The powerful car bomb that killed at least six people in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Tuesday morning has confirmed the worst fears of intelligence agencies that the recent al-Qaeda-claimed suicide attacks in Amman, Jordan, mark an intensification in activities against countries that sympathize with the US in the “war on terror”. Pakistani security contacts told Asia Times Online that they saw a clear link between the Amman and Karachi attacks and that there would now be an upsurge in violence after a lull of several months. They pointed out, though, that al-Qaeda-linked activity in these two countries also represented divisions within the organization. Full Story