| The latest news from North Waziristan is that Osama bin Laden has distributed a leaflet there accusing General Pervez Musharraf of being a “slave of the Americans” and exhorting his ouster. The American news channel Fox News, talking to Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir on Monday, learnt that an American member of Al Qaeda was seen distributing a leaflet in Arabic and Urdu in Miranshah and Mir Ali asking Muslims to “defeat the United States and the Pakistani troops” battling the pro-Taliban insurgents. There were apparently two kinds of leaflets found in the area, one from Al Qaeda and one from the local pro-Taliban jihadi groups. |