Media References For Omar (Saeed) Sheikh
'The Omar Sheikh Files'
www.nlpwessex.org/docs/sheikhmedia.htm

British Citizen Omar Sheikh
Why is he not on trial for his reported role in 911?

"The London School of Economics, known for its far-Left radicalism in the 1960s, has been host to at least three al-Qa'eda-linked terrorists, The Telegraph has been told. The three - including one man called Ahmed Omar Sheikh - have been revealed as having links with the LSE in an intelligence file seen by this newspaper and now being studied by police....  Omar Sheikh... has... been named as one of the key financiers of Mohammed Atta,  the pilot of one of the jets that hit the World Trade Centre on September 11."
Al-Qa'eda terror trio linked to London School of 'Extremists'
Daily Telegraph, 27 Jan 2002

"The Times has learnt from Pakistani security sources that while in Pakistan some of the [7/7 Lonond] Tube bombers met leading figures from an outlawed terror group called Jaish-e-Mohammed, which has been actively recruiting Britons from universities and colleges since the early 1990s....In the past Jaish has boasted of many British Muslim volunteers in its ranks. Among them is Ahmed Omar Sheikh, a former LSE student and public schoolboy from Woodford, northeast London, who abandoned his studies in 1993. He is now facing a death sentence in Pakistan for the abduction and murder of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter."
'Holy warrior' casts light on dark links to Pakistan
London Times, 18 July 2005

"Sheikh Ahmad Omar Saeed, already sentenced to death for the grisly murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, is being interrogated by Pakistani intelligence agencies in connection with the 7/7 London bombings.... The intelligence sources said that Omar is being interrogated in view of his British background. They said that the jehadi killer happens to be a London School of Economics graduate and the right hand man of the Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar, who used to enjoy close links with British-based jehadi group Al-Muhajiroun, suspected for the 7/7 bombing."
Daniel Pearl killer grilled for 7/7
Daily News & Analysis (India), 29 June 2006

"Believe it or not, British intelligence actually hired some Al-Qaeda guys to help defend the Muslim rights in Albania and in Kosovo. That's when Al-Muhajiroun got started .....The CIA was funding the operation to defend the Muslims, British intelligence was doing the hiring and recruiting. Now we have a lot of detail on this because Captain Hook [Abu Hamza], the head of Al-Muhajiroun, [his] sidekick was Bakri Mohammed, another cleric. And back on October 16, 2001, he gave a detailed interview with al-Sharq al-Aswat, an Arabic newspaper in London, describing the relationship between British intelligence and the operations in Kosovo and Al-Muhajiroun. So that's how we get all these guys connected. It started in Kosovo...."
Interview with former US Federal Prosecutor John Loftus
Fox TV, 29 July 2005

'The Pakistan Connection' - Michael Meacher - Guardian, 22 July 2004
'Britain now faces its own blowback' - Michael Meacher - Guardian, 10 September 2005

  "There are reports that US investigators have uncovered evidence of financial transfers linking Osama Bin Laden to the 11 September attacks on America. According to FBI sources, Mustafa Mohamed Ahmad, a suspected Bin Laden financial operative, transferred money to Mohamed Atta, one of the hijackers, in the days running up to the attacks. Furthermore Atta and two of the other hijackers transferred some $15,000 back to an account under the same name just two days before the attacks. Mr Ahmad, also known as [Omar] Sheikh Saeed, is one of 27 individuals or groups with a known link to Bin Laden who have had their assets in America frozen... Cash transfers were made to Atta via a money service in Florida on 8 and 9 September from an account in Dubai, under the name of Mustafa Ahmad."
Bin Laden's 'cash link' to hijackers
BBC Online, 1 October 2001

"It was in Pakistan where Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter, was murdered in 2002. Pakistan has refused to extradite Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British-born Muslim convicted of the killing, prompting speculation that it fears what he might say.  Sheikh was in ISI custody for a week before the FBI was informed and is reported to have given himself up to his former ISI handler."
Just whose side is Pakistan really on?
Sunday Times, 13 August 2006

