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...tanks were dispatched to pick up Israeli soldiers wounded in the siege of Bint Jbeil, a town used by Hizballah Islamic militants to spray the northern corners of Israel with rocket fire. The town also has symbolic value to Hizballah; it was here in 2000 that Hizballah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah proclaimed victory after Israeli troops withdrew from Lebanon. The sheikh' s jeering remarks had riled the Israeli generals, so they didn't need any extra motivation this week when Bint Jbeil, its tunnels and caves stocked with rockets and over 100 Hizballah fighters, turned into a major target...
DETAINED. Khaleel Aziz Sheikh, 24, Kamal Ahmed Ansari, 32, and Mumtaz Ahmed Chowdhury, 38, in connection with the July 11 Bombay train bombings that killed more than 180 commuters; in Bombay and Bihar. The three suspects are the first to be arrested by police investigators, who after the blasts rounded up as many as 350 people-most of them Muslim-for questioning. A fourth man, Abdulkadir Karim Tunda, 64, a suspected member of Kashmir-based militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba, was also detained last Thursday in Kenya. Officials say more arrests are forthcoming...
...Suskind writes that CIA officials threatened to harm 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's kids, ages seven and nine, if he didn't cooperate with his interrogators in Thailand. "So fine," Khalid Sheikh Mohammed responded to the threat, according to one of Susskind's sources. "They'll join Allah in a better place...
...communication from a designee of Osama bin Laden. The al-Qaeda chief had not used a cell phone or satellite phone since 1998. He was very careful. A ring of deputies, below the level of an Ayman al-Zawahiri or Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, carried messages for him. The United States had determined who some of them were. They made calls, or sent e-mails, on bin Laden's behalf. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...
...Iraq. He has a reputation for being more moderate than Zarqawi, "not a hardliner." And, his relationship with the Arab (non-Iraqi) mujahedeen is very good, says Abu Bara. (The name Abdul Rahman is similar to that of the man the U.S. military describes as Zarqawi's spiritual advisor, Sheikh Abdel-Rahman, who is believed to have been killed along with Zarqawi on June 7. According to Abu Bara, however, Sheikh Abdel-Rahman is a different figure from Abu Abdul Rahman al Iraqi...