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...Karachi: Asia's Danger City
...Karachi: Asia's Danger City
Saddam may have been a dictator, but Bush and Blair were ruthless in attacking Iraq against the world's will, killing innocent people through heavy bombing. SAIDA BANO Karachi...
Pakistani intelligence officials patiently tracked the potato truck all the way from the tribal hinterlands near the Afghanistan border to the port city of Karachi. Then they pounced. And in one of the biggest coups of the antiterrorism campaign so far, they grabbed a Yemeni al-Qaeda leader named Waleed Muhammad bin Attash along with five Pakistanis who had stashed 330 lbs. of explosives and weapons under the produce. Another big fish netted in the raid was Ali Abd al-Aziz, a bin Laden bagman who, U.S. officials tell TIME, funneled nearly $120,000 to the Sept. 11 hijackers. Aziz...
...raid of the terrorists' lair yielded an additional 770 lbs. of explosives--in all, enough to level a city block. It was a timely haul. Interrogations revealed that Attash and his cohorts had imminent plans to crash a small plane laden with the explosives into the U.S. consulate in Karachi. That prompted the Department of Homeland Security to issue an advisory to all pilots and aircraft-rental companies, urging them to secure their planes in case other aerial attacks had been planned. "Just because these six have been arrested, it doesn't mean there's no longer a concern," warns...