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...Saudi financier who recruited and led Arab volunteers for the 'jihad' against the Soviet invaders in Afghanistan. Since that war, he has sent his "Arab Afghans" to fight in Bosnia, Chechnya, Kashmir and other conflicts involving Muslims. But he also declared a 'jihad' against the United States, declaring it the duty of all Muslims to kill American soldiers and civilians. Bin Laden, of course, has no religious standing, and his religious rationalization of terrorism is fiercely rejected by mainstream Islam. The fugitive Saudi has been accused of authoring a number of attacks on Americans, most notably the 1998 embassy bombings...
...JULY 16 2 A.M. At the talks, the first sign of trouble erupts as Pakistan issues an angry denial of India's claim that Kashmir was not discussed. In Bhatato Ramsoo, a hamlet in the lap of the Peerpanjal hills overlooking the main Srinagar-Jammu highway, gunmen burst into a mud-walled house and, without a word, open fire. Herdsman Mohammed Shaffi, his wife Fatima, daughter Janoo and another relative are shot dead. The killers then enter a neighbor's house and kidnap the owner, Nizamuddin. (He remains missing.) Soon after the first shootings, rebels attack army camps at Waripora...
...JULY 18 NOON Two days after the summit, commentators concur Musharraf has emerged as the best spin master. But the meeting ended without tangible accomplishments. From the start, there was no formal agenda; the two sides weren't even able to decide how to describe the 54-year-old Kashmir imbroglio. (Pakistan wanted to call it a "dispute"; India insisted on the more watery "issue.") As television commentators haggle over semantic scraps and militants vow to step up their jihad, mourning continues in Kashmir?and not only for the recent dead. A few hundred people gather to lay a foundation...
...after the ceremony, the foundation stone vanishes. Nearby townspeople report seeing police remove it along with the brick base in the night. The next day Inspector General Ashok Kumar Bhan confirms his men's involvement, claiming the mourners were trespassing on state-owned land under Section 447 of the Kashmir penal code. "Obviously they cannot erect such a thing on government land," he says. The summit is over and forgotten; the mourning in Kashmir?whatever sort is allowed?continues...