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...kidnapper was British citizen Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, polyglot, chess whiz and Muslim extremist fresh from the terrorist-training camps of Afghanistan. This hostage taker, now 27 years old, has resurfaced as the prime suspect in the Jan. 23 abduction in Karachi, Pakistan, of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. For those seeking Pearl's release, the fingering of Saeed was both bad news and good. On the one hand, Saeed keeps scary company. In recent years, according to Pakistani and U.S. officials, he has become a key player in al-Qaeda. U.S. intelligence suspects that he helped funnel...
...Pervez Musharraf was due to visit Washington. Many days had passed with no credible word from the kidnappers, and a series of miscues and hoax e-mails had thrown investigators off. It had become clear to the police that their first suspect, the militant Pir Mubarak Shah Gilani, whom Pearl was expecting to meet when he was abducted, was innocent. Progress came with the arrest last week in Karachi of three men who allegedly e-mailed demands for Pearl's release with snapshots of the captive journalist attached. One of the men, Fawad Naseem, told police Saeed had provided...
Soon after, investigators arrested two Pakistani brothers, Abdul Hannan and Abdul Mannan, in Rawalpindi. One of them allegedly contacted Saeed more than two dozen times on his mobile phone after Pearl was kidnapped. Both are activists with the banned terrorist group Jaish-e-Muhammad. Saeed has long maintained close ties with Jaish and its precursors: his 1994 kidnappings were aimed at freeing Masood Azhar, who was then imprisoned in India and went on to found the group two years...
...Pearl, the best hope seemed to lie in the fact that Saeed--if indeed he is the kidnapper--once took pity on the innocents he had duped into captivity. Echoing words uttered by a radical in a van seven years ago, Marianne Pearl in a televised interview offered herself to her husband's kidnappers. The question is, Did she trigger a memory...
...Actor Jeffrey Wright closely observed Bingham, who was on hand to take pictures and help safeguard historical accuracy. Jamie Foxx studied tapes of Ali's late, drug-addled corner man Drew (Bundini) Brown. Jon Voight, who last summer hid himself under layers of prosthetics as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Pearl Harbor, again endured hours each day in the makeup chair, this time disguising himself as Howard Cosell. The witty verbal sparring between Ali and Cosell provides some of the movie's most entertaining moments. "If you talk to Ali today," says Voight, "the first thing that will happen in response...