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...entered England through a Channel port two weeks before the blasts, despite being on a security watch list as a suspected al-Qaeda member. London police said there was nothing yet to link him to the plot, but a Pakistani official told Time that two British investigators traveled to Islamabad last week to check on his contacts and whether he went to the frontier region where Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, may be hiding. Working with Britain and Saudi Arabia, the U.S. froze bank accounts of the London-based Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia, which...
DIED. William F. Keough, 55, former superintendent of the American International School in Islamabad, Pakistan, who was visiting the U.S. embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, when it was taken over by Iranian radicals, and became one of 52 American hostages held captive for 444 days; of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease); in Washington. Keough was the first of the hostages to die since their release...
...interviews with Pakistanis, Afghans and Westerners in Peshawar and Quetta, Pakistan's two gateway cities to Afghanistan, as well as in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, evidence emerges that a large portion of the U.S. military aid--some claim as much as 50%--never reaches the mujahedin. Because of the secrecy that surrounds the pipeline (Pakistan denies that it exists), the figure is difficult to confirm. In Washington, Reagan Administration officials and members of Congress concede that shipments to Afghanistan are being skimmed, but there is sharp disagreement over how significant the losses...
Last week, Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims traveled to Islamabad's Bari Imam shrine to commemorate the life of Shah Abdul Latif Kazmi, a 17th century Sufi saint?and repudiate the deadly sectarianism bedeviling Pakistan. Instead, Friday's gathering became a bloodbath when a terrorist blew himself up in a tent full of Shi'ite celebrants, killing at least 20 people...
...bearded, heavyset man whose face is splotched by a skin disease, al-Libbi first developed ties with bin Laden in the early 1990s, when bin Laden was based in Sudan. According to a Pakistani intelligence source in Islamabad, al-Libbi became one of bin Laden's few trusted aides. After allegedly organizing the assassination attempts on Musharraf in 2003, al-Libbi fled to Waziristan, a mountainous area along the Afghan border that has long been outside the reach of Pakistani law. After the Pakistani army mounted an offensive in the region in March 2004, al-Libbi and other al-Qaeda...