Word: ladens
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...Americans in both countries are between two fires: if they continue they bleed to death and if they withdraw they lose everything." AYMAN AL-ZAWAHRI, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, in a videotaped broadcast on al-Jazeera, predicting defeat for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan...
...prodding by the U.S., Musharraf has clamped down on some of the country's 13,000 registered madrasahs, or seminaries, which are al-Qaeda's richest recruiting ground in Pakistan. A prominent imam at Islamabad's Lal Mosque, Maulana Abdul Aziz, disappeared on Aug. 13 after police captured bin Laden's former chauffeur, who had borrowed the religious leader's car, according to police. The Arab driver was allegedly involved in the Independence Day rocket plot. "This is significant," says one Washington official. "Pakistan's engagement in the war on terror is all the more visible with these detentions...
...mastermind, he says, was a Libyan named Abu Faraj Farj who is hiding "somewhere in the mountains," probably near Afghanistan. But Musharraf has been forced to delay taking on domestic extremists because of their complicated history with the Pakistani government and army. Some militant organizations now allied to bin Laden were once clandestinely funded and supported by Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), to wage war in Afghanistan and Indian-controlled Kashmir. (In the case of the Kashmir conflict, Pakistan has always denied giving anything but moral support to the cause of Kashmiri self-determination, but militants...
...meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants, and give it to him so he leaves you in peace?" VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian President, sarcastically rejecting calls for dialogue with Chechen separatists following the school siege that left more than 350 parents, teachers and children dead...
...allies than battlefield victories or intelligence reforms. That struggle did not become immediate for most Americans until Sept. 11, 2001, but it has burned in the Islamic world for decades. On one side are the proselytizers of radical Islam, many of whom celebrate the hateful vision of Osama bin Laden. The slaughter last week of hundreds of schoolchildren in Russia by a group of Chechen rebels that Russian officials say may have included foreign Islamic militants was the latest reminder of the terrorists' depravity. On the other side are Islamic moderates, those who believe Muslims can coexist peacefully with people...