Posted on 03/10/2002 12:43:59 PM PST by Cinnamon Girl
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 having a detail meeting.
Earlier, the taxi driver, who drove Pearl to the restaurant, recorded his statement in the court under section 164. He told the court that Shaikh Omar had forcefully seated Daniel Pearl in his car.
Shaikh Omar however rejecting the statement said that the Taxi driver had given the statement due to intense police pressure.
The hearing took place in close doors and the court adjourned the hearing till March 12.
Meanwhile it is reported that The US government has sought Ahmed Saeed Omar Sheikh's extradition for the killing of an American, who, along with some other Western tourists, was abducted in occupied Kashmir some years back, and not in the Daniel Pearl kidnap and murder case.
However, sources said that the government would hold Omar's trial in the Pearl case in Pakistan if it was able to find sufficient evidence to get him convicted by Pakistani courts otherwise he would be extradited to the United States. Omar's point of view is that he remained in the Indian jails for four years and was charge-sheeted in the tourists' kidnap and murder case but no trial was ever held.
His stand is that he cannot be tried in the same case in the United States because nobody can be subjected to double jeopardy under the Americans' own law. He says that the Americans are working to try him in the same case.
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The U.S. better not let up on this, although at this point, the only sure hope for justice is an exploding cell phone courtesy of Daniel Pearl's brothers.
I say, grab the Pak nukes while we can. They are not our friends.
Hey, Omar! You can't be tried twice for the same crime in an American Court! You ain't in one...yet!
True. By allowing a public airing of his being nailed by the taxi driver, his guilt is being established though you would agree?. I don't think he's laughing I think he's gotta be nervous. I still hope he will be extradicted.
Aint noooobody our friends except the British & the Israelis. A few others share our interests.
Bump.
The Aussies. They're a damn tough bunch too.
If there's any place in the world where the innovate, adapt, and overcome "cowboy" mentality is prominent besides the US, it's Australia.
I do regret they surrendered their personal arms so easily after that moron on Tasmania killed all those people. Idiots everywhere, not just in USA...
They didn't do it easily!
They've got some taxation problems too, but the pendulum swings.
He's continued his cocky attitude ever since he swaggered into the police station a few weeks ago to "turn himself in." He was fresh from a weeks' stay at the villa of an ISI Commander--where he originally "turned himself in."
The guy has some serious muscle behind him when you look at the pro-Al Qaeda history of the Pakistan Inter-Service Intelligence Directorate (ISI).
BTW, looks like the Paki Press is also having some fun with the Western infidel reader. Sheikh Omar is given four differenct handles in this little 300+ word article--and the "Related Links" frame is packed with a couple of other Omars just to add to the carefully orchestrated confusion.
Even seasoned news-readers will find it a bit difficult picking their way thru this confusing thicket.
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No, they didn't take all the guns. And just like here, the leftists in government always grab more control when given the opportunity.
They talk about our drug war as if we were fascists (well, I guess the WOD is fascist).
Regardless, the point was that like the Brits and Israelis, the Aussies will always be with us.
They often say similar stuff about us. After all, we have elected socialists in our Congress. We have communist organizations all over the US.
The lefties are everywhere. Don't let one appearance cloud your opinion of an entire nation of immigrants.
WRONG!
While in the Navy, I sat through lectures by JAG Corps types that explained that Virginia or California could try a serviceman for a crime commited off base and, if an O.J. jury let the obviously guilty b@astard off, the Navy could prosecute the same crime under the UCMJ without violating the double jeapardy rule because the case would be tried by different sovereigns.
Pakistan and the United States are definitely "different sovereigns". Let him keep laughing. The last laugh will be on Omar.
Sometimes you can See #17.
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