledge American support to the government of Pakistan. Later in the week he pledged an identical degree of support to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government in New Delhi. Powell would dearly love to persuade India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir question peacefully. But intermediaries have been trying...
...doubt that? Then listen to Muzammal Shah, a member of the Kashmiri radical group Lashkar-e-Tayyaba in Islamabad. "Thousands of Kashmiris have been martyred," he says. "We cannot let the blood of those people go to waste." To touch those who define life as a blood feud, diplomacy, however skillful, is a trembling wand...
...Baluchistan, the all-powerful and mercurial bureaucrat who decides which journalists are permitted to travel to the Afghan border. Along with two French photographers, I was finally allowed into his office. We weren't the only ones: aid workers, Japanese and Lebanese journalists, a senior civil servant from Islamabad, and a few tribal elders were all waiting, too. All of us were sitting in straight-backed chairs along the wall like humble supplicants in an Ottoman court, while the Home Secretary, Azmat Hanif Orakzai, fielded phone calls from the governor and the garrison commander. He put the phone down...
...well as rallying other Pashtun warlords against the Taliban. (So far, there are few signs of mass defection.) But the other crucial factor shaping the political guidelines for the conduct of the war is the U.S. reliance on Pakistan, which is firmly opposed to the Northern Alliance taking Kabul. Islamabad, instead, wants to rehabilitate the Taliban, minus Mullah Omar and Bin Laden, and give it an important role in a new government - a prospect rejected by the Northern Alliance...