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...been charged with any crime. But Karim's account suggests that Saeed may have played a relatively minor role in the Pearl affair?and 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...
...suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a bus carrying French naval technicians who were hired to work on a Pakistani submarine. The blast killed 11 Frenchmen and three Pakistanis, and it galvanized the Pakistani government into a wider crackdown on militant groups in Karachi. Hundreds of people were arrested, including Karim and Bukhari. Under interrogation, they confessed to helping abduct Pearl, then led police to his body, which Karim said he had helped bury in a walled garden in the outskirts of Karachi. Karim was unrepentant about the American's death, telling his inquisitors "I would...
...Pearl was imprisoned in a small, cinder-block house surrounded by a garden that, in retrospect, was one of the first places in Karachi the police should have searched. The garden was owned by a local businessman, Saud Memon, who was a well-known jihadi with ties to al-Rasheed Trust. This charity was a major backer of the Taliban, and after the regime's collapse, police say, Memon used the garden hut to shelter Taliban and al-Qaeda fugitives. Karim told police that on the day of Pearl's killing, either Jan. 29 or Jan. 30, Karim's boss...
...Karachi police working on the Pearl case notice a distinct cooling in their superiors' interest these days. For them, the affair is closed; Saeed will hang for the crime. If they pursue clues provided by self-confessed kidnappers Karim and Bukhari, the Supreme Court might conceivably overturn Saeed's conviction, and nobody wants that. Khawaja Naveed Ahmed, a lawyer for one of Saeed's co-defendants, says, "Everyone involved got promotions. And now, there is no attempt to arrest the remaining suspects...
...Journalists aren't resting any easier, even though Pearl's convicted abductors are behind bars. In December, the Karachi bureau of the Associated Press news agency was contacted by an unknown militant group and promised?much in the way that Pearl had been?some "exclusive material." A.P.'s Pakistani reporter met with a go-between who blindfolded and drove him to Karachi's outskirts. There the car was met by an Arab who drew off the reporter's blindfold and swore at the go-between: "What is this? You promised me a foreign journalist!" Eventually, the Pakistani journalist was allowed...