Lawyer to appeal Pearl case conviction

[maddezmom]

Lawyer to appeal Pearl case conviction By SADAQAT JAN, Associated Press Writer
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The lawyer for a man convicted of killing Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl said Sunday he will file an appeal using an al-Qaida lieutenant's recent confession that he beheaded the reporter.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has claimed that he planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, claimed at a U.S. military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that he personally beheaded Pearl for being an Israeli intelligence agent.

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In 2002, an anti-terrorism court in Karachi sentenced Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British-born militant, to death and gave three other men life in prison for involvement in Pearl's killing.

Rai Bashir a lawyer for Sheikh and the other three men said on Sunday that he will study the Pentagon documents on Mohammed's claim and file his confession as evidence to prove Sheikh's innocence.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070318/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_al_qaida

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Did they let John Wilkes Booth off the hook too?

Gallows confessions are worthless.

[Hepburn]

2. You know...

...it's the deal of dropping a pebble in the water and seeing how the ripples go out.

KSM's confession was a boat load of crap ~~ and to be expected because that is the kind of untrustworthy info that comes from a suspect being tortured.

Now...look at this mess: What else would be expected except those who have been convicted of something that KSM confessed to ~~ they would look to get off the hook.

How sad for Pearl's friends, family and loved ones. Talk about taking any closure they might have had and shit canning it for them.

JMHO

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. did Mohammed also kill Abel? and crucify JC?

If given enough time, I'll bet he would have.