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Police closing in on reporter’s kidnappers
BY KATHY GANNON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KARACHI, Pakistan -
Authorities know the identity of
reporter Daniel Pearl’s kidnap
pers and are “very close to resolv
' ing the c^se,” a top police official
said Tuesday. Sources said three
men had been arrested for send
ing last week’s e-mails that con
tained photographs of Pearl.
Mukhtar Ahmed Sheikh, in
charge of police here in Sindh
province, refused to say who was
behind the kidnapping. Pearl, 38,
was last seen Jan. 23 on his way to
meet a Muslim fundamentalist
contact at a Karachi restaurant.
However, a U.S. State
Department official said Tuesday
that Pakistani police are looking for
Sheik Omar Saeed in connection
with the kidnapping. Saeed was one
of three men freed by India on Dec.
31,1999 to end a hijacking of an
Indian Airlines flight to Kandahar,
Afghanistan. Authorities said the
hijackers were acting in support of
militants in Kashmir—Indian ter
ritory disputed by Pakistan.
The Washington official, speak
ing on condition of anonymity,
said that Pearl was supposed to be
meeting with Saeed at the time of
his kidnapping. *
“The fact is we know who has
done it,” Sheikh told The
Associated Press. He said officials
are drawing nearer to resolving
the kidnapping.
Sheikh said he believed Pearl
was still alive, adding, “there are so
many things I cannot talk about.”
Although Sheikh gave no de
tails of any progress, other sources
close to the investigation said
Karachi police have arrested three
jnen — identified only as
Suleiman, Fawad and Adeel — be
lieved to have sent two e-mails
that included pictures of Pearl.
Those e-mails, sent last week,
are believed to be the only genuine
communications from the kid
nappers. The sources spoke on
condition of anonymity.
STATE
Archaeologist asks
for suit’s dismissal
CHARLESTON (AP) -
Underwater archaeologist E.
Lee Spence has asked a federal
court to dismiss a defamation
suit against him, saying he has
a free speech right to say he
found the Confederate subma
rine H.L. Hunley.
Last fall, shipwreck expert
and novelist Clive Cussler sued
Spence on behalf of the National
Underwater and Marine
Agency that Cussler founded.
The suit contends Spence’s
claim to have found the sub in
jures the reputation of the agency
1 and the divers Cussler hired who
are credited with finding the sub
off Charleston in 1995.
The hand-cranked sub, be
lieved to be the first sub in his
tory to sink an enemy warship,
sank in 1864 after sinking a
Union blockade ship. It was
raised in 2000 and is now at a
conservation lab. The state has
officially given credit for the
discovery to Cussler.
In his response to the law
suit, Spence also contends
Cussler is a recognized public
figure. In defamation cases, pub
lic figures must prove malice
showing that a defendant made
a statement with deliberate and
reckless disregard for the truth.
WOMEN’S HEALTH: South
Carolina women need a state
office focused on their health
needs, but the budget crunch
makes that unlikely, according
to a report from the Governor’s
Commission on Women.
McCAIN TO SPEAK: U S. Sen.
John McCain, R-Arizona, will
deliver the commencement
speech at The Citadel on May
11.
NATION
House schedules
vote on finance bill
WASHINGTON (AP) - House
Republican leaders agreed
Tuesday to allow a vote next
week on the most significant
changes in campaign spending
law in a quarter-century.
House Speaker Dennis
Hastert, R-Ill., said the House
will devote next Tuesday and
Wednesday to the legislation
that would limit campaign
spending and advertising and
require more disclosure of
campaign contributors.
He said he had made the deci
sion after consulting with House
Majority Leader Dick Armey, R
Texas, and the Democratic
leader, Dick Gephardt of
Missouri. “I expect there will be a
vigorous debate on this issue that
will reflect well on the House of
Representatives,” Hastert said.
“We look forward to a fair
debate and are hopeful that re
form legislation will once
again pass the House,” said
Katie Levinson, spokeswoman
for Rep. Christopher Shays, R
Conn., who has joined with
Rep. Marty Meehan, D-Mass.,
to introduce the leading cam
paign finance bill.
The Shays-Meehan bill is
backed by most Democrats and a
minority of Republicans, but is
opposed by GOP leaders and
many in the Republican ranks,
who see it as an unconstitutional
abridgment of free speech rights.
President Bush is against a
central goal of the Shays
Meehan bill, to ban the flow of
unregulated soft money to the
national parties, but has made
clear to Republicans that they
cannot count on him vetoing
the legislation if it gets to his
desk.
j WORLD
Iraq ready to talk
with U.N. again
UNITED NATIONS (AP)-Iraq
is prepared to resume dialogue
with the United Nations, but
the world organization did not
indicate whether Saddam
Hussein’s government is will
ing to discuss the return of
U.N. weapons inspectors.
Secretary of State Colin
Powell said Tuesday there was
nothing to talk about unless
Iraq agrees to the inspectors’
return.
Amr Mousa, the secretary
general of the Arab League
who recently visited the Iraqi
capital of Baghdad, told U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan ,
that Iraq would restart talks
without any special conditions,
the United Nations said in a
statement Monday.
Annan said he was prepared
to receive a delegation from
Iraq.
Iraq has been under U.N.
sanctions since it invaded
Kuwait in 1990. The sanctions
cannot be lifted unless U.N in
spectors verify that Baghdad
has dismantled its weapons of
mass destruction.
Powell said Iraq’s overture
should be limited to letting the
inspectors back in.
TRAIN COLLISION: A com
muter train collided with a
freight train in South Africa on (
Tuesday, killing 18 people and
injuring about 100 others.
AID CONSIDERED: A delega
tion from the Bush administra
tion is meeting with the presi
dent of Colombia as Washington
considers expanding military
aid by $98 million to help protect
an oil pipeline from guerrilla vi
olence.
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