Word: karim
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...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...
...Karim and the other detained suspect, Naeem Bukhari, haven't yet been charged with any crime. But Karim's account suggests that Saeed may have played a relatively minor role in the Pearl affair?and that the actual killers are still at large. While prosecutors say Saeed was the mastermind who grabbed Pearl, Karim denies that Saeed was in Karachi during the kidnapping. Karim, a former mujadedin fighter in Afghanistan, has told police that the man who actually drew the knife across Pearl's throat was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a top al-Qaeda terrorist. Mohammed, whom U.S. investigators...
...explosives-laden car into a bus carrying French naval technicians who were hired to work on a Pakistani submarine. The blast killed 11 Frenchmen and three Pakistanis, and it galvanized the Pakistani government into a wider crackdown on militant groups in Karachi. Hundreds of people were arrested, including Karim and Bukhari. Under interrogation, they confessed to helping abduct Pearl, then led police to his body, which Karim said he had helped bury in a walled garden in the outskirts of Karachi. Karim was unrepentant about the American's death, telling his inquisitors "I would go out and do it again...
...Karim and Bukhari were fellow travelers on the jihad circuit, having fought together in Kashmir and Afghanistan. Bukhari ran a boot camp for Kashmiri volunteers inside Afghanistan?a camp that intelligence sources say was used to train members of al-Qaeda. In his Kashmir activities, Bukhari was also known, and abetted, by Pakistani intelligence services?a connection that worries U.S. officials looking into Pearl's death...
...Karim, at least, is spilling the goods, giving investigators a much clearer picture of what happened: Pearl's kidnapping was carried out by three teams, involving 12 Pakistanis and at least three Arabs. The first team, which Saeed belonged to, lured Pearl into the trap. The second team of Pakistanis abducted Pearl, guarded him and later buried him. According to Karim, the third team of Arabs called the shots. One warned Pearl's captors not to negotiate a ransom deal on the sly, and told them "Don't leave him alone...