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Nobody is certain what Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood has been up to in Afghanistan in the past three years--but nobody in the West much likes it either. Mahmood is one of Pakistan's leading nuclear engineers, a key part of the team that developed the country's small arsenal of atom bombs. According to a lot of people, he also may be a little flaky. The fact that since 1998, so loose a nuclear cannon has been traveling in and out of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, where he has helped the Afghans construct a complex of buildings he describes...
...this and other reasons that Pakistan detained Mahmood and two of his colleagues to determine if the three scientists may have been passing nuclear expertise, raw materials or--worse--functioning weaponry on to the Taliban. So far, nothing Islamabad has learned has proved that the men have indeed been trafficking in secrets, and they have been released. But nothing has put all doubts to rest either...
...pocket American dollars. Even Zahir Shah, who stood to benefit most, inexplicably failed to send a personal representative. And the maneuvering in Peshawar ignores a harsh reality. When you ask four Afghan refugees who should rule their country, you get four different answers. Ghulan Sarwar, 50, favors the King. Mahmood Ayub, 25, says only the Taliban can maintain peace and proper Islam. He would go and fight for it now if he had food for his family. Twentyish Amanullah is Uzbek and says former President Burhanuddin Rabbani must rule because he is a family relative. Mohammed Daoud...
...WESSEX (alias Sophie Rhys-Jones, alias Countess of Wessex, a.k.a. wife of Prince Edward). One evening she met a handsome Arab, whom the Countess charmed so he would live happily ever after as her client. Alas for her! Her future intended (client) was actually white-robed undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood, hired by the ruthless press baron Rupert Murdoch to tape their talk. The villain offered Sophie a choice: have a deeply personal chat with the News of the World, and the tapes would be hers. Or else. And so it was done. But alack! A Murdoch rival, the Mail...
...tumor known as cathepsin b. The enzyme turns on the compound "like a switch," said Research Fellow in Radiology Ching H. Tung, who co-authored the experiment with first author Weissleder, senior author and Assistant Professor of Radiology Alexei A. Bogdanov and Clinical Fellow in Radiology Umar Mahmood...