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...murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl? Since his kidnapping and execution by Islamic militants in Pakistan in 2002, various suspects have been identified. Pakistani authorities initially put the blame on Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheik, a British-born Islamist who was convicted and sentenced to death for the crime in Pakistan in 2003. Three fellow conspirators received jail terms of 25 years...
...Israelis thought their siege of Gaza might break Palestinian support for Hamas, they were wrong. It has only made Palestinians angrier and more desperate. Says Gaza resident Omar Shabani, an economist: "My kids ask me why the Israelis are doing this to us, and I can't answer them. I don't want to increase their hatred toward Israel, but the truth is, the Israelis are doing everything to make us hate them...
Speaking on Monday, President George W. Bush stated that “the United Nations should not wait any longer to approve a blue-helmeted force” for Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region as mandated by UN Resolution 1706. Sudan’s President Omar El Bashir responded by insisting that the situation in Darfur is under control. But even as he spoke, gun fights erupted between his army and Darfuri rebels in the posh streets of Omdurman, across the river from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. With a third of Darfur?...
...Secretary-General's report says that the foot soldiers of the insurgency are Afghans. I've been saying that for the last three months, even though President Karzai and everyone else says they're from Pakistan. Today Karzai said [Taliban leader] Mullah Omar is in Quetta. This is a ridiculous assertion. Mullah Omar has never come to Quetta. Not since 1995 has he come to Pakistan. He is based in Kandahar and is still there...
...Iraq is a dangerous “denial of reality.” The film, which is directed and produced by Ahmed Jamal and narrated by Amanpour, follows the story of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl before and after his 2002 kidnapping by Omar Sheikh and other Islamic extremists. Amanpour said she hopes that the film will give the public a better understanding of what happened to Pearl and what is still happening to journalists today. Three years after the kidnapping, there is a “hijacking of public debate and the lessening of the middle ground...