Word: khalid
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...July. But snaring the al-Qaeda leader would be a huge coup for Bush, damaging the network of international Islamic extremists and proving that U.S. preparations for a possible war in Iraq have not compromised the fight against terrorism. With the capture on March 1 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the chairman of al-Qaeda's operations committee who is thought to have masterminded the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, hopes ran high that bin Laden--the most wanted man in the world--would be the next terrorist kingpin taken...
...Pakistani authorities, who were anxious, says a source, that he might have been planning an assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf. A senior Pakistani intelligence officer denies that Mohammed was tortured. "We used temperature discomfort and sleep deprivation," says this officer, who claims that no more was needed. "Khalid was talking. He was cooperating. He wasn't defiant at all." A few days later, according to Pakistani sources, Mohammed was flown in a U.S. Chinook helicopter to the American air base at Bagram, Afghanistan, north of Kabul. U.S. sources will not confirm that Mohammed was taken to Bagram...
...little better in Indonesia where the Bali investigation may have seriously dented the capabilities of JI. In April, Indonesia will start the first trial in the Bali case, seeking to convict Amrozi, 40, who allegedly transported the bomb materials from Java to the resort island. And the capture of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, JI's sponsor in al-Qaeda, should also lessen the risk of further attacks in Asia. But the most dangerous man in JI is still at large: Hambali, the group's operations chief...
...Hambali helped plot the 9/11 attacks, and he met with Mohammed in Karachi in 2001 to plan a major terrorist strike in Asia?deliberations that led to the Bali bombings. "The arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed does make the role of Hambali in Southeast Asia much more important," says Zachary Abuza, author of a forthcoming book about al-Qaeda in Asia. But Hambali is now clearly on the run and, according to a regional intelligence source, "that will cramp his style quite a bit." The last confirmed sighting of Hambali was in Bangkok in February 2002. Some...
...With the approach of war, a familiar recklessness boils up from the American id; you catch it, for example, in the talk-show braying about various ingeniously horrible ways that the U.S. ought to be torturing Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. (I have been trying to decide how much anti-Arab bigotry goes into this: Would the braying be as graphic and gleeful if the terrorist were a Whiffenpoof? Maybe...