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Pakistan will hold prime
suspect in journalist killing
■ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — After
meeting with Pakistan’s president, the U.S.
Bbassador said Tuesday she is “not disap-
Bnted” with his response to American
Buests to hand over the key suspect in the
murder of Wall Street Journal reporter
■ flniel Pearl.
■ But Ambassador Wendy Chamberlin
as it seems :$id no decision has been made about
ice will defir 1 whether Pakistan will deliver Ahmed Omar
vant to watch Saeed Sheikh. The Bush administration
le to fully e f Sai l1 ^ wants to get its hands on the suspect,
d its message who already has been indicted in the United
at a time like that, when another nation
makes a request, for that request to be con
sidered, and it takes time,” Fleischer said.
In a telephone interview with The
Associated Press, Chamberlin said she
had spoken several times with Musharraf
in the past few months about the British-
born Saeed.
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Htes in an earlier kidnapping.
■Pakistan wants to hold on to Saeed for
-Lizette Rest now — hoping he can help locate Pearl’s
a^wy and identify his killers, an Interior
Ministry official said on condition of
Hinymity. Thus far, Saeed has not been
known to provide any help.
|ln Washington, White House spokesman
Fleischer said it was made clear to
sident Pervez Musharraf during his
iting with Chamberlin that Washington
’ants Saeed sent to the United States, but he
icknowleged Pakistan’s rights in the case.
^“A crime, a murder was committed in
Kr country, and they have their own ways
id laws of dealing with it. It’s not atypical
His spirit, his faith
and his convictions
have not been
defeated. "
MAR1ANE PEARL
Except to say she was “not disappoint
ed,” she declined to give details of her talks
with Musharraf. Her spokesman, Mark
Wentworth, said she thanked the president
for Pakistan’s cooperation in the Pearl
inquiry and “encouraged further move
ment in the case.”
State Department spokesman Richard
Boucher said Musharraf telephoned
Secretary of State Colin Powell after seeing
Chamberlin. “We want to see him in U.S.
custody for the crimes he has committed
against Americans,” Boucher said of Saeed.
Pakistani officials are still searching for
at least four key suspects and Pearl’s body
has not been found. How, when and where
Pearl was killed are unknown.
A videotape delivered Friday to U.S.
authorities in Pakistan showed the 38-year-
old journalist being forced to say he was
Jewish, followed by graphic images of
Pearl’s dead body being decapitated.
Handing over Saeed could be complicat
ed because there is no clear extradition
treaty between Pakistan and the United
States and because Musharraf could face
nationalist criticism if he surrenders Saeed
for trial in a foreign country.
Saeed, 28, had been in custody for more
than two weeks when the video confirming
Pearl’s death was made public. U.S. offi
cials say they had requested Saeed’s extra
dition two months before he was implicated
in the Pearl murder.
Escorted by dozens of policemen toting
AK-47 assault rifles, Saeed was taken to a
court building Tuesday in the southern city
of Karachi, where a witness in the Pearl
case was asked to identify him, said
Manzoor Mughal, a senior investigator.
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DAMIETTA, Egypt (AP) —
Multicolored party lights were
still hanging from Heba
Maamoun Orabi’s balcony
Tuesday, strung out for what was
meant to have been a wedding
celebration. Instead, they were a
macabre backdrop for a funeral.
Orabi was one of 22 people
killed Monday in the collapse of
an aging, Nile-front building
that housed, among other things,
a hair salon that was popular
with brides. At least five women
preparing for their weddings
died in the four-story building.
Hundreds of people con
verged on mosques around the
town of Damietta, 105 miles
north of Cairo, to pray over
coffins. All but one of the 22
dead were women; 25 other
people were injured.
A mother of one victim
screamed wildly and beat her
fists on the door of an ambulance
covered with flowers. The vehi
cle bore the coffin holding her
daughter— 17-year-old journal
ism student Basma el-Efny.
“She was an angel, she
prayed all the time, she used to
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now we are having
a funeral.
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kiss me all the time. Who is
going to kiss me now?” said the
woman, who only identified
herself as Manal.
Manal said her daughter had
been at the salon with bride-to-
be Shireen Said el-Sarta and el-
Sarta’s sister, Rasha, when the
building collapsed. All three
died, the mother said.
At another funeral proces
sion, the coffin of 18-year-old
Marwah el-Khouli was draped
with a white satin sheet. A rela
tive said that was a sign both of
a wedding and of a bride-to-be
who dies prematurely.
“We were preparing for a
wedding, now we are having
a funeral,” said Orabi’s uncle,
who identified himself only
as Ahmed.
Angry residents said ambu
lance and rescue crews took
more than an hour to arrive at
the scene, by which time locals
had found bulldozers and begun
their own rescue operation.
“Where were our Egyptian
emergency experts?” said Emad
Said Riszk, a 36-year-old car
penter. “The bulldozers brought
in (by the locals) were just
killing the people underneath.”
roots to effectively represent District 31. As
an economist and policy researcher, he will
be able to analyze the complex provisions
and the economic implications of legisla
tion, Adcock said.
Adcock also said he would support lift
ing America’s trade embargo on Cuba,
because it would benefit Texas agriculture.
However, critics of Cuban dictator Fidel
Castro say increased trade will only
strengthen a communist regime notorious
for human rights abuses.
“I represent the people of Texas, not
south Florida,” Adcock said.
The federal government should leave
elementary and secondary education to the
states but should remain actively involved
in higher education by providing funds for
research.
Adcock worked for President George
H.W. Bush’s 1988 presidential campaign
and for the Republican National Committee
before returning to A&M and earning mas
ter’s degrees in economics and finance.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Worldwide drug
dealers use Net
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Czech
drug traffickers arrange deals at
Internet cafes. Australians use
courier Web sites to track illegal
packages of pills. American
dealers swap recipes for
amphetamines in restricted-
access chat rooms.
^Worldwide, drug traffickers
increasingly are taking advan
tage of encrypted e-mail and
other Internet technology to sell
their stashes, launder money
and trade tips and techniques,
the U.N. International Narcotics
Control Board warned
Wednesday in a report.
; Because Internet use doubles
every six months and 700 million
people were online at the end of
last year, greater vigilance and
international cooperation are
needed “to prevent the Internet
from turning into a worldwide
web of drug trafficking,” said
Hamid Ghodse, the INCB's presi-
should get your money,” Carter said.
Carter said he would also fight for additional transportation
funding to relieve the traffic congestion on Interstate 35.
Carter said his work as a judge — listening to both sides and
making a decision — will help him be an effective congressman.
During his career he has presided over several high profile cases
and death sentence verdicts.
Carter said he opposes abortion in all cases except to save the
life of the mother.
“I have a history of making tough decisions, doing what’s right,
and I’m not afraid to take the heat,” Carter said.
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