benazir vs osama

war es al-qa'eda?

im Guardian:

Bin Laden has plotted against Bhutto since she first became prime minister of Pakistan. In the fall of 1989, in the lead up to a crunch no-confidence vote in Pakistan's parliament, Bin Laden, based then in Peshawar, tried to sway the outcome by sending money to Islamabad to buy votes. According to testimony in Peter Bergen's 2006 oral history The Osama bin Laden I know, Bhutto, on discovering Bin Laden's involvement, personally phoned up King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and demanded the Saudis rein him in. The Saudis called Bin Laden back for consultations and promptly confiscated his passport, cutting him off for a while from the al-Qaida organisation he had founded in Pakistan the year before. The episode presumably did not endear Bhutto to Bin Laden.
In the fall of 1993 Ramzi Youssef, a jihadist terrorist who had trained in al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and who had just fled to Karachi from New York after orchestrating a bomb attack on the World Trade Center, plotted to kill Bhutto. But his plan collapsed after one of the devices he was carrying went off prematurely before he reached her Karachi estate. Bhutto was re-elected for a second term as prime minister very shortly thereafter. (Youssef, eventually apprehended, is currently serving a life sentence in the supermax facility in Colorado).

hier noch ein transkript der vermeintlichen abgefangenen botschaft zwischen zwei AQ mitgliedern: LINK