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India-Pakistan
Court orders release of man charged in Daniel Pearl killing
2020-12-24
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A provincial court in Pakistan on Thursday ordered the release of a British-born Pakistani man charged in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.

The Sindh High Court’s release order overturns government detention orders that Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh,
... a busy lad, the brilliant, violent Pakistani-Brit hooked up with the jihadi crowd at the London School of Economics, dropping out to join the jihadis in Bosnia — reportedly on orders from MI-6. After a break to run Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, he was jailed in India in 1994 for kidnapping four Western tourists in Kashmir on orders from Pakistan’s ISI. In 1999 Saeed Sheikh and two leaders of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen were traded for 155 passengers and crew of a hijacked Indian Airlines flight diverted to Kandahar, after which he wandered down to his Al Qaeda buddies in Pakistan...
the key suspect in Pearl’s slaying, should remain in custody. Sheikh was acquitted earlier this year of murdering Pearl, but has been held while Pearl’s family appeals the acquittal.

"The detention order is struck down," said Faisal Siddiqi, the family’s lawyer. He said Sheikh would be freed until the appeal is completed, but would return to prison if the family is successful in overturning the acquittal.

However, Siddiqi said the Sindh provincial government is appealing the order to release Sheikh.

Sheikh’s lawyer Mehmood A. Sheikh, with whom he is not related, called for his client’s immediate release.
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Posted by:Besoeker

#7  We were breathing down their collective necks back in the day, Tennessee.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-12-24 23:41  

#6  Pakistan did arrest him though...and KSM et al...back in the day.

But today is a new day and this is what we get for not having a truly functional military commissions system to try him as a war criminal. So I blame us for relying on other countries beyond the initial detention.
Posted by: Tennessee   2020-12-24 16:28  

#5   I don't understand the acquittal

Pakistan wants to reward him for the work, but America keeps noticing. He’s gone through several rounds of this, as revealed by a quick search of Rantburg’s archives, which I’ve added to the article.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-12-24 13:14  

#4  I don't understand the acquittal

Pakistan -- Pearl was Jewish. They don't really think any crime was committed.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2020-12-24 12:46  

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Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-12-24 09:26  

#2  #1 Be a shame if something terrible happened to Mr. Sheikh.
Posted by: Besoeker

I don't understand the acquittal ... this guy confessed to assisting KSM with the "slaughter" of Pearl. Maybe, just maybe, one day we will be able to convict KSM of the murder and martyr him. If the military commissions actually have trials.
Posted by: Tennessee   2020-12-24 09:20  

#1  Be a shame if something terrible happened to Mr. Sheikh.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-12-24 07:42  

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