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Pakistan's roster of chief suspects includes operatives of Jaish-e-Muhammad and Pir Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, the leader of Jamaat al-Fuqra, an obscure extremist group that has branches in the U.S. The group is thought to have cultivated the shoe bomber Richard Reid's incipient fanaticism while he studied Islam in Pakistan. Pearl, it turns out, had hoped to interview Gilani for a story he was developing about Reid. Last week police raided the home of Pearl's liaison to Gilani, a man who goes by the alias "Arif." But inside they found his relatives mourning...
...Gilani turned himself in to Pakistani authorities late last week in Rawalpindi, but his role, if any, in the kidnapping remains unclear. Indeed, a lack of clarity seems the only salient theme of the investigation so far. Many security experts in Pakistan doubt that the kidnappers are professionals. If the first e-mails really came from Pearl's captors, the imprecision (unclear deadlines, flip-flopping accusations) and absurdity of their demands (it's fairly well known that the U.S. does not negotiate with kidnappers) would suggest they are new to the kidnapping and terrorism business. Terry Anderson, an American reporter...
...even those who embrace terrorism. They try to give the full picture of a conflict in a way an official government update cannot. Dealing with dangerous people is part of the job, and Pearl certainly knew as much when he arranged for an interview with Sheik Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, who leads a Pakistani Muslim group. The interview apparently was the trap that the terrorists used to lure in Pearl...
...claim to the Paktia town. Residents supported local Pashtun leader Haji Saifullah. British Prime Minister Tony Blair told Karzai he could not expand his commitment beyond the U.K.?s promised 5,000 troops. PAKISTAN Shadowy World Police arrested two former Taliban ministers and a Muslim cleric, Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, who was thought to be linked to the abduction of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. A little-known group called the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty demanded $2 million and the release of Pakistan?s former Taliban ambassador in exchange for Pearl. In Quetta, police said...