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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...

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"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...

June 19, 2004 -- YESTERDAY'S brutal murder of Paul Johnson was just the latest atrocity by terrorist Wahhabis — extremist acolytes of the hate cult that's rooted in the heart of the Saudi state. And the lessons are simple: * Terrorism terrorizes. Extremely vile terrorism that literally goes for the throat terrorizes most of all. Bombs go off and are forgotten in a week. The horrible deaths of Daniel Pearl, Nick Berg, and Paul M. Johnson, Jr. stick in our minds. * Beheading is low-cost, and flatters the Wahhabis' belief that they are imitating the Prophet Muhammad, who lived in...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, 5 June 2004 — News reports suggest US troops will deploy to Saudi Arabia to “save” Saudi oil fields from “Al-Qaeda” attacks. And because “Al-Qaeda” militants killed an American there last Saturday. Others died, too. Arabs, Indians, Italians, Filipinos, South Africans, Sri Lankans, Swedes, Egyptians, British.... But don’t forget that American. His presence in Saudi Arabia makes whatever happened there an attack on America, on democracy, on goodness, on...freedom. And so we don’t forget. We can’t. We have news. America’s news is so self-obsessed that if nuclear holocaust struck the Middle East today, America’s headlines would proclaim:...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 12 — Several men believed to be American citizens have been taken into custody here during the past few weeks on suspicion of being linked to Al Qaeda, senior Pakistani officials said today. The Pakistani officials said most of the men had been picked up along with other suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban members in joint American-Pakistani raids in the country's remote tribal areas near the border with Afghanistan. They said they believe that the men form a disjointed network of disaffected Westerners who converted to Islam and have been drawn to militant causes, fighting alongside Al...

PIR MAHAL, Pakistan (AP) - Long before Pakistan launched a new manhunt for him this week as a major al-Qaida-linked terrorist, Amjad Hussain Farooqi grew up "shy and cowardly" and was bullied by other boys, relatives said. But Farooqi changed after training with Islamic militants in Kashmir and Afghanistan, and is currently the chief fugitive suspect in the slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and two recent attempts to assassinate Pakistan's president. Farooqi, 32, has been missing since Pearl was abducted in the southern city of Karachi in January 2002. Pearl's captors beheaded him and released a videotape...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked Pakistani wanted in the murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl was behind two attempts to kill President Pervez Musharraf in December, intelligence officials said Friday. Musharraf, a key ally in the U.S.-led war on terror, was unharmed in the attempts on December 14 and December 25, but 15 people died in the latter, including the two suicide bombers. Intelligence officials said investigators had linked the attacks to Amjad Hussain Farooqi, a key suspect in the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Farooqi, still at large, is also the alleged mastermind of...

<p>We weep for Nick Berg as we wept for Daniel Pearl, and for all men and women who sacrifice their lives for standing up for freedom amidst the cruelty of war.</p> <p>Mr. Berg did not choose to be a hero, but his death is a painful and expensive reminder of the nature of the war we fight. We're at war against cowardswho murderfor thejoyof killing "infidels" in a demented interpretation of Islam. We're at war against hate-crazed zealots who take innocent lives as testimony to a cheap imagination of manhood.</p>

MUSLIMS SHOULD NOT CONDONE MURDER Minister Questions Why Muslims Are Silent About Berg Execution Los Angeles- After the recent execution of 26-year-old Jewish American Nicholas Berg the silence from the Arab media and Muslims has been deafening. Abu Musab Zarqawi, Al Qaeda's chief operative in Iraq, has claimed responsibility for the murder. At least one civil rights activist, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, is questioning the silence of Muslims on this issue. He is calling on Muslims of conscience to speak out boldly against the killing. "Why are Muslims,...

