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...Photo reconnaissance has not captured any "signatures" showing regular movement by guards or vehicles that might belong to bin Laden. He apparently communicates only by personal couriers who ride motorcycles and buses to pass messages from the tribal areas to al-Qaeda's enclaves in cities like Peshawar and Karachi. U.S. experts suspect his presence is known only to the hard core of no more than 20 dedicated guards who are pledged to die rather than give...
...DIED. BILQUEES ZARDARI, 70, mother-in-law of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto; after quickly deteriorating from a chest infection; in Karachi. Bhutto lives in self-exile in London. Her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, jailed since 1996 on corruption charges, was temporarily released last week to visit his ailing mother, and is being allowed to attend her funeral...
...RELEASED. ASIF ALI ZARDARI, 46, husband of self-exiled Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto who has been in jail on corruption charges since 1996, to visit his ailing mother for three days; in Karachi. The temporary freedom may be a show of leniency as President Pervez Musharraf's government attempts to deter Bhutto's powerful Pakistan People's Party from allying with Islamic fundamentalists to form a coalition government...
...April, Ali allegedly started negotiations in San Diego to sell hashish and heroin to a buyer, who happened to be an undercover FBI agent. Apparently he then got on a plane to Pakistan to gather his two friends. On Sept. 15, say court papers, the threesome flew from Karachi to Hong Kong and checked into three rooms at the marble-clad Conrad Hotel, where the average room costs $210 per night. According to the indictment, the deal then firmed up: the three men offered 5 metric tons of hashish and 600 kilos of heroin. They later agreed, says the indictment...
...these doses weren't enough, we are prepared with the help of Allah to inject further doses." Hanning's analysts figured he was referring to the April 11 synagogue bombing on the Tunisian island of Djerba that killed 21, including 11 German tourists; and the May 8 ambush in Karachi that killed 11 French naval engineers. The attack on the French tanker Limburg off Yemen just days before the broadcast only heightened suspicions. Al-Zawahiri seemed to be describing a campaign to punish Europe - specifically, France and Germany - for supporting the U.S. in its war against al-Qaeda. Several websites...