Pakistani police stands guard as the armourd car carrying Sheikh Omar
leaves an anti-terrorist court in Karachi February 14, 2002. The chief
suspect in the kidnapping of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl told an
anti-terrorism court in Karachi on Thursday he thought the U.S.
reporter was dead. "As far as I understand, he is dead," British-born
Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, commonly known as Sheikh
Omar, told the court REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

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