12-8-2010

12-8-2010
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Daniel Pearl was a 38-year-old reporter for the Wall Street Journal. On January 23, 2002, on his way to what he thought was an interview with a Pakistani Sheikh, Daniel Pearl was kidnapped by a militant group calling itself The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty. The group claimed Pearl was a CIA operations officer and – using a Hotmail e-mail address – sent the United States a range of demands, including the freeing of all Pakistani terror detainees, and the release of a halted U.S. shipment of F-16 fighter jets to the Pakistani government. Photos of Pearl handcuffed with a gun at his head and holding up a newspaper were attached. There was no response to pleas from Pearl's editor, nor from his wife Mariane. Nine days later, The killing of Pearl was broadcast worldwide in a gruesome video in which his throat was slit. A few minutes later, he was beheaded.