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...asserting, however, that in the past three months scores of Indonesian and Malaysian Islamic militants belonging to JI have slipped into MILF jungle camps, some of which are located in the very marshes bombarded last week. Most of these militants are gravitating toward a JI cell headed by Saifullah "Muklis" Yunos, the Philippines' most wanted terrorist. "JI is undoubtedly active in Mindanao," says a Western intelligence official, "which makes what's happening there a threat to the entire region...
...Qila-Niazi wedding party, for example, were targeted by Pacha Khan, a former provincial governor, derided by one official as a "Pentagon-created warlord," who was using American munitions to take care of his own business, according to Afghan government sources and tribal elders in Gardez. Says tribal chieftain Saifullah Khan: "Pacha Khan would phone up the Americans, point out a village and say they are all al-Qaeda." Pacha Khan denies the charges. After the attack on the wedding party, Saifullah visited the local base of the special forces. "We told the soldiers that these are good people...
...international troops proved timely: heavy fighting broke out in the southeastern Afghan town of Gardez while he was visiting London. Reports said at least 60 people died as a Kabul-appointed governor, Pacha Khan Zadran, tried to lay claim to the Paktia town. Residents supported local Pashtun leader Haji Saifullah. British Prime Minister Tony Blair told Karzai he could not expand his commitment beyond the U.K.?s promised 5,000 troops. PAKISTAN Shadowy World Police arrested two former Taliban ministers and a Muslim cleric, Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, who was thought to be linked to the abduction of Wall Street...
...sovereign territory. And two days of fierce fighting in the southeastern town of Gardez have shown the limits of Kabul's authority. When the shooting stopped, Thursday, the warlord appointed governor by Karzai, Padsha Khan Zadran, had been repelled from the city by forces loyal to rival warlord Saifullah...
...Saifullah had been chosen to lead the region by the local shura, or council of tribal elders, while the government in Kabul picked Zadran. Kabul's man accused his rivals of being Taliban and al Qaeda sympathizers, a charge they strongly deny. Tensions reached a boiling point last December after U.S. warplanes destroyed a convoy they claimed was carrying al Qaeda fighters, but which local elders insist was carrying tribal leaders to Kabul for Karzai's inauguration. Saifullah supporters accuse Zadran of having deliberately misinformed the U.S. about the nature of the convoy, in order to have his rivals eliminated...