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...Karim and Bukhari were fellow travelers on the jihad circuit, having fought together in Kashmir and Afghanistan. Bukhari ran a boot camp for Kashmiri volunteers inside Afghanistan?a camp that intelligence sources say was used to train members of al-Qaeda. In his Kashmir activities, Bukhari was also known, and abetted, by Pakistani intelligence services?a connection that worries U.S. officials looking into Pearl's death...
SENTENCED. MOHAMMED AFZAL, 31, SYED ABDUL RAHMAN GEELANI, 40, and SHAUKAT HUSSAIN GURU, 35, three Kashmiri Muslims; to death under India's tough new Prevention of Terrorism Act, for helping to plot the December 2001 suicide attack on the Indian Parliament; in New Delhi. India accused Pakistan of being behind the attack, in which a five-man suicide squad killed nine people before being gunned down, nearly pushing the two countries to war. Indian human-rights activists have criticized the conviction, saying that the evidence, mainly phone transcripts, was not strong enough...
...Alan Kuperman, author of a detailed history of the Stingers' use in Afghanistan published in 1999 in Political Science Quarterly, suggests some of the Afghan Stingers ended up on the black market and could have fallen into the hands of a variety of groups, including Kashmiri rebels, Indian Sikhs, and Palestinian militants...
...country is always at risk because al-Qaeda needs an existing support structure for communications and sanctuary, easily provided by Pakistan-based extremists fighting a jihad in Kashmir. The failed attack on Parliament last December, which ended with 14 dead including the five suicide terrorists, was an example of Kashmiri separatist terrorism. Now, security agencies are bracing for the next big strike, which they fear could target Western government or business interests. "We don't know what and where it will be," says an Indian intelligence official, "but it will certainly be dramatic...
...militants, backed by Pakistani religious extremists, are waging a 12-year long insurgency which has cost over 36,000 lives. This drop in hostilities might be momentary. In general elections on Oct. 10, Pakistani religious groups made a strong showing, and if they force Musharraf to resume support for Kashmiri guerrillas, it could draw India and Pakistan into yet another dangerous showdown...