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Pearl Case: Guy with the videotape arrested
2002-02-24
  • The man who handed over the videotape showing the killing of Daniel Pearl was taken into custody in Karachi and shifted to Islamabad on Friday. Sindh police said Ahmed Jan, who works for the marketing section of a Peshawar-based newspaper, delivered the videotape to the US Consulate in Karachi around 10:30pm on Thursday. Jan, a stranger in Karachi, did not know the location of the US Consulate and he sought help of two persons who guided him to there. They, too, were taken into custody.

    During initial interrogation, sources said, it was revealed that Ahmed Jan had been offered a handsome amount for delivering the videotape. He disclosed the names and whereabouts of the people who had given him the tape and the police subsequently raided those places, but the names appeared to be fake. "Yeah, boss. We knocked, and this guy, he sez 'There ain't nobody here by that name,' so we left... No, boss. It couldn't have been them. We got the pictures right here, and those guys didn't have no moustaches."

    Jan works for a Peshawar-based newspaper - would that indicate the Bad Guys might have contacted him in Peshawar? Why Jan and not Ahmed the Rickshaw Driver? He was a stranger in Karachi, so why was he there? Only to deliver the tape, or to visit some hot babes? If they give you money, that means you're either a paid messenger, who knows nothing; or that you're one of the Bad Guys and you want to look like you're an innocent who just happened to get roped in.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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