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Convicted Pearl Killer Lashes Out

Sentenced to hang for the kidnap-murder of a Wall Street Journal reporter, an Islamic militant threatened Pakistan's rulers Monday, saying ``We shall see who will die first �� me or the authorities who have arranged the death sentence for me.''


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Sentenced to hang for the kidnap-murder of a Wall Street Journal reporter, an Islamic militant threatened Pakistan's rulers Monday, saying ``We shall see who will die first �� me or the authorities who have arranged the death sentence for me.''

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh's threat was made in a statement read by a defense lawyer after the court convicted him and three accomplices in the killing of journalist Daniel Pearl.

President Pervez Musharraf should know ``Allah is there and can get his revenge,'' said the statement by British-born Saeed, a 28-year-old former student at the London School of Economics. ``Everybody is showing whether he is in favor of Islam or ... non-Muslims,'' in the jihad (holy war).

The trial has enraged Pakistan's Islamic militant movement, which considers Musharraf a traitor for backing the United States in the war against terrorism.

Saeed and his co-defendants �� Salman Saqib, Fahad Naseem and Shaikh Adil �� sat motionless as Judge Ali Ashraf Shah announced his verdict.

All four were convicted of murder, kidnapping, conspiracy to kidnap and tampering with evidence. Saeed's three accomplices got life sentences �� which in Pakistan means 25 years in prison.

Defense lawyers said they would appeal, a process that could take months or years. The last prominent Islamic extremist to be executed in Pakistan, Haq Nawaz, was hanged Feb. 28, 2001, for killing an Iranian diplomat a decade earlier.

<>Source: Agencies


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