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...calls for high-level resignations over the misuse of funds by Eurostat, the E.U.'s statistical office. But his defiant stand did little to convince doubters of the Commission's ability to account cleanly for its €94 billion annual budget. Try Again SWEDEN Police investigating the stabbing murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh released suspect Per Olof Svensson and cleared him of involvement in the attack. A new suspect, Mijailo Mijailovic, was taken into custody. Mijailovic was convicted in 1997 for repeatedly stabbing his father, who survived. Nuclear Fallout IRAN U.N. nuclear experts discovered traces of weapons-grade uranium...
...Pearl's murder has never quite been solved. Since the Wall Street Journal reporter was abducted and executed in Karachi in January 2002, four men with ties to radical Islamist groups have been convicted of the crime by a Pakistani court. The suspected ringleader, a British citizen named Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, has been sentenced to death, while the other three are serving 25-year terms. But several other alleged accomplices remain at large, and the man who may have slashed Pearl's throat - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a top Qaeda operative who recently revealed to U.S. authorities fresh details about...
...considerable risk to his own safety, Levy - who, like Pearl, is Jewish - spent more than a year investigating the murder in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and other locales. Levy doesn't buy the argument that Pearl, who was 38, was murdered simply because he was an American and a Jew - ?crimes? to which he confessed moments before he was decapitated. Rather, Levy suggests, Pearl?s killing was a ?state crime,? orchestrated by a syndicate of Jihadist groups with the backing of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), its CIA. Levy theorizes that Pearl was close to uncovering ties between ISI chiefs...
...essential component of any murder investigation is motive, and Levy speculates on the reasons an assortment of Pakistani groups may have wanted Pearl dead. The French author believes Pearl had been on the trail of prominent Pakistani nuclear scientists, one of whom had travelled to North Korea for a ?vacation? and another who had ties to a secretive Islamic charity operating in Afghanistan. A month before his abduction, Pearl had co-written an article in the Journal alleging that Dr. Bashiruddin Mahmoud, one of the fathers of the Pakistani bomb, had discussed nuclear weapons with Osama bin Laden. Pearl didn...
...Levy concedes that we may never know who ordered Pearl?s murder. But his book has a larger agenda: To promote the idea that America should focus more on fighting terrorism in Pakistan - where radical Islamists may be close to acquiring nuclear know-how - than in Iraq. ?I assert that Pakistan is the biggest rogue state of all the rogue states,? he writes. It?s a provocative thought for a conspiracy buff or anyone else to ponder...