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...likely. And the U.S. Forest Service said that environmental legislation had let flammable underbrush choke the forests. The fires threatening Show Low are thought to have been started by people, though it is not known why or by whom. PAKISTAN Al-Qaeda Proves It Can Still Fight Back Ten Pakistani soldiers were killed in a gun battle with al-Qaeda fighters in Pakistan's tribal northwest. The soldiers closed in at night on a village in the Waziristan region to arrest the fighters hiding in the house of a local elder. As troops approached, the al-Qaeda loyalists opened fire...
...year-old Saudi-born Palestinian in a villa near Faisalabad, Pakistan. On the evening of March 27, Tenet and as many of the task-force members as could fit into the ground-floor conference room crowded around speakerphones that were patched into a team of CIA, FBI and Pakistani intelligence agents raiding the villa...
...with the salient exception of John Walker Lindh, a Taliban soldier captured in Afghanistan last year, most Americans connected with Islamic terrorism were born in Arab lands. Both the CIA and the State Department deny published reports that a number of Americans were arrested in Pakistan last week, though Pakistani officials insist they have two Afghan-Americans in custody. And law-enforcement officials doubt Padilla represents a hidden pool of former gang members being recruited into al-Qaeda. "There aren't a whole bunch more like him," says...
PAKISTAN On June 14 a bomb-laden vehicle exploded outside the American consulate in Karachi, killing 11 and injuring 45 others. But there were successes as well. Officials say they detained Pakistani associates of American dirty-bomb plotter Jose Padilla. The Pakistanis also claimed that over the past few weeks, border raids had captured several more American al-Qaeda fighters, though U.S. officials denied the claim...
...jail in late 1992. Maybe he had aged out of petty crime, or maybe his girlfriend, Cherie Maria Stultz, had helped him control his temper. At a Taco Bell in Davie, Fla., Padilla and Stultz found jobs with and a mentor in the restaurant's manager, Mohammad Javed, a Pakistani immigrant. "They were poor but trying to make something of their lives--buy a car, establish a good credit rating, things like that," Javed says. Javed, a Muslim who now runs an Islamic elementary school in Broward County, insists he did not proselytize to his young employees. When Padilla...