<p>May 13, 2004 -- IMAGES are important. That's why America's major TV networks and newspapers have a responsibility to show the full Nick Berg video. Forget Abu Ghraib: Those are the words I've heard most often since the tape of militant Islamists cutting off Berg's head was made public Tuesday - though the first word was seldom forget.</p>

Horrifying new details of how Daniel Pearl, the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter, met his death have emerged from the interrogation of new suspects by Pakistani police. Pearl, who was kidnapped in Karachi in January 2002, knew for several hours that he was about to be killed, but resisted repeated attempts to sedate him, police now believe. He was fully aware of what was happening when the Arab extremists who took control during his final days cut his throat, according to information gleaned from Pakistani militants now in police custody. Shocking video film of Pearl's murder, seen around the world...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 16 (UPI) -- Pakistan authorities were holding a 28-year-old man wanted in the January 2002 abduction and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Malik Tasaddaq was detained in the eastern Punjab province on suspicion of involvement in the killing, the BBC reported Friday quoting police chief Saadatullah Khan. Tasaddaq is accused of belonging to the outlawed Islamic Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group blamed for many attacks. So far, four Islamic militants have been convicted of kidnapping Pearl. But seven others, including those who allegedly slit his throat in front of a video camera, have not been captured. Pearl...

The widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl is said to have found love again with a married CNN executive who oversaw the network's coverage of her husband's kidnapping by terrorists.Mariane Pearl has been quietly seeing CNN executive vice president Eason Jordan, sources told The Washington Post. The Atlanta-based Jordan, 43, has been married for 16 years and has two children. His wife, Susan Jordan, said, "I have absolutely no comment." CNN reps would neither confirm nor deny an affair. Eason "will not comment," spokeswoman Christa Robinson told us. "The company doesn't comment on the personal matters of...

(1010 WINS) (New York) -- The widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl has filed a formal appeal with the federal September Eleventh victims' fund after being denied compensation for her husband's killing. Kenneth Feinberg, special master of the fund, said he denied the application about three weeks ago because it did not meet the government's stipulation that victims had to have died in New York, Pennsylvania or Washington as a result of the September 11th attack. However, he said her application raises question about whether victims of other terrorist attacks should be compensated. Daniel Pearl was kidnapped...

<p>March 30, 2004 -- The widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl applied to the September 11 Victim's Compensation Fund and was rejected, her lawyer said yesterday. Mariane Pearl has no quarrel with fund administrator Kenneth Feinberg, but is hoping an act of Congress will make her eligible for a share of the fund, lawyer Robert Kelner told The Post.</p>

KARACHI: Pakistani police have arrested two Islamic militants, including one suspected of involvement in the kidnap and killing of US reporter Daniel Pearl, an officer says. The two men, Sajid Jabbar and Mohammad Athar, were arrested in an overnight raid in the port city of Karachi and belong to the outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group, Fayyaz Leghari, chief of the investigation branch of Karachi police, said.Another senior officer, who did not want to be identified, said Jabbar was suspected of involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl in 2002 as well as several other militant attacks."He carries...

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police have arrested two Islamic militants, including one suspected of involvement in the kidnap and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, an officer said Tuesday. The two men, Sajid Jabbar and Mohammad Athar, were arrested in an overnight raid in the port city of Karachi and belong to the outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group, Fayyaz Leghari, chief of the investigation branch of Karachi police, told Reuters. Another senior officer, who did not want to be identified, said Jabbar was suspected of involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl in 2002...

For some on the Left, purported bigotry against Muslims explains Islamist terror The idea that if someone is prepared to do something truly horrible, he must have a worthy cause remains attractive to liberal intellectuals, who perhaps envy those who take up arms against the sea of troubles that is human existence. Last week’s New Statesman, the British left-wing weekly (for which I also write), provided a fine example of this way of thinking in an article about Islamophobia by travel writer William Dalrymple (no relation). He pointed out that the kidnapper of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter...

In an interview with Vogue magazine, Friends star Jennifer Aniston revealed that her and Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B, are hoping to make a film about Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was murdered in Pakistan. Pearl's wife, Mariane, initially refused to sell the rights to her book, "A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl," but changed her mind after meeting with the couple. "She is one of the most inspiring and courageous women I've met in a long time," says Aniston. "And if the film is something that seems worthy...

