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...Qaeda. The U.S.-led coalition needed local proxies to prosecute the war in the Pashtun-dominated southeast. Zadran, who fought against the Soviets and the Taliban, found himself flush with U.S. cash and with an army of foot soldiers. Zadran and his extended clan actually ran the provinces of Khost, Paktia and Paktika for a few weeks last spring until he was chased out of Gardez by local tribal elders. He wants those jobs back...
PAKTIKA One of a long line of Pashtun tribal chiefs who have regarded Kabul's writ with indifference, PACHA KHAN ZADRAN is fighting Karzai's appointees to the governorships of Paktika and neighboring Khost. U.S. officers believe Zadran, who retains links with al-Qaeda and Taliban elements, may pose a danger to U.S. forces...
Pakistani extremist groups such as Jaish-e-Muhammad shared terrorist camps near the Afghan towns of Khost and Kandahar with al-Qaeda, according to Western diplomats and foreign intelligence officials in Islamabad. The Pakistanis provided al-Qaeda agents a network of safe houses in Pakistan to facilitate their transit in and out of Afghanistan. They also vetted new recruits for al-Qaeda and laundered terrorist funds through a global network of illegal money changers. It was no surprise to foreign spooks that the ISI let the Egyptian-Canadian Khadr escape from Peshawar. He knew too much, they say, about...
...practical level, Pakistani extremist groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammad shared terrorist camps near the Afghan towns of Khost and Kandahar with al-Qaeda, according to Western diplomats and intelligence officials in Islamabad. In turn, bin Laden's agents relied on these comrades to provide a network of safe houses for al-Qaeda agents as they crossed Pakistan on their way to and from their Afghan headquarters. The ISI also vetted new recruits and laundered terrorist funds through the hawala global network of informal money changers. Says Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia...
...from radical mosques and seminaries around Pakistan, fell in with al-Qaeda. For them bin Laden's messianic vision of Islam defeating the infidel world was compelling. Moreover, he had lots of cash. Pakistani extremist groups such as Jaish-e-Muhammad shared terrorist camps near the Afghan towns of Khost and Kandahar with al-Qaeda, according to Western diplomats and foreign intelligence officials in Islamabad. The Pakistanis provided al-Qaeda agents a network of safe houses in Pakistan to facilitate their transit in and out of Afghanistan. They also vetted new recruits for al-Qaeda and laundered terrorist funds through...