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Sultan insisted that the raid was "not at all to please the Americans or anyone else." Nor, he said, was it a response to last week's release of a tape in which Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called for the overthrow of Musharraf's government. A Western diplomat in Islamabad also viewed the raid--which involved hundreds of Pakistani soldiers, two of whom were killed--as an indication that Pakistan is getting more serious in the fight against terrorism: "It was quite a bold move, because this is an area where the government has rarely operated...
...Sultan insisted that the raid was based on intelligence and "was not at all to please the Americans or anyone else." Nor, he said, was it a response to the release of a tape last week in which Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called for the overthrow of Musharraf's government. A Western diplomat in Islamabad also viewed the raid?which involved hundreds of Pakistani soldiers, two of whom were killed?as an indication that Pakistan is getting more serious in the fight against terror: "It was quite a bold move, because this is an area where...
...example, Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs—organized in the same way as flash mobs, but with more serious intentions—details how these active technologies helped Philippine and Seattle protesters redeploy themselves on the fly. Peter Ackerman, an expert who studies the non-violent overthrow of repressive governments, believes that high-tech concepts like smart mobs offer potentially powerful frameworks for political resistance, because the process of organizing takes place under the radar of their governmental opponents and is therefore harder to suppress...
After the May 12 attacks, the House of Saud understood that it was under direct assault by an organization committed to its overthrow. Though bin Laden, a Saudi, long ago condemned the royal family for allowing U.S. troops on Saudi soil starting in 1990, his group had refrained from violence within the kingdom. Its reasons were clear to U.S. intelligence. Says a former Bush Administration official: "There were al-Qaeda agents in the kingdom that urged al-Qaeda not to strike in Saudi Arabia because they [the Saudis] might cut off the spigot" of funds flowing to the group...
...volunteers won't have the support of the CIA and the Saudis, or staging areas in Pakistan. Al-Arabiya TV on Monday broadcast an audio tape from an al-Qaeda leader urging supporters to make their way to Iraq to fight the occupation forces, and after that to overthrow the Saudi regime. And U.S. forces have found evidence that a number of radical Islamists from all over the Arab world may have already heeded such calls. Some fighters captured by U.S. forces in Iraq have carried foreign passports, and a substantial number of volunteer fighters had crossed into Iraq from...