The murder in Pakistan of a Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, attracted worldwide attention.
Sheikh Omar was later convicted of the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 and is appealing against a death sentence.
The group has been linked to British shoe bomber Richard Reid and the murderers of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan last year.
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Pakistani authorities arrested a militant who they say is connected with the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002.
WSJ: Militant Linked to WSJ Reporter Pearl's Death Arrested in Pakistan
In March, Mariane Pearl, the widow of the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, received a phone call from Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General.
Pakistan also sent as an observer senior police investigator Mir Zubair Mahmood, who led the investigation into the murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi.
Shortly afterwards, in Karachi, Pakistan, Wedeman obtained the first interview with Marianne Pearl, the wife of kidnapped - and later executed - Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl.
He is the recipient of the 2004 Journalist Pillar of Justice Award from the Respect for Law Alliance and the 2003 Daniel Pearl Award from the Chicago Press Veterans Association.
And now this turn of events in Pakistan: The man convicted of beheading Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is planning to use Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession to appeal his own death sentence.
One of those arrested, a Yemeni who has not been named, is suspected of having been part of the three-man execution squad responsible for killing the Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, last winter.
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a young Briton of Pakistani origin who is believed to have masterminded the kidnapping and murder in Pakistan of an American journalist, Daniel Pearl, was privately educated and studied at the London School of Economics.
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