Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday March 20 2002 — A7 Q World ©ffMaDs Das® jjalbs ini TqDD ppDS©® ISLAMABAD Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan fired Islamabad’s police chief and four otber senior police officials 'Hiesday alter a deadly grenade attack on a Protestant church frequented by foreigners The shake-u- p came as police said they would send the United States DNA samples from the body of a man they suspect carried out the attack that killed five people including two Americans Forty-fiv- e people most of diem foreigners were injured when an attacker hurled grenades in the churchin a heavily guarded diplomatic quarter near the US Embassy during a Sunday morning service The attack on die Protestant International Church has prompted the State Department to warn Americans against ' traveling to Pakistan It “underscores the possibility that terrorists may seek civilian targets” the warning said In Washington State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the United States was sending a team of agents from the department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security to help with the investigation The president Gen Pervez Musharraf ordered “immediate and effective steps" to improve law and order after : meeting with top security officials and regional officials Tuesday to review the case The people want "quick justice” ' he said The government announced the dismissal of Islamabad’s police chief and four other top police officials in the capital No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but investigators focused on Islamic extremists who were outraged by Musharraf s support for the United States in its war on terrorism Attacks linked to Muslim militants ' have surged throughout Pakistan since Musharraf banned five Islamic extreme ist groups in January g The of Wall Street Journal reporter Darnel Pearl in January was also considered part ofan extremist campaign to embarrass die government and undercutWestem support Four people have been anested in connection with Pearl’s killing The Pakistani newspaper Dawn said Tuesday that the “abject failure" of law enforcement agencies to counter the militant threat called the sincerity of Musharraf’s crackdown into question “The time has come for the president to adopt an unequivocal stand on this issue” the newspaper said in an editorial ' V- if PaCsDSfisura Church attack suspect’s DNA being sent to US - f p ft kidnap-slayin- -- M- - APphoto Pakistani Muslims hold a rally on Tuesday In Karachi Pakistan to condemn the massacre of five Christians including two Americans at the Protestant International Church in Islamabad during prayer sendees on Sunday ISLAMABAD Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan will send the United States DNA samples from die body of a man believed to have carried out p deadly grenade attack on a Protestant church an official said Tuesday The government also announced the dismissal of five senior Islamabad police officials including the chief in the wake of the Sunday attack at the Protestant International Church located in a heavily guarded diplomatic quarter near the US Embassy The attack killed five peo-pie two of them Americans Forty-fiv- e people most of them foreigners were injured The US State Department issued a fresh warning to Americans to defer travel to Pakistan “The March 17 attack on worshippers at a church ser vice in Islamabad underscores the possibility that terrorists may seek civilian targets” the warning said Two Americans ah Afghan and a Pakistani were among the dead but investigators have continued to focus on the fifth body whose identity remains unknown Officials are suspicious because no one among the congregation has been reported missing The torso of the suspected attacker including his hands was blown up said Abdur Rasheed Khan a senior Interior Ministry officialHe said samples would be given to US officials for DNA tests that might help identify die man ‘‘Apparently the attacker wasn’t on a suicide mission" ' Khan told The Associated Press “He wanted to escape but a grenade exploded sooner than he expected” Al-Qai- da Taliban hiding in PESHAWAR Pakistan (AP) — Protected by sympathetic clerics up to 1000 Thliban and leaden are hid-ing in Pakistan and planning a Taliban comeback in Afghanistan according to Taliban members and others familiar with the Islamic movement ' Most of the exiles — including some of die best- known figures in die Islamic militia — live quiedy in Pak- istan’s lawless frontier region protected by tribal leaden of their own Pashtun ethnic ' group in an area where die central government’s authority is limited Many of the Taliban fugitives remain convinced that interim Prime Minister Hamid' Karzai’s hold on power depends on US support and mice die Americans are gone they will have little trouble dealing with Afghans who are now allied with Washington “I am waiting for the big war” said Mullah Towha for-mer chief of security for die Taliban governor of Afghanistan’s Nangharhar province “America and Britain will have to leave one day and then we will have a jihad against those Afghans who fought with them against other Muslims” ' The mullah who has trimmed his beard and aban- doned his distinctive TUiban turban for a white i spoke to The Associated I in a car as it weaved through the Khyber Pass in die middle of Pakistan’s tribal belt He lives in an Islamic shrine protected by a “pit” or holy man Pakistan has repeatedly denied knowingly harboring and Tklfoanrene- and has insisted that gades intelligence service links to extremists were severed after President Pervez Musharraf threw his support to die US- -' led war on terrorism last year “There is absolutely no ' truth in these repbrts” chief government spokesman Mai Gen Rashid Quercshi told AP on Tuesday He called the idea that Pakistani1 intelligence was still supporting Thliban fogi- fives “nonsense” and “part of a malicious campaign against da : ooks :or Exclusively at Dillard's! 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