"It comes down to an existential struggle, " said Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Doha center.
Britain had also called for clemency for Akmal Shaikh, a Briton caught smuggling heroin into Xinjiang.
The once-unknown fruit vendor's actions stirred hope and courage, and that, Shaikh said, is part of his legacy.
To be sure, if Khalid Shaikh Mohammed goes to trial in civilian court, he might again plead guilty.
Mr Shaikh's family were "begging" the Chinese authorities to show compassion and consider his mental health problems, he added.
They said Mr Shaikh's clothes had been laid out for collection when they met him for the last time.
Bergen doubted that the plot's true masterminds -- Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh -- will be brought to justice.
Legal charity Reprieve has been working with Mr Shaikh and the organisation said a stay of execution was still possible.
Instagram user Shazia Shaikh took a photograph from the office where she works at Heathrow Airport of emergency vehicles surrounding a plane.
Mr Danczuk will be accompanied by Mr Shaikh's brother, Nasir, who has been campaigning for the killers to be brought to justice.
Khuram Shaikh, who graduated from Salford University, was shot and stabbed when he and his Russian girlfriend, Victoria Aleksandrovna Tkacheva, were attacked.
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The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Salman Shaikh.
"When parents have so many competing demands for such limited amounts of financial resources, buying multivitamins may not take top priority, " worries Shaikh.
"If there are certain actions these regimes are taking which are beyond the pale, people are not willing to accept that, " Shaikh said.
Reprieve said Mr Shaikh's last chance appears to be clemency because China has formally signed the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
Mr Brown went on to say that he has recently met the Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh.
Al-Nusra is not part of the coalition but has fought against Syria's government and, consequently, has support among Syrians sympathetic to the rebellion, Shaikh said.
Put simply, Shaikh Shams says, for him, this work is personal.
All that after such a bright start for Pakistan at the Shaikh Zayed stadium, with Tanvir making a superb impression on a long overdue international debut.
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"Qatar has something of an image problem with the rebels in the field" in Syria, said Salman Shaikh, director of The Brookings Doha Center in Qatar.
Reprieve said Dr Peter Schaapveld, a forensic psychologist, believes it was very likely that Mr Shaikh's strange behaviour was "influenced or caused by" his mental illness.
However, Khalid Shaikh Mohamed, who gave the al-Jazeera interview with Mr bin al-Shibh, and who is believed to have succeeded Mr Zubaydah, is still at large.
The Shaikh family also said it was "particularly distasteful" that judges at an appeal hearing laughed openly at Akmal's rambling speech as he pleaded for his life.
That impression continued despite the late intervention of Shoaib Shaikh, who hit two sixes off Patel and another off Collingwood, en route to 37 off 35 balls.
Separately, Mr Shaikh's cousins - who had made a failed last-minute attempt to plead for his life in China - expressed their "anger and disgust" at the execution.
"It's very important, " says one student, 20-year old Waseem Shaikh.
Shaikh Abdul Mannan, a senior official at Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha, the government agency responsible for building safety in Dhaka, said the building didn't conform to the national building code.
Among those who attended, according to U.S. and Malaysian officials: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh who would later outline how they carried out the September 11 attacks.
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