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...confusion deepened Friday when an e-mail sent to news organizations, including CNN and Fox, claimed that Pearl had been executed and that his body could be found in an unspecified graveyard in Karachi. Someone else called the U.S. embassy in Islamabad demanding $2 million for Pearl's return. Attempts to trace the e-mails have so far proved inconclusive; the Wall Street Journal, for its part, said on Saturday that it believes Pearl may still be alive...
...Smuggled on false documents to Dubai from Karachi airport, the brothers were put on a regimen of white beans, and beaten regularly. They joined many other boys: the camel jockeys are kept in desert houses in groups of 20. Barefoot and sleeping together on mattresses on the floor, they exercised and grazed the camels 18 hours a day. During races, falls are frequent and the boys are often injured or even trampled to death. Yousuf, who has racing scars on his hands, ankles and chin, describes the routine: "The sheiks would drive along with the camels and give us instructions...
...face of few options, the sad trade continues. Every six months or so, according to Karachi airport immigration officer Haji Abdul Razzak, the broken and twisted body of a child jockey arrives back from the Gulf. Haji can't act without a complaint from a relative, and the $25,000 that accompanies a corpse buys many a family's silence. "They take the money and bury their child," says the official. Child smuggler Mohammed Aslam, 26, who was arrested in Karachi last spring, puts it this way: "We get money, the parents get money, the children get money. When everybody...
...this would be material for that central column, but for the fact Daniel Pearl, whose wife, Marianne, is pregnant with their first child, is being held somewhere in Karachi, Pakistan, with a gun to his head. By kidnappers who do not appear to know what they are doing. Pearl's old boss scoffs at the idea he was working for anybody but his editors - "Of all the reporters who worked in the Washington bureau he had the most jaundiced view of government," Jill Abramson told the New York Times. This is a journalist - a journalist in deep trouble...
...misrepresented his academic qualifications and - horrors - was even once involved with the Catholic Church. None turned out to be true except the last charge. Nazir-Ali has admitted to being a practicing Catholic while at St. Paul's School and during a year at St. Patrick's College in Karachi before he became an Anglican at age 20. Not that the Papist allegations bothered too many. Times have changed since Henry VIII severed ties with Rome in 1534. The Queen this month overturned five centuries of history by inviting Britain's Catholic leader, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, to preach...