UCLA professor furthers work of son Daniel Pearl, slain in Pakistan Daniel Pearl (left) and Professor Judea Pearl stand at Schoenberg Hall after Judea’s 1996 faculty research lecture. By Hoorig Santikian DAILY BRUIN CONTRIBUTOR hsantikian@media.ucla.edu Judea Pearl was notified of his son's death Feb. 21, 2002. One week later, the Pearl family's plan to establish the Daniel Pearl Foundation was under way. "I felt obliged to continue his life's work, and we were urged to do so by thousands of people that wrote to us," Pearl said, a UCLA computer science professor and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation....

<p>U.S. officials familiar with the investigation of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's murder now say they believe he was killed by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged chief organizer of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the U.S.</p> <p>If the belief proves correct, it would be the first known episode of Mr. Mohammed -- whom the U.S. calls one of Osama bin Laden's closest aides -- personally carrying out one of the deadly acts that he is better known for simply organizing. It also would resolve a question following numerous arrests and four convictions stemming from Mr. Pearl's murder last year: Who was the 38-year-old reporter's actual killer?</p>

WASHINGTON - American authorities investigating the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan now believe that he was slain by the hand of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. Authorities, who had previously cast doubt on reports of Mohammed's role, now have new information that leads them to believe he killed Pearl, said one U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The official declined to detail the evidence. The U.S. acknowledgment of Mohammed's suspected role was first reported in Tuesday's editions of the Journal. However, three senior Pakistani officials involved...

In Virginia Beach they're into jury selection in the capital murder trial of John Muhammad, one of two implicated in the sniper shootings that terrorized the D.C. area south to Richmond a year ago. The trial may last two months. The trial of his alleged young accomplice, Lee Malvo, is set to begin later in nearby Chesapeake. Muhammad, who has pleaded not guilty, may be found innocent. But circumstantial evidence of his involvement abounds. In the realm of motive — if Muhammad participated in or helped plan the sniper shootings, why? — the principal piece of evidence, apparently carrying telltale...

On September 11th, 2002, suspected Sniper John Allen Muhammad walked into the Camden, New Jersey State Motor Vehicles office, to register the now-notorious "blue Caprice" he'd just purchased. Though the car had not yet converted been into a rolling sniper's nest, what happened in the next several minutes leaves little doubt that Muhammad had something sinister in mind. The registration transaction began at 8:52 am. At 8:58 am., while Muhammad was still standing at the counter, someone (now believed to be fellow suspect, Lee Malvo) phoned a bomb threat at the Motor Vehicles office on the 1st Anniversary of what...

A Junior al-Qaeda . . .: . . . right here at home There are a lot of Baptist churches along rural Virginia's Route 615, just south of Appomattox-"where America reunited," as the county welcome sign puts it-but there's only one Sheikh Gilani Lane. A gate and a guardhouse prevent the public from driving very far down it. What lies beyond, however, isn't a closed-off community of rich retirees. Instead, it's a trailer-park compound of black Muslims, or "The Muslims of America," according to a green billboard by the entrance, where an armed guard keeps a wary eye on the ...

 DefenseWatch  "The Voice of the Grunt"  Special Report: Protect Home Base First  ARTICLE 02 October 30, 2002Examine Gunman's Possible Ties to al FurqaBy Christian M. WeberIn the Middle East today, we see a young generation of Muslims being trained to hate Israel and the West while cherishing the thought of martyrdom. It is easy to see the brutal path that has been chosen for these children. However, for those not schooled in this path of destruction, the road to terrorism usually takes on one of two forms.The first form includes Islamic extremists, such as Osama Bin Laden, who rose...

