Two Arrests in Daniel Pearl Murder

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has already claimed he's the one who beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, but apparently, they're still picking up suspects in Pakistan.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Police said Tuesday they have arrested two suspected militants wanted in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl.

Attaur Rehman and Faisal Bhatti were arrested Monday in Kashmor, a town about 300 miles northeast of Karachi, said Saghir Mugheri, an area police officer.

However, a lawyer for the men's families said they had been picked up by security agencies in 2003 and held secretly since then.

Mugheri said both men were members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a militant organization linked to Al Qaeda.

A senior detective on the team investigating Pearl's case said Rehman is suspected of leading the gang that kidnapped Pearl in Karachi on Jan. 23, 2002.

Rehman, also known as Naim Bukhari, supervised the reporter's detention in a shack for several days before he was killed, said the detective, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.