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Al-Qaida suspect arrested in NYC By Lisa Myers NBC NEWS NEW YORK, Aug. 4 — The FBI has arrested a Pakistani man with alleged ties to al-Qaida in New York City, NBC News has learned. THE MAN is alleged to have close ties to the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. What most worries senior law enforcement officials is that the man is involved with the shipping industry. About four months ago, in the heart of New York’s garment district, agents from the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested a young Pakistani man as he sat at his...

London, UK: Al-Sharq al-Awsat (Internet Version-WWW) in Arabic 18 May 03 [Report by Muhammad al-Shafi'i in London: "Fundamentalist Sources: US Intelligence Seized Last Month a Bin Ladin Audiotape Hinting at Attacks. Fundamentalists in London Do Not Rule Out Involvement of Moroccans Carrying European Identities in Morocco's Bombings"] Fundamentalists in London yesterday referred to a connection between the Casablanca and Riyadh bombings that occurred in less than one week from each other and the US authorities' seizure of an Usama Bin Ladin audiotape at the end of April. Fundamentalists acquainted with al-Qa'ida's affairs said Bin Ladin's audiotape was discovered with an...

KARACHI, Pakistan March 1 — A man arrested after opening fire and killing two Pakistani police officers guarding the U.S. Consulate in this southern city had a note in his pocket saying it was his duty as a Muslim to kill the protectors of infidel Americans, officials said Saturday.The man, identified as Zulfiqar Ali, 30, was brought to court Saturday and ordered remanded into police custody on charges of murder, attempted murder and firing a weapon. He faces the death penalty if convicted, police said.When arrested, Ali had a sketched map detailing the consulate's outside security arrangements, deputy superintendent of...

  Pakistani Cops Nab 3 al-Qaida Suspects Pakistani Police, Working With FBI, Arrest 3 Suspected al-Qaida Operatives After Shootout The Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan Jan. 9 — Pakistani police working with the FBI raided a home on the outskirts of Karachi early Thursday, arresting three suspected al-Qaida operatives and several other people after the surrounded fugitives threw grenades and opened fire with automatic weapons, police said.None of the security officials were injured. Police said at least two foreigners, both apparently of Middle Eastern origin, were among those arrested in the raid.Officials said they had received a tip about the...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 12/20/02 - Aghala Khan, Lahore, Karachi, Cairo, Djibouti, Guessabo, Hawara checkpoint, Kabul, Meck Island, Le Bourget, Taji BREAKING: Lahore - Aghala Khan arrersted BREAKING: Karachi - Asif Ramzi grounded Aghala Khan, Lahore, Karachi, Cairo, Djibouti, Guessabo, Hawara checkpoint, Kabul, Meck Island, Le Bourget, Taji ========= Aghala Khan ========= In Aghala Khan, Afghanistan, villagers watch a film about the 911 Atrocities caused by the Taliban and al Qaeda. ========= Kabul ========= In Kabul, family outing. In Kabul, Afghan women are free, FREED BY THE USA, and here enjoy laughter and tea. ========= Lahore...

PARIS, Nov 9: French police say that the order for the suicide attack of last April 11 on a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia, was given in Karachi. The attack resulted in the death of 21 persons, among them two French and 14 German tourists. The French anti-terrorist police who have been investigating the attack - with the support of Tunisian President Ben Ali - say they have been able to determine that the satellite telephone used by the kamikaze, Nizar Naouar, who drove an explosives-laden truck into the synagogue, was acquired in Paris by Walid Naouar, Nizar's brother, who has...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) _ Four small parcel bombs exploded within minutus of each other at police and government offices in the volatile port city of Karachi on Wednesday, injuring at least nine people, police said. A fifth bomb was sent to a police station but did not go off. At least one of the parcels had ``From Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal,'' written on it, said Sindh province Home Secretary Mukhtar Ahmad Sheikh, a reference to the United Action Front, a coalition of anti-American religious parties that made unprecedented gains in last week's national elections. Sheikh said, however, that authorities had no reason...

