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...those arrested last week was wanted as an accessory in the January 2002 abduction and murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl. The Pakistanis have already convicted Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, a militant close to Jaish-e-Muhammad, of abducting Pearl and sentenced him to death. A witness says it was al-Qaeda commander Khalid Shaikh Mohammed who actually killed the journalist. Arrested by the U.S. on March 1, 2003, Mohammed remains in U.S. custody. According to a senior Pakistani antiterrorism official, he is being held at a military base on Diego Garcia. Pakistan's Interior Minister, Faisal Saleh Hayat, told...
...Crosshairs MIDDLE EAST Israel sealed off the Gaza Strip and threatened to resume assassinations of Palestinian militants after a Hamas suicide bombing - the group's first carried out by a woman - killed four Israelis at a border crossing. Deputy Israeli Defense Minister Zeev Boim named Hamas' spiritual leader Sheikh Yassin as a key target. Military Move JAPAN In the first deployment of Japanese troops to a combat zone since World War II, 30 members of what will be a 1,000-strong humanitarian force left for Iraq. Polls show that about half of Japanese oppose the mission. Prime Minister Junichiro...
...Although Malik insists all Kashmiris would find "psychological healing" in a just peace "in which their aspirations are addressed and accommodated," for some it's too late. Mogli Begum Sheikh, 45, is the matriarch of an extended family living on a small holding just north of Srinagar that counts no less than 10 widows and 24 orphans in its ranks. Since 1995, when Indian soldiers shot dead Sheikh's nephew Ali Mohammad Sheikh, who was a militant, 17 male family members and one female have died at the hands of both soldiers and separatists in an orgy of reprisals...
...With no sales tax and low customs duties, gold traded in Dubai is cheaper than in the countries in which it originates. Prices can be driven down still further by a bit of traditional Middle Eastern haggling. If bargaining isn't your style, the Gold and Diamond Park on Sheikh Zayed Road offers a more restrained?if somewhat sterile?shopping experience...
...With no sales tax and low customs duties, gold traded in Dubai is cheaper than in the countries in which it originates. Prices can be driven down still further by a bit of traditional Middle Eastern haggling. If bargaining isn't your style, the Gold and Diamond Park on Sheikh Zayed Road offers a more restrained - if somewhat sterile - shopping experience...