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Every year, as we enter a New Year, my mind goes back to Daniel Pearl, the Mumbai-based American correspondent of Wall Street Journal, who met with a brutal end to his young life during a visit to Karachi in January 2002 to enquire, inter alia, into the suspected Pakistani links of international jihadi terrorists. In his keenness to find out the truth, Pearl fell into a treacherous trap laid by a mixed group of Pakistani terrorists belonging to different organisations and orchestrated by Omar Sheikh, a British resident of Pakistani origin, who had participated in the so-called jihad against the...

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has survived at least four al Qaeda assassination attempts. But such attacks have so far seemed to solidify his post-9/11 resolve to side with civilization against terror. He has taken considerable political risks by deploying the Pakistani military against al Qaeda in the lawless tribal areas along the Afghan border. And he's been taking risks of a different kind with his recent outreach to world Jewry. Earlier this month Pakistan's foreign minister met publicly with his Israeli counterpart, a very significant statement given that Pakistan has long been more rejectionist even than most Arab countries. And...

Daniel Pearl, murdered WSJ reporter A prime suspect in the kidnapping and killing of Daniel Pearl was arrested Wednesday by Pakistani intelligence agents... The suspect, Mohammad Hashim Qadeer, is accused of arranging a first meeting between Mr. Pearl and Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh at a hotel in Rawalpindi, a city near the capital of Islamabad. Mr. Pearl, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was later lured by Mr. Sheikh to a January 2002 meeting in the southern port city of Karachi, where he was abducted and, eventually, beheaded. Mr. Sheikh and three defendants were convicted of the murder, although...

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. 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's police chief Zafar Abbas told Reuters. "He has gone through court procedures and right now he is in jail," he said. Intelligence officials said Qadir was one of seven Islamic militants still being sought in connection with Pearl's murder and is...

LAHORE, Pakistan - Police and intelligence agents Wednesday arrested a suspected militant who was wanted for a role in the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, officials said. The man, identified as Hashim Qadeer, was captured from a bus at a terminal in the eastern Pakistan city of Gujranwala, police and intelligence officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Both requested anonymity because they are not authorized to make media statements. Pearl was kidnapped and later beheaded in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi in 2002 after being abducted while he was researching a story on Islamic militancy....

Omar Saeed Sheikh, a hijacker of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 and killer of Daniel Pearl, is officially on the death row in Pakistan. This is the man who epitomises the links between Osama bin Laden, Pakistan's military establishment, the 9/11 hijackers, British jihadis and Kashmiri terrorists. Putting him on the death row, and holding him in an 'isolation' cell helps Musharraf keep a key witness out of American, British and Indian hands. But that 'isolation' seems to be one-sided, as Omar Saeed has been rather effective in turning his prison guards.

Sheikh rejected the “pillars of Western civilisation”, pledged allegiance to the one-eyed fugitive Taliban leader Mulla Omar and declared that jihad would never cease, even if Bin Laden and Omar were killed. “Islamic resurgence will continue even if all the better-known leaders are martyred or captured,” he said. His uncompromising pronouncements came as Mr Pearl’s parents, Judea and Ruth, noted with “sadness and disappointment” the failure of Pakistan to carry out Sheikh’s death sentence, imposed three years ago after he was tried for their son’s kidnap, and suggested that he could be implicated in planning bombings in London and elsewhere....

As I watched on the TV an announcement by the BBC that the British Police have identified Jamaican-born Lindsey Germaine, who lived in Buckinghamshire, as one of the bombers responsible for the terrorist strikes in London on July 7,2005, I could not help thinking of Daniel Pearl, the American journalist working for the "Wall Street Journal", who was kidnapped and brutally killed by a group of jihadi terrorists belonging to the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM---previously known as the Harkat-ul-Ansar HUA ) and the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) in January-February, 2002. Pearl 's kidnapping and murder was orchestrated by Omar Sheikh, a British citizen of...

Documents don't feel pain By: RICK REISS - For the Californian "Spreading rumors and writing statements that instigate people against the enemy." "Complain (to the court) of mistreatment while in prison." ---- From al-Qaida training manual seized by the Manchester, England, Police Department.

The making of a terrorist By Syed Saleem Shahzad KARACHI - Two and a half years ago, Pakistan's most-wanted person, Asif Ramzi, was found dead, along with five others, following an explosion in a bombing-making factory in Korangi, a satellite district of the southern port city of Karachi. Ramzi was wanted in connection with the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and the June 2002 bombing of the US consulate in Karachi. This incident alerted the security agencies of both the US and Pakistan to the emergence of Korangi, as well as neighboring Landhi, as a new breeding...

