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A deep split has emerged within al-Qa'eda over the wisdom of the terror network's drive to overthrow and kill Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf,according to radical Pakistani Islamists allied to the terror network.Osama bin Laden's deputy,Ayman alZawahiri, has ordered the series of retaliatory attacks on Pakistani targets that have followed the storming of the Red Mosque,an extremist stronghold in Islamabad,by Gen Musharraf's troops this month.In the latest atrocity,13 people,mostly policemen,were killed and 50 injured in a suicide attack near the mosque on Friday as the authorities tried to re-open the compound.Nearly 200 people have now died in revenge attacks and bombings.But some senior figures within al-Qa'eda are alarmed that al-Zawahiri's mission to topple and kill Gen Musharraf will provoke a Pakistani military backlash that could jeopardise their safe havens in the mountainous tribal areas on the Afghan border.A rival so-called "Libyan faction" led by Abu Yahya al-Libi,who escaped from the US Bagram base near Kabul in 2005,apparently suspects that al-Zawahiri,an Egyptian-born doctor,is trying to position himself as bin Laden's heir presumptive with his personal crusade.Bin Laden himself is believed to be in hiding,fearful of his whereabouts being discovered.US intelligence operatives closely involved in the hunt for bin Laden told The Sunday Telegraph that they had received reports of al-Qa'eda rifts from senior sources within the Pakistani jihadist community....
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