Wednesday, 16 October, 2002, 11:23 GMT 12:23 UKSeveral injured in Karachi blasts Karachi: Could there be a new phase of violence? More than eight people have been injured in a series of parcel bomb explosions in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi. Two of the parcel bombs were opened at police stations and a third at the provincial home secretary's office. The bombs went off in quick succession in the centre of Karachi. The Inspector-General of police in Karachi has warned all police stations not to touch any parcels they have received. No one has said they were responsible for the parcel...

KARACHI: The trial of five Islamic militants accused in the deadly car bombing outside the US Consulate in Karachi was delayed for the seventh time Saturday -- this time because the prosecutor did not show up in court. The trial will attempt to start again on Tuesday, Khawaja Naveed, a lawyer for one of the five Islamic militants said. Naveed also complained that his client, Mohammed Ashraf, was being tortured in jail. He has requested the anti-terrorist court order a medical examination. The court will decide on Tuesday when it convenes, he said. "Due to severe torture Ashraf's shoulder has...

Christians singled out for death September 27 2002 Black flags flew over churches and Christian schools were closed in Karachi yesterday as mourners buried seven Pakistani Christian workers murdered by unidentified gunmen who bound and gagged the men before shooting them in the head at point-blank range. "We are very sad. Everyone is in mourning," said the Rev Baz Philip, of the multi-denominational Christian Church in the port city. Police said no arrests had been made since Wednesday's massacre, in the third-floor office of the Organisation for Peace and Justice, a Pakistani Catholic- and Protestant-supported group that gives free legal...

A man is accused of beating two of his daughters to death with a stick as they slept at their home in Karachi. Police in Pakistan say he also critically injured their 12-year old sister because he was angry she was attending school. All three girls were rushed to a local hospital in Hyderabad, where two of them, aged 2 and 4, died.

<p>On Wednesday, gunmen entered a Christian charity in Karachi, Pakistan, separated Christian from Muslim workers and methodically shot seven Christians in the head. Although this massacre is the sixth in a series of attacks aimed at Christian targets in Pakistan, much of the media has played down religion's role in favor of a secular storyline.</p>

Christians tied up and killed in Karachi office By Phil Reeves 26 September 2002 Seven employees of a Christian charity were tied to their chairs, gagged and shot through the head in Karachi yesterday. The clinical murders appeared to obliterate Pakistan's claims to have clamped down on violent anti-Western extremists. The assault by two unidentified gunmen on the Organisation for Peace and Justice – a Pakistani Christian group giving legal advice to the poor – was the sixth deadly attack on Christians since the President, General Pervez Musharraf, backed America's war against the Taliban and al-Qa'ida in Afghanistan. Earlier this...

"O God, save Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem from the Zionists" Yemeni Sermon 20 September 2002 20 September 2002FBIS (US Government service) Report] Sanaa Republic of Yemen Television in Arabic, official televisionstation of the Republic of Yemen, on 20 September 2002 at 0903 GMT carries a22-minute live sermon from the Grand Mosque in Sanaa. Shaykh Akram Abd-al-Razzaq al-Ruqayhi delivers the sermon.... Concluding, the imam prays to God: "O God, strengthen Islam andMuslims, disappoint infidels and unbelievers. O God, strengthen yourfollowers and Your religion." He goes on: "O God, give us victory overthe infidels and suppress the Zionists, their supporters, the Christians,and...

A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it.E.W. RiceWestern Elitist Intellectuals, and their liberal dupes in the press, refuse to acknowledge the hostility between Islam (note I do not use the qualifier "militant") and Christianity. Thus the red herring of Israel as the root cause of the friction between the Muslim world and the west. Israel provides the Muslim propagandist with the cover to launch a covert terror war against largely Christian democratic free societies.This Muslim lead propaganda assault against the west is meant to obscure the threat Islam presents. Any attempt...

