An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan concluded the closed-door...

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan concluded the closed-door trial of four men charged with the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and reserved the judgment until July 15. "We have established that they are guilty," chief prosecutor Raja Qureshi told reporters after the closed-door session. "We are demanding the death penalty for all four accused," he added. On the other hand lawyers for the main suspect Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and his three co-defendants argued for a dismissal of the charges, saying the evidence was inconsistent, legal procedures had been ignored and some of the evidence seemed to have been fabricated. Defence lawyers accused the prosecution of fabricating the case to ease the Bush administration's outrage over the journalist's death. The trial, which began on April 22 in Karachi, was transferred to the heavily fortified jail in Hyderabad, about 60 miles to the northeast, after prosecutors said their lives had been threatened. Daniel Pearl-38, Bureau Chief of Wall Street Journal for South Asia disappeared on January 23 while investigating links between Pakistani militants and Richard C. Reid, who was arrested in December 2001 on a flight from Paris to Miami with explosives in his shoes. A videotape received by PNS and handed over to US consulate in Karachi after the four defendants were in custody confirmed Pearl was dead. The prosecution alleged that the main suspect Omar Saeed Sheikh lured Pearl into a trap by claiming he was arranging a meeting with an Islamic cleric who authorities say was not involved in the crime. Remains of a body believed to be Pearl's were recovered in Karachi in May from a shallow grave near a shed where police believe he was held before being killed. DNA results were pending.