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...ARRESTED. MOHAMMAD NOUR AL-DIN SAFFI, 36, stepson of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, on immigration charges; in Miami. Saffi, who worked as a commercial pilot in New Zealand, where he is a citizen, had enrolled in a Florida flight school for recertification training. Immigration officials say he was traveling as a tourist and had not applied for the necessary student visa...
...came out of jail in late 1992. Maybe he had aged out of petty crime, or maybe his girlfriend, Cherie Maria Stultz, had helped him control his temper. At a Taco Bell in Davie, Fla., Padilla and Stultz found jobs with and a mentor in the restaurant's manager, Mohammad Javed, a Pakistani immigrant. "They were poor but trying to make something of their lives--buy a car, establish a good credit rating, things like that," Javed says. Javed, a Muslim who now runs an Islamic elementary school in Broward County, insists he did not proselytize to his young employees...
...uncle of Yousef, though in the Arab world uncle can be a flexible term. Roland Jacquard, a French expert on Islamic terrorism, says Mohammed first came to the attention of American investigators as they searched for Yousef after the 1993 bombing. A man named Khaled al-Shaikh Mohammad attended Chowan College in North Carolina in 1984, but the FBI isn't certain he is the man they want. In 1995 Mohammed was in Manila, where Yousef planned the so-called Bojinka (Serbo-Croat for explosion) plot to blow up airliners as they flew from Asia to the U.S. The scheme...
...Strangely, moreover, in a country awash with guns, the boot camp is having difficulty obtaining weapons for training. Requests must go through the Ministry of Defense, the turf of Mohammad Qasim Fahim, who boasts a personal army of at least 18,000 men. In the run up to the loya jirga?an assembly to select a transitional government?current ministers are looking to shore up their own power. Fahim's support comes from his private troops, not the country's. To him, their needs take precedence, so the ANA must make do with only partially filled orders for gear. "Supporting...
...agency through the Kashmir conflict, according to Western diplomats. Now they're on the run. A Pakistani police investigator in the case remarked acidly, "It seems inconceivable that there isn't someone in ISI who knows where they're hiding." Maulana Masood Azhar, leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group to which most of the kidnap suspects belong, is under what a diplomat dubbed "country club" arrest at his home in Bahawalpur. Despite Musharraf's Jan. 12 ban on five extremist groups, most of their firebrand leaders were recently set free, a move that perplexed diplomats in Islamabad...