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By B. Muralidhar Reddy
ISLAMABAD, MARCH 15. The man who claimed to have killed The Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, has retracted his statement and now says that he made the claim to save Omar Sheikh. Adnan Khan turned up at a newspaper office in Lahore on Thursday and claimed that he killed Daniel Pearl in a launch and threw his body into the Arabian Sea. When the Lahore police, after interrogation of Adnan, brought him before presspersons the same night, he told them that he owned up the killing in a bid to save Omar Sheikh, prime suspect in Pearl's murder case. Adnan, a driver by profession, claimed that he had joined the banned militant outfit, Jaish-e-Mohammed, in September last. He had been upset over his domestic problems and was planning to commit suicide but later decided to give his life for a "better cause". He said he decided to claim responsibility for Pearl's murder the previous night. Calling Omar Sheikh a "great freedom fighter", Adnan said he believed that Sheikh had no hand in the killing of the American journalist and thought that his owning the murder would bail him out.
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