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...Americans found a useful ally in Jameel Yusuf, head of the Citizen-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC). An energetic, well-heeled businessman, Yusuf formed the committee in the early 1990s when Karachi was stricken by several kidnappings and murders a day. "It was turning into a city of death," he says. By setting up a data bank and electronic surveillance of criminals, Yusuf and a few honest cops managed to bust many of the major kidnapping gangs. These criminals were often linked to cells of sectarian killers and terrorists. "They all steal cars and buy and sell illegal weapons," Yusuf says...
...With the FBI's help in monitoring cell-phone calls and e-mails, Yusuf was able to throw an electronic net over the Karachi neighborhoods where terrorists and some of Pearl's kidnappers lurked. "Al-Qaeda isn't like a social club," he says. "They don't have a posted membership list." What he did find was a link between al-Qaeda and two virulent Sunni sectarian groups?Lashkar Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Mohammad?which had trained in Afghan camps alongside Osama bin Laden's holy warriors. The two groups, in turn, were mixed up in the Karachi underworld. Often...
Council Vice President Anne M. Fernandez ’03 also announced at the beginning of last night’s meeting the expulsion of Luke R. Long ’03 of Adams House and Yusuf W. Randera-Rees ’05 of Quincy House for excessive absences. Expulsions can be overturned by appeals to the council’s executive board, Fernandez said...
...Kelly ’05 of Mather House; Melissa A. Eccleston ’04, Jared M. Gross ’03 and Justin R. Chapa ’05 of Pforzheimer House; Jessica P. Lau ’03, Rory S. Donald ’04 and Yusuf W. Randera-Rees ’05 of Quincy House; and Blake J. Boulerice ’04, Thomas J. Mucha ’03 and John S. Kwaak ’05 of Winthrop House...
...extremist fire from spreading. Not only did the Muslim troops of the Afghan opposition fight with renewed determination against bin Laden's Taliban hosts after Sept. 11, but some of Islam's most influential scholars and clerics began refusing to give their support to the Kabul regime. Egyptian Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who is host of a religious program on the pan-Arab television channel al-Jazeera, issued a statement condemning the suicide attacks. Such acts helped refute the jihad pretenses of al-Qaeda and the Taliban and rob them of all transnational Islamic support...