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...explosion was so powerful it was heard several miles away, and its reverberations would eventually travel around the globe. The car was nearing its destination, the al-Falah Mosque in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar, when it hit the land mine. All four passengers in the vehicle--a father with his two young sons and another youth--were killed. Chief among the dead that Friday was Sheik Abdullah Azzam, 48. It was the second attempt on his life. Earlier in 1989 a bomb was planted beneath the pulpit of a mosque where he was supposed to preach and pray...
...hundred yards beyond the last Pakistani outpost at Koh-i-Taftan, a dirt track veers off the main road toward a side door into Iran. It's strictly Smugglers Only. According to traders at Koh-i-Taftan, getting through it requires hiring an adam farosh--a smuggler who has the connections to bribe an Iranian border guard. Sultan Mohammed, 24, a shopkeeper, says, "Many Arabs left Pakistan for Iran from this point. Sometimes, once or twice a week, you'll see a lone Arab being escorted into Iran." Knowing the Americans are looking for Arabs, the Iranian border guards charge...
...conceivable that bin Laden slipped across the Iranian border when the U.S. forces were closing in. The Iranian side is just as vacant of authority as the Pakistani and Afghan frontiers. But it's also possible that if bin Laden was in the vicinity, he remained in the mountains around Ribat Qila. A five-year drought has emptied the area, and abandoned mud houses litter the wasteland. Sometimes I'd see a 4-by-4 parked outside an isolated house, and my guide would tell me it probably belonged to a smuggler. Who knows? It could easily have been...
ARRESTED. YASSIR AL-JAZIRI, suspected al-Qaeda operative; by Pakistani security forces tipped off by the CIA; in Lahore, Pakistan. A communications specialist, he is thought to have been a key al-Qaeda courier and a trusted subordinate of Osama bin Laden...
...Mohammed, captured March 1 in Rawalpindi by Pakistani security officials working with the CIA, began talking much sooner than anticipated, and some officials remain skeptical that at least some of the information he is feeding interrogators is intentionally misleading. But as some of his disclosures have been corroborated by other detainees and electronic sources, investigators are more confident that, as one counter-terror official says, "We're getting valuable, credible, specific information...