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Police raid suspected al-Qaida hideout
The Associated Press
KARACHI, Pakistan — Police commandos fought a pitched battle with al-Qaida suspects holed up in an apartment yesterday, with combat spilling out onto adjoining rooftops. Two suspects were killed and five captured in the fighting, as Pakistan stepped up pressure on the remnants of the terrorist movement a year after it made its mark on the world.
Six officers, including two intelligence agents, were wounded when police stormed the top-floor apartment and the rooftop where the gunmen held out against hundreds of troops in the street and on the roofs of nearby apartment blocks. Two of the wounded were reported in critical condition.
Police said one of the dead militants and one of those arrested were Arabs, but their nationalities were not known. The rest were Alghans, he said.
The federal Interior Ministry in Islamabad confirmed all the gunmen were foreigners but released no further information. A neighbor said the men moved into the
Police seized a laptop computer and "literature," plus an arsenal of assault rifles, submachine guns, pistols and hand grenades, said an intelligence agent on the scene. He spoke on condition of anonymity.
apartment in the upscale neighborhood about three months ago.
Police retracted an initial report that a 4-year-old girl was killed in cross fire.
Karachi, a warren-like city of 12 million, has become a refuge for al-Qaida and Taliban fighters who fled Afghanistan when U.S.-led coalition forces chased them into the mountains bordering Pakistan after the collapse of the Taliban regime.
In a separate raid in Karachi on Wednesday, Pakistani security forces arrested five Islamic militants suspected of planning terrorist attacks on American fast-food restaurants in the city. All five men were members of a splinter group of Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen, or Movement of Holy Warriors, who had received weapons training in Afghanistan, police said.
Also yesterday, U.S. forces said they captured a man who is
believed to be a top financier for al-Qaida network or the Taliban. The troops in southeastern Afghanistan detained at least eight other people and seized more than 150 Kalashnikov assault rifles and 200 explosive booby traps. The men detained were not identified by name.
And in Yemen, U.S. Ambassador Edmund J. Hull said that two suspected Muslim militants arrested by Yemeni authorities last month in connection with an explosion were members of the al-Qaida network and had been planning a terror attack. Two other militants were killed when a bomb they were preparing blew up prematurely on Aug. 9.
Pakistani authorities said this week they had captured 402 al-Qaida activists since the start of the war on terrorism. Most have been turned over to U.S. authorities for questioning.
Last week, a reporter for the Gulf-based Al-Jazeera television network said he interviewed two of Osama bin Laden's lieutenants in Karachi — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshib — both of whom admitted they helped plan the Sept. 11
attacks in the United States.
two militants were seized initially, but police retreated under fire from the others, authorities said.
The fighting in Karachi began Wednesday morning when agents of Pakistan's intelligence agency and police raided the apartment after receiving a tip that suspicious people were living there.
Hearing the gunfire, an unidentified neighbor called the police and reinforcements were brought in. The gunmen fired and lobbed grenades from the apartment window, then fled to the roof where they took position on the corners; police and witnesses said.
It was unclear at what point the two militants were killed. An intelligence official said one of the gunmen inside the apartment scrawled "There is no God but Allah" in Arabic in blood on the tiles of the kitchen wall.
While the shooting was under way, police brought out one woman and her young child, both in tears, to safety. "I don't know how many more are inside," the woman told an Associated Press reporter as she was quickly led away.
Legislators force resignation of Arafat's cabinet
The Associated Press
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Defiant Palestinian legislators forced the resignation of Yasser Arafat's 21-member Cabinet yesterday, delivering the biggest political blow to the Palestinian leader since he returned from exile eight years ago and underscoring the mounting discontent among ordinary Palestinians.
Lawmakers clapped and shared jubilant smiles as the resignations were announced moments before parliament appeared set to vote no-confidence in Arafat's ministers. He now has two weeks to present a new Cabinet to parliament.
Earlier in the day, Arafat set Jan. 20 as a date for presidential and parliamentary elections, making the announcement as part of a failed deal to save his Cabinet. The setting of the specific date is likely to displease the United States, which had sought
a delay in presidential elections to gain time to find ways of sidelining Arafat.
The parliamentary challenge move did not immediately endanger Arafat's leadership or appear to be organized by any individual challenger. However, it was a blow to his prestige and reflected a groundswell of anger among a Palestinian public tired of years of corruption and mismanagement
Salah Taameri, a member of Arafat's Fatah movement who has known the Palestinian leader for 36 years, said he had never before opposed Arafat but joined the wave of discontent "so he knows how serious we are."
"There is a crisis of confidence," he said.
At the same time, no one at the session called on Arafat himself to step down — even though the United States and Israel have made clear that after two years of Mideast violence, they no longer consider him a partner for peace.
"I hope President Arafat...will wake up and start to understand that the people around him are not satisfying the Palestinians' needs," said lawmaker Jibril Rajoub, recently fired by Arafat from his position as West Bank security chief. "I hope he will learn a lesson from what happened today, which represents the disappointment in which Palestinians are living for two years."
In a June Cabinet reshuffle. Aratat added five new ministers. But legislators complained the changes were largely cosmetic and that ministers considered incompetent or corrupt had stayed on.
Tuesday's drama began when Arafat summoned Fatah legislators, who dominate the 88-seat parliament, to his office to try to persuade them to back the Cabinet. The legislators stood their
making. Critics tended to blame Arafat's aides, and not the long-time leader himself.
ground.
Palestinian officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that according to a compromise floated in the meeting, Arafat would set an election date — rendering the Cabinet temporary — and parliament would hold a vote only on the five new ministers appointed in June, who are seen as honest and hard-working.
Aruafat, apparently fearing defeat, accepted the deal, the officials said.
But parliament's legal committee then decided that the entire Cabinet must be presented for approval, not only the five new ministers. Observers said legislators apparently didn't believe Arafat was sincere in setting a date for an election and feared he might revoke the decree later.
Just before the vote was to begin, Cabinet ministers submitted their resignations to Arafat who accepted them.
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