Nawabshah, Pakistan
Pakistani security forces this week killed Pakistan’s most wanted criminal, a man accused of helping to organize the 2002 kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Al Qaida operative Amjad Hussain Farooqi, said to be al Qaida’s liaison to Pakistani Islamic militants, was also accused of masterminding two failed assassination attempts against President Pervez Musharraf last year. “We’ve eliminated one of the very major sources of terrorist threat,” Musharraf said. The biggest source—Osama bin Laden—is probably also somewhere in Pakistan. Musharraf said that interrogations of captured cell members and other evidence indicated that bin Laden was still alive, hiding somewhere in the border regions near Afghanistan.
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