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Pakistan Supreme Court Acquits Prime Suspect in US Journalist Daniel Pearl's
Murder

Ayaz Gul

   ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's highest court Thursday acquitted the British
   national convicted in 2002 of plotting the kidnapping and beheading of
   American journalist Daniel Pearl.
   The court cleared Ahmed Omar Sheikh and his three Pakistani accomplices
   in the case of all the charges, ordering that Sheikh and others be
   immediately freed from jail, if not wanted in any other case.

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