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...week in a safe house before allowing himself to be publicly "arrested" by police on May 12. He speculates that one reason Pearl was marked for death was that he had traced the connections of ex-ISI boss Hamid Gul and nuclear scientist Bashiruddin Mahmoud to al-Qaeda. Asad Hayauddin, spokesman for the Pakistani embassy in Washington, insists that "there is no complicity between any official department of Pakistan and Pearl's murderers," and that the very idea is "beyond belief." A Pakistani court sentenced Sheikh to death by hanging and three accomplices to 25 years imprisonment in the case...
...Yadav beat Asad Haque 9-1, 9-2, 9-7. The Crimson sophomore controlled play throughout, spending the match experimenting with different shots in an effort to prepare for the Tigers...
...anyone thought he could protect his children, it was Asad Abu Shouqa, a former Palestinian karate champion and an officer in Arafat's General Intelligence. But Abu Shouqa could not shield his son Haitham, 14, from his own choices, and the boy chose death. Abu Shouqa's hands, honed as hard as stone by martial arts, now are knotted into big, clumsy fists, pressing hard against each other. He sweats with the difficulty of controlling his rage as he talks about Haitham. He will not say what he would have told his son, had the boy confessed his plans...
However, Storch was able to blank Asad Haque at No. 7 and senior Tomo Hamakawa overcame a 5-2 deficit in the third game to beat sophomore Andrew Merle in the No. 9 slot, 9-0, 9-0, 9-5, for the final 8-1 tally...
...Taliban soldiers were asked to turn out their pockets. A prisoner, waiting until Alliance commander Nadir Ali was near, suddenly produced a grenade and pulled the pin, killing himself and the commander. In a similar attack the same night, another prisoner killed himself and senior Hazara commander Saeed Asad. The remaining men were led into underground cells to join scores of other captured Taliban fighters. Despite the grenade attacks, the Alliance guards were not reinforced...