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...roadblock was hidden by a rocky hill, and when the driver took the curve, he had to slam hard on the brakes. About 70 cops were hidden behind large boulders on one side of the road and among the tombstones of a shady cemetery on the other. When a Pakistani officer approached the van and ordered the driver to get out, the Qaeda man in the front seat stuck a gun in his ribs. As the driver tried to leap out of the van, the Qaeda fighter shot him. In response, all 70 cops opened fire. Two of the Uzbeks...
...troubling signs that al-Qaeda has found a new home--in Pakistan. While the U.S. and coalition forces continue to squeeze al-Qaeda inside Afghanistan, thousands of militants have slipped across the border since last winter. Officials estimate that, altogether, more than 3,500 al-Qaeda operatives and their Pakistani comrades are hunkered down in the tribal belt along the Afghan border and in the sprawling cities of Karachi and Peshawar, sheltered by homegrown extremists. Since December, Pakistani authorities working with U.S. intelligence agents have caught more than 380 suspected al-Qaeda members. In Peshawar last week, U.S. and Pakistani...
...months U.S. and Afghan officials have speculated that bin Laden has sought refuge over the border, though Pakistani intelligence officials tell TIME that the Qaeda boss was last definitely seen on Nov. 17 in a 25-vehicle convoy, heading from Jalalabad into Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains. Since then, the Pakistanis say, there have been no credible sightings. But thousands of al-Qaeda fighters did cross into Pakistan in two waves. According to Pakistani intelligence officials, the first exodus came in November, when al-Qaeda fled into the remote Tirah Valley to escape the U.S. bombardment of Tora Bora...
...most of the terrorists stayed in Pakistan. Many of them, especially the non-Arab Uzbeks, Chechens and Sudanese, operate like bandits in the tribal areas, where they raid U.S. outposts across the border. The militants have fiercely resisted Pakistani efforts to arrest them. On June 25, several hundred Pakistani paramilitaries raided a mud-walled fortress in the mountains of south Waziristan, a rifle shot away from the Afghan border. According to a Pakistani intelligence source, they had help from several CIA operatives, who picked out the Qaeda refuge with satellite photos and electronic eavesdropping. The Uzbek fugitives had heavy machine...
...fugitives who reached Karachi late last year "were not living in slum areas" but preferred high-rent districts where money buys high-walled privacy. Some were believed to have hidden in posh safe houses for much of the winter. But since then, they have scattered again. Says a senior Pakistani official: "They don't like to keep in one place. They're in lower-class neighborhoods, middle class, everywhere." Karachi authorities say that raids of militants' hideouts and homes in recent weeks have uncovered huge stashes of Kalashnikovs, rockets and ingredients for bombs...