After leaving Bosnia, Omar Sheikh went on to take part in several plane hijackings and kidnappings in India and Pakistan but is best known for carrying out the beheading of the Wall Street Journal's Indian Bureau Chief Daniel Pearl in 2002.
After leaving Bosnia, he went on to the Indian subcontinent where he took take part in several plane hijackings and kidnappings at the behest of various Jihadist organisations-including Al Qaeda. He is best known for carrying out the murder by beheading of the Wall Street Journal's Indian Bureau Chief Daniel Pearl in 2002.