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Everyone does agree that in al-Libbi, the Pakistanis have reeled in a big fish. U.S. and Pakistani sources think that al-Libbi has been in direct contact with bin Laden and al-Zawahiri and that al-Libbi was the mastermind behind two attempts to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in December 2003. U.S. counterterrorism officials told TIME that the CIA suspects al-Libbi was involved in a terrorist plot timed to coincide with last November's U.S. presidential election, including "training and supporting people and planning to send operatives" who could slip into...
...Released last year, he flew to Dubai to join his three children and Bhutto-but vowed to come back to prepare the way for her return. Lahore police officials said Zardari was being held in "protective custody." Party insiders say this is all part of a strategy by President Pervez Musharraf to keep Bhutto's party under a tight rein. They say the President has sent feelers to Bhutto that she may be able to return home-but only if she does not challenge him directly. Musharraf himself was enjoying a much more cordial homecoming on Saturday: he flew...
...interesting to contemplate - and not difficult to imagine - just how high up in the Pakistani government and military establishment Khan's allies are. Khan was too hot to handle, so even making him the fall guy for selling Pakistan's nuclear secrets was out of the question. Instead, President Pervez Musharraf pardoned Khan and put him under house arrest in his sumptuous villa. This for an act of treason so blatant and outrageous that it has few parallels in any nation, authoritarian or not. Khan's pardon was part of a cover-up. Rama Prem Freiburg, Germany Khan has confessed...
...Week of Water PAKISTAN President Pervez Musharraf promised compensation for victims of the floods that killed at least 278 people nationwide, including 135 known to have died when a dam burst in the southern coastal province of Balochistan. The rain and snowstorms that battered the country last week left tens of thousands of people homeless...
Despite the U.S.'s obvious interest in uncovering the scope of the nuclear bazaar, neither the Administration nor the IAEA has been allowed to interrogate Khan directly. Knowledgeable sources tell TIME that at a meeting at the White House in December, Bush told Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf that he believed Khan had not fessed up to all his nefarious transactions. Musharraf agreed but refused to allow non-Pakistanis to quiz Khan...