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Musharraf knows that even more dangers lie ahead--for the U.S., Pakistan and, of course, the President. Just last week the Pakistani government announced it had foiled an assassination plot against Musharraf in April in Karachi that included a defector from Pakistan's paramilitary police force. Then, on Saturday, a group of armed men slaughtered 25 Hindus in a Kashmiri shantytown as they watched a Pakistan-India cricket match on TV. Indian police suspect a Pakistan-based Muslim militia. If so, the provocation would rank with the mass murder that sparked the May face-off. Now more than ever...
...desolate region that's nearly impossible to monitor. "It's literally the Wild West," says a high-ranking intelligence official. But some U.S. military officers and diplomats in Pakistan say that if bin Laden is alive, he has more likely melted into the teeming masses of a city like Karachi, staying out of sight while associates bring him food and supplies and keep watch for his pursuers...
...past, the U.S. has tried to nail bin Laden by tracking him electronically, using surveillance drones to listen to his communications and then drop a bomb fast. But military and intelligence sources say that since December his signal has gone dead. If he is hiding in a place like Karachi, he probably forgoes modern technologies. "You can't listen in when people don't talk," says a Pentagon official...
GHULAM HASNAIN, our Karachi-based reporter, and TIM PADGETT, our Miami bureau chief, canvassed South Florida's Muslim community for the story on Jose Padilla, a.k.a. Abdullah al-Muhajir...
HASNAIN "Back home in Karachi, where I was born and raised, Muslim extremist groups always eye mosques and seminaries for the new talent. When I was asked to help report the Padilla story last week while visiting the U.S., it was both shocking and painful to hear and see the same thing happening thousands of miles away in Florida. Amazingly, the tactics they employ in Florida to recruit future terrorists are similar, and the victims match the same profile. But unlike Karachi, where people take these things for granted, here in Florida the Muslim community is now awake...