"Director General of Pakistan's Inter- Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt Gen Mahmud Ahmed has been replaced after the FBI investigators established credible links between him and Umar Sheikh, one of the three militants released in exchange for passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999. The FBI team, which had sought adequate inputs about various terrorists including Sheikh from the intelligence agencies, was working on the linkages between Sheikh and former ISI chief Gen Mahmud which are believed to have been substantiated, reports PTI website. Informed sources said there were enough indications with the US intelligence agencies that it was at Gen Mahmud's instruction that Sheikh had transferred 100,000 US dollars into the account of Mohammed Atta, one of the lead terrorists in strikes at the World Trade Centre on Sept 11, it adds."
Gen Mahmud's exit due to links with Umar Sheikh
Dawn (Pakistan), 9 October 2001

"The FBI conducted a detailed financial investigation/analysis of the 19 hijackers and their support network, following the September 11th attacks.... A continuing investigation, in coordination with the PENTTBOMB Team, has traced the origin of the funding of  9/11 back to financial accounts in Pakistan...."
'Terrorism Financing: Origination, Organization, and Prevention'
John S. Pistole, Deputy Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, 31 July 2003

"Less well known is evidence of the British government's relationship with a wider Islamist terrorist network. During an interview on Fox TV this summer, the former US federal prosecutor John Loftus reported that British intelligence had used the al-Muhajiroun group in London to recruit Islamist militants with British passports for the war against the Serbs in Kosovo. Since July Scotland Yard has been interested in an alleged member of al-Muhajiroun, Haroon Rashid Aswat, who some sources have suggested could have been behind the London bombings. According to Loftus, Aswat was detained in Pakistan after leaving Britain, but was released after 24 hours. He was subsequently returned to Britain from Zambia, but has been detained solely for extradition to the US, not for questioning about the London bombings. Loftus claimed that Aswat is a British-backed double agent, pursued by the police but protected by MI6. One British Muslim of Pakistani origin radicalised by the civil war in Yugoslavia was LSE-educated Omar Saeed Sheikh. He is now in jail in Pakistan under sentence of death for the killing of the US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 - although many (including Pearl's widow and the US authorities) doubt that he committed the murder. However, reports from Pakistan suggest that Sheikh continues to be active from jail, keeping in touch with friends and followers in Britain. Sheikh was recruited as a student by Jaish-e-Muhammad (Army of Muhammad), which operates a network in Britain. It has actively recruited Britons from universities and colleges since the early 1990s, and has boasted of its numerous British Muslim volunteers. Investigations in Pakistan have suggested that on his visits there Shehzad Tanweer, one of the London suicide bombers, contacted members of two outlawed local groups and trained at two camps in Karachi and near Lahore. Indeed the network of groups now being uncovered in Pakistan may point to senior al-Qaida operatives having played a part in selecting members of the bombers' cell. The Observer Research Foundation has argued that there are even 'grounds to suspect that the [London] blasts were orchestrated by Omar Sheikh from his jail in Pakistan'. Why then is Omar Sheikh not being dealt with when he is already under sentence of death? Astonishingly his appeal to a higher court against the sentence was adjourned in July for the 32nd time and has since been adjourned indefinitely. This is all the more remarkable when this is the same Omar Sheikh who, at the behest of General Mahmood Ahmed, head of the ISI, wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the leading 9/11 hijacker, before the New York attacks, as confirmed by Dennis Lormel, director of FBI's financial crimes unit. Yet neither Ahmed nor Omar appears to have been sought for questioning by the US about 9/11. Indeed, the official 9/11 Commission Report of July 2004 sought to downplay the role of Pakistan with the comment: 'To date, the US government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately the question is of little practical significance' - a statement of breathtaking disingenuousness. All this highlights the resistance to getting at the truth about the 9/11 attacks and to an effective crackdown on the forces fomenting terrorist bombings in the west, including Britain."
Michael Meacher, former UK environment minister
Britain now faces its own blowback
Guardian, 10 September 2005

Sheikh As MI6 Agent

London Times, 25 September 2006
London Times, 26 September 2006
Gulf Times, 29 September 2006
Frontpage Magazine, 9 October 2006
Middle East Times, 4 October 2006

