Alleged Daniel Pearl killer says met bin Laden twice: report

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ISLAMABAD - An Islamic militant sentenced to death for the murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan said in a rare interview published on Tuesday that he met Osama bin Laden twice in Afghanistan.

British-born Sheikh Omar also admitted he was “involved” in kidnapping Pearl in 2002 but said he did not take part in his brutal murder, according to the latest edition of the English-language magazine Newsline. snip

“Yes, I met him twice in Afghanistan,” Sheikh said when asked if he had met the Al-Qaeda chief, the first time the 31-year-old has admitted encountering bin Laden. He did not say when the meetings took place.

But he added that he did not agree with all bin Laden’s methods and was now committed to Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed, fugitive head of Afghanistan’s Taliban regime, as the “overall leader of all mujahideen (holy warriors)”.

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