The funeral of al-Qaeda suspect Amjad Farooqi has taken place overnight at a village in Pakistan’s Punjab province.

….Farooqi … [claimed that he] had been a personal guard to Osama Bin Laden and had recruited up to 400 men from his own district to fight a jihad, or holy war…. Farooqi had been wanted in connection with two assassination attempts on President Musharraf last December. Farooqi was also indicted for involvement in the kidnapping in 2002 and subsequent beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl [BBC]