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...year ago this week, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl walked into a kidnap trap in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest and most chaotic city. After six days of captivity, he was murdered. In July, a Pakistani court convicted four men for their role in delivering Pearl to the kidnappers, who were waiting for him in a car outside Karachi's Metropole Hotel. Three were given life sentences. Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, 29, a smooth-talking, British-educated Islamic militant who had served jail time in India for kidnapping Western tourists, received the death sentence for acting as the master planner...
...trial and close the case, much has remained a mystery?including the identity of the man who actually wielded the knife that beheaded Pearl. However, TIME has learned that crucial fresh evidence is emerging from two Islamic militants whom Pakistani police and paramilitary rangers have been secretly holding in Karachi. Two people who took part in their interrogation tell TIME that one of the militants, Fazal Karim, has confessed to witnessing the murder...
...party to back the Islamic religious parties' candidate for Prime Minister, Maulana Fazlur Rehman. Musharraf moved fast. First, his aides released Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zardari from his hospital jail, where he had been held on charges of corruption, and allowed him to visit his dying mother in Karachi...
...January 2000 meeting attended by up to 12 key JI and al-Qaeda figures, including Tawfiq bin Atash, top suspect in the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen in October 2000, two of the Pentagon hijackers, another key al-Qaeda figure Ramzi Binalshibh?who was captured in Karachi on Sept. 11 this year?and, of course, Hambali himself...
...tactic has been to contract out its terror work to local hirelings?and there are a multitude. Police are investigating links between Osama bin Laden's network and a spate of anti-Western attacks this past year: the kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, bomb attacks in Karachi on the U.S. consulate and on a bus full of French submarine technicians and massacres of Christians. President Pervez Musharraf pledged full cooperation to the U.S. in its search for al-Qaeda. But those orders are not always trickling down to the middle-ranking officers in his army and intelligence...