(14 Feb 2002)
1. Exterior police station with armed guard
2. Key suspect in the abduction of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh brought out, head covered in blanket
3. Police put Saeed into van, media scrum
4. Exterior police station gates with convoy containing Saeed in blue jeep departing
5. Blue police vehicle containing Saeed exits police station in convoy
6. Convoy with Saeed driving down road
7. Car containing Saeed proceeds to enter courthouse
8. Exterior shot court compound with media and crowd waiting
9. Police standing in armoured vehicle with gun
10. Armed Karachi police standing outside gates of courthouse
11. Vehicle containing Saeed leaves courthouse through police clearing way
12. Vehicle containing Saeed drives off
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Raja Qureshi, Advocate General (Public Prosecutor) of Sindh Province
"Upon full satisfaction by the court, a remand of 13 days has been granted to the police. The accused was arrested this morning at Karachi upon arrival from Lahore and no maltreatment was complained of and the reasons upon which we got the remand for 13 days was that we had to put him through identification tests, confessional statements of any recovery of weapons and basically the recovery the Wall Street Journal reporter."
Question: (Journalists mistakes Qureshi for being Saeed's lawyer) Does your client know where Daniel Pearl is?
"Whether he knows or not he did not state so in court today."
Question: Did he say that Daniel Pearl is dead?
"I did not hear that, but whatever he said, I can't trust this statement because it was not on oath."
14. Cutaway media
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Raja Qureshi, Advocate General (Public Prosecutor) of Sindh Province
Question: Is anything he's (Saeed) telling us true?
"I can't say for the moment, you have to await the investigation and the recovery of the abductee which is our prime concern."
Question: And where is Daniel Pearl now, do you have any idea?
"Well the investigation is afoot and we have 13 days in hand to see whether we are able to recover him or otherwise."
16. Blue vehicle containing Saeed leaving courthouse
STORYLINE:
The key suspect in the abduction of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl told a court on Thursday that he thought the journalist was dead.
But the court's prosecutor, the Advocate General of Pakistan's Sindh Province said he did not hear suspect Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh make this statement in court.
Saeed appeared in the Karachi court where he was formally charged with kidnapping and ordered jailed for two more weeks.
A bespectacled Saeed, surrounded by police with machine guns, helmets and bullet-proof vests, confessed to the crime.
Officials said they would reserve judgment on Saeed's comments about Pearl's death until a body was found, and the Journal said it remained confident Pearl was alive.
Thirty-eight year-old Pearl disappeared on January 23 on his way to meet Islamic extremist contacts.
He was believed to be investigating links between Pakistani militants and Richard C. Reid, accused of trying to detonate explosives hidden in his shoes on a Paris-to-Miami flight in December.
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