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<p>The prime suspect in the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was a college student in London when a sectarian war in the heart of Europe lured him to a life of Islamic militancy.</p> <p>According to interviews and Indian intelligence documents obtained by the Associated Press, Ahmed Omar Saeed was radicalized by the people he met and the things he learned on the way to Bosnia. After a trip to the Balkans in 1993, he dropped out of a prestigious British university and headed for the training camps of Afghanistan.</p>

HYDERABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Prosecutors sought Tuesday to block defense attorneys from obtaining a copy of a videotape showing the gruesome murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, saying it serves only to ``generate terrorism.'' Although the judge granted the defense request, Chief Prosecutor Raja Quereshi got a 72-hour stay so he could appeal to the Sindh provincial high court to block access to the video. ``As custodian of the video, we don't want to generate terrorism in our society. We want to curb it. We do not want to display the gruesome murder and slaughter of one human...

<p>February 1, 2002 -- A secluded Muslim settlement in upstate New York is an outpost for a terrorist group founded by Sheik Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, the radical Islamic cleric Daniel Pearl was trying to interview when he disappeared, according to a published report.</p>

<p>A Pakistani court yesterday convicted Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three accomplices for the murder of our reporter Daniel Pearl. The trial itself was an act of courage, and along with Danny's family we applaud the efforts of the Pakistani government in bringing his killers to justice. Judge Ashraf Ali Shah, chief prosecutor Raja Qureshi and the 23 witnesses for the prosecution should all be hailed for the personal risks they took simply by participating in the trial.</p>

BLY, Ore. — This hard-knocks hamlet seems an unlikely place to search for clues to the al-Qaida terrorist network. It sits on an arid plateau in Southern Oregon, about 50 miles east of Klamath Falls. With a population of about 250, it has a couple of cafes and small stores, an antique shop, and the razed foundation of an abandoned lumber mill. But in late 1999, federal authorities and other sources say, the area had something far more unusual: militant Muslims scouting a ranch outside of town as a possible training camp for jihad fighters. That aborted effort has now...

Who really killed Daniel Pearl?   Advertise Here Salman Husseinsays the murder is still a mystery and the prosecution does not have any case against Omar Sheikh     espite the arrest and trial of Sheikh Omar Saeed and his co-accused in the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl, the question of who slew the ill-fated US reporter remains a mystery. What is most ironic is the fact that the case against the accused already in custody is likely to be over by the end of the month. The prosecution, by all indications, has already made a mess of...

Evidence points finger at local groupBy Kamran KhanKARACHI: The Karachi Police investigators have found strong evidence to suggest that an unidentified Pakistani group played an active role in the planning and execution of the bomb blast that had left 15 people including 11 French naval engineers dead in downtown Karachi on Wednesday, senior police officials said here.With some initial evidence on Wednesday's bomb blast in hand, senior Pakistani security officials were suspecting last night that the elements from the same group could be behind the church shooting in Bahawalpur in October last year, Islamabad church shooting in March and Daniel...

Cover story: The British jackalFrom a London public school to the shadow of the noose — Nick Fielding unravels a story of terrorism, betrayal and political intrigue that is approaching its denouement in a foreign courtroom Just inside London’s North Circular Road at Snaresbrook, where the outer reaches of the East End give way at last to the genteel villages of Epping Forest, is a fee-paying school of 1,100 pupils that counts among its former students the England cricket captain Nasser Hussain and the Manchester United midfielder Quinton Fortune. The Forest school, founded in 1834, is proud of its...

<p>WASHINGTON, March 15 (UPI) -- The United States gave Islamabad a list of former Pakistani intelligence agents U.S. authorities believe were linked to the abduction and slaying of American journalist Daniel Pearl, United Press International learned Friday.</p> <p>And a UPI investigation has revealed Pakistani officials have engaged in a sustained campaign to prevent reporting of links between the country's intelligence services and the Muslim extremists accused of killing Pearl. UPI first reported the possible link on Jan. 29 in an exclusive.</p>