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When a massive bomb took out the face of the Marriott Hotel Thursday morning in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, rocking the nearby US consulate and killing US diplomatic officer David Foy along with at least four others, the explosion could be heard from houses more than six miles away...
...according to a security officer on the scene who has seen surveillance footage, a white Toyota Corolla passed the initial inspection at 8:45 am, and once inside the concrete barrier pulled over to the side. A man who appeared to be in his mid-30s in traditional Pakistani dress stepped out of the car and walked around for a while, seemingly waiting for someone...
...Certainly, Musharraf has plenty of incentive for going after the movement that has twice attempted to kill him. But bin Laden is a popular hero in Waziristan, where central government authority is weak, if not entirely nonexistent, the elected regional government is openly pro-Taliban, and Pakistani troops are on hostile terrain when they leave their bases in search of Qaeda fighters. Fierce armed opposition from the locals has significantly curtailed action against the jihadists...
...Musharraf's insurgent problems have multiplied as well with the sharp escalation in operations by secessionist fighters in the southern province of Baluchistan, which stretches the resources available to the Pakistani military. In the cities, too, the pressure is mounting: Recent protests in Pakistan's cities over Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad were mostly directed at the U.S. and Musharraf's alliance with Washington, and the resulting deaths have inflamed anger...
...initially encouraging the cartoon protests as a way of reminding Washington of the extremist danger against which Musharraf is a bulwark, before cracking down when the protests turned against him. Even then, in the capital, the police proved unable to prevent a banned rally from going ahead. Some Pakistani analysts believe Musharraf is more vulnerable now than at any time since he seized power in a 1999 coup as he faces the combined challenges of foreign jihadists, tribal secessionists, indigenous Islamists and the liberal opposition...