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WASHINGTON: The United States may seek to try in a US court a man accused of killing American journalist Daniel Pearl after a Pakistani court ordered his release, acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said on Tuesday.
Last week, a Pakistani court ordered the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the main suspect in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter, after his conviction was overturned.
"The separate judicial rulings reversing his conviction and ordering his release are an affront to terrorism victims everywhere," Rosen said in a statement.
If efforts to reinstate Sheikh's conviction were not successful, he said, "The United States stands ready to take custody of Omar Sheikh to stand trial here.