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...captivity, take vivid dramatic license. Though he provides few hard truths, however, he raises intriguing questions. During his many visits to Pakistan, Levy interviewed police, pored over trial transcripts, met with Pearl?s contacts and retraced the former reporter?s footsteps in Karachi. He writes that the hotel Akbar in Rawalpindi, where Pearl was abducted, was ?controlled, almost managed? by the ISI; he says that the man Pearl was headed to see, a cleric named Sheikh Mubarak Gilani, is a ?spiritual guru? to alleged British shoebomber Richard Reid...
...fundamentalist Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, was on a goodwill visit to India at the time of the attacks?and lost no time in condemning them. He added that he would encourage both governments to hold peace talks, and called all Kashmiri militants to "cease their operations." Even Zafar Akbar, a senior commander of a breakaway faction of the Kashmiri guerrilla group Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, announced that he and "hundreds of colleagues" were renouncing violence for dialogue...
...minaret would scarcely be distinguishable from the towers of the surrounding churches. As it is, the biggest distinction is the very different sound emanating from the minaret's upper reaches, where a muezzin calls the faithful to prayer five times a day with the age-old words "Allahu Akbar" (God is great). The first call is at 5:30 a.m., "but the muezzin tries to keep the volume down so as not to annoy the neighbors," Ruiz says. The neighbors have mixed feelings about the mosque. "We need to put the past behind us and think how we can work...
...Samudra from a prosecutor's office in Bali to a waiting armored vehicle last Wednesday, after evidence was presented relating to his alleged role in the Oct. 12 bombings that left 202 people dead, he showed no remorse. Instead, he raised his manacled hands in defiance and shouted, "Allahu Akbar (God is great)." Then came a chilling warning: "After Riyadh," he vowed, "there will be more." It may have been the angry bravado of a man who knows he may soon face the death penalty, but Samudra?accused of being the operational commander of the Bali bombings...
...program (even though Pyongyang promptly announced the program was proceeding). Even proud Iran was making conciliatory noises. The newspapers in Tehran were hot with argument over a proposed public referendum on whether to re-establish diplomatic relations with the Great Satan. The idea was floated by former President Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the cleverest politician in the country, one who has positioned himself between the reformers and the mullahs, with links to both camps...