ISI/Sheikh Alleged Involvement in 911
BBC Online, 1 October 2001
CNN, 6 October 2001
Times of India, 9 October 2001
Dawn Newspaper (Pakistan), 9 October 2001
Wall St Journal, 9 October 2001
Wall St Journal, 10 October 2001
Agence France-Presse, 10 October 2001
Australian, 10 October 2001
Frontline (The Hindu), 13 October 2001
Daily Excelsior (India), 18 October 2001
NewsInsight, 4 January 2002
PTI, 24 January 2002
Daily Telegraph, 27 January 2002
WorldNetDaily, 30 January 2002
Rediff.com, 6 February 2002
Associated Press, 9 February 2002
Guardian, 9 February 2002
The Tribune, 10 February 2002
The Hindu, 10 February 2002
The Hindu, 12 February 2002
London Times, 13 February 2002
The Tribune, 15 February 2002
PTI, 15 February 2002
India Today, 25 February 2002
Kashmir Herald, March 2002
South Asian Outlook, March 2002
Sunday Times, 21 April 2002
Bharat Rakshak Monitor, September-October 2002
Foreign Affairs, July/August 2003
Times of India, 1 August 2003
Asia Times, 1 October 2003
Guardian, 22 July 2004
United Press International, 26 July 2004
Rediff.com (India), 26 December 2004
The Hindu Business Line, 12 January 2005
The Tribune, 13 February 2005
Outlook India, 16 January 2005
Asia Times, 27 January 2005
London Times 23 April 2005 ("Sheikh Said")
New Indian Express, 27 April 2005
Guardian, 10 September 2005
Asian News, 30th September 2005
Observer, 23 October 2005
Hindustan Times, 31 December 2005
United Press International, 3 January 2006
Daily Pioneer, 18 January 2006
Outlook India, 8 May 2006
Arab Online, 15 August 2006
Daily News & Analysis (India), 15 August 2006
FrontPageMagazine, 18 September 2006
Rediff.com (India), 21 September 2006
United Press International, 25 September 2006
Middle East Times, 4 October 2006

Trial of Sheikh for Murder of Daniel Pearl
Daily Telegraph, 22 February 2002
London Times, 25 February 2002
The News (Pakistan), 23 May 2002
Dawn Newspaper (Pakistan), 6 July 2002
BBC Online, 16 July 2002
Guardian, 16 July 2002
NewsInsight.net (India), 16 July 2002
BBC Online, 13 August 2002
Albawaba.com, 18 August 2002
BBC Online, 5 September 2002
Associated Press, 17 September 2002
United Press International, 30 September 2002 (Mirrored copy - click here)
TIME magazine, 3 Feb 2003
New York Times, 22 October 2003
Pravda, 2 April 2004
Daily Telegraph, 9 May 2004
Hi Pakistan, 28 July 2004
Associated Press, 24 February 2005
ABC News/Reuters, 24 February 2005
Scotsman, 24 February 2005
Daily Times (Pakistan), 25 February 2005
Daily Times (Pakistan), 8 April 2005
Newsline (Pakistan), April 2005
BBC Online, 15 June 2005
Independent, 10 September 2005
United Press International, 3 January 2006
Daily Times (Pakistan), 8 January 2006
Daily Times (Pakistan), 15 February 2006
Reddif (India), 1 March 2006
Daily Times (Pakistan), 5 March 2006
Outlook India, 8 May 2006
Editor and Publisher, 11 May 2006
Committee To Protect Journalists, Spring/Summer 2006
Associated Press, 18 May 2006
Pakistan Times, 19 May 2006
Sin Chew Daily (Malaysia), 24 May 2006
Associated Press, 30 May 2006
Sunday Times, 13 August 2006
United Press International, 14 August 2006
Daily Pioneer, 27 September 2006
Independent, 21 November 2006
IANS, 23 November 2006
Daily Times (Pakistan), 25 November 2006
The News (Pakistan), 25 November 2006
BBC Online, 11 December 2006
IANS, 13 December 2006
Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2007
Press Trust of India, 21 May 2008
Telegraph (Calcutta), 21 June 2008

