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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...
...high-profile criminal allowed to run a terrorist network from behind bars? Pakistani authorities won't comment, nor will they admit that the suspected contacts were the reason Sheikh was moved. An Interior Ministry official says Sheikh was moved because of fears that members of his terrorist group had bribed guards at Hyderabad prison and were plotting to spring their leader...
Mohammad Tantawi—the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar Mosque in Egypt and one of Sunni Islam’s highest authorities—has publicly stated that Muslim women must obey the laws of the non-Muslim countries in which they live, even if it means not wearing the headscarf. Of course, French Muslims must obey French law, but Tantawi is missing the point of the public uproar. What if they protest the ban not as Muslims living in a non-Muslim country, but as French men and women rejecting a law that infringes upon the freedoms...
...that poses its own problems. Even the book I carry--Bernard-Henri Levy's Who Killed Daniel Pearl?--begins to worry me. I reassure myself that at least I hold a British passport, but then I recall that both Richard Reid, the would-be shoe bomber, and Omar Sheikh, Pearl's killer, had the same credential. It's unnerving to think that basic facts about my life--facts that belong to me--could, in others' hands, have the power to land me in trouble...