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LONDON The infamous Phoenix FBI memo linked Middle Eastern students at U.S. flight schools with Sheikh Omar Bakri, a radical leader based in London who was connected to "every al-Qaeda operative recently arrested or identified in Europe," an expert alleges. Last month a British judge dismissed the case against Algerian pilot Lotfi Raissi, whom the U.S. wanted to extradite in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks
...Dilshada and Zahoor Ahmed Sheikh faced that bleak reality when their son Khalid was 16. Khalid was looking up to some dangerous role models: a few older friends who had gone across the border to Pakistan to join up with the anti-India insurgency raging in Kashmir. He developed a schoolboy enthusiasm for AK-47s. Then Khalid announced there was no point studying because, in his words, "Everyone is going to die anyway." The couple had to make a decision. "We summoned up our courage," says mother Dilshada, "and sent him away...
Still, on this issue of Nazi-slandering there remains one significant difference between America’s Chomsky-ites and the Middle-East terror-mongers: Many Arabs subtly, and some even overtly, commend Hitler’s policies. Sheikh Muhammad al-Gamei’a—a supposedly moderate Muslim cleric who left the Upper East Side to return home to Egypt after Sept. 11—told an Arab interviewer last October that the Jewish people had ridden “on the back of Germany,” but then “Hitler annihilated them because...
Still reeling from the gruesome murder of Daniel Pearl, Pakistan's leaders found themselves further embarrassed last week by revelations that the Wall Street Journal reporter's abduction might have been prevented. It turns out the U.S. requested the detention of the prime suspect, Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, twice between Sept. 11 and the day Pearl was kidnapped, in each case to no avail. So when President Bush and his spokesman, Ari Fleischer, suggested last Monday that the U.S. wanted Saeed, they touched a handful of raw nerves in Pakistan. By midweek, Fleischer was toning down his rhetoric and indicating...
PAKISTAN MORE EVIDENCE A cab driver became the second person to link Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh to the kidnapping of murdered U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl. The driver told a Karachi court that Sheikh had greeted Pearl when he was dropped outside a restaurant on Jan. 23. Pakistani officials say they want to complete their investigation of lead suspect Sheikh before considering a request for his extradition...