AHMED OMAR SAEED SHEIKH, THE SELF-CONFESSED MASTERMIND OF THE KIDNAPPI...

World | February 25, 2002, Monday // 00:00

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the self-confessed mastermind of the kidnapping of American reporter Daniel Pearl, is to reappear in a Karachi anti-terrorism court Monday where he may fill in details of a crime that shocked the world by its barbarity. Pearl's death was confirmed on February 21, but the date of his murder is not known. Legal authorities, who have kept a tight lid on the hearing, told Reuters news agency it was possible the 28-year-old Islamic radical would confess in full to his part in the kidnapping.

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