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...backseat of a minivan last month, tearing through the badlands along the Afghan border with four heavily armed al-Qaeda members beside him, Niazi may have sensed he was riding to his death. Niazi had spent weeks befriending Uzbek al-Qaeda fighters, posing as a smuggler who could take them safely into the frontier city of Peshawar. Now he had lured the Uzbeks into the trap. He would drive them into an ambush in which Pakistani police would capture al-Qaeda fighters alive. From there they would be flown away from the nearby Kohat army base to be interrogated...
...secrets in his 1994 book First Directorate, which he co-wrote with a U.S. journalist. Kalugin, who lives in Washington D.C., ran the KGB external counterintelligence section in the late 1970s and then sided with the democratic movement in Russia in the late 1980s. RELEASED. LAI CHANGXING, alleged Chinese smuggler, from a Canadian jail; in Vancouver. Lai, who is now under house arrest, has been fighting to remain in Canada as a political refugee since he fled China in 1999. He had been jailed following a decision by Canadian immigration officials to deny him refugee status, saying he was trying...
...sophisticated triggers, weapon housings and everything else he needs to build a nuclear device--except for a sufficient supply of weapons-grade enriched uranium. Intelligence indicates that he is angling to obtain some on the international black market, but it's not something that your friendly neighborhood arms smuggler can lay hands on right away. So Saddam also is working to enrich his own uranium. That's a major technological challenge, but Iraq is expected to succeed within three to six years, at its current rate of progress...
...front of the parliament building. He is comatose and on the verge of death. ON TRIAL. FAN SHAORUN, 55, former Bank of China branch head in a small port city of southern Guangdong province, facing charges of corruption including misappropriating millions in public funds and accepting bribes from a smuggler now on death row; in Zhanjiang. SENTENCED. GARY O'NIONS, 56, Briton convicted of violating Saudi Arabia's strict Islamic law by trading in alcohol, to eight years in jail and 800 lashes, and fined more than $500,000; by a court in Riyadh...
...difficulty in differentiating terrorist from tribal smuggler is one reason U.S. forces have refrained from crossing over. Even now, six months into the war on terror, American intelligence in Afghanistan is patchy at best. A diplomat says the U.S. still relies on informants whose main aim is not necessarily to smoke out al-Qaeda but to avenge old tribal vendettas. "Hot pursuit into Pakistan is acceptable if you're sure the bad guys are in your sights," explains a Western diplomat in Islamabad. "But if the Pentagon ends up dropping a bomb on women and kids because of bad intel...