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...kept of the people nabbed, and periodically a chart of top al-Qaeda operatives is sent to Bush, color-coded to highlight the ones put out of action. So far, 10 of the 24 men the CIA considers bin Laden's senior lieutenants are dead or in custody. Pakistani forces, with the help of intelligence from the center, last week raided an al-Qaeda hideout near the Afghan border. The four-hour gun battle killed 10 Pakistani soldiers and at least two al-Qaeda fighters. The CTC has assembled a task force to try to find bin Laden's other...
...final prize, of course, is bin Laden, who the CIA thinks is hiding along the Afghan-Pakistani border. Since 1995, the center has had a special station devoted to bin Laden, made up of more than 50 CIA officers who have studied everything they could find on the man. Even though his top command has been cut almost in half, the CTC's officers know that bin Laden remains a powerful enemy. His 14 senior lieutenants still at large are on the run, but according to the CIA, they are plotting and sending out orders to a terrorism network that...
...dairy farmer's daughter, a Tatla Gujjar, and the council members before her were all from a higher, landed caste group, the Mastoi Baloch. Mai's brother had dared to romance a girl from the higher caste, and in the dusty mid-day sun of rural Pakistani Punjab, a rowdy crowd gathered to demand eye-for-an-eye-style justice. The six seated elders finally delivered their judgment. To restore the caste's honor, they announced, Mai should be repeatedly raped. For the next hour, in a small barn nearby, three men penetrated Mai while a fourth stood watching...
...common in rural Pakistan for local councils, called panchayats, to adjudicate minor disputes over land, water or honor; the system is supposed to work in tandem with local police. But these days the councils are veering out of control. Last week, a man acquitted of blasphemy by a Pakistani court was retried by a village committee in Punjab. A day later he was stoned to death by a crowd...
...Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf condemned the incident and ordered $8,200 to be given to the family for immediate relief. On receiving the money, Mai said she wanted it to be used to build a school in the village. "For the girls," she told a government minister, "because they must no longer remain enclosed in darkness...