Word: sheikh
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...Pakistani authorities have begun to unravel a web of connections between the perpetrators of those attacks and the militants involved in the Pearl murder. Last Monday a Hyderabad court ordered the death penalty for Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British-educated Islamic militant, and sentenced three accomplices to life in prison for their role in the American journalist's murder. Police have since detained new suspects, who will probably also be tried for Pearl's murder. One of the suspects, Fazal Karim, has allegedly confessed to beheading Pearl at a farmhouse on the outskirts of Karachi, although...
Even before he was killed by an Israeli missile things had not been going well for Hamas military commander Salah Shehade. His movement's spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, had begun publicly discussing a halt to attacks on Israelis in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal from West Bank towns, an end to assassinations and the release of prisoners. The idea of halting "martyrdom" operations was anathema to Shehade and other hard-liners in Gaza and the West Bank, and they were faced with making the case that their aims could only be achieved through violence. But any emerging debate...
...Verbatim "We shall see who will die first, either I or the authorities who have arranged the death sentence for me." AHMED OMAR SAEED SHEIKH, Islamic militant convicted of the kidnap and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl, in a message to the court after he was sentenced to death...
...earlier attack. PAKISTAN Killers Appeal A lawyer for the British-born militant sentenced to death for the kidnap and murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl filed an apeal challenging his conviction. After a trial held in secret, an antiterrorism court in Hyderabad sentenced Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death by hanging. Sheikh's lawyer, Abdul Waheed Katpar, said the verdict had been based on "provenly planted evidence." The three other defendants in the case, Salman Saqib, Fahad Naseem and Sheikh Adil, were given life sentences. Their lawyer asked Sindh High Court to overturn their convictions, which he said were based...
According to Rudman, who served on the Sharm El-Sheikh committee, the declining situation in the region has distressed the usually-successful Mitchell...