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From the hijacked planes that flattened the World Trade Center to mass murder on London trains, a trail of carnage leads to the Al-Qaeda network - and increasingly to a remote corner of Pakistan. Pakistan's rugged tribal areas along the Afghan border have been pinpointed by the United States and other countries.

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