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scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/London_School_of_Economics" title="London School of Economics">London School of Economics</a> (<i>did not graduate</i>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Organizations</th><td class="infobox-data org"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harkat-ul-Ansar" class="mw-redirect" title="Harkat-ul-Ansar">Harkat-ul-Ansar</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Harkat-ul-Mujahideen" title="Harkat-ul-Mujahideen">Harkat-ul-Mujahideen</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Jaish-e-Mohammed" title="Jaish-e-Mohammed">Jaish-e-Mohammed</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><link 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Lakhpat Jail">Kot Lakhpat Jail</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Saadia Rauf (m. 2000–present)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">1 (son)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh</b> (<a href="/wiki/Urdu_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Urdu language">Urdu</a>: <span lang="ur" dir="rtl">احمد عمر سعید شیخ</span>; sometimes known as <b>Umar Sheikh</b>, <b>Sheikh Omar</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-Alternate_use_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alternate_use-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>notes 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <b>Sheik Syed</b> or by the alias <b>Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad</b>;<sup id="cite_ref-suspected_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-suspected-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> born 23 December 1973) is a <a href="/wiki/British_Pakistanis" title="British Pakistanis">British Pakistani</a> terrorist. He became a member of the <a href="/wiki/Islamism" title="Islamism">Islamist</a> <a href="/wiki/Jihadism" title="Jihadism">jihadist</a> group <a href="/wiki/Harkat_ul-Ansar" class="mw-redirect" title="Harkat ul-Ansar">Harkat-ul-Ansar</a> or <a href="/wiki/Harkat-ul-Mujahideen" title="Harkat-ul-Mujahideen">Harkat-ul-Mujahideen</a> in the 1990s, and later of <a href="/wiki/Jaish-e-Mohammed" title="Jaish-e-Mohammed">Jaish-e-Mohammed</a> and was closely associated with <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-groups_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-groups-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was arrested-in-action during the <a href="/wiki/1994_kidnappings_of_Westerners_in_India" class="mw-redirect" title="1994 kidnappings of Westerners in India">1994 kidnappings of Western tourists in India</a> and served time in Indian prisons. He was released in 1999 and was provided safe passage into Afghanistan with the support of the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> in exchange for passengers aboard the hijacked <a href="/wiki/Indian_Airlines_Flight_814" title="Indian Airlines Flight 814">Indian Airlines Flight 814</a>. He is best-known for his role in the kidnapping and subsequent murder of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">Wall Street Journal</a></i> reporter <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Pearl" title="Daniel Pearl">Daniel Pearl</a> in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-MasoodNYT_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MasoodNYT-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sheikh was arrested by Pakistani police on 12 February 2002, in <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a>, in connection with the Pearl kidnapping and was sentenced to death on 15 July 2002 by a special judge of an <a href="/wiki/Anti_Terrorism_Court_of_Pakistan" title="Anti Terrorism Court of Pakistan">anti terrorism court</a> for murdering Pearl.<sup id="cite_ref-transcripts.cnn.com_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-transcripts.cnn.com-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-newsline_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newsline-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His complicity in the murder and the reasons behind it are in dispute. At his initial court appearance, he stated, "I don't want to defend this case. I did this<span class="nowrap"> </span>... Right or wrong, I had my reasons. I think that our country shouldn't be catering to America's needs",<sup id="cite_ref-Irish_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Irish-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but he subsequently appealed his conviction for murder, only admitting his role in the kidnapping of Pearl. Saeed's lawyer has stated he will base his client's appeal on the admission of <a href="/wiki/Khalid_Sheikh_Mohammed" title="Khalid Sheikh Mohammed">Khalid Sheikh Mohammed</a>, made public in 2007, that he is the killer of <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Pearl" title="Daniel Pearl">Daniel