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...links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, want Musharraf's whole Yankee-loving crowd eliminated. Such radical groups have already registered their displeasure by setting off bombs to kill foreigners in the commercial capital of Karachi--11 French engineers died in a blast in May--and murdering American journalist Daniel Pearl. A verdict for his accused killers is expected to be announced this week. A bigger score would be Musharraf. The general, who has been known to carry a gun, shrugs off the danger. Says his wife Sehba, who wed Musharraf four years after he graduated from the military...
...Verbatim "We shall see who will die first, either I or the authorities who have arranged the death sentence for me." AHMED OMAR SAEED SHEIKH, Islamic militant convicted of the kidnap and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl, in a message to the court after he was sentenced to death...
...DIED. JOAQUIN BALAGUER, 95, former President of the Dominican Republic, whose rule spanned 22 years; in Santo Domingo. Balaguer was known as the "father of Dominican democracy" but was also remembered for atrocities committed early in his rule, most notably the mysterious assassination of journalist Orlando Martinez Howley...
...separate homeland in central Assam. In the neighboring Cachar district the United Liberation Front of Assam claimed to have killed eight soldiers and injured 15 in an earlier attack. PAKISTAN Killers Appeal A lawyer for the British-born militant sentenced to death for the kidnap and murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl filed an apeal challenging his conviction. After a trial held in secret, an antiterrorism court in Hyderabad sentenced Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death by hanging. Sheikh's lawyer, Abdul Waheed Katpar, said the verdict had been based on "provenly planted evidence." The three other defendants...
DIED. HENRY (BUDDY) CIANFRANI, 79, flamboyant Democratic strategist and former Pennsylvania state senator who won back an old ward-leader seat in 1988 after serving 27 months in jail in the late '70s on racketeering charges; after a stroke in May; in Philadelphia. His romance with his future wife, journalist Laura Foreman, who covered him at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times, led Times executive editor A.M. Rosenthal to ask for Foreman's resignation in 1977, reportedly saying, "It's O.K. to f___ elephants, just don't cover the circus...