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...been murdered. Pakistan's President Musharraf vowed to hunt down his killers. President Bush said such crimes strengthened U.S. resolve to fight terrorism. Earlier in the week the Administration adopted a new policy on U.S. citizens kidnapped overseas, allowing for direct intervention. Pearl was abducted Jan. 23 in Karachi by a group calling itself the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty...
...this would be material for that central column, but for the fact Daniel Pearl, whose wife, Marianne, is pregnant with their first child, was being held somewhere in Karachi, Pakistan, with a gun to his head...
...year was 1994; the ambivalent kidnapper was British citizen Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, polyglot, chess whiz and Muslim extremist fresh from the terrorist-training camps of Afghanistan. This hostage taker, now 27 years old, has resurfaced as the prime suspect in the Jan. 23 abduction in Karachi, Pakistan, of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. For those seeking Pearl's release, the fingering of Saeed was both bad news and good. On the one hand, Saeed keeps scary company. In recent years, according to Pakistani and U.S. officials, he has become a key player in al-Qaeda. U.S. intelligence suspects...
...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 had provided the photos to another accomplice, who had handed them to him. One of the conspirators even supplied Saeed's cell-phone...
Pakistani investigators and the FBI have illuminated the sequence of events leading to Pearl's kidnapping--but little else. The correspondent arrived in Karachi, a bustling southern port city, on Jan. 22 with his wife Marianne, a French national and freelance journalist who is six months pregnant. Pakistani officials say Pearl had earlier spent a week in a town called Bahawalpur, home to the founder of the banned terrorist group Jaish-e-Muhammad. On the day he was abducted, Pearl had a midafternoon meeting at the U.S. consulate and then met with Jameel Yusuf, the head of Karachi's Citizen...