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...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...
...Karim and the other detained suspect, Naeem Bukhari, haven't yet 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...
...Terror: Who Killed Daniel Pearl...
...Daniel Pearl kidnapped? And why did his captors kill him? The Wall Street Journal, which last week published an investigation into the murder of its South Asia bureau chief, quotes Saeed telling investigators that "he was falling into my trap so easily, so I thought, 'I might as well do it.'" Saeed's aim, writes the Journal, was to "strike a blow against the U.S. and embarrass Pakistan's government...
...Murdering Pearl on camera, however, may not have been part of the original plan, some 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...