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WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was investigating the man who allegedly planned the Sept. 11 airplane hijackings and attacks on New York and Washington when he was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan, according to two former Central Intelligence Agency officials. Bob Baer, a former case officer in the agency's Directorate of Operations, said he provided Pearl with unpublished information about Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who has since been accused by American officials of being one of the masterminds of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and a top aide to Osama bin Laden. Mohammed is...

RIVERSIDE'S TERROR RALLY By CHARLES E.F. MILLARD October 18, 2006 -- In the uproar over Monday's outrageously soft sentence for terror-aiding lawyer Lynne Stewart, Riverside Church seems to be distancing itself from the despicable rally it hosted in her support Sunday. Stewart was convicted by a jury of her peers. The uncontested facts were that she had smuggled messages from convicted terrorist Omar Abdel Rahman ("the blind sheik") to his followers in the Islamic world. Those messages directed his followers in the terror group Gama'a Islamiyya to end their cease-fire with the Egyptian government and begin killing Rahman's enemies. Rahman,...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York attorney convicted of aiding terrorism by helping an imprisoned Egyptian client smuggle messages to militant followers was sentenced on Monday to 28 months in prison. Lynne Stewart, 67, was convicted in February 2005 of helping her client, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, to contact the Islamic Group, which the U.S. government lists as a terrorist organization. Prosecutors said messages Stewart passed on for Abdel-Rahman could have incited violence in Egypt. The sheikh was convicted in 1995 of conspiring to attack U.S. targets in a plot prosecutors said included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Stewart,...

Staten Island Democratic Association's meeting this week featured "guest of honor" criminal defense lawyer Lynne Stewart, a former Islander who is facing charges of terrorism. Ms. Stewart keynote address updated the group on the government's case against her. Ms. Stewart, a former Stapleton resident who graduated from Wagner College, was arrested in 2002 for allegedly providing material support for terrorism, among other charges. New charges have just been filed against Ms. Stewart charging her with conspiracy to commit terrorism by using convicted World Trade Center bomber Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman as "personnel" to carry out her acts. Additionally, she is...

A Staten Island mailman who was a follower of the blind terror sheik tracked down confidential addresses of FBI agents and prosecutors pursuing Al Qaeda, according to court records and federal sources. Ahmed Sattar, described by federal prosecutors as a point man for a major terror group in America, was spotted by one federal agent near his home. The agent moved his family from the area.Sattar also was put on the federal payroll, receiving thousands of dollars to be a paralegal for Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman during his 1995 terror trial, government officials said.Even though federal investigators became suspicious of...

NEW YORK -- Civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart was sentenced to 28 months in prison in federal court in Manhattan Monday. She was convicted of providing support to terrorists by helping a jailed Egyptian sheik communicate with his followers on the outside. Before sentencing, her lawyer told the judge that any prison sentence for Stewart would be a death sentence because of her serious health problems. Stewart pleaded with the judge to allow her to live out the rest of her life "productively, lovingly, righteously.'' Assistant US Attorney Andrew Dember rejected defense suggestions that Stewart's conduct was judged differently after9-11. "This case...

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police have arrested two Islamic militants, including one suspected of involvement in the kidnap and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, an officer said Tuesday. The two men, Sajid Jabbar and Mohammad Athar, were arrested in an overnight raid in the port city of Karachi and belong to the outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group, Fayyaz Leghari, chief of the investigation branch of Karachi police, told Reuters. Another senior officer, who did not want to be identified, said Jabbar was suspected of involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl in 2002...

We Ignore 'Trinity of Terror' at Our Peril By Tom Knowlton While we have brought the full weight of American military might against the operational forces of Islamic terrorism, the spiritual architects of Islamic extremism continue unimpeded to recruit, train and finance a new generation of terrorists. The most egregious of these "spiritual leaders" are the infamous "Trinity of Terror" residing in London, England; Abu Qatada, Omar Bakri Muhammad, and Abu Hamza al-Masri. Abu Qatada, a Palestinian refuge living in London, has been linked to the planning and funding of terrorism in Jordan, France, Spain and Italy. European counter-terrorism and...

<p>On the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, the leader of the Muslim Salafi al-Muhajiroun Movement, Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammad, praised al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden whom he described as "the lion of the Muslim nation."</p>

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the man convicted of masterminding the abduction and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, has ended a week-long hunger strike. Prison officials say the convict, also known as Omar Sheikh, began a hunger strike a week ago to force the police to admit to the alleged detention of three other men suspected of abducting and murdering Mr Pearl. Investigators have confirmed to journalists on condition of anonymity the detention of these three men, described as "the real killers" by Omar Sheikh, although the police have publicly denied making such arrests. Omar Sheikh and three...

