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...threat is aimed at another pro-Western Afghan, Hamad Karzai, a supporter of exiled King Mohammed Zahir Shah. Karzai has been on the run in Afghanistan for weeks, dodging Taliban bullets in the Uruzgan mountains north of Kandahar. Urbane, well educated and hailing from an aristocratic Pashtun family, Karzai is Washington's best--and perhaps only--chance to win over the southern tribes. If he can stay alive...
...London has detained and questioned a number of Sept. 11 suspects, including Lotfi Raissi, an Algerian alleged to have helped train the suicide pilots in the attacks. And last week Yasser al-Siri, whose bookstore and website are well known in London, was charged with conspiracy to murder Ahmed Shah Massoud, the leader of the anti-Taliban Afghan Northern Alliance. Massoud died after assassins bombed his headquarters on Sept...
...ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Key arrests include Lotfi Raissi, who allegedly helped teach the hijackers how to fly; Kamel Daoudi, a computer whiz suspected in the Paris plot; and Yasser al-Siri, who was charged in connection with the assassination of Afghan rebel leader Ahmed Shah Massoud...
...London and the Jerusalem Post. He chose to renounce his Canadian citizenship because Canada's PM Jean Chr?tien, often criticized in Black's papers, had enforced a rarely used law to block Black's peerage. CHARGED. YASSER AL-SIRI, 38, with conspiring to kill Afghan Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud; in London. Al-Siri, an Egyptian, is accused of providing journalist credentials to suicide bombers who assassinated Massoud. NAMED. WILLIAM CLAY FORD JR., 44, as CEO of Ford Motor Co.; in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford, chairman since 1999, is the first Ford family member to run the company...
...representative of the rebel force as a whole. But that picture is misleading. A zarbati, or strike unit, of some 1,200 uniformed, well-trained fighters is massed north of the capital. The best of the bunch, the Guards Brigade, was created by the late mujahedin commander Ahmed Shah Massoud--even in death the spiritual leader of the Northern Alliance--and comprises several infantry assault battalions backed up by Russian T-55 and T-62 tanks. The Guards have already moved into position northeast of Kabul for a possible raid on the city. Winter won't necessarily deter them: against...