Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (Arabic: أحمد عمر سيد شيخ ) (a.k.a. Sheikh Omar, Sheik Syed) is a British terrorist of Pakistani descent with links to various Islamic-based terrorist organisations, including Al-Qaeda and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.

In his youth he attended Forest School Snaresbrook, a public school in North-East London, whose alumni include English cricket captain Nasser Hussain. He also attended the London School of Economics.

The Times describes Saeed Sheikh as "no ordinary terrorist but a man who has connections that reach high into Pakistan's military and intelligence elite and into the innermost circles of Osama Bin Laden and the al-Qaeda organization."

According to ABC, Sheikh began working for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence in 1993. By 1994 he was operating terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and had earned the title of bin Laden's "special son." At the time, the Taliban were beginning to dominate Afghanistan, much due to support received from the ISI.

In May 2002, the Washington Post quotes an unnamed Pakistani as saying that the ISI paid Sheikh's legal fees during his 1994 trial in India on charges of kidnap. However, this claim has not been confirmed by any other source.
US authorities have also named Saeed Sheikh as a key figure in the funding of the 9/11 attacks. [1]

On October 6, 2001, a senior-level U.S. government official told CNN that U.S. investigators had discovered Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (Sheik Syed), using the alias "Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad" had sent about $100,000 from the United Arab Emirates to Mohammed Atta.

"Investigators said Atta then distributed the funds to conspirators in Florida in the weeks before the deadliest acts of terrorism on U.S. soil that destroyed the World Trade Center, heavily damaged the Pentagon and left thousands dead. In addition, sources have said Atta sent thousands of dollars -- believed to be excess funds from the operation -- back to Saeed in the United Arab Emirates in the days before September 11. CNN later confirmed this. [2]

The 9/11 Commission's Final Report states that the source of the funds "remains unknown."
They knew.

More than a month after the money transfer was discovered, the head of ISI, General Mahmud Ahmed resigned from his position. Indian news outlets reported the FBI was investigating the possiblity that Gen. Ahmed ordered Saeed Sheikh to send the $100,000 to Atta, while most Western media outlets only reported his connections to the Taliban as the reason for his departure. [3]

"There are many in Musharraf's government who believe that Saeed Sheikh's power comes not from the ISI, but from his connections with our own CIA."[6]

There are many in our country that believe the same to be true, in fact He and the ISI were in Washington DC the week of 9/11.

Sheikh rose to prominence with the 2002 killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who at the time was in Pakistan investigating connections between the ISI and Islamic militant groups. In Pakistan, Sheikh was sentenced to death for killing Pearl, however his complicity in the execution and the reasons behind it are in dispute.

A Wall Street Journal review of Bernard-Henri Levy's book “Who Killed Daniel Pearl?” notes, “It is a fact that Gen. Mahmood Ahmed, then head of the ISI, wired $100,000 to Mohamed Atta before 9/11 through an intermediary."[7]