Pearl</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WashingtonPost1_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WashingtonPost1-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LawfareDidKsmKillPearl_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LawfareDidKsmKillPearl-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PearlAnalysis_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PearlAnalysis-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WashingtonPost2011-01-20_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WashingtonPost2011-01-20-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TheTelegraphUK2011-01-20_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheTelegraphUK2011-01-20-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sheikh's murder conviction was overturned (along with that of his accomplices Fahad Nasim Ahmed, Syed Salman Saqib and Sheikh Mohammad Adil) by Pakistan's <a href="/wiki/Sindh_High_Court" title="Sindh High Court">Sindh High Court</a> on 2 April 2020, and his seven-year sentence for kidnapping was considered as time-served.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of March 2021<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, he is imprisoned at the <a href="/wiki/Kot_Lakhpat_Jail" title="Kot Lakhpat Jail">Kot Lakhpat Jail</a>, Lahore (where he had been moved to from <a href="/wiki/Central_Prison_Karachi" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Prison Karachi">Central Prison Karachi</a>) but has been moved out of <a href="/wiki/Death_row" title="Death row">death row</a> while his acquittal for Pearl's murder is in appeal at the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Pakistan" title="Supreme Court of Pakistan">Supreme Court of Pakistan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ahmed Omar Sheikh was born in London, England on 23 December 1973. His parents, Saeed and Qaissra Sheikh, emigrated from Pakistan to the UK in 1968 and ran a prosperous clothing business.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was the eldest of three siblings and in his youth he attended <a href="/wiki/Forest_School,_Walthamstow" title="Forest School, Walthamstow">Forest School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Walthamstow" title="Walthamstow">Walthamstow</a>, an independent school in <a href="/wiki/List_of_sub-regions_used_in_the_London_Plan" title="List of sub-regions used in the London Plan">North-East London</a>, whose alumni include English <a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">cricket</a> captain <a href="/wiki/Nasser_Hussain" title="Nasser Hussain">Nasser Hussain</a>, filmmaker <a href="/wiki/Peter_Greenaway" title="Peter Greenaway">Peter Greenaway</a> and singer <a href="/wiki/Suzana_Ansar" title="Suzana Ansar">Suzana Ansar</a>. Between the ages of 14 and 16 he attended <a href="/wiki/Aitchison_College" title="Aitchison College">Aitchison College</a>, the most exclusive boys boarding school in Pakistan, where his family had temporarily relocated. He later returned to the United Kingdom to continue at Forest School.<sup id="cite_ref-McGinty_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McGinty-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters">Reuters</a></i> journalist Daniel Flynn, who was a childhood friend, says that he was already an admirer of Pakistan's <a href="/wiki/Islamist" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamist">Islamist</a> dictator <a href="/wiki/General_Zia-ul-Haq" class="mw-redirect" title="General Zia-ul-Haq">General Zia-ul-Haq</a> and returned to London as "a junior boxing champion and full of stories of contacts with organised crime, gun battles in the ghettos of <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a>, visits to brothels."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later, he attended the <a href="/wiki/London_School_of_Economics" title="London School of Economics">London School of Economics</a><sup id="cite_ref-HH_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HH-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to study <a href="/wiki/Applied_mathematics" title="Applied mathematics">applied mathematics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Statistics" title="Statistics">statistics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Economics" title="Economics">economics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Social_psychology" title="Social psychology">social psychology</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but dropped out during his first year.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_News_16_July_2002_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_News_16_July_2002-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> reported that a fellow student of Sheikh's at both the <a href="/wiki/Forest_School_(Walthamstow)" class="mw-redirect" title="Forest School (Walthamstow)">Forest School</a> and the LSE, Syed Ali Hasan, had described him in 2002 as "bright but rather dysfunctional" and said that he had been suspended from school on several occasions because of his violent behavior. He was known for his violence since his childhood, having punched and thrown to the floor a teacher when he was eight years old, and grew up to be a bully.