Nicholas Goldberg: This man masterminded my friend Daniel Pearl's abduction in 2002. He shouldn't be set free
by Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Apr 21, 2020
3 minutes
I was surprised and shaken when I read the news recently that a Pakistani court had overturned the conviction of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the man convicted of masterminding the abduction of my friend Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002.
Saeed did not murder Danny himself, but he did lure him from his home and, one way or another, delivered him to his death. At his trial, Saeed - a militant jihadi who had been previously convicted of a separate kidnapping of Western tourists in India - was found guilty of murder and kidnapping.
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