Word: sheikh
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...some misguided conspiracy theory that leads the Arab and Palestinian street to accuse the U.S. of green-lighting the killing of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin - and that could cause problems for the U.S. in Iraq and the rest of the Arab world. The Bush administration has typically set "red lines" for Israel in terms of its handling of the Palestinians, and while Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has systematically pushed back those red lines over the past three years, he has tended to avoid crossing them. Sharon has repeatedly made clear, for example, that the reason he has refrained...
...remains deeply hostile to al-Qaeda, and its precarious position viz-a-viz U.S. power would make it reluctant to allow its Palestinian "guests" to openly threaten terror attacks on U.S. interests. While the U.S. concurs with Israel in denouncing Hamas as nothing more than a terrorist organization, Sheikh Yassin's group continues to enjoy widespread legitimacy in the Arab world, even among those actively assisting the U.S. war on terror, as an authentic voice of Palestinian aspirations and anger...
...declared war on the United States, and war is what they got." To Kerry this is so much chest thumping and simply ignores what made success possible. It was a combination of local law enforcement and U.S. intelligence services, he argues, that tracked down al-Qaeda masterminds like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh in Pakistan. "Joining with local police forces didn't mean serving these terrorists with legal papers," he says. "It meant throwing them behind bars. None of the progress we have made would have been possible without cooperation...
...high-profile criminal allowed to run a terrorist network from behind bars? Pakistani authorities won't comment, nor will they admit that the suspected contacts were the reason Sheikh was moved. An Interior Ministry official says Sheikh was moved because of fears that members of his terrorist group had bribed guards at Hyderabad prison and were plotting to spring their leader...
...Sheikh, 30, the British-raised scion of an influential Pakistani family, is being interrogated about his links to the suspected bombers. And he has been abruptly transferred from his prison cell in Hyderabad, in southern Pakistan, to Rawalpindi, near the army headquarters where the assassination probe is being conducted. The switch was made after a search of his cell found evidence that Sheikh, while imprisoned, had kept tabs on his old terrorist gang through letters and cell phone conversations, a Hyderabad police official told TIME. Sheikh had also been allowed visits from his former radical-Islamic comrades, this official says...