Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 911 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed by Richard Miniter

Author:Richard Miniter [Miniter, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: 21st Century, Biography & Autobiography, Criminals & Outlaws, History, Political Science, Security, Terrorism, United States
ISBN: 9781101475706
Google: 3QsHqju5HqoC
Amazon: B0049U4OJA
Publisher: Sentinel
Published: 2011-05-03T03:00:00+00:00

Omar Sheikh turned himself in to a former Pakistani general on February 5 and was in turn handed over to a team of Pakistani police and American investigators on February 12,44 timed to coincide with President Musharraf’s visit to the United States.45

On the day he turned himself in, Sheikh phoned the man who he believed was holding Pearl captive. He used a prearranged code phrase for Pearl’s release: “Shift the patient to the doctor.”

The man on the other end of the line used a code in return: “Dad has expired. We have done the scan and completed the X-rays and postmortem.”46

Omar Sheikh understood that to mean that Pearl had been videotaped, killed, and buried.

Hamid Mir, the Pakistani journalist who had befriended Pearl, had good sources inside the interrogation room who heard Sheikh’s confession.

During interrogations, Omar told the members of a joint team of American and Pakistan officials that he was an ISI agent who had been operating from Lahore since his December 1999 release from prison in India.

During interrogations, Omar reportedly named two officers of Pakistan Army’s Special Services Group—Subedar Mohammad Saleem and Subedar Abdul Hafeez—as his trainers in the use of guns, rocket launchers, grenades and other explosives. Omar is said to have volunteered to describe his role in the explosion outside the Jammu & Kashmir state assembly building in October 2001, the attack on Indian Parliament in December 2001 and the January 2002 American Centre hit in Calcutta.... [T]he FBI investigators stationed in Pakistan just exposed the continued level of interaction between the ISI and Omar before and after the Pearl kidnapping. Alarmed at the interrogation results, the ISI highups had to intervene to obstruct these investigations. In fact, in the beginning of March 2002, the Karachi police bosses were ordered to stop Omar’s interrogations.47

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