British-born (and London School of Economics-educated) terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh has been sitting in a Pakistani prison awaiting hanging for his role in the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Now, Saeed Sheikh's lawyer has announced that he will be using the confession of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to support his client's appeal. 

Much has been written about Omar Saeed Sheikh. He is believed to have been a major financial operative in 9/11. He has been linked to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). He masterminded the kidnapping of three Britans and an American, in India, in 1994.

In 1999, Omar Saeed Sheikh was sprung from an Indian prison after Indian Air 814 was hijacked by five armed terrorists over Nepal. The Indian government agreed to a hostage-for-prisoner exchange. Also sprung from prison in that same negotiation was Maulana Masood Azhar, founder of Jaish-e-Mohammed (Army of Mohammed) — recently linked to both Osama Bin Laden and the London planes plot.

In September 2006, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf stated in his memoir, In the Line of Fire, that Omar Saeed Sheikh was originally a spy for England's foreign intelligence agency, MI6. Also according to Musharraf, Saeed Sheikh became a double agent. 

(photo credit: Omar Saeed Sheikh in 2000, Associated Press archive)

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