Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh

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Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (Arabic: أحمد عمر سيد شيخ ) (a.k.a. Sheikh Omar, Sheik Syed) is a British terrorist of Pakistani descent with links to various terrorist organisations, including Al-Qaeda and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.

In his youth he attended Forest School Snaresbrook, a public school in North-East London, whose alumni include English cricket captain Nasser Hussain. He also attended the London School of Economics.

Sheikh rose to prominence with the 2002 killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who at the time was in Pakistan to cover the war on terror. In Pakistan, Sheikh was sentenced to death for killing Pearl.

External links

• The English Islamic Terrorist - The Scotsman article

• Suspected hijack bankroller freed by India in '99 - CNN

• Suspected hijack bankroller freed by India in '99 - CNN

• Sept. 11's Smoking Gun: The Many Faces of Saeed Sheikh - Center for Cooperative Research

• India wants terror spotlight on Kashmir - CNN

• FBI, CIA benefit from RAW's inputs - The Daily Excelsior

• Did Pearl die because Pakistan deceived CIA? - The Pittsburgh Tribune

• Profiles in Terror: Omar Sayeed Sheikh

• There's Something About Omar: Truth, Lies, and The Legend of 9/11 - Centre for Research on Globalisationfr:Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh