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...Bhutto supporters are skeptical of the reports' veracity. "We do not know if it is a genuine transcript or one created by the intelligence agencies," says PPP party spokesman Farhatullah Babar. Mehsud has become a convenient scapegoat in recent terrorist attacks, sometimes standing in when investigators turn up empty-handed. Speaking through his spokesman to the BBC, Mehsud denied any involvement in the attack, as he did when he was accused in the October 18 suicide bombing at a Bhutto rally in Karachi that killed some 140. Such denials, of course, are meaningless, but they do exacerbate rumors of government...
...with a possible cover-up of an Administration-led assassination than a poorly executed attempt at damage control. If Bhutto was killed in a deliberate attack by a sniper, the government would have much more to answer for than if she was the victim of an arguably less-focused terrorist bombing. Bhutto has been dogged by terrorist threats since she returned to Pakistan on October 18; attending a rally and waving to crowds from the sunroof of her car was clearly a risky undertaking. And the government can argue that providing security under such conditions is impossible. "Look...
Since Hicks was seized by a group of Northern Alliance fighters at a checkpoint in northern Afghanistan two months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he has been the subject of relentless speculation as to whether he was a terrorist true believer or just a thrill-seeking adventurer who went astray. Yesterday, smiling and looking stocky and confident, Hicks was driven away in a two-car convoy while his lawyer spoke on his behalf: "First and foremost I recognize the full depth of gratitude for getting me home. I will not forget or let you down...
Hicks' bizarre journey began in November 1999, when the former kangaroo skinner and roustabout boarded a plane to Pakistan and made contact with the terrorist group Lashkar-i-Tayyba. Known to fellow recruits as Mohammed Dawood or Abu Muslim al Austraili, Hicks entered the Lashkar-i-Tayyba training system, learned how to use a range of weapons and toured the front lines in Kashmir - the disputed territory over which Pakistan wages its long-running battle with India - claiming in letters home that he had fired weapons across the border. He later moved to Afghanistan, where he underwent training...
...trained in al-Qaeda-run camps in Afghanistan during the late 1990s. When al-Qaeda retreated from Afghanistan in 2002, many of its fighters are believed to have joined forces with Lashkar-i-Jhangvi and Lashkar-i-Tayyba, according to the State Department, which lists both groups as foreign terrorist organizations. Since then, the groups have targeted pro-Western entities of Pakistani society. In March 2002, Lashkar-i-Jhangvi retaliated against the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the resulting fall of the Taliban by launching a grenade attack on the International Protestant Church in Islamabad that killed 5 and injured...