KSM Murdered Daniel Pearl (i.e. Not Omar Sheikh)
United Press International, 30 September 2002 (Mirrored copy - click here)
TIME magazine, 3 Feb 2003
Daily Times (Pakistan), 3 March 2003
CNN, 4 March 2003
Reuters, 21 October 2003
BBC, 22 October 2003
New York Times, 22 October 2003
Salon, 22 October 2003
United Press International, 22 October 2003
Associated Press, 22 October 2003
Sunday Times, 19 December 2004
Daily Times (Pakistan), 21 December 2004
Newsline (Pakistan), April 2005
Agence France Presse, 1 June 2005
Outlook India, 8 May 2006
London Times, 26 September 2006
London Times, 27 September 2006
CBS News, 27 September 2006
The Australian, 28 September 2006
Times Of India, 28 September 2006
Associated Press, 27 September 2006
Salon.com, 27 September 2006
Aljazeera, 28 September 2006
Associated Press, 28 September 2006
Associated Press, 29 September 2006
Sunday Times, 1 October 2006
Local London, 9 October 2006
Toledo Blade, 9 October 2006
New York Sun, 10 October 2006
Asian Image, 10 October 2006
TIME, 12 October 2006
Times of India, 13 October 2006
Gulf Times, 15 October 2006
McClatchy Newspapers, 13 October 2006
BBC Online, 11 December 2006
London Times, 15 March 2007
Independent, 5 April 2007
Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2007

Or Was It Someone Else?

TotallyJewish.com, 11 October 2007

Sheikh And 7/7 London Bombings

Independent, 12 July 2005
Mirror, 19 July 2005
Daily News & Analysis (India), 29 June 2006
Rediff (India), 12 August 2006
United Press International, 14 August 2006
Middle East Times, 4 October 2006
Daily Times (Pakistan), 12 November 2006

Sheikh And Aircraft Bomb Plot August 2006

Rediff (India), 12 August 2006
United Press International, 14 August 2006
Daily News & Analysis (India), 19 August 2006

Mariane Pearl's And Asra Nomani's Ongoing Search For The Truth
USA Today, 9 May 2007
Guardian, Comment Is Free, 21 May 2007
Foreign Policy, May 2007
Little India, 2 July 2007
Associated Press, 19 July 2007

Reports on Sheikh from his Home Town Newspaper in the UK
Redbridge Guardian - Wanstead and Woodford Section - various articles - click here

"Omar Sheikh, a British-born Islamist, was sentenced to hang in Pakistan for murdering a journalist, Daniel Pearl, in 2002. The US government and Pearl's wife have acknowledged he was not responsible."
Brain-damaged man faces death for drug smuggling
Independent, 5 April 2007

News about Ahmed Omar Sheikh, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times

Omar Sheikh, 9/11, And The Balkans - Click Here

More References On Omar Sheikh And Pakistan's ISI See 9/11 'Complete Timeline' Entries Below
Saeed Sheikh
Pakistani ISI
Mahmood Ahmed

Alternative Media Internet Reports On Omar Sheikh

Sept. 11's Smoking Gun The Many Faces of Saeed Sheikh
More on this - 'What Did Britain Know About 911?' - 28 Aug 2002
Justice And State Departments Hiding Identity Of Key 911 Players -13 June 2004
The 'Arrest' Of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), Alleged 911 'Mastermind' - 9 June 2004

".... the corporate media are still largely sticking to the demonstrably false Official Story of 911... So research into the events tends to be by alternative sources. Dissidents believe that the blocking of FBI agents who could have stopped the 911 plot was deliberate act of complicity by the Bush Junta whose popularity and pre-existing invasion goals [of Afghanistan and Iraq] were given an enormous boost by success of the attacks. Now the Natural Law Party has produced a superb piece of research into the British connection [with] Al Qaida.... ex-MI5 employee David Shayler has demonstrated that MI6 was plotting with elements linked to Al Qaida to assassinate Ghadaffi as late as the mid nineties... These are not the only links between Al Qaida and Bush/Blair..... the NLP has investigated the murder of [American] journalist Daniel Pearl and highlights an astonishing fact: The [British] Pakistani sentenced to death for the murder of Pearl, Omar Sheikh, is the same Al Qaida contact who wired USD 100,000 to Mohammed Atta shortly before 911 on the instructions of the head of Pakistani Intelligence General Mahmoud who quietly resigned soon after. Astonishingly, Mahmoud on the days around the 911 attacks was in a series of secret top level meetings in the White House and with hawkish senators on Capitol Hill .... The NLP suspects that Pearl was murdered because he was investigating the smoking gun USD 100,000 transaction and that Sheikh was framed for the murder to stop him talking... [A British MP] has put down a question on the matter to the Foreign Office, which they have refused to answer... The NLP research is to be found at
www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/WATomarsheikhgate.htm ."
Ian Henshall, chair of INK the Alternative Publishers umbrella group in the UK
and publisher of 911dossier.co.uk
Crisis Newsletter, 27 January 2003