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Becoming an adult, a "burly-chested six feet two inches" as per journalist <a href="/wiki/Robert_Sam_Anson" title="Robert Sam Anson">Robert Sam Anson</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he would eventually translate this violence into a love for martial arts and sports, participating in the 1992 <a href="/wiki/World_Armwrestling_Championship" title="World Armwrestling Championship">World Armwrestling Championship</a> in <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a>, while also being a chess champion during his days at the LSE.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Noted for his academic abilities, he was also a polyglot who could speak five languages.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Guardian</i> reported that Sheikh came into contact with radical Islamists at the LSE, quoting Hasan as saying "[he] told us he was going to <a href="/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia</a> driving aid convoys, and he never came back to university".<sup id="cite_ref-The_Guardian_15_July_2002_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Guardian_15_July_2002-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Former Pakistani President <a href="/wiki/Pervez_Musharraf" title="Pervez Musharraf">Pervez Musharraf</a>, in his book <i><a href="/wiki/In_the_Line_of_Fire_(book)" class="mw-redirect" title="In the Line of Fire (book)">In the Line of Fire</a></i>, stated that Sheikh was originally recruited by British intelligence agency <a href="/wiki/MI6" title="MI6">MI6</a> while studying at the <a href="/wiki/London_School_of_Economics" title="London School of Economics">London School of Economics</a>. He alleges Sheikh was sent to the Balkans by MI6 to engage in operations. Musharraf later says, "At some point, he probably became a rogue or <a href="/wiki/Double_agent" title="Double agent">double agent</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Omar Sheikh married Saadia Rauf (who holds an MA degree in English)<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a> in December 2000 and became a father in November 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In an interview with Massoud Ansari from <a href="/wiki/Newsline_(magazine)" title="Newsline (magazine)">Newsline</a> dated April 2005, Omar Shaikh stated that "You can obtain details of my background from the book <i>Who Killed Daniel Pearl?</i> by <a href="/wiki/Bernard-Henri_L%C3%A9vy" title="Bernard-Henri Lévy">Bernard-Henri Lévy</a>. In this book, Levy traces my entire life story; the references are usually negative but he has done a lot of research."<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Kidnapping_of_American_and_British_nationals,_1994"><span id="Kidnapping_of_American_and_British_nationals.2C_1994"></span>Kidnapping of American and British nationals, 1994</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Kidnapping of American and British nationals, 1994"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1994_kidnappings_of_Westerners_in_India" class="mw-redirect" title="1994 kidnappings of Westerners in India">1994 kidnappings of Westerners in India</a></div> <p>He travelled to Bosnia in 1993 during the <a href="/wiki/Bosnian_War" title="Bosnian War">Bosnian War</a> and met other Pakistani Islamist militants with whom he went to an <a href="/wiki/Afghan_training_camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghan training camp">Afghan training camp</a> and joined the anti-Indian terrorist group <a href="/wiki/Harkat_ul-Ansar" class="mw-redirect" title="Harkat ul-Ansar">Harkat-ul-Ansar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-groups_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-groups-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served five years in prison including the Delhi <a href="/wiki/Tihar_Jail" class="mw-redirect" title="Tihar Jail">Tihar Jail</a> in the 1990s in connection with the <a href="/wiki/1994_kidnappings_of_Westerners_in_India" class="mw-redirect" title="1994 kidnappings of Westerners in India">1994 kidnappings of Westerners in India</a> perpetrated by the Harkat-ul-Ansar (under the pseudonym of Al-Hadid), during which he had been caught.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The abductees included three British citizens, Myles Croston, Paul Rideout, and Rhys Partridge, and one American, Béla Nuss; all of them were rescued unharmed.