KARACHI -- A Pakistani court decided on Tuesday to hear an appeal by British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh against his death sentence for the kidnap and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl. Defense Lawyer Abdul Waheed Katpar told reporters the high court in Sindh Province would hear the appeal in the southern port city of Karachi rather than in Hyderabad, the venue of the original trial earlier this year. Chief Prosecutor Raj Qureshi told reporters the court had also admitted an appeal by the state to change the life terms given to three other convicted defendants to death...

THE British-born militant sentenced to hang for the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl was secretly offered an amnesty by British officials in 1999 if he would betray his links with al-Qa'ida. The offer was made when Omar Sheikh was in an Indian prison accused of kidnapping three English tourists, The Times reported. Security chiefs knew of his terrorist credentials but believed he had crucial information about Western recruits to militant Islamic groups. He refused to co-operate. One senior security source said: "We underestimated the evil this man would commit." A court in Hyderabad, Pakistan, on Monday sentenced Omar to...

<p>LONDON, England -- The UK government says it opposes the death sentence handed down to a British-born man convicted in Pakistan for the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.</p> <p>Former London School of Economics student Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, believed to be the mastermind of Pearl's kidnapping death, was convicted on Monday along with three other Islamic radicals of kidnapping for ransom and acts of terror, defence lawyers said.</p>

Sheikh Omar threatens the Pakistani authorities of reprisals Monday July 15, 2002 - 7h32 GMT HYDERABAD (Pakistan), 15 juil (AFP) - the militant islamist Sheikh Omar condemned to dead Monday by a court with Hyderabad (southern) threatened the Pakistani authorities of reprisals "to have arranged" the sentence pronounced against him for removal in January, then the assassination, of the American journalist Daniel Pearl, in a message read by his lawyer. "We will see who will die in first, me or the authorities which arranged my death sentence", he wrote in a message read by Me Spoke Bashir in front...

<p>July 5, 2002 -- HYDERABAD, Pakistan - The lawyer for the key defendant in the kidnap-slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl argued yesterday that evidence was fabricated, testimony was contradictory and confessions were coerced.</p> <p>Abdul Waheed Katpar, lawyer for British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, said a gruesome 3-minute video documenting Pearl's death should never have been shown in court. Under Pakistani law, a videotape is inadmissible unless either the maker or a witness is produced to substantiate its authenticity, according to Katpar.</p>

ISLAMABAD, July 5 (IslamOnline) – The prime suspect in the killing of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl, on Friday, July 5, warned the American government that the Israeli treatment of Palestinians could bring more 9/11 like strikes. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, 28, facing trial for allegedly kidnapping and killing the U.S. reporter, issued a statement to the Pakistani media through his lawyer Friday saying the United States “deserved” the September 11 strikes and a repeat of the same could take place anytime. His lawyers are wrapping up their arguments before a special trial court seized with the hearing of Pearl murder...

KARACHI: A team of senior Pakistani lawyers will defend British-born militant Sheikh Omar in his upcoming trial for the kidnapping and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl, an advocate said on Saturday. Omar, the self-proclaimed mastermind of Pearl's abduction, and 10 accomplices were charged Friday with murder, kidnap for ransom and terrorism, and ordered to stand trial from March 29. The charges carry the maximum penalty of death. Omar's lawyer Saiful Malook said a team of senior lawyers, including relatives of the 29-year old militant, had been formed and were already examining the case. "Omar will be defended by a...

Sheikh Omar's court proceedings have been held in secret The lawyer for the chief suspect in the kidnapping in Pakistan of murdered US journalist Daniel Pearl has dismissed his indictment in America as "absurd". Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, also known as Sheikh Omar, was indicted on Thursday for hostage taking and for conspiring to take hostages resulting in the death of Mr Pearl. He was also indicted for the abduction of an American citizen in India in 1994. Pakistan has reiterated that it would not consider extraditing Sheikh Omar to the US until its own investigations are concluded. 'Violation...

KARACHI, March 10 (PNS): Sheikh Umer Saeed, the main accused in Wall Street Journal reporter Denial Pearl's murder case, appeared in the court of Judicial Magistrate Irm Jihangir here on Saturday. Shaikh Omar who was arrested in Lahore on Feb 12 by Punjab Police and later was shifted to Karachi was brought to the court under strict security arrangement. Omar's appearance was to allow the statement of a witness who identified him to be formally recorded before the court and to let his lawyer cross-examine the witness, a taxi driver. But his counsel Saiful Malook refused to cross-examine without...