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...Richard Nixon who famously dismissed the Watergate break-in as a "third-rate burglary," of a heart attack; in San Diego. Ziegler publicly stood by Nixon even after Watergate led to his downfall in 1974. But according to former White House counsel John Dean, Ziegler could have been "Deep Throat", the mysterious source who helped the Washington Post expose the scandal. "It's necessary to fudge sometimes," Ziegler once said about his work as presidential spokesman, "but I never walked out on that podium and lied...
...shack one evening in late November. The cuts on his face have almost healed, and he looks younger tonight, dressed in sweatpants and a blue sweatshirt. His mood has improved, too. He's still not comfortable in the city, he says. For one thing, the coal smoke scratches his throat. But for the moment, he seems relaxed. Or perhaps just resigned...
...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...
...suspect in the abduction, Afghan war veteran Fazal Karim, has identified Mohammed as the man who drew the knife across Pearl's throat, two men who participated in Karim's interrogation tell TIME. Karim was detained in a Pakistani crackdown on militant groups last May, and he admitted he assisted in Pearl's abduction. During his interrogation, Karim confessed that he had helped three unknown Arabs carry out Pearl's murder. With Karim's aid, one Arab pinned the journalist to the floor while another wielded the weapon. The third videotaped the grisly act. The two officials who grilled Karim...
...that the actual killers are still at large. While prosecutors say Saeed was the mastermind who grabbed Pearl, Karim denies that Saeed was in Karachi during the kidnapping. Karim, a former mujadedin fighter in Afghanistan, has told police that the man who actually drew the knife across Pearl's throat was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a top al-Qaeda terrorist. Mohammed, whom U.S. investigators say was a chief architect of the 9/11 attacks, is now believed to be hiding in Pakistan...