<sup id="cite_ref-McGinty_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McGinty-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During his jail years, where he moved from jail to jail in different cities (e.g. New Delhi, Meerut, etc.), he was noted as wanting to read biographies of <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stalin" class="mw-redirect" title="Stalin">Stalin</a> and described "as a tough, militant youth with a sharp, calculating brain well capable of planning and executing terror acts with precision", while his counsel in Meerut, O.P. Sharma, remembers him as a "fanatic to the core" who "believed every non-Muslim is a kafir and must perish", that "there was no concept of democracy in Islam" and even that "at times he turned very violent and behaved like a mentally-challenged person" for instance when "he once beat up one of the deputy jailors at Meerut jail."<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hijacking_and_release_from_prison">Hijacking and release from prison</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Hijacking and release from prison"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Indian_Airlines_flight_814_hijacking" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian Airlines flight 814 hijacking">Indian Airlines flight 814 hijacking</a></div> <p>In 1999, <a href="/wiki/Indian_Airlines_Flight_814" title="Indian Airlines Flight 814">Indian Airlines Flight 814</a> was hijacked by five Pakistani militants belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Harkat-ul-Mujahideen" title="Harkat-ul-Mujahideen">Harkat-ul-Mujahideen</a> (formerly <a href="/wiki/Harkat-ul-Ansar" class="mw-redirect" title="Harkat-ul-Ansar">Harkat-ul-Ansar</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-groups_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-groups-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while on the way from <a href="/wiki/Kathmandu" title="Kathmandu">Kathmandu</a>, Nepal to <a href="/wiki/New_Delhi" title="New Delhi">New Delhi</a>, India. The hijackers demanded the release of fellow Harkat-ul-Mujahideen members Sheikh and <a href="/wiki/Masood_Azhar" title="Masood Azhar">Masood Azhar</a> (who went on to found <a href="/wiki/Jaish-e-Mohammed" title="Jaish-e-Mohammed">Jaish-e-Mohammed</a> which Sheikh later joined)<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Mushtaq_Ahmed_Zargar" title="Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar">Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar</a>, leader of another Pakistan-based anti-India terror organization. The plane landed in <a href="/wiki/Kandahar" title="Kandahar">Kandahar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> militia surrounded the plane, pre-empting any Indian commando operation. After negotiations between the Indian government and the hijackers, the hostages were freed eight days after the hijacking occurred, although a passenger, Rupin Katyal, was stabbed to death by one of the hijackers. The three prisoners were released in exchange for the hostages, including Sheikh who was imprisoned at the <a href="/wiki/Tihar_Jail" class="mw-redirect" title="Tihar Jail">Tihar Jail</a> in Delhi.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sheikh also had financial connections with Aftab Ansari, perpetrator of the <a href="/wiki/Khadim%27s_case" title="Khadim's case">kidnapping of Partha Pratim Roy Burman</a> and the <a href="/wiki/2002_attack_on_American_cultural_centre_in_Kolkata" title="2002 attack on American cultural centre in Kolkata">2002 attack on American cultural centre in Kolkata</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media_descriptions">Media descriptions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Media descriptions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> has described Sheikh as "no ordinary terrorist but a man who has connections that reach high into Pakistan's military and intelligence elite and into the innermost circles of Osama Bin Laden and the al-Qaeda organisation." According to <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a>, Sheikh began working for Pakistan's <a href="/wiki/Inter-Services_Intelligence" title="Inter-Services Intelligence">Inter-Services Intelligence</a> (ISI) in 1993. By 1994, he was operating training camps in <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> and had earned the title of bin Laden's "special son."<sup id="cite_ref-commons_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-commons-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2002, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> quoted an unnamed Pakistani source as saying that the ISI paid Sheikh's legal fees during his 1994 trial in India on charges of kidnapping.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Possible_connection_with_9/11_hijackers"><span id="Possible_connection_with_9.2F11_hijackers"></span>Possible connection with 9/11 hijackers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Possible connection with 9/11 hijackers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 6 October 2001, a senior-level US government official, told <a href="/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a> that US investigators had discovered Sheikh (Sheik Syed), using the alias "<a href="/wiki/Mustafa_Muhammad_Ahmad" class="mw-redirect" title="Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad">Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad</a>" had sent about $100,000 from the <a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a> to <a href="/wiki/Mohamed_Atta" title="Mohamed Atta">Mohamed Atta</a>. Investigators said "Atta then distributed the funds to conspirators in Florida in the weeks before the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil that destroyed the World Trade Center, heavily damaged the Pentagon and left thousands dead. In addition, sources have said Atta sent thousands of dollars – believed to be excess funds from the operation – back to Syed in the United Arab Emirates in the days before September 11."