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...year ago this week, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl walked into a kidnap trap in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest and most chaotic city. After six days of captivity, he was murdered. In July, a Pakistani court convicted four men for their role in delivering Pearl to the kidnappers, who were waiting for him in a car outside Karachi's Metropole Hotel. Three were given life sentences. Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, 29, a smooth-talking, British-educated Islamic militant who had served jail time in India for kidnapping Western tourists, received the death sentence for acting as the master planner...
...Pakistani authorities plainly wanted?and delivered?a speedy resolution of the Pearl murder case, partly to please the Bush Administration, which viewed the affair as a test of President Pervez Musharraf's willingness to crack down on homegrown terrorists. But with the Pakistani government's rush to bring Saeed and his three co-defendants to trial and close the case, much has remained a mystery?including the identity of the man who actually wielded the knife that beheaded Pearl. However, TIME has learned that crucial fresh evidence is emerging from two Islamic militants whom Pakistani police and paramilitary rangers have...
...investigators say. It was Pearl's bad luck, they believe, that during the week of his captivity, the television news featured images that would have infuriated his captors: shackled and blindfolded prisoners at Guant?namo Bay, and Israeli tanks smashing down Palestinian homes. Nor did it help Pearl that a Pakistani newspaper reported that he was Jewish. On top of that, the Pakistani authorities had just begun rounding up Islamic radicals across the country. "The international events were sufficient for any Islamic militant to become emotional," one investigator says. Pearl may also have enraged his jailers by trying to crawl...
...abducted. The cabbie testified that he saw Saeed sitting in the car that drove the reporter away. But during the trial, Saeed's defense lawyers argued that in the 7 p.m. darkness and from 15 meters away, it would have been impossible for the cabbie to distinguish one bearded Pakistani from another. "The taxi driver also happens to be a police constable," says Saeed's lawyer Abdul Waheed Katpar, who is appealing his defendant's conviction next month in the Supreme Court. "We think his superiors leaned on him to tailor his testimony." Police deny this allegation...
...defendants?who were accused of sending out ransom demands and photos of Pearl in captivity?were the police's only suspects. But in May, a 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...