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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44848)	10/22/2003 2:29:50 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

NEW YORK, Oct 21: US officials investigating the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl now believe he was personally slain by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged organizer of the Sept 11, 2001, attacks. The Journal said on Tuesday that White House officials had developed credible, corroborated information that Khalid Mohammed - believed to be one of Osama bin Laden's aides - was "directly involved" in Daniel Pearl's murder. The reporter was kidnapped on Jan 23 last year in Karachi, where he had gone to do a feature on Muslim militancy. A scratchy video of Mr Pearl's throat being cut was delivered to the US consulate on Feb 21. It took until May 2002 to find his remains. British-born militant Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh and three other militants were convicted in July of plotting the abduction and murder, but they were not present at the slaying and the actual killers have never been caught. Khalid Mohammed was arrested in Rawalpindi in March this year. He has since been held at an undisclosed location and has been interrogated by CIA personnel. Khalid, 38, a Kuwaiti of Pakistani descent, is suspected of being a major financier and organizer for the Al Qaeda network. As well as masterminding the Sept 11 attacks, he is accused of plotting to blow up 12 US airliners in the mid-1990s, and helping to plot the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. In January, Time magazine had quoted Pakistani police sources as saying at least one witness had seen Khalid Mohammed personally kill Daniel Pearl. A suspect in the abduction, Fazal Karim, reportedly told police that Mr Khalid had drawn the knife across the reporter's throat as he helped hold Pearl.Investigators have said Daniel Pearl's killers were Arabs. -AFP

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44848)	10/22/2003 8:20:10 AM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Islamist lawyer in Egypt pronounces al-Qaeda "dead" channelnewsasia.com CAIRO : The United States has destroyed the al-Qaeda terror network as an Islamic militant group but its leaders can still spur "angry young people" into staging attacks worldwide, an Egyptian lawyer said. "The Americans persist in saying al-Qaeda is still around to justify their so-called war on terrorism, but I think al-Qaeda is dead," said Islamist lawyer, Montasser el-Zayat, in an interview with AFP. Zayat, who claims he has e-mail contact with the network's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, said the group was destroyed during the war in Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. "They no longer (have) the territory on which they were based, the (Taliban) government which supported them has been overthrown and the money they had in their hands has been frozen," said Zayat, speaking in his Cairo office. "Zawahiri knows there are angry young people and he's trying to mobilize them," said Zayat, a former member of the underground Egyptian militant group Jamaa Islamiya. "That's what happened in Yemen, Kuwait, Bali, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, and that is what is going to happen in Egypt," he added, alluding to the bombings and attacks that have occurred in all these countries, except Egypt. "In January, a group of young (Egyptians) wanted to launch an attack against the US embassy. Evidently, they had no organizational link with Zawahiri," he said. In January, the Egyptian authorities arrested 43 people who the government daily Al-Ahram said belonged to the militant group Al-Jihad, which was led by Zawahiri. The group was sent before the military prosecutor on charges of having "planned attacks against the American and Israeli embassies in Cairo." Zayat suggested that Osama bin Laden made recent tapes attributed to the al-Qaeda leader "to reassure his friends and supporters that he is still present" amid rumors about his fate. In two "messages", broadcast Saturday by Al-Jazeera television, bin Laden threatens the United States and its allies with new attacks, denouncing their deepening presence in Iraq. Zayat, who was imprisoned between 1981 and 1984 for belonging to Jamaa Islamiya, said that the Egyptian government is "playing cat and mouse" with the banned but tolerated Muslim Brotherhood, whose members are often arrested. The Brotherhood, which wants to create an Islamic government without resorting to violence, "are the real competitors" to President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party, he said. "In spite of the repression, it is impossible to eradicate the Islamist movement," he added. Zayat also admitted to having played an intermediary role between Jamaa and the government, when the group called a halt in 1998 to a wave of violence which claimed around 1,300 lives in the 1990s. "No comment," he replied, when asked if he continued to play such a role. - AFP