FOUR SUSPECTS, INCLUDING BRITISH-BORN AHMED OMAR SAEED SHEIKH, WERE CH...

World | March 22, 2002, Friday // 00:00

Four suspects, including British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, were charged in a Pakistani court Friday with the kidnap and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, the chief prosecutor said. Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl was abducted in the port city of Karachi on January 23 while trying to contact radical Islamic groups and investigate possible links between alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. Although his body has never been found, his kidnappers released a graphic video showing Pearl being murdered.

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