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The al-Qaeda leader who is thought to have devised the plan for the July 7 suicide bombings in London and an array of terrorist plots against Britain has been captured by the Americans. Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a former major in Saddam Hussein’s army, was apprehended as he tried to enter Iraq from Iran and was transferred this week to the “high-value detainee programme” at Guantanamo Bay. Abd al-Hadi was taken into CIA custody last year, it emerged from US intelligence sources yesterday, in a move which suggests that he was interrogated for months in a “ghost prison” before being transferred...

Kargil: What Does It Mean? Pakistan's first effort in 35 years to seize and hold territory on India's side of the Line of Control backfired. Pakistani prime minister Sharif's July 4 agreement with president Clinton made clear Pakistan's responsibility for both the incursion and the withdrawal. In return, the United States promised a more active role in encouraging an Indo-Pakistan rapprochement. On the surface, this meets Pakistan's long-standing goal of getting the outside world's help on the neuralgic Kashmir dispute. But the Kargil operation has sparked international interest in a settlement that would essentially freeze the status of Kashmir with...