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...attacks on America after revealing last week that they had received credible threats of Sept. 11 strikes on foreign and domestic targets within Pakistan. The warning was not a surprise, given the number of terrorist attacks that Afghanistan's neighbor has suffered this year. In February, U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl was murdered; in March, five people including two Americans were killed in an Islamabad church; in April, President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escaped assassination; in May, 11 French citizens died in a bus bombing; in June, an attack outside the U.S. consulate in Karachi killed 12 Pakistanis; and in August...
...minute they were flight attendants who adored flying to glamorous destinations for American Airlines. The next, they were on the front line of a war. For Jones and Moutardier, that transformation happened the day two planes from their airline were used in the biggest attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor. They simply didn't know it then...
...been a principal hub for militants, armed Sunni extremist movements had enjoyed the complicity of successive governments. But General Pervez Musharraf has decided to smash these movements in exchange for strong backing by the U.S. It will be a long, hard haul. As the killings of American journalist Daniel Pearl and 11 French engineers in Karachi demonstrate, General Musharraf is not yet out of the woods--especially given Pakistan's endemic state of cold war with India over Kashmir. But one year after Sept. 11, Southwest Asia has neither exploded nor risen up at the instigation of jihadists...
...Send Me Bruckheimer and Bay! Time to rewrite those history books; earlier this week divers confirmed the discovery of a downed Japanese midget submarine just outside Pearl Harbor. The sunken sub appears to corroborate a long-held theory that the U.S., not the Japanese, fired the first shot in the Pacific war. The submarine is believed to have gone down just hours before the Japanese began their surprise aerial attack. Let's just hope this new information doesn?t mean we have to watch a remake of "Pearl Harbor...
Pakistani intelligence officials believe these bombers and Pearl's killers were carrying out the attacks as part of a broader strategy of terror that has the signature of bin Laden's network. "These terrorists are smart. They had fire walls between the different cells, so that if anyone got caught, the trail would stop there," says an investigator. "Some people provided them with money, the equipment and a plan. And we think those people are connected to al-Qaeda...