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PAKISTAN Possible Handover As police continued to search for the killers of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, President Pervez Musharraf agreed in principle to hand chief suspect Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh over to the U.S. for trial, though it's unlikely to happen. The State Department announced a $5 million reward for information leading to the capture and conviction of those responsible for Pearl's kidnap and murder...
...Noted "Our country shouldn't be catering to America's needs." AHMED OMAR SAEED SHEIKH, Pakistan-based radical, who admits to kidnapping Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, explaining his motivation...
...year was 1994; the ambivalent kidnapper was British citizen Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, polyglot, chess whiz and Muslim extremist fresh from the terrorist-training camps of Afghanistan. This hostage taker, now 27 years old, has resurfaced as the prime suspect in the Jan. 23 abduction in Karachi, Pakistan, of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. For those seeking Pearl's release, the fingering of Saeed was both bad news and good. On the one hand, Saeed keeps scary company. In recent years, according to Pakistani and U.S. officials, he has become a key player in al-Qaeda. U.S. intelligence suspects...
PAKISTAN Fears Grow The main suspect in the kidnapping of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl gave himself up to police and admitted that he had organized the abduction. But concern grew after Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh gave contradictory statements about the fate of Pearl, who vanished...
...remains a work-in-progress, and American support, both economic and political, remains critical. The kidnapping of American journalist Daniel Pearl is simply the most high-profile example of the resilience of Pakistani extremism. The embarrassment for Musharraf in that case is compounded by the fact that Omar Saeed Sheikh, the prime suspect who is now in police custody, is a British-born convicted kidnapper who moved to Musharraf's Pakistan early in 2000 after Kashmiri hijackers forced his release from an Indian prison...