Exclusive ABC Interviews with Presidents Bush, Musharraf As Pakistan-Afghan Border Region Sees Conflict

ByABC News
March 1, 2006, 3:43 PM

March 1, 2006 --

Exclusive: Pakistan's President Answers Critics of His Terror Response
Musharraf Says Pakistan Is Doing All It Can in War on Terror. (ABC News)

Exclusive Vargas Interview: Bush Discusses War in Iraq, U.S. Ports Deal, Pakistan
President Says He's Using 'Ample Capital' to 'Spread Freedom' In an Exclusive, Wide-Ranging Interview. (ABC News)

Afghanistan Slams Musharraf Comments Before Bush Trip
Afghan's foreign minister on Tuesday slammed comments by Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, who dismissed Afghan intelligence on the whereabouts of Islamist militants as "lies" influenced by Indian propaganda. (Reuters)

Pakistan Forces Hit Militants on Afghan Border
Pakistani helicopter gunships and ground forces attacked a militant hideout near the Afghan border on Wednesday killing up to 30 people, according to a senior official in the North Waziristan tribal region. (Reuters)

Analysis: A Display of Pakistani Solidarity in the U.S.-Jihadist War
The raid against a militant training camp in Pakistan, which authorities suspect was used to teach fighters how to engage coalition troops in Afghanistan, demonstrates not only that Pakistan can be an ally in the U.S. war on terrorism, but that there is no shortage of foreign militants willing to take on the West. (Strategic Forecasting)

Police Foil Al-Qaida Terror Plot in Jordan
Jordanian police have foiled a planned suicide bombing by al-Qaida in the kingdom and arrested two Iraqi militants and a Libyan, state-run media said. (AP)

Opium Production Booming in Free Afghanistan
State Department Says Country Produces 90 Percent of World's Opium (ABC News)

Afghans Said Bloody Kabul Prison Siege Over
A bloody prison siege in Afghanistan ended on Wednesday after all 1,300 prisoners involved in a riot that broke out at the weekend moved to a new block under police control, the government said. (Reuters)

Jordanian Security Official Says All Hostages Released, Prison Riot Over
Inmates at a Jordanian prison released the last of about a half dozen police officers they had taken hostage Wednesday, ending a riot that broke out over the fate of two convicted al Qaeda killers, an official said. (AP)

Police Seized in Jordan Jail Riot
A number of policemen have been taken hostage after riots broke out in several Jordanian prisons where Islamist militants are being held. (BBC)

Guantanamo Force-Feeding Tactics Are Called Torture
Lawyers for a captive at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say their client was tortured to coerce him into abandoning a lengthy hunger strike, and they contend that tactics used to force-feed detainees explicitly violate a new federal law that bars cruel or degrading treatment of people in U.S. custody. (Washington Post)

Ukraine Claims Deported Uzbeks Were Members of Al Qaeda Linked Terror Group
Ukraine's Security Service said Wednesday that 10 Uzbek asylum seekers deported recently were members of an al Qaeda linked terror group, a claim that appeared aimed at blunting international criticism over the refugees' forceful return. (AP)

Terror Jury Hears Informer's Urging
An FBI informer was heard repeatedly encouraging a terrorism suspect to attend an al-Qaeda training camp in secretly recorded conversations read to jurors Tuesday. The conversations raised questions about whether Hamid Hayat, 23, intended to train as a terrorist and return to the United States to carry out attacks, as federal prosecutors claim. (AP)

Lawsuit Alleges Illegal Wiretaps by NSA
Civil rights attorneys have sued the National Security Agency, claiming it illegally wiretapped conversations between the leaders of an Islamic charity that had been accused of aiding Muslim militants and two of its lawyers. (AP)