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Fighting terror notebook
Compiled from Times wires U.S. officials on Wednesday announced a $5-million reward for information in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Meanwhile, Mariane Pearl, the reporter's widow, thanked Pakistan's president during a face-to-face meeting Wednesday for his efforts to try to save her husband. President Pervez Musharraf expressed his "heartfelt grief" and told Mrs. Pearl that her husband's murder was a "most barbaric" act of terrorism. Five indicted in Tenn.Five men accused of trying to falsely obtain Tennessee drivers' licenses were indicted by a federal grand jury in Memphis on conspiracy charges Wednesday. The men were arrested Feb. 5 along with state license examiner Katherine Smith, who died five days later in a car fire authorities believe was arson. The men were charged with trying to produce identification documents "without lawful authority," a violation of federal law. The offense is punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Resentment in IslamResidents of Islamic countries harbor deep resentment toward the United States and believe the military action in Afghanistan is not morally justified, Gallup polls conducted in nine countries find. The polls were taken in nine predominantly Muslim countries -- Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey in December and January. People in those countries had widespread doubts that Arabs were involved in the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. The percentage that believed Arabs were not involved ranged from 89 percent in Kuwait, which was liberated by U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf war a decade ago, to 43 percent in Turkey, a NATO ally. President Bush is almost as unpopular in those countries as he is popular in his own country. One-fifth or less of the populations in most of those countries liked Bush, while the number who disliked him was as high as two-thirds in Lebanon and Morocco. Other news ...SECURITY GUARD LIED: A New York hotel security guard pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying about the location of a pilot radio in the room of an Egyptian student imprisoned for a month after the Sept. 11 attacks. The student, Abdallah Higazy, 30, was released in January, insisting he knew nothing about the handheld device, called a transceiver, which enables pilots to communicate with other pilots or to monitor pilot conversations. SINGAPORE SUSPECT ON TRIAL: A prime suspect in a plot to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Singapore went on trial Wednesday in connection with separate bombings in Manila in December 2000. Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi is accused in a series of bombings that killed 22 people and wounded more than 100.
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