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...Saeed denies any involvement in Pearl's kidnapping, even though authorities say logs of his phone calls and e-mails link him to the plotters. The most damning?and disputed?piece of evidence in Saeed's trial came from a taxi driver who dropped Pearl outside the Metropole Hotel where he was abducted. The cabbie testified that he saw Saeed sitting in the car that drove the reporter away. But during the trial, Saeed's defense lawyers argued that in the 7 p.m. darkness and from 15 meters away, it would have been impossible for the cabbie to distinguish...
...several months Saeed and his co-defendants?who were accused of sending out ransom demands and photos of Pearl in captivity?were the police's only suspects. But in May, a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a bus carrying French naval technicians who were hired to work on a Pakistani submarine. The blast killed 11 Frenchmen and three Pakistanis, and it galvanized the Pakistani government into a wider crackdown on militant groups in Karachi. Hundreds of people were arrested, including Karim and Bukhari. Under interrogation, they confessed to helping abduct Pearl, then led police to his body...
...Kashmir and Afghanistan. Bukhari ran a boot camp for Kashmiri volunteers inside Afghanistan?a camp that intelligence sources say was used to train members of al-Qaeda. In his Kashmir activities, Bukhari was also known, and abetted, by Pakistani intelligence services?a connection that worries U.S. officials looking into Pearl's death...
...Karim, at least, is spilling the goods, giving investigators a much clearer picture of what happened: Pearl's kidnapping was carried out by three teams, involving 12 Pakistanis and at least three Arabs. The first team, which Saeed belonged to, lured Pearl into the trap. The second team of Pakistanis abducted Pearl, guarded him and later buried him. According to Karim, the third team of Arabs called the shots. One warned Pearl's captors not to negotiate a ransom deal on the sly, and told them "Don't leave him alone...
...Pearl was imprisoned in a small, cinder-block house surrounded by a garden that, in retrospect, was one of the first places in Karachi the police should have searched. The garden was owned by a local businessman, Saud Memon, who was a well-known jihadi with ties to al-Rasheed Trust. This charity was a major backer of the Taliban, and after the regime's collapse, police say, Memon used the garden hut to shelter Taliban and al-Qaeda fugitives. Karim told police that on the day of Pearl's killing, either Jan. 29 or Jan. 30, Karim's boss...