Sniper suspect John Muhammad fits the profile of a disaffected outcast who becomes increasingly radicalized under the influence of Islamism, say terrorism analysts and investigators, who suspect he is connected with the radical Islamist group, al-Fuqra. According to Christian M. Weber, contributing editor for Soldiers for the Truth, an organization headed by Col. David Hackworth, Muhammad seems to follow the model of John Walker Lindh, Richard Reid and Jose Padilla, men exposed to Islamism who become disenchanted with the movement's pace and progress and who take the road to jihad. "As one traces John Muhammad's life from his conversion to...

Al-Fuqra Holy Warriors of Terrorism Introduction For over ten years, a secretive Black Muslim sect in the United States and Canada has sought to carry out a self-declared policy of "jihad," or holy war, by taking violent action against its perceived enemies, generally other minorities or other Muslims with whom they disagree. The sect, known as Al-Fuqra, has been linked by law enforcement officials to terrorist violence in Colorado, Arizona, Pennsylvania, the Pacific-northwest and Canada. Most recently, attention has been focused on the group in connection with a plot to bomb public sites in New York, including the United Nations,...

Federal authorities are investigating whether accused snipers John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo had ties to a growing sect of militant American Muslims committed to waging holy war against the United States. Law-enforcement authorities yesterday said investigators want to know whether the suspects — now awaiting separate murder trials in Virginia — were involved with Jamaat al-Fuqra, a militant Muslim group with documented ties to international terrorism that has been linked to 13 slayings and 17 firebombings in the United States and Canada. The al-Fuqra network, through an offshoot group known as the Muslims of America, has established a...

Al-Fuqra tied to Colorado crimes Leader owned land in Buena Vista; followers convicted in bombing of Krishna temple By Charlie Brennan, News Staff Writer The radical Islamic leader linked to the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl has been tied to a wide range of illegal activity throughout Colorado. Through a broad-based investigation launched in 1989, Colorado authorities convicted four members of the al-Fuqra movement on a series of felonies including racketeering, forgery, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and the 1984 firebombing of a Hare Krishna temple in Denver. Those who helped lead those investigations said the Pakistani-based ...

<p>THERE are a lot of Baptist churches along rural Virginia's Route 615, just south of Appomattox - "where America reunited," as the county welcome signs put it - but there's only one Sheikh Gilani Lane. A gate and a guardhouse prevent the public from driving down it. What lies beyond is a trailer-park compound of black Muslims.</p>

US sniper 'linked to terror cult' By James Langton in New York, Evening Standard 14 October 2003 Evidence has emerged linking Washington sniper John Allen Muhammad with an Islamic terror group. Muhammad has been connected to Al Fuqra, a cult devoted to spiritual purification through violence. The group has been linked to British shoe bomber Richard Reid and the murderers of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan last year. Muhammad today stands trial for murder after bringing terror to America's suburbs along with a 17-year-old accomplice, Lee Malvo. Until now many believed that the killing spree, which left 10 dead,...

Daniel Pearl music day was celebrated at Indigo in Goa on the eve of his birthday. The late Wall Street Journal reporter was killed by jehadi militants last year. Photo: Newindpress PANAJI: Musicians and singers from across India on Friday performed in Goa for the slain American journalist Daniel Pearl to mark what would have been his 40th birthday. Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in February last year while investigating links between the al Qaeda network, blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks and suspected shoe-bomber Richard Reid. Artists performed to an...

Inside the Islamic Mafia Bernard-Henri Lévy exposes Daniel Pearl's killers. By Christopher Hitchens Posted Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 10:18 AM PT I remember laughing out loud, in what was admittedly a mirthless fashion, when Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, one of Osama Bin Laden's most heavy-duty deputies, was arrested in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Straining to think of an apt comparison, I fail badly. But what if, say, the Unabomber had been found hiding out in the environs of West Point or Fort Bragg? Rawalpindi is to the Pakistani military elite what Sandhurst is to the British, or St Cyr used to be...

