Man wanted in (Daniel) Pearl's killing arrested

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/07/27/man_wanted_in_pearls_killing_arrested/

Police and intelligence agents Wednesday arrested a suspected militant who was wanted for a role in the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, officials said.

The man, identified as Hashim Qadeer, was captured from a bus at a terminal in the eastern Pakistan city of Gujranwala, a police and an intelligence official said on condition of anonymity. Both requested anonymity because they are not authorized to make media statements.

Pearl was kidnapped and later beheaded in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi while he was researching a story on Islamic militancy in 2002.

Months later, a court in Karachi convicted four Islamic militants in Pearl's killing, including British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was sentenced to death. The three others were given life imprisonment

I wonder if they'll go after any of those.

to the Pakistani ISI. He got a little too close.

You're right. He got too damn close for some people's comfort.

And he was led to his death by an al Qaeda/ISI double agent.

this is a must-read:

LAHORE, Pakistan - The fugitive who set up the initial meeting between Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and his kidnappers was arrested Wednesday in a bus terminal, officials said.

Pearl was abducted Jan. 23, 2002, and later beheaded in the southern city of Karachi — believed to be a hotbed for Islamic militants — while he was researching a story.

Hashim Qadeer, listed among Pakistan's most wanted men in 2003, was captured in the eastern city of Gujranwala after being under police surveillance for three days, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Qadeer said he was headed to Rawalpindi, where he planned to take another bus to Pakistan's portion of the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir, one police official in Lahore said.

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