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...importance of lies and jokes. "I present not-truths in order to protect you," Perchov tells his charge. "That is also why I try so inflexibly to be a funny person." The two stories collide when the searchers stumble on Trachimbrod's last surviving inhabitant, who tells the horrifying secret of how the dreamy little village met its end in the nightmare of World...
...Zubaydah, the strategist for al-Qaeda nabbed in Pakistan last month, may be taunting the American military and intelligence personnel who visit his hospital bed at a secret facility overseas. He told them Osama bin Laden's terror cells are targeting U.S. banks on the Eastern seaboard, but the Americans wonder if it's for real. "If he could screw with our heads," says a U.S. official, "he probably would." When the interrogators' report reached Washington last Wednesday, it triggered a series of White House meetings and secure teleconferences among top Bush Administration officials. There was plenty of skepticism...
...Chotta Shakeel had not become the effective boss of the most feared criminal syndicate in South Asia, what would he have grown up to be? What is the secret ambition that lurks within the gangster's breast, the man wanted in India on multiple counts of murder and conspiracy? "You know how in school people write on the topic: 'What do you want to be?' I had a vision of becoming a military officer, and I wrote a composition on it. I wanted to die for my country...
India and Pakistan blame each other's spies for just about everything that goes wrong. If there's an outbreak of plague or a riot, it's the work of the sinister "foreign hand." Indians are certain, for instance, that Pakistan's secret service, the Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, masterminded the December attack on the Indian Parliament in New Delhi. Do they have any concrete evidence? "Zilch," concedes an Indian official. "Quite honestly, we only know they are involved by implication." Equally, the Pakistanis are convinced that agents of India's secret service, the Research and Analysis Wing...
...more effective than the ISI." This mutual admiration may, of course, be nothing more than a sly way to lobby for a bigger budget. The scarier these agencies make the enemy appear, the more cash they can claim to need for their own skulduggery. Their finances are kept secret, but estimates put the ISI's annual budget at $45 million and RAW's at $150 million...