'Pearl Dead' Says Kidnap Suspect
7.30am: The key suspect in the kidnapping of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl has said the US journalist is dead, writes Claire Cozens.
The key suspect in the kidnapping of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl has said the US journalist is dead.
"As far as I understand, he is dead," British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, commonly known as Sheikh Omar, told an anti-terrorism court in the Pakistani city of Karachi today.
Pearl went missing on January 23 as he tried to contact the leader of a little-known radical Islamic group and was working on a story about possible links between the alleged shoe bomber Briton, Richard Reid, and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.
"As far as I understand, he is dead," British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, commonly known as Sheikh Omar, told an anti-terrorism court in the Pakistani city of Karachi today.
Pearl went missing on January 23 as he tried to contact the leader of a little-known radical Islamic group and was working on a story about possible links between the alleged shoe bomber Briton, Richard Reid, and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.
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