Officials suspect Pearl facilitated Pearl kidnapping . CNN reporter was kidnapped and decapitated in 2002 . A suspected one mastermind confessed to killing Daniel Pearl 's . Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh , a British-born Islamic militant , was sentenced to death by hanging by an anti-terrorism court in Hyderabad in connection with Pearl 's murder . He was in Karachi researching a story about militants and terrorism .
Officials suspect Pearl facilitated Pearl kidnapping . CNN reporter was kidnapped and decapitated in 2002 . A suspected one mastermind confessed to killing Daniel Pearl 's . He was in Karachi researching a story about militants and terrorism .