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...half-hour before Mohammed Jamil ended his life, he was a busy man. As he sat in a pickup truck loaded with C4 plastic explosives, he made and received no fewer than 109 calls on his cell phone, talking, at least in some cases, to accomplices in his effort to incinerate the President of Pakistan. Jamil, 23, might have assumed that the evidence he was creating would disintegrate in the blast he planned for Pervez Musharraf. If he did, he was wrong. Not only did he and a second car bomber fail to kill Musharraf in their Dec. 25 attempt...
...phone call that particularly disturbed investigators was between Jamil and a policeman on Musharraf's security beat. An investigator on the case told TIME that the policeman, who has been arrested and is being interrogated, informed Jamil in which car Musharraf?who uses several decoy limousines?was riding. U.S. and Pakistani investigators say they believe that insiders within the President's guard were also in on a failed Dec. 14 hit, allowing would-be killers to plant five explosive charges under a bridge that blew up just after Musharraf crossed it. Jaish-e-Muhammad is also suspected in that near...
...powerful explosives, which, combined with the sophistication of the attempt, led Pakistani officials to suspect al-Qaeda involvement. The driver of the car that got closest to the President on Christmas Day had his face blown off by the blast; from that grisly evidence he was identified as Muhammad Jamil, a 23-year-old from the Pakistani-controlled section of Kashmir, who was affiliated with a militant Islamic group that Musharraf has tried to curb. "Whoever has done this," says Major General Shaukat Sultan Khan, a spokesman for the military, "they have some kind of objective. They will keep trying...
Meanwhile, the future looks less bright for another former Harvard star. Offensive lineman Jamil Soriano ’03 was cut from the New England Patriots’ practice squad Wednesday...
...tell TIME Qurie will demand full control of all 12 Palestinian security services. Under pressure from Egypt and the U.S., Arafat just might cede it, officials close to Qurie believe. If that happens, Sharon could be forced to reconsider Yaalon's unsolicited advice. --By Matt Rees, Aharon Klein and Jamil Hamad...