ESTERI 06 gen. 2006 162 Terrorismo: kamikaze di Londra lascia eredita' milionaria
LONDRA - Shehzad Tanweer, uno dei quattro kamikaze saltati in aria nell'attentato del 7 luglio scorso a Londra, ha lasciato in eredita' 175.455 euro, una cifra superiore all'indennizzo statale per i parenti delle vittime dell'attentato e per chi quel giorno ha perso gli arti. Lo scrive il Sun. Il terrorista lavorava a Leeds in una friggitoria.
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Pakistani security forces have arrested an Islamic militant who is thought to have set up a meeting between murdered U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl and his kidnappers, police said on Thursday. Mohammad Hashim Qadir, alias Arif, was arrested three or four days ago in the city of Gujranwala in the central province of Punjab, the city police chief Zafar Abbas told Reuters. Pearl is pictured in this undated photo.
Pakistan arrests man wanted in Pearl murder case
By Zeeshan Haider
July 28, 2005
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces have arrested an Islamic militant thought to have set up a meeting between murdered U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl and his kidnappers, police and intelligence officials said on Thursday.
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Daniel Pearl and the body of evidence
By B. Raman
January 7, 2006
... Since 9/11, Musharraf has, without a moment’s hesitation, co-operated in the rendition to the US of many brutal terrorists from Pakistan. According to one estimate, about 300 Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists and terrorist suspects had been flown out of Pakistan by the CIA, with the help of Musharraf. The more prominent among them were Abu Zubaidah, Ramzi Binalshibh, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and Abu Faraj al-Libbi. According to Musharraf’s own statements, Abu Faraj was the Al Qaeda mastermind of the two attempts to have him (Musharraf) assassinated in December, 2003. One would have, therefore, expected Musharraf to have retained him in Pakistani custody and questioned in order to identify other military personnel involved in the plot. He did not do so. Instead, he handed him over to the US.
There are only two instances in which Musharraf has fiercely rebuffed suggestions for similarly handing over suspects to the US or the international community —the cases of Dr AQ Khan, the so-called father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb, and Omar Sheikh.
In the case of AQ Khan, the reasons for Musharraf’s fears are clear. Under interrogation by foreign experts, he might have exposed the role of the late Zia ul-Haq in the transfer of military nuclear technology to Iran and of Musharraf in the transfers to Libya and North Korea.
What is Musharraf afraid of — if it is fear — in the case of Omar Sheikh? If Omar Sheikh knows some deadly secrets about the involvement of Musharraf himself, all the latter has to do is to have the appeal dismissed by the court and have Omar Sheikh executed quickly. That would have been the end of the fear. Why is he not doing it?
Anyone finding the answers would be making a remarkable contribution to solving one of the biggest mysteries of the so-called war against international jihadi terrorism.
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