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...trail of prominent Pakistani nuclear scientists, one of whom had travelled to North Korea for a ?vacation? and another who had ties to a secretive Islamic charity operating in Afghanistan. A month before his abduction, Pearl had co-written an article in the Journal alleging that Dr. Bashiruddin Mahmoud, one of the fathers of the Pakistani bomb, had discussed nuclear weapons with Osama bin Laden. Pearl didn?t break that story; it had been widely reported. Nonetheless, Levy writes: ?One can imagine that (Pearl) was establishing the list of ISI superior officers who...were willing to close their eyes...
...then spent a week in a safe house before allowing himself to be publicly "arrested" by police on May 12. He speculates that one reason Pearl was marked for death was that he had traced the connections of ex-ISI boss Hamid Gul and nuclear scientist Bashiruddin Mahmoud to al-Qaeda. Asad Hayauddin, spokesman for the Pakistani embassy in Washington, insists that "there is no complicity between any official department of Pakistan and Pearl's murderers," and that the very idea is "beyond belief." A Pakistani court sentenced Sheikh to death by hanging and three accomplices to 25 years imprisonment...
Nobody is certain what Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood has been up to in Afghanistan in the past three years--but nobody in the West much likes it either. Mahmood is one of Pakistan's leading nuclear engineers, a key part of the team that developed the country's small arsenal of atom bombs. According to a lot of people, he also may be a little flaky. The fact that since 1998, so loose a nuclear cannon has been traveling in and out of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, where he has helped the Afghans construct a complex of buildings he describes...
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