KARACHI, Sept 25 (AFP) - Seven Pakistani Christians were killed and another person wounded by unknown gunmen who entered their office and shot each in the head with a single bullet Wednesday in the volatile southern city of Karachi, police said. The attack is the latest in a series of deadly strikes on Christian targets since Pakistan signed up a year ago to help the United States crush Afghanistan's Islamic fundamentalist Taliban regime and the al-Qaeda network. Police say two assailants armed with pistols entered the office of the Institute for Peace and Justice at around 9:00 am (0300...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Gunmen entered the third-floor offices of a Christian welfare organization on Wednesday, spraying it with automatic weapons fire and killing at least six people, police said. The shooting occurred at the offices of the Institute for Peace and Justice, a Pakistani Christian charity that does work in the city. Among the dead were three Pakistani Christians and three Muslims, police said. Four others were injured, police said. (Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 9/20/02 BREAKING: Tel Aviv homocidal bombing BREAKING: RESPONSE in Ramallah BREAKING: RESPONSE Zaitoon, Gaza, bomb-making factory deleted BREAKING: Karachi more arms recovered Djibouti Buffalo, New York, Lackawanna Yemeni six, POW and MIA Day ===================== Tel Aviv, Israel =================== BREAKING: TERROR STIMULUS In Tel Aviv, the lastest perverted homocidal bombing, with at least five people murdered, and more than 40 wounded. In Tel Aviv, CSI forensic experts take evidence, from homocidal murders funded by the UN, EU, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. ===================== Umm el-Fahm =================== In Umm el-Fahm, Israel, another perverted homocidal bombing,...

WASHINGTON - Ramzi Binalshibh, the captured al-Qaida suspect who was turned over to U.S. authorities on Monday, is already cooperating with U.S. and British interrogators at an undisclosed location, according to a U.S. intelligence official. The official, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, said Binalshibh has told his captors that local al-Qaida leaders and cells have assumed greater autonomy to plan and carry out terrorist attacks since the terrorist group was forced out of its base in Afghanistan late last year. That information, the official said, is corroborated by other intelligence collected by U.S. and other agencies,...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- An al-Qaida militant arrested with alleged Sept. 11 organizer Ramzi Binalshibh has been identified as one of the killers of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl, a senior police official said Tuesday. If true, this would be the first evidence that al-Qaida may have been involved in Pearl's abduction and killing. The identification was made by a Pakistani held but not charged in the kidnap-slaying of the newspaper's South Asian correspondent, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. According to the official, the Pakistani, Fazal Karim, was taken to an intelligence agency...

LONDON: Karachi is teeming with terrorists in the knowledge of the government, and this is what made it possible for two key al-Qaeda men to operate from there, according to a report in The Times. In reference to the arrests of al-Qaeda suspects last week, it said: "In the cluttered back streets of Karachi there were few who believed their government's boast that the latest arrests have ended al-Qaeda's operations inside Pakistan." For months, Western intelligence agencies had suspected that some of Osama Bin Laden's lieutenants were hiding in the Pakistani port city of 12 million that has no shortage...

KARACHI, Pakistan, Sep 16, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- An alleged organizer of the Sept. 11 attacks was handed over to U.S. authorities Monday along with four other al-Qaida suspects who were arrested here last week in a major blow to the terrorist network. The five suspects - including Ramzi Binalshibh, a Yemeni who allegedly wired money to the hijackers in the United States and provided them logistical support - were flown out of Pakistan, several senior Pakistani officials said. The handover took place after a Pakistani official said police were investigating whether some of those arrested with...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US authorities prepared to take custody of top al-Qaeda lieutenant Ramzi bin al-Shaiba, a suspected planner of the September 11 attacks who was captured last week in a raid in Pakistan. Bin al-Shaiba, one of the world's most hunted men, was arrested in Karachi on Wednesday by Pakistani security forces accompanied by US FBI agents and detained in a raid in which at least two people were killed and several others were arrested, the sources said. Another suspected top al-Qaeda figure seized in Karachi was expected to be handed over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation...

Berlin ready to give up the extradition of Ramzi Ben Al-Shaiba in front of the USA Sunday September 15, 2002 - 15h17 GMT BERLIN, 15 seven (AFP) - Germany will give up at the request of extradition of Yéménite Ramzi Ben Al-Shaiba, stopped Wednesday in Pakistan, if the United States claims them-also its extradition, declared Sunday the Minister German for the Interior Otto Schily. "If, as that seems to be the case, the United States claims its extradition, they will take precedence over us then", indicated Mr. Schily to the German agency DPA. "Because the United States was touched...

