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2021-01-28 India-Pakistan
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Man convicted, then acquitted, over Daniel Pearl’s murder now admits ‘minor’ role
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 [IsraelTimes] In a dramatic turn of events, a man convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 killing of Jewish American journalist Daniel Pearl admitted a "minor" role in his death, upending 18 years of denials, the Pearl family lawyer say.
A letter handwritten by Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh
...in our archives as Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and Ahmed Omar Sheikh, so the reorganization is understandable. He’s the Brit of Pakistani origin who has thus far spent eighteen years in various Pakistani government safe houses successfully avoiding either being hanged or transferred to the U.S. for his not-minor role in Israeli-American Daniel Pearl’s heinous murder, a nice rest after the very busy earlier stage of his life. As a brilliant but violent lad he 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 Western tourists in Kashmir for Pakistan’s ISI. In 1999 Saeed Sheikh and two leaders of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen were traded for the passengers and crew of a hijacked Indian Airlines plane, after which he wandered down to Karachi to hang with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s (KSM) gang. This may yet turn out to have been a fatal error... in 2019, in which he admits limited involvement in the death of the Wall Street Journal news hound, was submitted to Pakistain’s Supreme Court nearly two weeks ago. It wasn’t until Wednesday that Sheikh’s lawyers confirmed their client wrote it.
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The high court is hearing an appeal of a lower court’s acquittal of Sheikh, charged with murder in the death of Pearl. The appeal was filed by Pearl’s family and the Pakistain government.
The 38-year-old news hound from Encino, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, was kidnapped January 23, 2002. His body was later found in a shallow grave in a southern Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
neighborhood.
Pearl family attorney Faisal Siddiqi calls Sheikh’s confirmation that he authored the letter a "dramatic development" demanding the conviction and death penalty be reinstated.
"This is very, very important because for the last 18 years the position of Omar Saeed Sheikh is that he did not know Danny Pearl, he never met Danny Pearl," he says in an interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. "He has taken a position of complete ignorance regarding this case, but now in a handwritten letter he has admitted to at least a limited role."
"He has not asked that he be acquitted. He accepts his guilt but asks that his sentence may be reduced," he adds.
In the handwritten letter, a copy of which The AP has received, Sheikh writes "my role in this matter was a relatively minor one, which does not warrant the death sentence
 ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
He also admits to knowing who killed Pearl, naming Pak bully boy Atta-ur-Rahman, alias Naeem Bokhari,
...former Karachi chief of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi... who has since been executed
...former chief, now slowly poisoning the worms... in connection with an attack on a paramilitary base in southern Karachi.
In the letter dated July 25, 2019, and stamped with the seal of the High Court of Sindh, Sheikh asks that he be given an opportunity to "clarify my actual role in this matter so that my sentence may be reduced accordingly to one which is consistent with the requirement of justice."
Sheikh’s lawyer, Mehmood A. Sheikh, who is no relation, says his client wrote the letter under duress and denies he knew Pearl or had any connection with Pearl. He says his client described his condition in prison as "worse than the life of an animal."
Sheikh, the lawyer, said his client wrote the letter in an attempt to get a hearing, not make an admission of guilt. Rather, "he wanted to be able to be heard."
The appeal is expected to wrap up this week, says Siddiqi. He said he expects a quick decision after Sheikh’s admission of involvement, even in a minor capacity, in Pearl’s death. "This (letter) changes everything," he says. 
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