<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> CNN later confirmed this.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/9/11_Commission_Report" title="9/11 Commission Report">9/11 Commission's Final Report</a> states that the source of the funds "remains unknown." </p><p>More than a month after the money transfer was discovered, the head of ISI, General <a href="/wiki/Mahmud_Ahmed" title="Mahmud Ahmed">Mahmud Ahmed</a> resigned from his position. It was reported that the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a> (FBI) was investigating the possibility that Gen. Ahmed ordered Sheikh to send the $100,000 to Atta.<sup id="cite_ref-commons_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-commons-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i> was one of the only Western news organisations to follow up on the story, citing the <i><a href="/wiki/Times_of_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Times of India">Times of India</a></i>: "US authorities sought General Mahmud Ahmed's removal after confirming that $100,000 was wired to WTC hijacker Mohamed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the insistence of General Mahmud."<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another Indian newspaper, the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Excelsior" title="Daily Excelsior">Daily Excelsior</a></i>, quoting FBI sources, reported that the "FBI's examination of the hard disk of the cellphone company Sheikh had subscribed to led to the discovery of the "link" between him and the deposed chief of the Pakistani ISI, Mahmud Ahmed. And as the FBI investigators delved deep, reports surfaced with regard to the transfer of $100,000 to Mohamed Atta, one of the ringleaders of the 11 September attacks, who flew the hijacked <a href="/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_11" title="American Airlines Flight 11">American Airlines Flight 11</a> <a href="/wiki/Boeing_767" title="Boeing 767">Boeing 767-223ER</a> commercial airliner into the North Tower of World Trade Center. General Mahmud Ahmed, the FBI investigators found, fully knew about the transfer of money to Atta."<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>US investigators later said that this was a confusion with <a href="/wiki/Mustafa_al-Hawsawi" title="Mustafa al-Hawsawi">Mustafa al-Hawsawi</a>, also known as <a href="/wiki/Mustafa_Muhammad_Ahmad" class="mw-redirect" title="Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad">Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad</a>, who is currently held in Guantanamo Bay.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Pittsburgh Tribune</i> notes that there "are many in Musharraf's government who believe that Saeed Sheikh's power comes not from the ISI, but from his connections with our own <a href="/wiki/CIA" class="mw-redirect" title="CIA">CIA</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sheikh rose to prominence with the 2002 killing of <i>Wall Street Journal</i> reporter <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Pearl" title="Daniel Pearl">Daniel Pearl</a>, who at the time was in Pakistan investigating connections between the ISI and Islamic militant groups. In Pakistan, Sheikh was sentenced to death for killing Pearl, however his complicity in Pearl's execution and the reasons behind it are in dispute. Further adding to the confusion surrounding the issue is that <a href="/wiki/Khalid_Sheikh_Muhammad" class="mw-redirect" title="Khalid Sheikh Muhammad">Khalid Sheikh Muhammad</a> personally claimed to have been Pearl's killer.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Saeed was seemingly implicated by <a href="/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto" title="Benazir Bhutto">Benazir Bhutto</a> just before her own death in a hypothetical murder of <a href="/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden" title="Osama bin Laden">Osama bin Laden</a> (which must have occurred in late 2001 or 2002).<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several commentators have noted that, as she had previously been speaking about one of the sons of bin Laden during the interview, in all likelihood, Bhutto simply misspoke and had intended to say, "Omar Sheikh, the man who murdered <i>Daniel Pearl</i>," rather than "the man who murdered bin Laden" – such an important revelation about bin Laden's fate would certainly not have been stated so casually. Additionally, in subsequent interviews, Bhutto spoke about bin Laden in the context of him being alive.