Word: peshwar
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...swift, but not in the way the Egyptians had expected. That night last summer, the Pakistani security forces never turned up. Instead, a car with diplomatic plates full of Taliban roared up to the Peshwar house, grabbed al-Khadir and drove him over the Khyber Pass to safety in Afghanistan?beyond the Egyptians' grasp. Put bluntly, the Pakistani spy agency, known as the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), had betrayed the Egyptians. "The next day, the ISI called up and said, 'So sorry, the man gave us the slip,'" a diplomat recalls...
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