FILE - In this April 15, 2007, file photo, Dr. Judea Pearl, father of American journalist Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002, speaks in Miami Beach, Fla. A Pakistani court on Thursday, April 2, 2020, overturned the murder conviction of a British Pakistani man found guilty of the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl.
Pearl disappeared Jan. 23, 2002 in Karachi while researching links between Pakistani militants and Richard C. Reid, who became known as the “shoe-bomber” after he was arrested on a flight from Paris to Miami with explosives in his shoes. Prosecutors said Saeed lured Pearl into a trap by promising to arrange an interview with an Islamic cleric who police believed was not involved in the conspiracy.
The Sindh High Court also acquitted three others accused in the case: Fahad Naseem, Sheikh Adil, and Salman Saqib, who were earlier sentenced to life in prison. The defendants were also collectively fined $32,000.Saeed, a former student at the London School of Economics, and the others were convicted in 2002.
The Pearl Project, an investigative journalism team at Washington's Georgetown University, carried out a three-year investigation into Pearl's kidnapping and death. They concluded the reporter was beheaded by Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, who was arrested in Pakistan in 2003 and later described as the architect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Mohammad is a prisoner at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
“Right or wrong I had my reasons,” Saeed told the court at the time. “I think that our country shouldn’t be catering to America’s needs.” The statement was ruled inadmissible because it was not made under oath.
Will he return to UK?
We should have annihilated their entire society when we found out they were hiding Osama bin laden we cockslapped Afghanistan for what they did and we last some fire throughout the war and just allowed them to do that like pussies
Typical Islamic regime, it protects terrorists and murderers. Pakistan is overturning a sentence of Daniel Pearl's murderer while still holding a doctor in prison who provided info on Osama bin Laden and his location in Pakistan to the US.
Of course. Because Pakistan is run by militant jihadis. Islam ruins people and culture indiscriminately, just ask India.
The country that did Mumbai says 'good job' to a murderer. Pakistan is a radical joke.
Just another one of them great allies the USA has. Cut the world off and worry about North and South America. America first
Of course. Because Pakistan is run by militant jihadis. Islam ruins people and culture indescriminately, just ask India.
shame
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Hi
Pakistan is a danger to the US, for sure.
we all know a bunch f radical islamics ! cannot be trusted !
You really can’t trust these bastards
Some cultures are better than others.......
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