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Karachi police chief Syed Kamal Shah told TIME that investigators believe the kidnapping and murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl was patronized by "foreigners"--a standard code word for al-Qaeda. Pakistani investigators say al-Qaeda's fingerprints are hard to detect, but they believe that bin Laden's network may have been behind the May attack that killed 11 French technicians on a bus in Karachi and the June bombing of the U.S. consulate in Karachi that killed 12 Pakistanis...
...connections between the perpetrators of those attacks and the militants involved in the Pearl murder. Last Monday a Hyderabad court ordered the death penalty for Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British-educated Islamic militant, and sentenced three accomplices to life in prison for their role in the American journalist's murder. Police have since detained new suspects, who will probably also be tried for Pearl's murder. One of the suspects, Fazal Karim, has allegedly confessed to beheading Pearl at a farmhouse on the outskirts of Karachi, although he has not been formally charged. Through wiretaps...
...like many a smart, superficial journalist, News gets its details right while muffing the intangibles that add up to larger truth. The show's ethical dilemmas are genuine but predictable. (Should we report politicians' affairs? Hound grieving widows? Cover African news?) And the show is a clip reel of white-collar-drama cliches: the tracking shots of newsies speed walking down hallways to show how goldarned busy they are, the family man torn between home and office, the single woman married to her career whose eggs you can all but hear expiring one by one. The most intriguing character...
...Spend an evening in Jidda, the hometown of Osama bin Laden, where young Saudis today flock to American chain restaurants and shopping malls to loiter away the stifling summer nights, and you rarely hear bin Laden's name. "They find it silly when people talk about al-Qaeda," says journalist Mohammed al-Kheriji, 28, as he sips a latte at the city's newest Starbucks. "People are worried about their own problems...
...ultimately joined bin Laden's brigade learned their trade not in Saudi Arabia but by fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan-a war supported and funded in part by Washington. But some Saudi elites have begun to argue that something is basically rotten in their homeland. Says a Saudi journalist: "Wahhabism breeds extremism. It was building up, and bin Laden used it. The government should have said, 'Enough is enough...