Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was warned by a senior Al-Qaeda military commander not to kill Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and that he should be "freed" but the American was killed anyway, according to leaked WikiLeaks documents.
Pakistan's double game could blow up in America's face, warns Bernard-Henri Levy.
Wanted in connection with the two attempts on the life of President Pervez Musharraf, Abu Faraj al-Libbi is said to be number three in Al Qaeda heiarchy after Osama Bin Laden and Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahri.
Besides New York and Washington, the tallest tower in Los Angeles was also on a list of targets discussed by Mohammed and Osama bin Laden back in 1996.
In a surprise testimony in a US court, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law recounted meeting him in a cave in the mountains of Afghanistan hours after the 9/11 attack which was claimed by the slain Al-Qaeda chief.
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