KHYBER PASS & BEYOND (7#) -

Some updates so far this week . . .

Chilling BOLO posters were seen around Peshawar Tuesday. Someone dropped a dime on a journalism student at the University of Peshawar, warning that he was going postal. The posters incorporated a blowup of his student
ID card.

# TV Mystery: Who pulled the plug on cable TV in Karachi on Monday? The Pakistani Government denies doing it. The government has ordered an inquiry into the blockage.

# Threats to journalists have increased; Peshawar is
becoming a no-go zone especially for foreign journalists.

# Bus Bullies: The Taliban sent a threatening letter
to the Daewoo Pakistan Bus Service, warning that:

"we will be waiting for you at a bus shelter soon and we will kill your driver or blow up one of your buses; we can also hit your female employees with our rocket launchers."

Following several threats like this, the CEO of the bus service has requested additional security from law enforcement agencies.

# Is fugitive cult leader Osama bin Laden dead?

The US government has no information that he has died despite his continuing silence, the White House said Wednesday after the broadcast of the most recent audio-taped message from The Insidious Dr Z, according
to Geo TV.

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