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...Qaeda guerrillas in the rugged territory bordering Afghanistan scored a major success last week with a raid by the Pakistani army in the country's South Waziristan district. Eight suspected militants were killed and 18 were detained--all foreigners and "certainly terrorists," said military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan. "As a matter of policy, Pakistan is determined to root out terrorism from its soil...
...Qaeda guerrillas in the rugged territory bordering Afghanistan scored a major success last week with a raid by the Pakistani army in the country's South Waziristan district. Eight suspected militants were killed and 18 more detained?all foreigners and "certainly terrorists," said military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan. "As a matter of policy, Pakistan is determined to root out terrorism from its soil...
...Sultan insisted that the raid was based on intelligence and "was not at all to please the Americans or anyone else." Nor, he said, was it a response to the release of a tape last week in which Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called for the overthrow of Musharraf's government. A Western diplomat in Islamabad also viewed the raid?which involved hundreds of Pakistani soldiers, two of whom were killed?as an indication that Pakistan is getting more serious in the fight against terror: "It was quite a bold move, because this is an area where...
Said was awarded a number of prizes for his work, including Sultan Owais Prize (the premier literary prize of the Arab world), the Spinoza prize and the New Yorker Book Award for Non-Fiction for his 1999 memoir Out of Place. That same year, he was named president of the Modern Languages Association...
CLOSING BASES Since the first Gulf War, the U.S. has stationed about 5,000 troops in Saudi Arabia. Earlier this year the U.S. began pulling out, primarily to an expanded base in Qatar. Only a handful of U.S. personnel remain to wind down operations at Prince Sultan Air Base. A few hundred troops will stay to train Saudi soldiers...