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...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...
...Levy notes that Sheikh, who set up the Gilani meeting for Pearl, is a known terrorist sprung from an Indian prison in 1999 by the hijackers of an Indian Airlines flight who demanded his freedom as a condition for peacefully abandoning the plane in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. As Levy points out, Sheikh operated freely in Pakistan, living openly with his wife and son, even though he worked with Jihadist groups who may have had connections to Osama bin Laden. Through these and other associations, Levy also infers that Sheikh was connected to the ISI. And he questions why Pakistani officials...
...Pearl, Lévy says, was a firm believer in the possibility of a moderate Islam, one that Lévy himself sees in a battle to the death with radical believers from al-Qaeda. He follows the journalist as he pursues a shadowy figure named Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, a former Brooklyn-based imam whom Lévy calls a "guru" of bin Laden's. He meets Pearl's contacts, spends time in the unheated, two-room hovel where Pearl was held and murdered nine days after his kidnapping. "I decided the best way to tell this story...
...before President Pervez Musharraf was due to visit Washington. Many days had passed with no credible word from the kidnappers, and a series of miscues and hoax e-mails had thrown investigators off. It had become clear to the police that their first suspect, the militant Pir Mubarak Shah Gilani, whom Pearl was expecting to meet when he was abducted, was innocent. Progress came with the arrest last week in Karachi of three men who allegedly e-mailed demands for Pearl's release with snapshots of the captive journalist attached. One of the men, Fawad Naseem, told police Saeed...
...PAKISTAN Prime Suspect Authorities identified British-born militant Sheik Omar Saeed as the main suspect in the Jan. 23 kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl. Saeed allegedly set a trap for Pearl by posing as a representative of Sheik Mubarak Ali Gilani, a radical religious leader the reporter wanted to interview. Saeed has a history of abduction; in 1994, India jailed him for kidnapping tourists in Kashmir. He was released five years later in exchange for passengers on a hijacked airliner...