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Update: As I mentioned before you cannot take reporting or statements from the lawless regions of Pakistan at face value. But with that said it is interesting to learn about the young, newly elected Member of Parliament who represents one of the probable havens for al-Qaeda. Meet Kamran Kahn, he has interesting views on what is happening right now in Pakistan: According to Khan, only one percent of the local population supports the militants. [”]The local people are fed up with the violence, the beheadings, and the daily fear. They want to live in peace[”], he said. [”]They want to...

Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television has aired a video of Al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri vowing to avenge the death of the network's Iraq frontman Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Zarqawi was killed in a United States air raid in Iraq on June 7. In the video, Zawahiri is seated in front of a picture of Zarqawi. He addresses US President George W Bush directly. "Yes O Bush, none of us is killed without us avenging him, with the help of God," he said. "Do you remember, O Bush, how the lion of Islam, the mujahed [holy warrior] Osama bin Laden, God keep...