KARACHI—Mystery shrouded about the identity of two terrorists killed and five arrested after a successful encounter between the terrorists and police in Defence Phase-II Karachi on Wednesday. The police and rangers had so far failed to ascertain the motives of the terrorists, their nationalities and the route through which they arrived in Karachi. Police and rangers had also failed to establish or identify their connections in Karachi or elsewhere in Pakistan so far. On the contrary police and rangers were found fighting with each other to take credit for the success of operation in which two terrorists were killed...

By one o'clock it was all over. The police were on the roof of the bullet-riddled building, seven of the gunmen were in custody and two were dead. Spent cartridges littered the ground for hundreds of yards around the white apartment block and smoke from a grenade blast blackened its entry. On the roof were thick smears of blood from the dead and the wounded. In the kitchen of the fifth floor apartment where the gunmen had been living was more. On the white wall Arabic script read: There is no God but Allah. It had been written by one...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - German Interior Minister Otto Schily said Saturday he will ask for the extradition of Ramzi Binalshibh, a key al-Qaida suspect arrested in Pakistan. Speaking on the sidelines of the a European Union meeting, Schily said he would like to see Binalshibh tried in Germany, where he was believed to be part of the cell of hijackers that plotted the Sept. 11 attacks in Hamburg. "Germany will ask for the extradition," Schily said. Binalshibh was among a group of suspected al-Qaida men arrested Wednesday in Karachi, Pakistan, according to U.S. authorities. He is known to have had...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- In warren-like streets of Karachi, influential Muslim religious schools and mosques swear allegiance to militant Islam worldwide, in what one former Pakistani general calls an axis of hate against the United States. It was in Karachi, a teeming city of more than 14 million people, that police and intelligence agents Wednesday captured one of the world's most wanted men -- Ramzi Binalshibh, U.S. officials said. Binalshibh was a roommate of hijacking leader Mohamed Atta in Germany; the FBI believes he was originally intended to be the 20th hijacker before he failed to enter the United States....

KARACHI, Pakistan, Sep 14, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- It was still dark when the small squad of intelligence agents began staking out the apartment block where suspected al-Qaida members had been living for several months. Lightly armed, they decided to wait until daylight. Fewer than 20 men, the agents and a back-up unit of Pakistani police made their move at midmorning, easily capturing two men. The date was fitting: Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002. But then, the plan began to go wrong. One of the men inside the five-story apartment block was Ramzi Binalshibh, U.S. officials in Washington...

KARACHI, Sept 14 (AFP) - Pakistani security forces aided by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have captured a prime suspect in the September 11 attacks after tracing satellite phone calls, officials and sources said Saturday. Ramzi bin al-Shaiba was among several Arabs arrested on Wednesday after a three-hour shootout at a Karachi apartment on the first anniversary of the attacks in the United States, said Pakistan Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider. His ministry said bin al-Shaiba was the second suspected senior member of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network to be arrested in the city this week. It...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ramzi Binalshibh, a key al Qaeda member accused of helping plan the Sept. 11 hijacked plane attacks on the United States, has been captured in Pakistan, U.S. officials said on Friday. Binalshibh, who is wanted by Germany for his alleged role in planning and carrying out the deadly attacks, is one of the most important members of al Qaeda to be taken into custody over the past year. A U.S. official said Binalshibh was captured in Karachi around the first anniversary of the attack by Pakistani authorities with help from the FBI and CIA. He was...

APNewsAlert Sep 14, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- KARACHI, Pakistan - Senior army officer on condition of anonymity confirms arrested al-Qaida suspects still in Pakistan. Copyright 2002 Associated Press, All rights reserved KARACHI, Pakistan, Sep 14, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Suspected al-Qaida members, possibly including Sept. 11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh, were still in Pakistani custody Saturday at a well-guarded safe house in Karachi, an army officer said. Pakistani officials refused to confirm the identities of the men they captured in a four-hour shootout on Wednesday - the anniversary of the attacks in the United States -...