"...while Omar may have been our original target [in our search for Danny], in truth he's just one in a massively complicated chain... ultimately he is a tool. But whose? It's become clear that Omar doesn't know where Danny is. That's never been his role. He was the lure; others are the captors.... who is overseeing it all? Who pulls the strings?..."
'A Mighty Heart' by Mariane Pearl, widow of Daniel
Virago Press, 2003

What Was Daniel Pearl Doing In Pakistan?

'The Pakistan Connection' - Michael Meacher - Guardian, 22 July 2004
'Britain now faces its own blowback' - Michael Meacher - Guardian, 10 September 2005

Omar Sheikhgate

"Despite the absence of a body in the evidence used to convict Sheikh in the murder of Pearl the BBC states that 'Apparently one of the main reasons for proceeding with the trial in Pakistan was because of the mounting pressure from the United States'...."
What Did Britain Know About 911?
'Fight Smart', 28 Aug 2002

"Sheikh was tried for the murder of Pearl behind closed doors. His father has commented that Sheikh was convicted because of injustice 'and some kind of pressure'. His brother told the BBC 'One of the co-accused complained via his lawyer that the police had been beating him quite brutally for hours, trying to make him sign a confession that pinpointed Omar Sheikh as the mastermind behind the kidnapping and he refused. The police then threatened to bring his mother and sister to the police station and gang rape them, at which point he signed the confession.' A further BBC report elaborates: '...the most controversial decision was to hold the trial behind close doors. Even though the case was about the murder of a reputable foreign journalist, at no time were reporters allowed to cover the proceedings. Pakistan's anti-terrorism law specifically states that the entire process should be complete within seven days, but the Pearl murder case went on for more than three months. Not just that, but during this period, the trial judge and the venue were changed three times....' Initially the prosecution told the court that it would produce more than 50 witnesses, but according to the BBC in the end only 'a handful' of people testified on behalf of the government, one of which was an FBI agent who gave 'an opinion' on how Pearl's captors used the internet to distribute his photographs and other messages. 'Interestingly' says the BBC, the complainant in the case, Pearl's widow, did not appear at the request of the prosecution. This required an 'extraordinary concession' from the judge. Mrs Pearl had left the country to give birth to their child. Nonetheless, because she often worked with Pearl on his stories she might have provided some interesting evidence as to what he had been investigating and who he had been meeting with in the period leading up to his abduction. Legal sources close to the Pakistani government reportedly confirm that at the very least Pearl was investigating the ISI."
What Did Britain Know About 911?
'Fight Smart', 28 Aug 2002

"Foreign Office support for the verdict is 'interesting' given that no body or murder weapon has been found, and that one of the main pieces of evidence relied on for the conviction is a confession by Sheikh which he has since retracted claiming it was extracted under torture. The other principal piece of 'evidence' is testimony from a taxi driver who claims he saw Sheikh meeting with Pearl in Karachi. Sheikh denies it, although if true it would certainly lend considerable weight to speculation that Pearl was on the 911 Mahmoud-Sheikh-ISI-CIA trail. According to Gulf News 25 March 'It is ....rumoured that Pearl was in fact especially interested in any role played by the U.S. in training the ISI or backing it in any way'. The paper quotes a source 'close to the Pakistan foreign office' as stating 'Details of any U.S.-ISI cooperation would of course not be appreciated even in Washington, especially regarding U.S. cooperation in promoting any kind of Islamic militancy'. .... The BBC observes that despite strong anti-US feelings in Pakistan 'none of the more than 2,000 foreign journalists who converged on Pakistan when US air strikes on Afghanistan began, has been kidnapped or harassed'. This suggests Pearl was onto something exceptionally sensitive. Given the widespread culture of deception and lying uncovered within the British Foreign Office during the Scott inquiry into the UK's illegal supply of arms to Saddam Hussein, the omens do not look good."
What Did Britain Know About 911?
'Fight Smart', 28 Aug 2002

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