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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...

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...

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...

Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered last year because he knew too much of Pakistan's nuclear secrets and links with the Al Qaeda, leading French philosopher and President Jacques Chirac's special envoy to Afghanistan, Bernard-Henri Levy, told the British Broadcasting Corporation.Levy, who returned recently from investigating the murder in Pakistan, said Pearl was abducted for one reason and killed for another.According to the Frenchman, Pearl was abducted because he was Jewish and American in a part of the world where it is 'not an identity, it is a sin -- it is a crime'.His captors realised in the...