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...When a Pakistani judge ordered the death penalty for Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh in July 2002 for the murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, the Islamic militant was defiant. In court Sheikh had his lawyer read a threat to Pakistan's President: "Let's see who dies first, me or Musharraf." Now, after two bomb attempts in December on President Pervez Musharraf's life, investigators are treating Sheikh's warning as more than just bravado. Most of the dozen or so plotters who twice placed bombs on Musharraf's motorcade route belonged to Jaish-e-Muhammad, an outlawed militant group...
...Sheikh, 30, the British-raised scion of an influential Pakistani family, is being interrogated about his links to the suspected bombers. And he has been abruptly transferred from his prison cell in Hyderabad, in southern Pakistan, to Rawalpindi, near the army headquarters where the assassination probe is being conducted. The switch was made after a search of his cell found evidence that Sheikh, while imprisoned, had kept tabs on his old terrorist gang through letters and cell phone conversations, a Hyderabad police official told TIME. Sheikh had also been allowed visits from his former radical-Islamic comrades, this official says...
WRATH OF KHAN: Did a Pakistani scientist sell atomic secrets...
Khan is hardly the only Pakistani scientist to raise international suspicion. Shortly after 9/11, two retired nuclear experts with ties to Muslim extremists were questioned by the FBI about allegations that they had discussed developing weapons with al-Qaeda. Islamabad's current inquiry is focused on a group of Khan subordinates. The investigators tell TIME that Khan acknowledges "authorizing" some of their trips to Libya, Iran and North Korea but says he had "no idea" whether they were conducting clandestine business on their own. But Khan is widely regarded as the man with the knowledge and the authority to make...
...Khan has insisted he is a peaceful man opposed to nuclear proliferation. (He denied TIME's requests for an interview.) A former Musharraf aide says Khan's megaton ego--almost as much as U.S. charges that he ran a nuclear bazaar--persuaded Musharraf to force him into retirement. But Pakistani investigators remain leery of squeezing the national hero too tightly. Khan is a public icon, his hawkish face known to every schoolchild. Arresting him could trigger dangerous protest among Islamist extremists and senior military officers who feel Musharraf has already gone too far in appeasing the White House. Khan...