<sup id="cite_ref-Griffin_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Griffin-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Daniel_Pearl_kidnapping">Daniel Pearl kidnapping</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Daniel Pearl kidnapping"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The kidnapping (on 23 January 2002) and subsequent murder (on 1 February 2002) of American <a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal"><i>Wall Street Journal</i></a> reporter <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Pearl" title="Daniel Pearl">Daniel Pearl</a> in <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a>, who was following an investigative lead while working in post-9/11 Pakistan, was committed by several Islamist jihadist groups working in collaboration.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sheikh, a member of the <a href="/wiki/Harkat_ul-Ansar" class="mw-redirect" title="Harkat ul-Ansar">Harkat ul-Ansar</a>/<a href="/wiki/Harkat-ul-Mujahideen" title="Harkat-ul-Mujahideen">Harkat-ul-Mujahideen</a> and later <a href="/wiki/Jaish-e-Mohammed" title="Jaish-e-Mohammed">Jaish-e-Mohammed</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-groups_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-groups-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> has admitted to planning and committing the kidnapping but denied being involved in Pearl's murder. The <a href="/wiki/Beheading_video" title="Beheading video">beheading video</a> of Pearl was released by Jaish-e-Mohammed, under the pseudonym of "National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty" and Jaish member <a href="/wiki/Amjad_Farooqi" title="Amjad Farooqi">Amjad Farooqi</a> was reportedly involved in the kidnapping and murder.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AsiaTimes2004-09-30_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AsiaTimes2004-09-30-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a January 2011 report prepared by the <a href="/wiki/Center_for_Public_Integrity" title="Center for Public Integrity">Center for Public Integrity</a> (CPI) and the <a href="/wiki/International_Consortium_of_Investigative_Journalists" title="International Consortium of Investigative Journalists">International Consortium of Investigative Journalists</a> (ICIJ), members of other Pakistani terrorist groups such as <a href="/wiki/Harkat-ul-Jihad_al-Islami" title="Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami">Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sipah-e-Sahaba_Pakistan" title="Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan">Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan</a> were also stated to be involved in Pearl's kidnapping and murder.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The lead author of the report was Pearl's friend and colleague, journalist <a href="/wiki/Asra_Nomani" title="Asra Nomani">Asra Nomani</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WashingtonPost2011-01-20_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WashingtonPost2011-01-20-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All of the aforementioned groups were operating under the <a href="/wiki/Lashkar-e-Omar" title="Lashkar-e-Omar">Lashkar-e-Omar</a> umbrella.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</a> leaders were also involved in the kidnapping and murder of Pearl, with <a href="/wiki/Saif_al-Adel" title="Saif al-Adel">Saif al-Adel</a> playing a role in organizing the kidnapping and <a href="/wiki/Khalid_Sheikh_Mohammed" title="Khalid Sheikh Mohammed">Khalid Sheikh Mohammed</a> was personally identified in investigative reports as the one who killed Pearl.<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters2011-05-232_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters2011-05-232-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pearl was detained and later killed at an <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda_safe_houses,_Karachi" title="Al-Qaeda safe houses, Karachi">Al-Qaeda safe house in Karachi</a> owned by Pakistani businessman <a href="/wiki/Saud_Memon" title="Saud Memon">Saud Memon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Matiur_Rehman" title="Matiur Rehman">Matiur Rehman</a>, another al-Qaeda leader has been identified as being involved in the kidnapping.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sheikh was arrested by Pakistani police on 12 February 2002, in <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a>, in connection with the kidnapping of Pearl. Pearl after being kidnapped, had his throat slit, and then was beheaded on 1 February 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-transcripts.cnn.com_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-transcripts.cnn.com-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sheikh told the Pakistani court, however, that he had surrendered to the <a href="/wiki/Inter-Services_Intelligence" title="Inter-Services Intelligence">Inter-Services Intelligence</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Ijaz_Shah" class="mw-redirect" title="Ijaz Shah">Ijaz Shah</a> a week earlier on 5 February.