Posted on 07/15/2002 12:58:41 AM PDT by HAL9000
Sheikh Omar threatens the Pakistani authorities of reprisals
Monday July 15, 2002 - 7h32 GMT
HYDERABAD (Pakistan), 15 juil (AFP) - the militant islamist Sheikh Omar condemned to dead Monday by a court with Hyderabad (southern) threatened the Pakistani authorities of reprisals "to have arranged" the sentence pronounced against him for removal in January, then the assassination, of the American journalist Daniel Pearl, in a message read by his lawyer.
"We will see who will die in first, me or the authorities which arranged my death sentence", he wrote in a message read by Me Spoke Bashir in front of the journalists outside the prison of high safety where the judgement was given in camera, by a court antiterrorist.
"the war between Islam and Kafirs (those which are not Moslem, note) continuous and each one should show if it is in favour of Islam or of Kafirs", added Sheikh Omar.
This militant islamist 29 year old having the Pakistani and British dual nationality, born in Great Britain where it grew and studied, violently anti-American, is regarded as the brain of removal on January 23 in Karachi, the harbour metropolis of the south of Pakistan, of Daniel Pearl, corresponding in South Asia of Wall Street Journal.
The authorities, fearing reactions of violence of the islamists mediums, had placed for Sunday the prison and the town of Hyderabad in maximum alarm.
Pearl killer vows retaliation
15jul02
HYDERABAD, Pakistan: British-born Islamic militant Sheikh Omar threatened retaliation against Pakistani authorities for "arranging" the death sentence awarded against him for kidnapping and murdering Daniel Pearl.
"We shall see who will die first, either I or the authorities who have arranged the death sentence for me," Omar said in a message read out by his lawyer Rai Bashir to reporters outside the high-security prison where the verdict was delivered.
"The war between Islam and Kafirs (non-Muslims) is going on and everybody should show whether he is in favour of Islam or in favour of Kafirs."
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court, sitting inside the prison, found Omar and three accomplices guilty of murdering and abducting the Wall Street Journal correspondent earlier this year.
Fahad Nasim, Salman Squib and Sheikh Adil were given life imprisonment.
Lawyers have vowed to appeal against the verdicts.
Kind of says it all.
I'll take $50 that Omar goes first.
Me too. That's a gimme.
Execute this arrogant twerp ASAP and you'll have a lot less trouble. But what more likely will happen will be a long drawn out drama and *maybe* some hostage taking by Pakistani Jihadis to trade for this sack of excrement.
This is an undated file photo of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British muslim who has been sentenced to death in Pakistan, Monday 15 July, 2002, for the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The other three defendants received 25 year sentences. (AP Photo/PA, File)
- Jul 15 7:59 AM ET
Ahmed Saeed Sheikh, father of Sheikh Omar, speaks to reporters at the central jail in Hyderabad, 160 km (100 miles) from Karachi on July 15, 2002. A Pakistani court on Monday sentenced British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, better known as Sheikh Omar, to death, and sentenced three others to 25 years imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl, who disappeared in Karachi on January 23. REUTERS/ Zahid Hussein
- Jul 15 6:41 AM ET
Ahmed Saeed Sheikh, father of Sheikh Omar leaves the central jail in Hyderabad, 160 km (100 miles) from Karachi on July 15, 2002. A Pakistani court on Monday sentenced British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, better known as Sheikh Omar, to death, and sentenced three others to 25 years imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl, who disappeared in Karachi on January 23. REUTERS/ Zahid Hussein
- Jul 15 6:41 AM ET
Makes you wonder who is in charge of this s&%thole of a country. Wouldn't this be equivalent of some pastor, priest or rabbi threatening Bush for not towing-the-religious-line?
Yeah, he sounds like somebody removed his brain, all right.
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