THE BUSINESS OF TERRORISM  W.A.TUPMAN  Submitted for publication by the Centre for Strategic and Global Studies, Moscow.  Some of the argument is taken from an article previously published in the Journal of Money Laundering ControlVol 1 No 4 pp.303-311April 1998 And two short articles published in Intersec :"The Business of Terrorism"Intersec, The journal of International security Vol 12no 1 Jan 2002 pp 6-8 "The Business of Terrorism Part 2" Intersec The Journal of International Security Vol 12 no 6 June 2002 pp 186-8    This article explores such information as exists with regard to funding firstly in relation to the...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani police on Wednesday arrested a man wanted in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and already sentenced to death in absentia for a hotel bombing that killed 11 French engineers. The suspect, Mohammed Sohail, was among six people who fired on police from a motorcycle, sparking a shootout, said Fayyaz Khan, a Karachi police investigator. He said the shooting began when a patrol asked the men to stop at a routine checkpoint in the city, the site of frequent attacks by Islamic militants. The five other suspects fled, but Sohail fell off...

Graphic video showing evil Islamist monsters beheading innocent human beings, most of them Americans, is readily available on the Internet. My best friend won’t watch it. My wife can’t even stand to hear me describe it. I understand why they feel the way they do, but I make it a point to watch each and every one of these barbaric executions. When Daniel Pearl, the young Jewish journalist, was kidnapped and murdered, his death was accomplished with what appeared to be a razor-sharp scimitar. It was quick, and I imagine he suffered very little. That is not the modus operandi...

KARACHI, Pakistan – Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaeda operative, wanted for alleged involvement in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, during a four-hour shootout Sunday at a southern Pakistan house, the information minister said. Two other men were arrested. Amjad Hussain Farooqi was wanted for his alleged role in the kidnapping and beheading of reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and two assassination attempts against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in December 2003. "I as chief spokesman for the government of Pakistan confirm that our forces have killed Amjad Hussain Farooqi," Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative Sunday in a four-hour gunbattle at a house in southern Pakistan that also led to the arrest of two other men, the information minister said. Amjad Hussain Farooqi had been wanted for his alleged role in the kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and two assassination attempts against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in December 2003. "I as chief spokesman for the government of Pakistan confirm that our forces have killed Amjad Hussain Farooqi," Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told The Associated Press...

The most required terrorist of Pakistan killed by the forces of safety The most required terrorist of Pakistan, supposed mingled with year attempted murder with president Pervez Musharraf and accused for the murder of the American journalist Daniel Pearl, was killed Sunday by the forces of safety, announced has person in load Pakistani. Amjad Farooqi, whose head was could At price for 20 million rupees (330.000 dollars), was cut down during year exchange of shots in Nawabshah (270 km in the north of Karachi), in the province of Sind (southern), specified with the AFP this person in load for...

"Being part of this people, I am part of the unfolding mystery." I am a Jew. I was born a Jew. I have lived my life as a Jew. And I will die a Jew. This I know for certain. The rest is shrouded in mystery, doubt, and metaphor. I regard myself as fortunate to have been born a Jew, though I attach no cosmic or even religious significance to the happenstance of my birth. I do not believe in destiny or chosenness. But having been born into the Jewish tradition, I feel an enormous responsibility to help preserve it...

Yesterday, some people on Free Republic decided to sell the entire Pearl family down the river, calling them names and declaring them liberal extremists, because of the following report from Yahoo/AFP:Daniel Pearl family asks Cheney not to use reporter's name WASHINGTON (AFP) - The family of Daniel Pearl, a US journalist who was beheaded in Pakistan two years ago, urged US politicians not to use the reporter's name for invoked Pearl's name during a campaign event. "The family of Daniel Pearl respectfully requests that his legacy remains non-partisan," The Wall Street Journal reporter's relatives said in a statement responding to...

Daniel Pearl family asks Cheney not to use reporter's name WASHINGTON (AFP) - The family of Daniel Pearl, a US journalist who was beheaded in Pakistan two years ago, urged US politicians not to use the reporter's name for invoked Pearl's name during a campaign event. "The family of Daniel Pearl respectfully requests that his legacy remains non-partisan," The Wall Street Journal reporter's relatives said in a statement responding to Cheney's comments. "We would like him to be remembered for what he was in his life, a passionate American and humanist who rose above political, religious and cultural divisions," the...