<sup id="cite_ref-cpj_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cpj-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sheikh's lawyer Abdul Waheed Katpar claims Sheikh was arrested on 5 February 2002 and not on 12 February, and that evidence against the four suspects was fabricated by Pakistani police while the suspects were held in secret for a week. He also claims confessions were obtained under duress of torture and solitary confinement. However, Sheikh also told Pakistani officials in court in February 2002 that "as far as I know" Pearl had been killed.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The CPI and ICIJ report concluded Omar Sheikh was the mastermind of the plot to kidnap Pearl, leading to his subsequent murder. The report also confirmed the role of three codefendants convicted with Sheikh in Pearl's case. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a former <a href="/wiki/CIA" class="mw-redirect" title="CIA">CIA</a> captive, who had been tortured in 2003 in the CIA's archipelago of <a href="/wiki/CIA_black_sites" title="CIA black sites">black sites</a>, had confessed to the murder, and the report concluded his confession was credible. The report noted that FBI forensic experts had confirmed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession through "<a href="/wiki/Vein_matching" title="Vein matching">vein matching</a>", identifying the pattern of the veins in the killer's hands in the video.<sup id="cite_ref-LawfareDidKsmKillPearl_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LawfareDidKsmKillPearl-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TheTelegraphUK2011-01-20_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheTelegraphUK2011-01-20-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2014, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times_of_India" title="The Times of India">The Times of India</a></i> reported that Saeed had attempted suicide at the <a href="/wiki/Central_Prison_Karachi" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Prison Karachi">Central Prison Karachi</a> (where he was being held at the time) but had been discovered in time by prison guards and was in a stable condition. The newspaper quoted a senior prison official as saying: "He is kept in a separate cell and section of the jail as he is no ordinary criminal. […] We have filed a case against him for attempted suicide and he can face additional punishment now". A second prison official said: "He is a very intelligent, strong and sharp criminal with dangerous designs. So his attempt to commit suicide comes as a surprise".<sup id="cite_ref-The_Times_of_India_16_February_20142_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Times_of_India_16_February_20142-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hoax_calls">Hoax calls</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Hoax calls"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks" title="2008 Mumbai attacks">2008 Mumbai attacks</a>, tensions increased dramatically between India and Pakistan. On 28 November, a hoax caller pretending to be then Indian Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Pranab_Mukherjee" title="Pranab Mukherjee">Pranab Mukherjee</a> threatened Pakistan President <a href="/wiki/Asif_Ali_Zardari" title="Asif Ali Zardari">Zardari</a> with war, leading to the Pakistan military being put on high alert. Military aircraft with live ammunition were scrambled to patrol above Islamabad and Rawalpindi.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same caller tried to get in touch with the real Pranab Mukherjee and US Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice" title="Condoleezza Rice">Condoleezza Rice</a>, claiming he was President Zardari but was unable to get through to either.<sup id="cite_ref-dawn_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dawn-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A year after the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan's <i><a href="/wiki/Dawn_(newspaper)" title="Dawn (newspaper)">Dawn</a></i> newspaper revealed that the hoax caller had been Sheikh. Using a mobile phone smuggled into his prison cell, Sheikh made the calls using a British <a href="/wiki/SIM_card" title="SIM card">SIM card</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dawn_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dawn-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the source of the hoax calls became known, intelligence agents confiscated Sheikh's illegal phones and SIM cards and he was placed in <a href="/wiki/Solitary_confinement" title="Solitary confinement">solitary confinement</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Times_of_India_16_February_2014_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Times_of_India_16_February_2014-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dawn_70-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dawn-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl</i> (2006) a television documentary by Indian directors Ahmed Alauddin Jamal and Ramesh Sharma which aired on <a href="/wiki/HBO" title="HBO">HBO</a> compares the contrasting lives of Sheikh and Danel Pearl.