Musharraf's remarks rile slain reporter's parents By JEFF SALLOT UPDATED AT 12:43 PM EDT OTTAWA -- The parents of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl were angered yesterday by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's suggestion that their son died because he was getting too close to Islamic extremists.Instead of blaming the victim, the family said, General Musharraf needs to answer some tough questions about possible links between the killers and Islamabad's intelligence agency.During a special session yesterday of the Commons foreign affairs committee, the Pakistani leader, who was in Ottawa for an official visit to Canada, was asked about The Wall Street...

In Danny Pearl Book, Lévy Says Next 9/11 Brewing in Pakistanby Ron Rosenbaum "I had the feeling," Bernard-Henri Lévy says, "that the 21st century really began with the collapse of the Twin Towers and the murder of this single man, Daniel Pearl." Both are deeply symbolic killings. What’s more, he contends, the same forces behind both crimes are now planning something far worse."It will make 9/11 look prehistoric," Mr. Lévy says. What he learned in investigating the death of Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl, he contends, brought him face to face with the specter of the next 9/11. From the...

When President George W. Bush delivered his state of the union address in January 2002, some 20 weeks after 9/11, he said North Korea, Iran and Iraq "and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world." He omitted, however, any mention of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan as members of this same axis. Since then, much more has been learned about the insidious underworld of international terrorism organized by Muslim fundamentalists. We continue to discover the extent to which Pakistanis provide organizational and logistic support to the network of terror run by Osama...

MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police said on Monday they had arrested a prominent Islamic militant and four associates from a group linked to the murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl and bloody bombings of Western targets. Shahab-uddin, alias Imran, a provincial chief of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, one of Pakistan's most feared militant groups, was arrested overnight in the central city of Multan, they said. "He was among the top five terrorists of Pakistan and most wanted man of Lashkar," Multan's deputy police chief, Iftikhar Ahmad Chaudhry, told a news conference. "He was wanted for several attacks on Shi'ites and...

Pakistanis - Victims Of US Cultural Terrorism? Arindam Banerji Surprising as it may seem, for the last two weeks every Sunday morning, I have been rushing in to read the magazine edition of the Pakistani newspaper Dawn. It turns out that Anjum Niaz, a South Asian journalist of some repute has been giving out her heart-felt opinions about card-carrying Indians -- for those of you not in the know, this refers to Indians in the US with green cards. In the first edition, she not-so-subtly insinuated that Indian software companies were using their trade to squirrel away data, to use...

MULTAN, Pakistan — An Islamic militant, suspected of helping plan the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, told police interrogators he had Pakistani politicians on a hit-list and was organizing homicide attacks, an official said Friday. The suspect, Qari Abdul Hai, the alleged leader of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militant group, was arrested from a bus station in Muzaffargarh, 60 miles west of Multan, on Thursday. He was about to board a bus for the southern city of Karachi, where Pearl was kidnapped and later killed. Hai came to Muzaffargarh about 12 days ago to allegedly organize suicide attacks,...

<p>MULTAN, Pakistan - An Islamic militant accused of helping to plan the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was arrested at a bus station in central Pakistan on Thursday, police said.</p> <p>The suspect, Qari Abdul Hai, who allegedly had close ties with the Taliban, is the chief of a banned militant group condemned by the United States as a terrorist organization, police said. The group has been accused of involvement in bombings at public places in Pakistan.</p>

<p>MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police said they had arrested a prominent Islamic militant Thursday who trained thousands of fighters in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. Abdul Hayee, alias Asadullah, was identified as the head of a splinter group of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.</p>

A renowned French thinker and writer has challenged Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's claims of being in total control of his country's nuclear arsenal and says there is a real risk that such weapons may find their way to terrorist organisations like al-Qaeda. Bernard Henri Levy, also known by his initials BHL, says the terrorists could lay their hands on the nuclear weapons in Pakistan since Pakistan's secret service, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), is continuing its collaboration with the al-Qaeda and other radical Islamic terrorist groups. In his latest book, Levy - who has also served as a special envoy to President...