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...those arrested last week was wanted as an accessory in the January 2002 abduction and murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl. The Pakistanis have already convicted Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, a militant close to Jaish-e-Muhammad, of abducting Pearl and sentenced him to death. A witness says it was al-Qaeda commander Khalid Shaikh Mohammed who actually killed the journalist. Arrested by the U.S. on March 1, 2003, Mohammed remains in U.S. custody. According to a senior Pakistani antiterrorism official, he is being held at a military base on Diego Garcia. Pakistan's Interior Minister, Faisal Saleh Hayat, told...
...then there are the cases of the two Arabic interpreters. Air Force Senior Airman Ahmad al-Halabi faces multiple charges that include spying for Syria and aiding the enemy. Contract interpreter Ahmed Fathy Mehalba is accused of unauthorized possession of classified information. The military and FBI fear that these or other linguists may have "submarined" interrogations of suspects--that is, selectively omitted important leads and facts, inserted disinformation to throw off questioners and told al-Qaeda ringmasters abroad what the detainees had said. FBI officials are debating whether to redo all the interrogations with fresh interpreters; discrepancies between...
...they regret Bremer's decision to disband the Iraqi army on May 23. U.S. officials are urgently searching for potential leaders of a new Iraqi army. An Arab businessman in close touch with the U.S. government tells TIME that one commander who has attracted attention is Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai, a Sunni Muslim who was Saddam's Minister of Defense. Though Hashim was on the U.S.'s most-wanted list, this source says he was in contact with the U.S. before the war and was consulted by American officials after he was taken into custody in Mosul. A former...
...bright note: the fighting within the Administration over Iraq policy may be ending. There are still some in the Pentagon who would like to see Iraq run by their longtime ally Ahmad Chalabi, a member of the Governing Council and the leader of the Iraqi National Congress, even though he clearly has little political support there. But the Pentagon, which has called the shots for a year, is finally giving in to reality. Strengthened by the addition of Blackwill, a tough operator with a nice trifecta on his resume--he worked for the President's dad, mentored Rice when...
Three weeks after taking over as Malaysia's Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is revealing that beneath his smooth exterior is a shrewd politician who just might play rough. Last week, Abdullah told reporters that two costly infrastructure projects awarded to businessman Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary, one of the favorite industrialists of former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, might be renegotiated. In the case of the Bakun dam, a huge hydroelectric project on Borneo, Abdullah said he was "not sure" whether the government would resort to privatization. (Syed Mokhtar's GIIG Capital signed an agreement last August...