WASHINGTON, Sep 13, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- A fugitive suspected of helping to organize last year's Sept. 11 attacks in the United States was captured in a deadly shootout in Pakistan, U.S. officials said. Separately, officials said they had broken up a suspected terrorist cell in the suburbs of Buffalo, New York. The former roommate of hijacker Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh is suspected of planning to be the 20th hijacker in last year's attacks. He was captured in Pakistan nearly a year after he became one of America's top terror targets, U.S. officials said. The officials, who...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 9/14/02 BREAKING: Beit Lahia, Gaza - Premature Explosion Takes Terrorists, BREAKING: Karachi 5 Al Qaeda taken, 2 put down, BREAKING: Pakistan: Ramzi Binalshibh captured, BREAKING: Palestine Islamic Bank with sniper - taken, BREAKING: Rachel's Tomb sanctified, BREAKING: Sicily arrests 15 Al Qaeda, What really happened on 9/11/2002 - who honored the victims and who said there would be more, Lebanon: Wazzani River diversion, Jakarta Islamic hate, Qiantangjiang River, X-45 ===================== Turkey =================== In Turkey, at the Incirlik air base. heroes fly EA-6B Prowlers (radar jammers) over the No-Fly Zone in northern Iraq...

KARACHI, Sept 12 (AFP) - Pakistani police are probing links between the murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl and suspected al-Qaeda militants killed in a raid in the crowded southern port city of Karachi, an investigator said Thursday. The militants were shot dead Wednesday during a fierce three-hour firefight with police who raided their hideout in an apartment in an affluent Karachi suburb. Two of the militants were killed and five were arrested. "It could be possible that one of the dead militants had links with the murder of Daniel Pearl," a police investigator told AFP, on condition of...

KARACHI, Pakistan, Sep 11, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Unidentified gunmen seized a residential building in an upscale neighborhood of the southern city of Karachi on Wednesday, and fought a gunbattle with police. A senior police officer said three policemen were injured, but the local hospital said it had received no casualties. A police officer outside the building said it was possible hostages were being held. The motive behind the attack was not immediately clear. Copyright 2002 Associated Press, All rights reserved

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/26/02 Kabul, Afghanistan Intelligence Ministry, minor explosion, Bagram, New Saudi link to Terrorism: Saudi Al Wafa and WMD, Karachi, Agosta B90 Submarines, Jerusalem checkpoint, Gaza, "12 rival Palestinian political faction ploy", framed Palestinian Ikhlas Khouli, Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy ===================== Kabul =================== In Kabul, at the site of a minor explosion, Afghan soldiers guard. It was in a garbage can, in front of the United Nations' guest house; one Afghan civilian was hurt. In Bagram, Commander Tommy Franks shakes hands with American heroes serving in Afghanistan, and meets the ISAF and...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/24/02 Kabul, gun shop, orphanage, Tarnac Bridge, Sabawaan English School, Terrorists' carpet, Kandahar, bakery for widows, Patriots in the Negev, Safed, "12 rival Palestinian political factions" ploy, Perps in Gaza, American Arab doctors in Ramallah, Siring Terrorists in Karachi ===================== Kabul =================== In Kabul, at the market gun shop. In Kabul, Afghan orphans receive new uniforms from RAWA, who have fought for Aghan women's freedom. In Kabul, at the river, Afghan women try to wash their clothes. There have been three years of drought. North of Kabul, the French watch a CH531...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/20/02 Kabul, bakery, Independence Day parade, National Museum, Little League baseball, Kandahar, Zhare Dasht, Bagram, bakery, Shiberghan, Red Cross, Islamabad, Fazal-ur-Rehman, Haq, Teerat, Pakistan, Karachi, Shamzai, Washington, legal action ===================== Kabul =================== In Kabul, at the Independence Day parade. commemorating Afghanistan's independence from the British in 1919. Some crowd control, some men dancing with guns. In Kabul, at the parade, both women and Afghan bodybuilders, freed by the USA, took part. at the Kabul National Museum, Buddhist statues. They have been hidden and recovered from smugglers. The Taliban broke or stole ~...

