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Pakistan Says Senior al-Qaida Leader Hurt
AP ^ | March 27 2004 | CHRIS TOMLINSON
Posted on 03/27/2004 11:18:00 AM CST by Dog
Pakistan Says Senior al-Qaida Leader Hurt 1 hour, 11 minutes ago
By CHRIS TOMLINSON, Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's military badly wounded a senior al-Qaida leader, who is now hiding out in the country's western tribal area, a military spokesman said Saturday.
Al-Qaida commander Tahir Yuldash — also known as Tahir Yuldashev — had been mentioned earlier as one of two possible "high-value targets" cornered when Pakistan's military began a sweep of South Waziristan on March 16.
In a statement, military spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan said only that recent intelligence indicated that Yuldash was severely wounded and in hiding in western Pakistan.
Yuldash is the leader of an Uzbek terror group allied with al-Qaida called the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Sultan said the sweep operation has been successful, with more than 50 suspected militants killed and 163 captured. Pakistani forces also suffered casualties, though Sultan refused to release figures until the operation is over.
http://www.freerepublic.info/focus/f-news/1106250/posts Now, granted, it is an AP report, but if the Pakis are their source of intel, take it with a grain of salt.
Motorcycle Bomb Wounds 30 in Thai Muslim South
Reuters ^ | 03/27/04 | Kettiya Jittapong
Posted on 03/27/2004 10:29:04 AM CST by nypokerface
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A bomb hidden in a motorcycle exploded outside a bar in Thailand's largely Muslim south on Saturday, wounding about 30 people, including seven Malaysian tourists, a police spokesman said.
The bomb exploded outside a bar and hotel in Sunghai Golok district of Narathiwat province, which has been under martial law since an armed raid in January on an army camp in the region in which many weapons were stolen...
Muslim leaders have asked the government to lift martial law, which they say is disrupting economic life in a region heavily dependent on rubber tapping and fishing, which involves moving around at night...
The government is also having to deal with the disappearance of a prominent Muslim lawyer, Somchai Neelaphaichit, who was defending Thai Muslims on trial for membership of the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah.
http://www.freerepublic.info/focus/f-news/1106225/posts Another case of soft targets being hit, but this time it's hard to tell who is doing the attacking since the targets in both instances seem to be Muslims.