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A blood-chilling interview with Benazir Bhutto only weeks before her death. She works her way through a list of those she knows want her dead, and have threatened to kill her. Bhutto mentions Omar Sheikh, who she clearly states “murdered Osama Bin Laden.”

Did she say too much?

As the Jazz From Hell blog points out, a new ‘coming soon’ video from Osama Bin Laden is being pumped in the mainstream media. Just in case you thought Bhutto was telling the truth. Or that she said too much.

Osama Bin Laden’s non-living status is regarded as a fact by many in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Editorialists in Pakistan newspapers occasionally mock Western leaders for living in fear of a terrorist who has already been killed.

If that is so, who’s making all these ‘new’ Osama Bin Laden videos?

And who is Omar Sheikh, the “murderer” of Bin Laden? The London Times ran a remarkable story linking Sheik to Pakistan’s security services (ISI) in April 2002. The story claims that Sheik was a hired gun for the ISI and was involved in the murder of reporter Daniel Pearl.

An excerpt from The Times report :

“Sheikh was their (the ISI’s) man and he was brought in to deal with Pearl. The ISI knew everything.” The Karachi police, who deeply distrust the ISI, leaked details of their interrogation of Sheikh in which he talked about his ISI connections. As a result, ISI operatives broke into the newsroom of The News, Pakistan’s largest English language newspaper, in February in an apparent attempt to prevent publication of a leak in which Sheikh was reported to have said that the ISI helped him to finance, plan and execute last December’s attack on the Indian parliament.

The News is edited by Shaheen Sehbai, the first local journalist Pearl contacted when he arrived in Pakistan. Failing to prevent publication of Sheikh’s confession, the ISI demanded an apology from Sehbai, who has fled to America fearing for his life.

M J Gohel of the Asia-Pacific Foundation, a security and terrorism policy assessment group that has been researching Pearl’s murder, said: “Sheikh is a vital key that can open all the doors to the Al-Qaeda network, to the links between the Pakistani military intelligence establishment and the terror groups, and can destroy General Musharraf’s credibility with Washington.

He is a vital piece in the jigsaw and for that reason it is highly unlikely the US will ever be allowed to interrogate him.” The full story of the kidnapping of Pearl will probably never come to light. What is clear is that Sheikh has for long been very close to the ISI and that it regarded him as an asset. The whole affair has been a setback and embarrassment to Musharraf and has destabilised the country.

Small wonder that Musharraf is said to have told Wendy Chamberlain, the American ambassador, that he would rather “hang Sheikh myself than have him extradited”.

Pakistan has received more than $10 billion from the United States to supposedly fight the ‘War on Terror’. India claims that Pakistan has spent a great deal of that money re-arming, instead of hunting down terrorists in the tribal lands bordering Afghanistan.

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