KARACHI (Reuters) - A Pakistani court has issued arrest warrants for six fugitives suspected of being involved in a car bomb attack on the U.S. consulate in Karachi that killed 12 people and injured 20, defence lawyers have said. Three leading suspects in the attack -- Mohammad Imran, Mohammad Hanif and Mohammad Ashraf -- have already been arrested and appeared in an anti-terrorism court amid tight security on Saturday. The main suspects and an inspector of Pakistan's paramilitary Rangers, Waseem Akhtar, were charged with both the June 14 bombing and conspiracy to kill President Pervez Musharraf. "The court today issued...

KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug 05, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- The United States has closed its consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi because of security threats, U.S. officials said Monday. "The consulate general has been closed for security reasons," said a spokeswoman at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad. She would not say if the closure was permanent or give any further details. Consulate staff were sent home Monday morning and told to wait for further instructions, said a consulate official in Karachi, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Karachi city police chief Asad Jahangir told The Associated Press...

KARACHI: Police arrested three Pakistani militants allegedly involved in both deadly car-bomb attacks against a bus carrying French naval engineers and the US consulate here, an intelligence officer said. The Field Intelligence Unit (FIU) of Pakistan's paramilitary Rangers "arrested three people allegedly involved in the two bomb blasts and some other major terrorist attacks in Karachi", an FIU officer told AFP on condition of anonymity. He only identified the men as members of an outlawed sectarian group.

Pakistani police have published photographs of 10 alleged militants suspected of carrying out recent deadly bombings in the southern city of Karachi. The photos, along with rewards totalling 20m rupees ($320,000) for help in capturing the suspects, appeared in a number of Pakistani newspapers on Saturday.Police say many belong to a banned Muslim group It is the first time the authorities have identified suspects in the 14 June blast outside the US Karachi consulate, which killed 12 Pakistanis, and the 8 May car bombing near the city's Sheraton Hotel, which killed 14 people, including 11 French engineers. But police were...

<p>KARACHI, Pakistan - They're here and everyone knows it: Al-Qaida and Taliban fugitives are hiding in the overheated slums, finding anonymity in the crowded bazaars and darkened alleyways, regrouping in mosques, resting easily in safe houses and immigrant neighborhoods.</p> <p>Countless Taliban and Al-Qaida fighters have escaped the U.S. dragnet in Afghanistan, and a former mayor of Karachi said his multiethnic city of 15 million was in danger of being ``Talibanized'' by the escapees. Karachi's huge size and porous harbor, plus its history of political violence and religious extremism, have made it the new center for Islamist militants and political terrorists in the region.</p>

Two Arrested in Connection with US Consulate Bombing in Karachi Authorities in Pakistan have conducted a series of raids on people suspected of attacks against Westerners and of having links to the al-Qaida terrorist organization. There were a number of arrests. Officials say at least two of the detainees are being questioned in connection with last week's bomb attack on the U.S. Consulate in Karachi that killed 12 people. They say they believe the two belong to the outlawed Sunni Islamic militant group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi - which is believed to have expanded its targets to include foreigners because of anger over...

By now you've read the stories about the latest Al-Qaeda threat against the USA, as delivered on Sunday June 1 by al-Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman bu Ghaith. There was a threat of this type issued about 3 weeks before Sept. 11. What's the purpose of this one? Winds of Change starts with a careful look at al-Qaeda's strategic situation, then proposes a number of scenarios re: where al-Qaeda might be going with this threat and why. For instance, Donald Rumsfeld might want to be extra-careful on his trip to Pakistan.

Ethnic Cleansing Continues In Pakistan School principal latest victim of radical Muslim death squads By: Kathy GannonKARACHI: The school van screeched to a halt when a motorcycle with three men roared in front of it. Two of the men leapt from the motorcycle, drew their pistols and opened fire, killing the school principal, Saeed Zafar Mehdi — the latest victim of marauding death squads killing minority Shiite Muslims in this southern port city. As the men sprayed the van with bullets, witnesses said they heard them screaming, "Kafir (infidel), Kafir Shiite Muslim." Also killed in the attack on the eastern...