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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (46344)	5/29/2004 3:13:21 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Mastermind linked to Pearl's murder: Plots to assassinate Musharraf :: <The enemy number 1 of Alqaeda today is the Pakistani President, no one even Mr, Bush has helped damage AlQaeda so much as Mr. Mush, yesterday suicide bombers who were one killing rampage in Kashmir do not have a safe heaven in Pakistan, they pre 911 had that support, today they are the ones who are being pursued in every corner of the country- AlQaeda enemy number 1 is someone I support with my brains and brawn, I put all his deeds aside and look at him post 911 with support of Bush who has helped stopped Talebinisation of my country, Talebinisation is what in easiest terms can be called as a race to the bottom of the cesspool, that scenario is averted, every other arguments at the moment goes to background the necessity doctrine has in my mind made things very clear, take out the sanctuaries and the population of these vermins will fall, second don’t get intimidated, Sadr only wants his neck to be saved from justices, he got thousands of his man killed, Fallujah and Sadr are both relatively quiet, rather same people fighting US forces in Fallujuah were given arms yesterday buy the General to create peace, Fallujah after a month is quiet, and as Iraq moves towards political sovereignty things will change for better.> ISLAMABAD, May 28: Two attempts to kill President Pervez Musharraf last year were masterminded by a militant leader linked to US journalist Daniel Pearl's murder and Al Qaeda's number three, a senior security official told AFP on Friday. Amjad Farooqi, 30, was the 'very clever' Pakistani mastermind Gen Musharraf referred to in a local television interview on Thursday in which he outlined the involvement of low-ranking army and air force personnel in the first attempt on his life on December 14, the official, who could not be identified, told AFP. "Investigators have conclusively established that Amjad Farooqi hatched the plot to kill the president, with the prompting and assistance of the Al Qaeda terror network," he said. "A nationwide hunt is on to arrest the suspect." President Musharraf himself had not identified the man, saying it would compromise a manhunt for the militant who had been close to capture several times. Farooqi had close contact with Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, Al Qaeda's number three and the alleged chief planner of 9/11 attacks, before Khalid's March 2003 arrest, the official said. He was also intricately involved in the elaborate plot to abduct and murder Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl in early 2002, he said. Farooqi is believed to have provided the militants who held Pearl in a shed on Karachi's outskirts after the reporter was abducted on Jan 23, 2002 as he went to what he believed would be an interview with another militant leader. And he provided a trio of Arab-looking men who turned up on the sixth day of Pearl's captivity and beheaded him on camera, the official said. Farooqi is described as a 'right-hand man' of the militant convicted of plotting Pearl's abduction and murder, British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh. "He gave the gang to Sheikh Omar which executed Daniel Pearl," the security official said. Farooqi has a Rs3 million bounty on his head and has been missing for more than two years. Gen Musharraf said in the television interview that the Pakistani mastermind was hired by a foreign Al Qaeda operative to execute the Dec 14 and Dec 25 attempts to assassinate him. "At what level this foreign initiative, whether it comes at the highest level, some orders from the highest level, which I mean Mr (Ayman) Zawahiri or Osama bin Laden, I don't know that. "But certainly a foreigner is involved, a non-Pakistani," he told the television channel on Thursday. "And then they hire a Pakistani extremist. He gets the money, he gets the support. He then puts up a team to act. So therefore this becomes the operative man and he organizes a team and he gets people, extremists of ours. He inducts them and they then execute the plan," he said. The security official said that Farooqi had recruited the two suicide bombers, who had both taken part in the guerilla activities against Indian occupation in Kashmir and fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan. -AFP