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...briefing took place in the last days of the Clinton Administration or the early days of Bush's term. White House official Richard Clarke, who will testify before Congress this week, ran the CSG during both terms.) In early 2000 the CIA identified two attendees of the meeting as Nawaz al Hamzi and Khalid al Midhar. The pair would eventually help hijack Flight 77 and crash it into the Pentagon. In 2000, while tracking the two, the CIA failed to refer them to the INS's terrorism watch list, allowing them to enter the U.S. A congressional intelligence source told...
...nukes a few months earlier; last week in Washington, Bruce Riedel, senior director at the National Security Council, revealed that the Pakistani army, without informing its own government, had mobilized its nuclear arsenal at the height of the conflict. Former U.S. President Clinton persuaded then-Pakistani Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif to withdraw his forces, ending what appears to be one of the closest brushes with nuclear war since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis...
...Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan's largest religious party, was arrested briefly last week after calling the referendum "farcical" and trying to lead a small protest. Musharraf has also been attacking the country's exiled former Prime Ministers, as they are the only rivals who might muster significant political support. "Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto have no role in Pakistani politics, this should be clear," he declared in a recent televised speech. Pakistan People's Party leaders claim that Musharraf has tried to make a deal with Bhutto, who has been convicted of corruption, to stay out of politics...
...general was, of course, the same man who had spoiled Vajpayee's previous peace initiative toward Pakistan. In early 1999, while Vajpayee and democratically elected President Nawaz Sharif were initialing a new chapter in bilateral relations in Lahore, Musharraf, then chief of the Pakistani armed forces, was orchestrating a daring incursion into Kashmir, into the Indian-held Kargil Heights. That provoked six weeks of bloody combat, cutting dead Vajpayee's cherished Lahore process...
Musharraf has done more in the past few weeks to set his mark on Pakistan than he managed during the previous two years. He often said he was catapulted to power by a quirk of fate. When his predecessor, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, tried to fire him as army chief, loyal cohorts arrested Sharif, and Musharraf declared himself the new chief executive. His first months in office were marked by contradiction and lack of vision. He required a personal loyalty oath from high court judges but spoke fondly of "consensus." His promises of economic revival and "true" democracy to replace...