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...would be much better served by getting out of the paramilitary business altogether and strengthening its clandestine intelligence gathering. It was, after all, created to avoid another Pearl Harbor. It should concern itself now with preventing another 9/11...
...Pakistani court has sentenced to death one man, Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, 28, and imprisoned three others for their roles in the abduction and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl a year ago in Karachi. But the mystery of who wielded the knife that beheaded Pearl is still unsolved. Now Pakistani police sources tell TIME that at least one witness says Pearl's throat was slit by a top al-Qaeda terrorist, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. A Kuwaiti of Pakistani descent, Mohammed is believed by U.S. authorities to have been a key organizer of the Sept. 11 hijackings...
...Karachi police working on the Pearl case notice a distinct cooling in their superiors' interest these days. For them, the affair is closed; Saeed will hang for the crime. If they pursue clues provided by self-confessed kidnappers Karim and Bukhari, the Supreme Court might conceivably overturn Saeed's conviction, and nobody wants that. Khawaja Naveed Ahmed, a lawyer for one of Saeed's co-defendants, says, "Everyone involved got promotions. And now, there is no attempt to arrest the remaining suspects...
...Journalists aren't resting any easier, even though Pearl's convicted abductors are behind bars. In December, the Karachi bureau of the Associated Press news agency was contacted by an unknown militant group and promised?much in the way that Pearl had been?some "exclusive material." A.P.'s Pakistani reporter met with a go-between who blindfolded and drove him to Karachi's outskirts. There the car was met by an Arab who drew off the reporter's blindfold and swore at the go-between: "What is this? You promised me a foreign journalist!" Eventually, the Pakistani journalist was allowed...
...Terror: Who Killed Daniel Pearl...