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hollywood film <a href="/wiki/A_Mighty_Heart_(film)" title="A Mighty Heart (film)"><i>A Mighty Heart</i></a> (2007) is based on the life of slain journalist <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Pearl" title="Daniel Pearl">Daniel Pearl</a>. <a href="/wiki/Alyy_Khan" title="Alyy Khan">Alyy Khan</a> portrayed Sheikh in the film. The film's plot circulates around <a href="/wiki/A_Mighty_Heart" title="A Mighty Heart">the memoir</a> by Pearl's wife <a href="/wiki/Mariane_Pearl" title="Mariane Pearl">Mariane Pearl</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2008, <a href="/wiki/National_Geographic_Adventure" class="mw-redirect" title="National Geographic Adventure">National Geographic Adventure</a>'s docudrama show <a href="/wiki/Banged_Up_Abroad" title="Banged Up Abroad">Locked up Abroad</a> broadcast the episode "India: Hostage to Terror" about Sheikh's <a href="/wiki/1994_kidnappings_of_Westerners_in_India" class="mw-redirect" title="1994 kidnappings of Westerners in India">1994 kidnappings of Westerners in India</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2017, an Indian biographical film <a href="/wiki/Omerta_(2017_film)" title="Omerta (2017 film)"><i>Omerta</i></a> based on the life of Sheikh was released. <a href="/wiki/Rajkummar_Rao" title="Rajkummar Rao">Rajkummar Rao</a> portrays Sheikh and the film covers his initial radicalization, role in the 1994 kidnappings of Westerners in India, his release in exchange for hostages of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Airlines_Flight_814" title="Indian Airlines Flight 814">Indian Airlines flight 814</a>, and his role in the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-groups-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-groups_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-groups_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-groups_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-groups_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Harkat-ul-Ansar was the merger of <a href="/wiki/Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami" class="mw-redirect" title="Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami">Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami</a> and <a href="/wiki/Harkat-ul-Mujahideen" title="Harkat-ul-Mujahideen">Harkat-ul-Mujahideen</a> in 1993. Harkat-ul-Mujahideen had split from Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami 1985 but re-united, they split again 1998. <a href="/wiki/Jaish-e-Muhammad" class="mw-redirect" title="Jaish-e-Muhammad">Jaish-e-Muhammad</a> was formed as a splinter group of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen by <a href="/wiki/Masood_Azhar" title="Masood Azhar">Masood Azhar</a> in 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">All of these groups played a role in the kidnapping and murder of American journalist <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Pearl" title="Daniel Pearl">Daniel Pearl</a> to varying degrees. (see <a href="#Daniel_Pearl_kidnapping">#Daniel Pearl kidnapping</a>).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">On 23 January 2002, Pearl was on his way to what he thought was an interview with <a href="/wiki/Mubarak_Ali_Gilani" title="Mubarak Ali Gilani">Mubarak Ali Gilani</a> at the Village Restaurant in downtown Karachi about terrorist <a href="/wiki/Richard_Reid" title="Richard Reid">Richard Reid</a>'s alleged training at one of Gilani's camps in Pakistan. The interview was a set-up by Sheikh and Pearl was kidnapped near the Metropole Hotel at 7:00 p.m. The two had come in contact through <a href="/wiki/Khalid_Khawaja" title="Khalid Khawaja">Khalid Khawaja</a>, a retired <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Air_Force" title="Pakistan Air Force">Pakistan Air Force</a> officer.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Alternate_use-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Alternate_use_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Note that this term is more commonly used in reference to Sheik <a href="/wiki/Omar_Abdel-Rahman" title="Omar Abdel-Rahman">Omar Abdel-Rahman</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-3"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-suspected-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-suspected_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>CNN.com</i> 6 October 2001. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130407004303/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/10/05/inv.terror.investigation/">"Suspected hijack bankroller freed by India in '99"</a>. 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