Sheikh Ahmad Omar Saeed is being interrogated by Pakistani intelligence agencies in connection with the 7/7 London bombings.
PAKISTAN: Sheikh Ahmad Omar Saeed, already sentenced to death for the grisly murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, is being interrogated by Pakistani intelligence agencies in connection with the 7/7 London bombings.
Intelligence circles in Islamabad said that he is being questioned by a joint team of senior intelligence officials who want Omar to answer a set of queries forwarded by British intelligence agencies involved in the 7/7 investigations and trying to explore a possible Pakistani connection. The intelligence sources said that Omar is being interrogated in view of his British background.
They said that the jehadi killer happens to be a London School of Economics graduate and the right hand man of the Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar, who used to enjoy close links with British-based jehadi group Al-Muhajiroun, suspected for the 7/7 bombing. The sources said that the British intelligence agencies wanted to ascertain whether or not the three British born suicide bombers of Pakistani origin had ever met Omar during his stay in London. An Anti Terrorist Court in Karachi began the murder trial of Pearl on April 22, 2002 and gave its verdict on July 15, 2002, which was challenged in the Sindh High Court.
On May 17, 2002, three held activists of a banned militant group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi helped the Karachi police recover a chopped-up body of Daniel Pearl from a vacant plot in the Gadap Town off Super Highway, owned by Al Rasheed Trust, founded by Mufti Ahmed which used to finance numerous jehadi organisations like Jaish-e-Mohammad.
It is almost four years now since a Pakistani court had sentenced Omar to death for the murder. However, the jehadi killer has managed to avoid being sent to the gallows and his appeal against the sentence has seen 50 adjournments since his conviction.
Omar was declared a dangerous prisoner after being convicted and was shifted from the Karachi Central Jail to a more secure colonial-built jail in Hyderabad.
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