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Still reeling from the gruesome murder of Daniel Pearl, Pakistan's leaders found themselves further embarrassed last week by revelations that the Wall Street Journal reporter's abduction might have been prevented. It turns out the U.S. requested the detention of the prime suspect, Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, twice between Sept. 11 and the day Pearl was kidnapped, in each case to no avail. So when President Bush and his spokesman, Ari Fleischer, suggested last Monday that the U.S. wanted Saeed, they touched a handful of raw nerves in Pakistan. By midweek, Fleischer was toning down his rhetoric and indicating...
PAKISTAN MORE EVIDENCE A cab driver became the second person to link Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh to the kidnapping of murdered U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl. The driver told a Karachi court that Sheikh had greeted Pearl when he was dropped outside a restaurant on Jan. 23. Pakistani officials say they want to complete their investigation of lead suspect Sheikh before considering a request for his extradition...
...games any time soon, as NBC announced yesterday that he will not be on-air until his legal issues are resolved. And even though the Peacock Network eventually did bring Marv Albert back after his highly-publicized sex scandal several years ago, it is unlikely that Williams will rejoin Ahmad Rashad behind the sports desk regardless of the matter’s final outcome...
...even if U.S. forces could spread unrest and limit Saddam's retaliation, there is no one waiting in the wings to take power in Baghdad. One candidate is Ahmad Chalabi, Shi'a leader of the Iraqi National Congress, an opposition group in exile. But Chalabi has little personal following inside Iraq, is distrusted by many U.S. officials and is opposed by key Arab states like Saudi Arabia. Washington is increasingly looking for an exiled Sunni from Saddam's professional army to rally the country against him. An emerging candidate is Nazar Khazraji, a former Iraqi chief of staff who defected...
...aimed at late-night TV watchers with disposable incomes and two left feet—which would seem to make Harvard students a prime target demographic. But Darrin fans on campus are hard to find, mainly because Darrin doesn’t really deliver the goods. Fatima K. Ahmad ’04, who test-drove her roommate’s copy of the tape, calls it “pretty funny” but was disappointed with the selection. Henson only teaches the consumer how to dance to the choruses of the songs featured in his ads, leaving...