The White House expressed its great anger today, Thursday, over the Supreme Court’s decision in Pakistan to release a militant who was convicted of beheading American journalist Daniel Pearl. A three-judge panel had issued a verdict acquitting Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the main suspect in the kidnapping and killing of Pearl, a journalist for the Wall Street Journal. Journal 2002.
White House spokeswoman Jane Saki described the decision as "an insult to victims of terrorism everywhere."