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WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was investigating the man who allegedly planned the Sept. 11 airplane hijackings and attacks on New York and Washington when he was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan, according to two former Central Intelligence Agency officials. Bob Baer, a former case officer in the agency's Directorate of Operations, said he provided Pearl with unpublished information about Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who has since been accused by American officials of being one of the masterminds of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and a top aide to Osama bin Laden. Mohammed is...

KARACHI, Sept 22: Pakistan has so far handed over to the United States 422 Al Qaeda operatives who were nabbed in different operations, as authorities claimed they have broken the back of the organisation within the country. "I think their (Al Qaeda) back is broken and either they are hiding or trying to run away," said ISPR Director General, Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi, while replying to questions of newsmen in connection with the recent operations in the city and elsewhere, here on Sunday. He said there had been a gradual decline in the intensity of acts of terrorism owing to improved...